Baggage (Third Amendment) Rules, 1986 - 467/86 - Customs -Tariff

Baggage (Third Amendment) Rules, 1986 Notification. No. 467/86-Cus. Dated 25-11-1986 In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (2) of section 79 of the Customs Act, 1962 (52 of 1962), the Central Government hereby makes the following rules further to amend the Baggage Rules, 1978, namely :- 1. (1) These rules may be called the Baggage (Third Amendment) Rules, 1986. (2) They shall come into force on the date of their publication in the Official Gazette. 2. In the Baggage Rules, 1978, after rule 4A, the following rule shall be inserted, namely : - "4B. Additional allowance for persons returning on termination of work abroad and having a certificate to that effect from the Indian mission. - (1) In the case of a passenger holding a valid passport issued under the Passport Act, 1967 (15 of 1967), and returning to India after a period of not less than one year of stay abroad, his personal effects and household articles upto an aggregate value of twenty thousand rupees which have been in his or his family's possession and use abroad for a minimum period of six months may be imported free of duty subject to the following conditions, namely :- (i) such passenger has been working abroad for a minimum period of one year and manufacturing to India on termination of such work and produces a certificate from the Indian Mission in the country of his employment to that effect; (ii) the goods which are sought to be imported under this rule are imported by the person in whose name the certificate referred to in clause (i) above is issued; (iii) such passenger affirms by a declaration that the goods in question have been in his or in his family's possession and use abroad for a minimum period of six months and the examination of such goods and the attendant circumstances do not indicate to the contrary : Provided that such passenger shall be allowed to avail of the provisions of this rule only once in every three years. (2) Nothing contained in this rule shall apply to the following articles, namely:- (a) motorcycles, scooters or mopeds; (b) airconditioners; (c) refrigerators and deep freezes; (d) fire arms; (dd) cartridges of fire arms exceeding 50; (e) cigarettes exceeding 200 or cigars exceeding 50 or tobacco exceeding 250 gms; and (f) alcoholic liquor in excess of 0.95 litre. Explanation. - For the removal of doubts, it is hereby declared that a passenger shall not be eligible to avail of the provisions of both rules 4A and 4B at the same time".