Notification No. 21/2012 Dated 17th March 2012

[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)

New Delhi, dated the 17thMarch, 2012

Notification No. 21/2012-Customs (N.T.)

G.S.R. (E).- In exercise of the powers conferred by section 79 of the Customs Act, 1962 (52 of 1962), the Central Government hereby makes the following rules further to amend the Baggage Rules,1998, namely :-

1.         (1) These rules may be called the Baggage (Amendment) Rules, 2012.

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

2.         In the Baggage Rules, 1998, in Appendix A, in column (2),-

(i) against item number (a) in column (1), for “` 25,000”, “` 35,000” shall be substituted;

(ii) against item number (b) in column (1), for “` 12,000”, “` 15,000” shall be substituted.

[F.No. 334/1/2012-TRU]

(Sanjeev Kumar Singh)

Under Secretary to the Government of India