Regulation 2 - Definitions - Sea Cargo Manifest and Transhipment Regulations, 2018

1 [2. Definitions. - (1) In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires, (a) Act means the Customs Act, 1962 (52 of 1962); (b) arrival manifest means an integrated declaration required to be delivered by an authorised carrier before or on arrival of, - (i) the vessel carrying imported goods, export goods, or coastal goods or (ii) a train or a truck carrying imported goods or export goods; (c) authorised carrier means an authorised sea carrier, authorised train operator or a custodian, registered under regulation 3 and postal authority; (d) authorised sea carrier means the master of the vessel carrying imported goods, export goods and coastal goods or his agent, or any other person notified by the Central Government; (e) authorised train operator means the train operator carrying imported goods and export goods; (f) custodian means a person approved by the Principal Commissioner or the Commissioner of customs, for the purposes of section 45 of the Act; (g) departure manifest means an integrated declaration required to be delivered by an authorised carrier before departure of: (i) a vessel carrying imported goods, export goods or coastal goods; or (ii) a train or truck carrying imported goods or export goods; (h) designated foreign route means the sea route between an Indian port and another Indian port, traversed by a vessel, through the territorial waters of Sri Lanka or Bangladesh, whether or not calling any port in Sri Lanka or Bangladesh in between; (i) Form means a Form appended to these regulations or the corresponding electronic form provided at the website https://www.icegate.gov.in in relation to filing of arrival and departure manifest; (j) Jurisdictional Commissioner of customs means the Commissioner of customs who has granted registration under regulation 3; (k) postal authority means an officer of the Post Office as defined in The Indian Post Office Act, 1898 (6 of 1898); (l) Special Economic Zone (SEZ) means special economic zone as per the Special Economic Zones Act, 2005 (28 of 2005); (2) Any reference to a Commissioner of customs shall also include a reference to Principal Commissioner of customs for purposes of these regulations. (3) The words and expressions used herein and not defined but defined in the Act shall have the same meaning respectively assigned to them in the Act; ] ******** Notes 1. Substituted vide Notification No. 54/2019-Customs (N.T.) dated 01-08-2019 before it was read as 2. Definitions. - (1) In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires, (a) Act means the Customs Act, 1962 (52 of 1962) ; (b) arrival manifest means an integrated declaration required to be delivered by an authorised carrier on arrival of the vessel or train or truck carrying imported goods, export goods and coastal goods; (c) authorised carrier means an authorised sea carrier, authorised train operator, shipping line or a custodian registered under regulation 3; (d) authorised sea carrier means the master of the vessel carrying imported goods, export goods and coastal goods or his agent; (e) authorised train operator means the train operator carrying imported goods, export goods and coastal goods; (f) Coastal goods transited through a designated foreign route means: (i) coastal goods transported between an Indian port on east coast and another Indian port on west coast or vice versa, by a vessel through the territorial waters of Sri Lanka, whether or not calling any port in Sri Lanka in between and without change of vessel; (ii) coastal goods transported between an Indian port on east coast and a river port in India or vice versa, by a vessel through a route passing through the Bangladeshi waters and without change of vessel; (g) custodian means a person approved by the Principal Commissioner or the Commissioner of customs, for the purposes of section 45 of the Act ; (h) departure manifest means integrated declaration required to be delivered by an authorised carrier before departure of a vessel or train or truck for imported goods, export goods and coastal goods; (i) Form means a Form appended to these regulations; (j) Jurisdictional Commissioner of Customs means the Commissioner of Customs who has granted registration under regulation 3. (k) Special Economic Zone (SEZ) means special economic zone as per the Special Economic Zones Act, 2005 (28 of 2005) ; (l) any reference to a Commissioner of customs shall also include a reference to Principal Commissioner of customs for purposes of these regulations. (2) The words and expressions used herein and not defined but defined in the Act shall have the same meaning respectively assigned to them in the Act.