No Fees for Services Rendered by Appraisers Customs and Excise, Air Customs Officers, Examiners/Inspectors and Class IV Staff for Cargo Clearance

[Customs Notification No. 46 (Non Tariff) dated 1^st April 2016]

In exercise of the powers conferred by sections 157 and 158 of the Customs Act, 1962 (52 of 1962), the Central Board of Excise and Customs hereby makes the following regulations further to amend the Customs (Fees For Rendering Services by Customs Officers) Regulations, 1998, namely:-

1. (1) These regulations may be called the Customs (Fees for Rendering Services by Customs Officers) Amendment Regulations, 2016.

(2)They shall come into force on the date of their publication in the Official Gazette.

2. In regulation 3, after the Table, the following proviso shall be inserted, namely:-

Provided that where the working hours in respect of clearance of cargo in Customs ports or Customs airports, has been prescribed as twenty- four hours on all days for customs clearance, no fee shall be leviable in such locations for the services rendered by the category of officers mentioned in column (1) of the Table.

[F No.450/11/2003-Cus.IV(Pt.)]