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CUSTOMS ACT, 1962
Title : CUSTOMS ACT, 1962

Year : 1962

Act : CHAPTER II OFFICERS OF CUSTOMS


3.

Classes of officers of customs.


3.Classes of officers of customs. There shall be the following classes of officers of customs, namely:-


1*[(a) Principle Collectors of Customs;]


2*[(aa) Commissioner of Customs


3*(b) Commissinor of Customs ( Appeals); "

(c) Deputy Commissioners of Customs

(d) Assistant Commissioners of Customs ; and

(e)such other class of officers of customs as may be
appointed for the purposes of this Act.



4.
Appointment of officers of customs.


4.Appointment of officers of customs.(1) The Central Government may appoint such persons as it thinks fit to be officers of customs.

(2) Without prejudice to the provisions of sub-section (1), the Central Government may authorise the Board, a Commissioner of Customs or of Deputy or Assistant Commissioner of Customs to appoint officers of customs below the rank of Assistant Commissioner of Customs.



5.
Power of officers of customs.


5.Power of officers of customs. (1) Subject to such conditions and limitations as the Board may impose, an officer of customs may exercise the powers and discharge ,the duties conferred or imposed on him under this Act.

(2) An officer of customs may exercise the powers and discharge duties conferred or imposed under this Act on any other officer of the customs who is subordinate to him.


(3) Notwithstanding anything contained in this section, 3*[a collector appeals)] shall not exercise the powers and discharge the duties conferred or imposed on an officer of customs other than those specified in Chapter XV and section 108



6.
Entrustment of functions of Board and customs officers on certainother officers.


6.Entrustment of functions of Board and customs officers on certain other officers. The Central Government may, by notification in th Official (Gazette, entrust either conditionally or unconditionally to. any officer ,of the Central or the State Government or a local authority any functions of the Board or any officer of customs under this Act.


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1 Subs. by Act 44 of 1980, S. 50 & Sch. v. (w.e.f. 11-10-1982)


3. Subs. by Act 22 of 1995, S. 52.

2 Re-lettered and ins. by Act 29 of 1988, s. 2 (w.e.f.1.7.1988).
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