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12-01-1995
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| Notification No: |
Customs Circular No 4/1995
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| Issuing Authority: |
Indian Customs
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| Type: |
Circular
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| Subject: |
Grant of Customs facilities to Indian Diplomatic Officers returning to India on termination of their assignment in Indian Mission abroad
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Grant of Customs facilities to Indian Diplomatic Officers returning to
India on termination of their assignment in Indian Mission abroad
Circular No. 4 dated
12th January 1995
A reference is
invited to Ministry's instructions No. 1(11)-Cus.IV/ 51 dated 16.4.1951, listing
out the various facilities available to Indian Diplomatic Officers and their
families and other officers of the Government of India posted abroad in the
matter of clearance of their baggage when such persons return to India on
termination of their assignment abroad. These instructions, inter alia, provided
for grant of Transfer of Residence facilities to such offices who are recalled
to India in public interest before the completion of their normal tenure subject
to the conditions specified therein. These instructions, which were issued in
1951, have since been reviewed by the Board in the context of the provisions of
the Customs Act, 1962 and Baggage Rules, 1994. It has been observed that the
substantive concessions available under the 1951 instructions are more or less
covered by the Baggage Rules, 1994 now in force. Further, some of the provisions
of the 1951 instructions do not have the necessary legal backing.
2. In
the aforesaid circumstances I am directed to say that the Ministry's aforesaid
instructions dated 16.4.1951 are hereby withdrawn. The clearance of baggage of
the diplomatic officers and other officials of the Central Government on their
return to India would be governed by the Baggage Rules, 1994. In specified cases
where the Baggage Rules do not provide for appropriate duty relief (such as
grant of Transfer of Residence facilities to an official recalled prematurely in
public interest), the ministry of Finance would consider such cases for grant of
ad-hoc exemption on merits.
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