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Section 109: Power to require production of order permitting clearance of goods imported by land

The Customs Act, 1962*Union territory Act of Chandigarh · Act 52 of 1962

Any officer of customs appointed for any area adjoining the land frontier of India and empowered in this behalf by general or special order of the Board, may require any person in possession of any goods which such officer has reason to believe to have been imported into India by land, to produce the order made under section 47 permitting clearance of the goods:

Provided that nothing in this section shall apply to any imported goods passing from a land frontier to a land customs station by a route appointed under clause (c) of section 7.

1 [109A. Power to undertake controlled delivery.—Notwithstanding anything contained in this Act, the proper officer or any other officer authorised by him in this behalf, may undertake controlled delivery of any consignment of such goods and in such manner as may be prescribed, to—

(a) any destination in India; or

(b) a foreign country, in consultation with the competent authority of such country to which such consignment is destined.

Explanation.—For the purposes of this section ―controlled delivery‖ means the procedure of allowing consignment of such goods to pass out of, or into, the territory of India with the knowledge and under the supervision of proper officer for identifying the persons involved in the commission of an offence or contravention under this Act.]

Where this provision sits

ActThe Customs Act, 1962*
Section109
Marginal notePower to require production of order permitting clearance of goods imported by land
JurisdictionUnion territory of Chandigarh
StatusIn force as published by the source

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