Section 158 - Provisions with respect to rules and regulations - Customs Act, 1962

SECTION 158. Provisions with respect to rules and regulations. - (1) All rules and regulations made under this Act shall be published in the Official Gazette. (2) Any rule or regulation which the Central Government or the Board is empowered to make under this Act may provide - (i) for the levy of fees in respect of applications, amendment of documents, furnishing of duplicates of documents, issue of certificates, and supply of statistics, and for rendering of any services by officers of customs under this Act; 1 [ (ii) that any person who contravenes any provision of a rule or regulation or abets such contravention or who fails to comply with any provision of a rule or regulation with which it was his duty to comply, shall be liable to a penalty which may extend to 2 [ two lakh rupees ].] ------------------------ Notes : 1. Substituted by Finance Act, 2008, w.e.f. 10.5.2008. Prior to substitution it was read as under: (ii) that any person who contravenes any provision of a rule or regulation or abets such contravention or any person who fails to comply with any provision of a rule or regulation with which it was his duty to comply, shall be liable, - (a) in the case of contravention or failure to comply with a rule, to a penalty which may extend to five hundred rupees; (b) in the case of contravention or failure to comply with a regulation, to a penalty which may extend to two hundred rupees. 2. Substituted vide FINANCE (NO. 2) ACT, 2019 w.e.f. 01-08-2019 before it was read as fifty thousand rupees