THE CUSTOMS ACT, 1962 (52 of 1962)
CHAPTER III
Appointment of Customs ports, airports, warehousing
stations, etc.
Section 7. Appointment of
customs ports, airports, etc. - (1) The Board may, by notification in the Official
Gazette, appoint -
(a) 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;
(b) 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;
(c) 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;
(d) 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.
(2) Every notification issued under this section and in
force 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 105 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rescinded or superseded under the provisions of this section.
Section 8. Power to approve landing places and specify limits of
customs area. – The Commissioner of Customs may, —
(a) 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;
(b) specify the limits of any customs area.
Section 9. 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.
Section 10. 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.
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