CHAPTER - III
DECLARATION OF PORTS, AIRPORTS, LAND
CUSTOMS-STATIONS, ETC.
9. Declaration of customs-ports, customs-airports, etc.- The Board may, by the notification in the official Gazette, declare-
(a) the ports and airports which alone shall be customs-ports or customs-airports for the unloading of imported goods and loading of goods for export or any class of such goods;
(b) the places which alone shall be land customs-stations 2[or customs-inland container depot] for the clearance of goods or any class of goods imported or to be exported by land or inland waterways;
(c) the routes by which alone goods or any class of goods specified in the notification may pass by land or inland waterways into or out of 3[Bangladesh], or to or from any land customs-station or to or from any land frontier;
(d) the places which alone shall be ports for the carrying on of coastal trade with any specified customs-ports in 3[Bangladesh]; and
(e) what shall for the purposes of this Act be deemed to be a custom-house and the limits thereof.
10. Power to approve landing places and specify limits of customs-stations.- The Board may, by notification in the official Gazette-
(a) specify the limits of any customs-station; and
(b) approve proper places in any customs-station for the loading and unloading of goods or any class of goods.
11. Power to declare warehousing stations.- The Board may, by notification in the official Gazette, declare places to be warehousing stations at which alone public warehouses may be appointed and private warehouses may be licensed.
12. Power to appoint public warehouses.- At any warehousing station, the 1[Commissioner of Customs]may, from time to time, appoint public warehouses wherein dutiable goods may be deposited without payment of customs-duty.
2[13. Licensing of private warehouses.-
(1) At any warehousing station, he Commissioner of Customs may, license private warehouses wherein dutiable goods imported by or on behalf of the licensee, or any other imported goods in respect of which facilities for deposit in a public warehouse are not available, may be deposited.
(2) The Commissioner of Customs may cancel a licence granted under sub-section (1)-
(a) by giving one month’s notice in writing to the licensee; or
(b) if the licensee has contravened any provision of this Act or the rules made thereunder or committed breach of any of the conditions of the licence:
Provided that before any licence is cancelled under clause (b), the licensee shall be given a reasonable opportunity of being heard.
(3) Pending an enquiry whether a license granted under sub-section (1) should be cancelled under clause (b) of sub-section (2), the Commissioner of Customs may suspend the licence.]
14. Stations for officers of customs to board and land.- The 1[Commissioner of Customs] may, from time to time, appoint, in or near any customs-ports, stations or limits at or within which vessels arriving at or departing from such port shall bring to for the boarding or landing of officers of customs, and may, unless separate provisions therefor have been made under the Ports Act, 1908 (XV of 1908) direct at what particular place in any such vessels, not brought into port by pilots, shall anchor or moor.
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1 Ins. by Act 21 of 1992, s. 6(3).
2 Subs. by Act XXIII of 1980, s. 11(a) for "Pakistan".
1 Subs. by Act 12 of 1995, s. 5 (3), for " Collector of Customs".
2 Subs. ibid., s. 5(4), for section 13.