Restricted Activity Checker Interactive Checker
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Reported GN 487A categories listed as reported. Four questions → screen / take advice / open. No penalties invented.
What does the Restricted Activity Checker do now?
Reported reservation categories are listed as reported (GN No. 487A). Activity and ownership questions map to screen / take advice / open. No penalty figures or invented sections. Mandate-holders decide; instruct an advocate where needed.
Screen activity against reported reservations.
GN No. 487A of 2025 categories below are labelled reported from corroborated secondary sources. Obtain the gazetted Order before you treat any list as exhaustive. No penalty figures. No invented enabling sections.
Reported reservation categories (GN No. 487A of 2025)
Status for this desk is Reported — not a substitute for the gazetted Order. Commenced (as reported): 28 July 2025. Fifteen categories are reported closed to non-citizen control; this table lists classes this desk has named from reporting and refuses to invent the rest from memory.
| Activity class (as reported) | Desk status | Typical failed plan |
|---|---|---|
| Wholesale and retail trade | Reported reserved | Shop / supermarket plans for foreign control |
| Clearing and forwarding | Reported reserved | Own-company clearing of imports |
| On-farm crop buying / aggregation | Reported reserved | Buying licences for foreign-controlled firms |
| Salon, barber and related personal services | Reported reserved | Beauty / salon roll-ups |
| Tourism classes also reserved under Tourism Act overlays | Confirm Act + Order | Tour operator / travel agency models |
| Other categories named in GN 487A (as reported) | Confirm live Order | Do not invent the fifteenth from memory |
This table is orientation from corroborated reporting. No penalty figure. No enabling section number. Local incorporation is reported not to cure a reservation by itself.
Disclaimer: Orientation only — not an eligibility decision and not legal advice. GN No. 487A of 2025 reservations are cited from corroborated reporting and labelled reported; obtain the gazetted Order before you treat any class as exhaustive. No penalty figure is published here. No enabling section number is invented. Where right of audience or a contested filing is needed, instruct an advocate.
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