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PASSENGER'S BAGGAGE (LEVY OF FEES) REGULATIONS, 1966
Notification No. 111
dated 8th June 1966 (NT)
In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section
(1) of section 157 read with sub-section (2) of section 158 of the Customs Act,
1962 (52 of 1962), the Central Board of Excise and Customs hereby makes the
following Regulations, namely:
These regulations may be called the Passenger's
Baggage (Levy of Fees) Regulations, 1966.
2. Extent of application:
These regulations shall apply to baggage including
any package comprised therein, detained or seized from passengers or taken over
as unclaimed, and subsequently released or returned.
In respect of any such baggage or any package
comprised therein, a fee of such amount as the Commissioner of Customs may fix
shall be levied and collected at the time the baggage or package is released or
returned, having regard to -
(i)
the nature of the articles contained in the baggage or package;
(ii) the charges incurred in the
transportation of the baggage or package from the landing place to the place of
storage including the porter age charges; and
(iii) any
other expenditure incurred for services rendered:
Provided that no fee shall be levied in respect of
any baggage or package detained by the customs authorities but released to the
passenger on the ground that it has been in his bonafide use.
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