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101. General

1. Application

(1) The requirement in this Chapter is to apply to the procedure of application, testings and in-

spections, certificates, etc. of freight containers

spection are to be carried out by the Society in

when the Type Approval and individual in-

accordance with the provisions of the relevant

Government regulations which implement CUSTOMS CONVENTION ON THE

INTERNATIONAL TRANSPORT OF GOODS UNDER COVER OF TIR CARNETS

(hereinafter referred to as "TIR CONVENTION" and CUSTOMS CONVENTION CONTAINERS, 1972.

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(2) For the technical conditions of the containers not fully covered in this Chapter, TlR

CONVENTION, CUSTOMS CONVENTION ON CONTAINERS and the relevant Government regulations which implement these conventions are to be applied.

2. General Condition of Container

The term "Container"is to mean an article of transport equipment (life-van, movable tank or other similar structure):

(1) fully or partially enclosed to constitute a compartment intended for containing goods;

(2) of a permanent character and accordingly strong enough to be suitable for repeated use;

(3) specially designed to facilitate the transport of goods by one or more modes of transport with- out intermediate reloading;

(4) designed for ready handling, particularly when being transferred from one mode of transport to another;

(5) designed to be easy to fill and to empty; and

(6) Having an internal volume of one cubic metre or more; "Demountable bodies"are to be treated as containers.

3. Basic Principle of Type Approval and Production Unit Inspection

In order that the

containers are to be used for the international transport of goods under Customs

seal, the Society approves only those that are manufactured and equipped in conformity with the

requirements laid

Convention- and

down in Annex 7 to TlR CONVENTION― as prescribed in Article 13 of the

Annex 4 to CUSTOMS CONVENTION ON CONTAINERS― as prescribed in

Article 12 of the Convention. (refer to attached in appendix 3-1).

4. Validity

The relevant portions of this Chapter apply also to containers of special types not fully covered in this Chapter in association with additional requirements (these are to satisfy the requirements pre- scribed in Article 13 of TIR CONVENTION and are to contain no risks of smuggling) as may be considered appropriate in an individual case.

102. Definitions

Terms used in this Chapter are defined as follows, unless otherwise specially provided.

1. "Type Approval" is to approve a design―type after a inspection of the prototype container manufac- tured in accordance with the character of the design―type and found satisfactory by the Society at

a stage of manufacture.

2. "Design Type-Series container" means the containers manufactured in series with the same charac- teristics as the approved prototype container.

3. "Approval by individual (or specified numbers of the same type) inspection" at a stage subsequent to manufacture is to approve the containers which have been inspected and found satisfactory by the Society, either individually or in respect of a specified number of containers of the same type. These approvals are valid only to those containers approved earlier individually or in respect of a

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specified number.

4. "Inspection" in to examine that the produced containers are manufactured in conformity with the provisions of this Rule, prior to Approval by designtype or by individual inspection.

5. "Production unit inspection" is to confirm that the produced design type series containers are manu- factured in accordance with the same characteristics as the approved prototype container.

103. Fees

When the Type Approval, Individual Approval and Production unit Inspection of containers are car- ried out by the surveyors of the Society, fee will be charged for surveys and the certificates issued in accordance with fee regulations of the Society.