Chapter 90
Optical, photographic,
cinematographic, measuring, checking,
precision, medical or surgical instruments
and apparatus; parts and accessories thereof
Notes.
1.‑ This Chapter does not cover:
(a)
Articles of a kind used in machines, appliances or for other
technical uses, of vulcanised rubber other than hard rubber (heading 40.16), of
leather or of composition leather (heading 42.04) or of textile material
(heading 59.11);
(b)
Supporting belts or other support articles of textile
material, whose intended effect on the organ to be supported or held derives
solely from their elasticity (for example, maternity belts, thoracic support
bandages, abdominal support bandages, supports for joints or muscles) (Section
XI);
(c)
Refractory goods of heading 69.03; ceramic wares for
laboratory, chemical or other technical uses, of heading 69.09;
(d)
Glass mirrors, not optically worked, of heading 70.09, or
mirrors of base metal or of precious metal, not being optical elements (heading
83.06 or Chapter 71);
(e)
Goods of heading 70.07, 70.08, 70.11, 70.14, 70.15 or 70.17;
(f)
Parts of general use, as defined in Note 2 to Section XV, of
base metal (Section XV) or similar goods of plastics (Chapter 39);
(g)
Pumps incorporating measuring devices, of heading 84.13;
weight‑operated counting or checking machinery, or separately presented
weights for balances (heading 84.23); lifting or handling machinery (headings
84.25 to 84.28); paper or paperboard cutting machines of all kinds (heading
84.41); fittings for adjusting work or tools on machine‑tools, of heading
84.66, including fittings with optical devices for reading the scale (for
example, "optical" dividing heads) but not those which are in
themselves essentially optical instruments (for example, alignment telescopes);
calculating machines (heading 84.70); valves or other appliances of heading
84.81;
(h)
Searchlights or spotlights of a kind used for cycles or motor
vehicles (heading 85.12); portable electric lamps of heading 85.13;
cinematographic sound recording, reproducing or re‑recording apparatus
(heading 85.19 or 85.20); sound‑heads (heading 85.22); still image video
cameras, other video camera recorders and digital cameras (heading 85.25);
radar apparatus, radio navigational aid apparatus or radio remote control
apparatus (heading 85.26); numerical control apparatus of heading 85.37; sealed
beam lamp units of heading 85.39; optical fibre cables of heading 85.44;
(i)
(ij) Searchlights or spotlights of heading 94.05;
(k)
Articles of Chapter 95;
(l)
Capacity measures, which are to be classified according to
their constituent material; or
(m)
Spools, reels or similar supports (which are to be classified
according to their constituent material, for example, in heading 39.23 or
Section XV).
2.‑ Subject to
Note 1 above, parts and accessories for machines, apparatus, instruments or
articles of this Chapter are to be classified according to the following rules:
(a)
Parts and accessories which are goods included in any of the
headings of this Chapter or of Chapter 84, 85 or 91 (other than heading 84.85,
85.48 or 90.33) are in all cases to be classified in heir respective headings;
(b) Other parts and
accessories, if suitable for use solely or principally with a particular kind
of machine, instrument or apparatus, or with a number of machines, instruments
or apparatus of the same heading (including a machine, instrument or apparatus
of heading 90.10, 90.13 or 90.31) are to be classified with the machines,
instruments or apparatus of that kind;
(c) All other parts and
accessories are to be classified in heading 90.33.
3.‑ The provisions
of Note 4 to Section XVI apply also to this Chapter.
4.‑ Heading 90.05
does not apply to telescopic sights for fitting to arms, periscopic telescopes
for fitting to submarines or tanks, or to telescopes for machines, appliances,
instruments or apparatus of this Chapter or Section XVI; such telescopic sights
and telescopes are to be classified in heading 90.13.
5.‑ Measuring or
checking optical instruments, appliances or machines which, but for this Note,
could be classified both in heading 90.13 and in heading 90.31 are to be
classified in heading 90.31.
6.‑ For the purposes of heading 90.21, the expression "orthopaedic appliances" means appliances for:
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Preventing or correcting bodily deformities; or
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Supporting or holding parts of the body following an illness,
operation or injury.
Orthopaedic appliances
include footwear and special insoles designed to correct orthopaedic
conditions, provided that they are either (1) made to measure or (2) mass‑produced,
presented singly and not in pairs and designed to fit either foot equally.
7.‑ Heading 90.32
applies only to:
(a)
Instruments and apparatus for automatically controlling the
flow, level, pressure or other variables of liquids or gases, or for
automatically controlling temperature, whether or not their operation depends
on an electrical phenomenon which varies according to the factor to be
automatically controlled, which are designed to bring this factor to, and
maintain it at, a desired value, stabilised against disturbances, by constantly
or periodically measuring its actual value; and
(b)
Automatic regulators of electrical quantities, and
instruments or apparatus for automatically controlling non‑electrical
quantities the operation of which depends on an electrical phenomenon varying
according to the factor to be controlled, which are designed to bring this
factor to, and maintain it at, a desired value, stabilised against
disturbances, by constantly or periodically measuring its actual value.
The entry of appliances and instruments under tariffs 90.18, 90.19 and 90.21 and also of apparatus for medical uses under tariff 90.22 is subject to the approval of the Ministry of Health, Treatment and Medical Education.