64/2012-Cus(N.T.), Dated: 23/07/2012

 

Seeks to amend Notification No. 83/2004 – Customs (NT), dated the 30th June, 2004

[TO BE PUBLISHED IN THE GAZETTE OF INDIA, EXTRAORDINARY, PART II, SECTION 3, SUB-SECTION (i)]
 

 

 

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
MINISTRY OF FINANCE
(DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE)
 
Notification No. 64/2012 - Customs (N.T.)

 

New Delhi, dated the 23rd July, 2012

 
            G.S.R.   (E).- In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) of section 4 of  the Customs Act, 1962 (52 of 1962) , the Central Board of Excise and Customs, hereby makes the following amendment in the notification of the Government of India in the Ministry of Finance (Department of Revenue) No. 83/2004-Customs (N.T.), dated the 30th June, 2004, published in the Gazette of India,  vide number G.S.R. 393 (E), dated the 30th June, 2004, namely:-
 
            In the said notification, in paragraph (2), the words ‘at Hyderabad’ shall be omitted.
 
 

[F.No. 434/21/2010-Cus.IV]
 
(Vikas)
Under Secretary to the Government of India
 

Opinion

Earlier in Notification No. 83/2004-Customs (N.T.), dated the 30th June, 2004 the Central Board of Excise and Customs appointed the Commissioners of Central Excise to be Commissioners of Customs within their respective jurisdiction as specified under rule 3 of the Central Excise Rules 2002, subject to modification that such jurisdiction of Commissioner of  Customs in respect of the areas comprising the Airport, Inland Container Depot, Container Freight Station and Air Cargo Complex ‘at Hyderabad’ notified under section 7 or, as the case may be, under section 8 of the Customs Act, 1962 (52 of 1962), exercisable by the Commissioner of Central Excise Hyderabad-I or Hyderabad-II or Hyderabad –III or Hyderabad-IV shall be exercised by the Commissioner of Central Excise Hyderabad –II.
Now in the said notification, the words ‘at Hyderabad’ shall be omitted. With this amendment, this is not necessary that the ICD, airport etc. need not to be situated in Hyderabad but they should be under the jurisdiction of Hyderabad.