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BE PUBLISHED IN THE GAZETTE OF INDIA, EXTRAORDINARY, PART-II, SECTION-3,
SUB-SECTION (ii)]
GOVERNMENT OF
INDIA
MINISTRY OF
FINANCE
(DEPARTMENT OF
REVENUE)
(Central Board of Excise and Customs)
Notification
No. 70/2016-CUSTOMS (N. T.)
New Delhi, 14th
May, 2016
G.S.R (E).- In
exercise of the powers conferred by section 157, read with section 57 of the
Customs Act, 1962 (52 of 1962), the Central Board of Excise and Customs hereby
makes the following regulations, namely:-
1.
Short title and commencement. – (1) These
regulations may be called the Public Warehouse Licensing Regulations, 2016.
(2)
They shall come into force on the date of their publication in the Official
Gazette.
2.
Definitions. – (1) In these regulations, unless the
context otherwise requires, -
(a)
“Act” means the Customs Act, 1962 (52 of 1962);
(b) “applicant” means a
person who applies for a licence for a public warehouse under section 57;
(c) “public warehouse”
means a site or building that is licensed as such by the Principal Commissioner
of Customs or Commissioner of Customs, as the case may be, under section 57,
wherein dutiable goods may be deposited;
(d)
“section” means section of the Act.
(2) The words and expressions used herein and not
defined in these regulations shall have the same meanings respectively as
assigned to them in the said Act.
3.
Licensing of public warehouse.– (1) Upon an
application being made to license a public warehouse, the Principal
Commissioner of Customs or Commissioner of Customs, as the case may be, may
issue a licence to an applicant who, –
(a) is a citizen of
India or is an entity incorporated or registered under any law for the time
being in force;
(b) submits an
undertaking to comply with such terms and conditions as may be specified by the
Principal Commissioner of Customs or Commissioner of Customs, as the case may
be;
(c)
furnishes a solvency certificate from a scheduled bank for a sum of two crore
rupees:
Provided that the
condition of furnishing a solvency certificate shall not be applicable to an
undertaking of the Central Government or State Government or Union territory or
to ports notified under the Major Port Trusts Act, 1963 (38 of 1963);
(2) The Principal Commissioner of Customs or
Commissioner of Customs, as the case may be, shall not issue a licence to an
applicant if, -
(a)
he has been declared an insolvent or bankrupt by a Court or Tribunal;
(b)
he has been convicted for an offence under any law for the time being in force;
(c) he has been
penalised for an offence under the Act, the Central Excise Act, 1944 (1 of
1944) or Chapter V of the Finance Act, 1994 (32 of 1994);
(d)
he is of unsound mind and stands so declared by a competent Court; or
(e) the Principal
Commissioner of Customs or the Commissioner of Customs, as the case may be, is
satisfied that-
(i) the site or
building of the proposed public warehouse is not suitable for secure storage of
dutiable goods;
(ii) the site or
building of the proposed public warehouse is not suitable for general
supervision by officers of customs;
(iii)
bankruptcy proceedings are pending against the applicant ; or
(iv) criminal
proceedings are pending against the applicant and the offences involved are of
such nature that he is not a fit person for grant of licence.
4.
Conditions to be fulfilled by applicant. – Where, after
inspection of the premises, evaluation of compliance to the conditions under
regulation 3 and conducting such enquiries as may be necessary, the Principal
Commissioner of Customs or Commissioner of Customs, as the case may be, is
satisfied that licence may be granted, he shall require the applicant to,-
(a) provide an all risk
insurance policy, that includes natural calamities, riots, fire, theft,
skillful pilferage and commercial crime, in favour of the President of India,
for a sum equivalent to the amount of duty involved on the dutiable goods
proposed to be stored in the public warehouse at any point of time;
(b) provide an
undertaking binding himself to pay any duties, interest, fine and penalties
payable in respect of warehoused goods under sub-section (3) of section 73A or
under the Warehouse (Custody and Handling of Goods) Regulations, 2016;
(c) provide an
undertaking indemnifying the Principal Commissioner of Customs or Commissioner
of Customs, as the case may be, from any liability arising on account of loss
suffered in respect of warehoused goods due to accident, damage, deterioration,
destruction or any other unnatural cause during their receipt, delivery,
storage, despatch or handling; and
(d) appoint a person
who has sufficient experience in warehousing operations and customs procedures
as warehouse keeper.
5.
Grant of licence. – Upon fulfillment of the conditions
specified in regulation 3 and regulation 4, the Principal Commissioner of
Customs or Commissioner of Customs, as the case may be, may grant a licence in
respect of the public warehouse subject to such conditions as deemed necessary.
6.
Validity of licence. – Any licence granted under regulation
5 shall remain valid until and unless it is cancelled in terms of the
provisions under section 58B or sub-regulation (2) of regulation 8.
7.
Non–transferability of licence. - A licence granted
under regulation 5 shall not be transferable.
8.
Surrender of licence. – (1) A licensee may surrender the
licence granted to him by making a request in writing to the Principal
Commissioner of Customs or Commissioner of Customs, as the case may be.
(2) On receipt of the request under sub-regulation
(1), the Principal Commissioner of Customs or Commissioner of Customs, as the
case may be, may cancel the licence if, –
(a) the licensee has
paid all monies due to the Central Government under the provisions of the Act,
rules or regulations made there under;
(b) no warehoused goods
remain deposited in the public warehouse or are deposited in the public
warehouse from the date of request referred in sub-regulation (1); and
(c) no proceedings are
pending against the licensee under the Act or the rules or regulations made
there under.
9.
Licence for existing public warehouses. - A public warehouse
appointed under section 57 as it stood immediately before the commencement of
the Finance Act, 2016 (28 of 2016), shall be valid under these regulations
provided such warehouse fulfill the requirements specified in clause (b) and
clause (c) of sub-regulation (1) of regulation 3 and the conditions specified
in regulation 4 within a period of three months from the date of commencement
of these regulations.
[F.N.484/03/2015-LC
(Vol. II. Pt II)]
(Temsunaro
Jamir)
Under Secretary
to the Government of India
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