Customs House Agents Licensing (Amendment) Regulations, 1994 - 05/94 - Customs - Non Tariff

Customs House Agents Licensing (Amendment) Regulations, 1994 Notification No. 5/94-Cus. (N.T.) Dated 28-1-1994 In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (2) of section 146 of the Customs Act, 1962 (52 of 1962), the Central Board of Excise and Customs hereby makes the following regulations further to amend the Customs House Agents Licensing Regulations, 1984 (hereinafter referred to as the said regulations), namely :- 1.(1) These regulations may be called the Customs House Agents Licensing (Amendment) Regulations, 1994 (2) They shall come into force on the date of their publication in the Official Gazette. 2. In regulation 9 of the said regulations, after sub-regulation (2), the following explanation shall be inserted, namely :- "Explanation : A person who qualifies in the written examination, but fails in the oral test linked to it, shall be treated as having failed in that chance; but he will not be required to appear in the written examination in the subsequent chances." 3. For regulation 18, of the said regulations, the following regulation shall be substituted, namely :- "18. Engagement of persons qualified in the examination referred to in regulation 9, etc. (1) A person who has qualified in the examination referred to in regulation 9 may engage himself in the work relating to the clearance of goods through customs on behalf of a firm or a company licenced under regulation 10 provided that at any given time he shall not so engage himself on behalf of more than one such firm or company. (2) Any change in the persons qualified in the examination referred to in regulation 9 and actually engaged in the work in the customs station on behalf of a licencee firm or company shall be communicated forthwith by the firm or the company, as the case may be, to the Assistant Collector of Customs and no new person other than the one who is qualified in the examination referred to in regulation 9 shall be allowed to work in the Customs Station as a duly authorised employee on behalf of that firm or company."