Saint Helena

All passengers entering St Helena must complete a declaration in the form shown in the Second Schedule ("Every passenger or head of family MUST complete this form when entering St Helena") and submit it to Customs; the Collector may exempt a passenger under Regulation 10(2). If you do not have anything to declare then please state "NONE"; goods obtained outside St Helena that are not within duty-free allowances (not exempt from dues) must be listed — under s.30 of the Customs and Excise Ordinance, 1999, only goods not exempt from dues must be listed, so duty-free allowance items are not itemised. Territorial scope: St Helena island only; not extrapolated to Ascension or Tristan da Cunha.

Trigger: carrying currency, cheques or monetary instruments, or any combination of them, which in total exceeds £6,000 (strictly more than), or the equivalent of that amount in any currency or combination of currencies. Direction: both entering and departing St Helena. Obligations: (a) declare this fact in the form contained in the Fourth Schedule — the currency declaration form records personal data (name, date and country of birth, nationality, occupation, home address), whether entering or departing, the monetary value with a breakdown if required, and a signed certification that failure to make a full declaration is an offence and can result in seizure, fines and/or imprisonment; its notes state that monetary instruments include coins, currency, travellers cheques and bearer instruments such as personal cheques; (b) provide information on the origin of the currency, cheques or monetary instruments and their intended use as requested by the Customs Officer, who must record identification and other data and may provide it to the Money Laundering Reporting Authority established by s.9 of the Money Laundering Ordinance, 2008. Failure to make the declaration or provide the information is an offence: fine of £2,000 or imprisonment for 6 months, or both. Territorial scope: St Helena island only; not extrapolated to Ascension or Tristan da Cunha.