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Section 101: Power to search suspected persons in certain other cases.

The Customs Act, 1962Central Act · Act 52 of 1962

(1) Without prejudice to the provisions of section 100, if an officer of customs empowered in this behalf by general or special order of the [Principal Commissioner of Customs or Commissioner of Customs], has reason to believe that any person has secreted about his person any goods of the description specified in sub-section (2) which are liable to confiscation, or documents relating thereto, he may search that person.

(2) The goods referred to in sub-section (1) are the following:--

(a) gold;

(b) diamonds;

(c) manufactures of gold or diamonds;

(d) watches;

(e) any other class of goods which the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, specify.

Where this provision sits

ActThe Customs Act, 1962
Section101
Marginal notePower to search suspected persons in certain other cases.
JurisdictionCentral
StatusIn force as published by the source

How this provision has been amended

Taken from the footnotes printed with the provision by the source. Where a footnote names the amending instrument, it is quoted as printed.

  • substituted, Act 25 of 2014. . Subs. by Act 25 of 2014, s. 78, for "Commissioner of Customs" (w.e.f. 6-8-2014).

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