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[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
(Central Board of Excise and Customs)

Notification No. 115 /2016-Customs (N.T.)

New Delhi, dated the 26
th
August, 2016

G.S.R. (E).--In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (2) of section 141
read with section 157 of the Customs Act, 1962 (52 of 1962), the Central Board of Excise
and Customs hereby makes the following regulations to further amend the Handling of Cargo
in Customs Areas Regulations, 2009, namely:-
1. (1) These regulations may be called the Handling of Cargo in Customs Areas
(Amendment) Regulations, 2016.
(2) They shall come into force on the date of their publication in the Official Gazette.
2. In the Handling of Cargo in Customs Areas Regulations, 2009 (hereinafter referred to
as ‘the said regulations’), in regulation 5, namely:-
a) in sub-regulation (3), for the word “thirty”, the word “ten” shall be substituted:
b) in sub-regulation (4), the following proviso shall be inserted, namely:-
“Provided that the condition of furnishing of bank guarantee shall not be applicable to
ports notified under the Major Ports Act, 1962 (38 of 1963) or to the Central
Government or State Governments or their undertakings or to the customs cargo
service provider authorised under Authorised Economic Operator Programme.”

[F. No. 450/114/2015-Cus IV]

(Zubair Riaz)
Director (Customs)

Note: The principal regulations notified vide Notification No. 26/2009-Customs (N.T.) dated
17
th
March, 2009 were published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Par II, Section 3,
sub-section (i) vide number G.S.R 174(E) dated 17
th
March, 2009 and was last amended vide
Notification No. 101/2012-Customs (N.T.) dated 16
th
November, 2012 published in the
Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section-3, sub-section (i) vide G.S.R. 831(E) dated
16
th
November, 2012.
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