Notification No. 107/2016, Dated 11th August 2016

[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. 107/ 2016-Customs (N.T.)

New Delhi, dated the 11th August, 2016

G.S.R. (E).- In exercise of the powers conferred by clause (a) of sub-section (2) of section 157 of the Customs Act, 1962 (52 of 1962), the Central Board of Excise and Customs hereby makes the following regulations further to amend the Export Manifest (Aircraft) Regulations, 1976, namely : -

1.         (1) These Regulations may be called the Export Manifest (Aircraft) Amendment Regulations, 2016.
(2) They shall come into force on the date of their publication in the e-gazette of India.

2.         In the Export manifest (Aircraft) regulations, 1976 (hereinafter referred to as the said regulations), in regulation 5,-

(a) for sub- regulation (1), the following shall be substituted, namely:-

“(1) (a) The pre check-in passenger manifest shall be delivered twelve hours before the departure of the flight.
(b) The final passenger manifest shall be delivered fifteen minutes before leaving or takingoff from the port of embarkation in India.”;

(b) for sub-regulation (2), the following shall be substituted, namely:-

“(2) The manifests shall be transmitted electronically to the Indian Customs in flat file format or in United Nations/ Electronic Data Interchange for Administration, Commerce and Transport Passenger List Advance Passenger Information (UN/EDIFACT PAXLST API) message format as per Annexure.”;

(c) in sub-regulation (3), after the word “concerned”, the following words shall be inserted, namely:-

“Principal Commissioner of Customs or”.

3. In the said regulations, after regulation 5 and before FORM NO. I, the following Annexure shall be inserted, namely:-

[F. No. 520/12/2009-CusVI]

(B. Konthoujam)
UNDER SECRETARY TO THE GOVT OF INDIA

Note: The principal regulations were published in Part I, Section 3, Sub-section (i) of the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, vide notification under G.S.R 1548 dated 23rd October, 1976 and were last amended vide notification No. 75/2005-Customs (N.T.) dated the 30th August, 2005, vide number G.S.R. 548(E) dated the 30th August, 2005.