Application for Customs Broker licence and eligibility - CBEC's Customs Manual 2023 - Customs

2. Application for Customs Broker licence and eligibility: 2.1 Regulation 4 of CBLR 2018 provides for invitation of applications by National Academy of Customs, Indirect Taxes Narcotics (NACIN) in the month of April every year for conducting examination and subsequent grant of license to act as Customs Broker in prescribed Form A of CBLR by publication in two leading national daily newspaper in Hindi and English each. The application in Form A along with a fee of five hundred rupees shall be made to Principal Commissioner of Customs or Commissioner of Customs, having jurisdiction over the area where the applicant wants to transact business. 2.2 The eligibility condition as per Regulation 5 of CBLR 2018 is that the applicant should be a citizen of India, a person of sound mind, is not adjudicated as insolvent holds an Aadhaar number, holds a valid PAN card and confirms financial viability by a certificate issued by a scheduled bank or such other proof acceptable to the Principal Commissioner of Customs or Commissioner of Customs evidencing possession of assets of value of not less than Rs.5 lakhs. Further an individual applicant or in case the applicant is a firm, its partner or in the case of a company, its director or an authorized employee who may handle the Customs work, shall be a graduate from a recognized university and possess a professional degree such as Masters or equivalent degree in Accounting, Finance or Management, CA/CS/MBA/LLM/ACMA/FCMA or Diploma in Customs Clearance work from any Institutes or University recognised by the Government or is having at least two years experience in transacting Customs Broker work as G-Card holder. The applicant may also be a retired Group A officer from the Indian Revenue Service (Customs and Central Excise) having a minimum of 5 years experience in Group A service. Other conditions that need to be fulfilled by the applicant are: (i) The applicant has neither been convicted by a competent Court for an offence nor any criminal proceeding is pending against him in any Court of law; (ii) The applicant has not been penalised for any offence under the Act, the Central Excise Act, 1944 (1 of 1944), the Finance Act, 1994(32 of 1994), the Central Goods and Services Act, 20 Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017 (13 of 2017).