Customs Acts 1962, Chapter- III, Appointment of Customs Ports, Airports, Warehousesing Stations etc
CHAPTER III - APPOINTMENT OF CUSTOMS PORTS, AIRPORTS, WAREHOUSING
STATIONS, ETC.
- Appointment of customs ports, airports, etc. -
- The Board may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint -
- the ports and airports which alone shall be customs ports or
customs airports for the unloading of imported goods and the loading
of export goods or any class of such goods;
(aa) the places which alone shall be inland container depots for the
unloading of imported goods and the loading of export goods or any
class of such goods;
- the places which alone shall be land customs stations for the
clearance Of goods imported or to be exported by land or inland
water or any class of such goods;
- the routes by which alone goods or any class of goods specified
in the notification may pass by land or inland water into or out of
India, or to or from any land customs station from or to any land
frontier;
- the ports which alone shall be coastal ports for the carrying on
of trade in coastal goods or any class of such goods with all or any
specified ports in India.
- Every notification issued under this section and enforced
immediately before the commencement of the Finance Act, 2003 shall, on
such commencement be deemed to have been issued under the provisions of
this section as amended by section 98 of the Finance Act 2003 and shall
continue to have the same force and effect after such commencement until
it is amended, rescinded or superseded under the provisions of this
section.
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Power to approve landing places and specify limits of customs
area. - The Commissioner of Customs may, -
- approve proper places in any customs port or customs airport or
coastal port for the unloading and loading of goods or for any class of
goods;
- specify the limits of any customs area.
- Power to declare places to be warehousing stations. -
The Board may, by notification in the Official Gazette, declare places to be
warehousing stations at which alone public warehouses may be appointed and
private warehouses may be licensed.
- Appointment of boarding stations. - The Commissioner of
Customs may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint, in or near
any customs port, a boarding station for the purpose of boarding of, or
disembarkation from, vessels by officers of customs.