Regulation 4 - Delivery of an Arrival Manifest - Sea Cargo Manifest and Transhipment Regulations, 2018

4. Delivery of an Arrival Manifest . - 1 [ (1) An authorised sea carrier carrying imported goods, export goods, or coastal goods shall deliver the arrival manifest to the proper officer electronically: Provided that where it is not practicable to deliver the arrival manifest or any part thereof electronically, then the manifest or any part thereof shall be submitted manually in duplicate with the approval of the Commissioner of customs or any other officer authorised by him: Provided further that for the vessels carrying only coastal goods and operating from exclusive berths meant for coastal goods at the loading as well as the unloading ports, there shall be no requirement of delivering arrival manifest. ] (2) The arrival manifest shall consist of, - (a) an application for entry inwards in Form-II (except in case of vessel carrying exclusive coastal goods); (b) a general declaration in Form-III; (c) vessel s stores list in Form- IV; (d) list of private property in the possession of the Master and crew, in Form- V (e) cargo declaration: - (i) for vessel arriving at an Indian port from a Foreign port in Form-VIA; or (ii) for vessel arriving at an Indian Port from another Indian Port directly or through designated foreign route in Form-VIB; (f) any other declaration which, under the provisions of the Customs Act or any other Act for the time being in force is required to be delivered to the proper officer on arrival of vessel. (3) The general declaration and cargo declaration shall be delivered before the departure of the vessel from last port of call and the rest of the arrival manifest shall be delivered before arrival of the vessel. 2 [ 4) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-regulation (3), the authorised sea carrier may update the information furnished in Form- VIA and Form- VIB, - (i) before 48 hours of expected arrival at the destination customs port, for the vessels on voyage of more than ninety-six hours between departure from the last port of call and arrival at the next port; (ii) before 24 hours of expected arrival at the destination customs port, for the vessels on voyage of forty-eight to ninety-six hours between departure from the last port of call and arrival at the next port; (iii) before 6 hours of expected arrival at the destination customs port for the vessels on voyage of less than forty-eight hours between departure from the last port of call and arrival at the next port: Provided that for vessels carrying non-containerized cargo, whether or not carrying containerized cargo, the authorised sea carrier may, irrespective of the voyage duration, update the arrival manifest before entry inwards at the destination customs port. ] ******** Notes 1. Substituted vide Notification No. 54/2019-Customs (N.T.) dated 01-08-2019 before it was read as (1) An authorised sea carrier carrying imported goods, export goods or coastal goods, shall deliver the arrival manifest to the proper officer electronically: Provided that where it is not possible to deliver the arrival manifest electronically then the manifest shall be submitted manually in duplicate with the approval of the Commissioner of Customs. 2. Inserted vide Notification No. 54/2019-Customs (N.T.) dated 01-08-2019