Notification No. 52/2022-Customs (N.T.)
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Customs Broker Licensing (Amendment) Regulations, 2022.
Notification No. 52/2022-Customs (N.T.)
New Delhi, 24th June, 2022
G.S.R…….(E).- 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 Indirect Taxes and
Customs, hereby makes the following regulations to amend the Customs Brokers
Licensing Regulations, 2018, namely:-
1. Short title and commencement. – (1) These regulations may be called the
Customs Brokers Licensing (Amendment) Regulations, 2022.
(2) They shall come into force on the date of their publication in the Official Gazette.
2. In the Customs Broker Licensing Regulations, 2018, -
(i) in Regulation 20, for sub-regulations (1) and (2), the following sub-regulations
shall respectively be substituted, namely:-
“(1) Each Customs Broker shall enroll himself as a member of the Customs Brokers’
Association at every jurisdiction he operates, if there is such an Association registered
in the Customs Station, where the Customs Broker is operating and recognised by the
Principal Commissioner of Customs or Commissioner of Customs, as the case may
be.
(2) No Customs Broker shall enroll himself in more than one Association, at a given
time, in a particular jurisdiction.”;
(ii) after regulation 20, the following regulation shall be inserted, namely: -
“21. Power to relax.– Where an applicant or a Customs Broker or NACIN makes a
representation to the Board that he or it, as the case may be, is unable to comply with
his or its duties or obligations within the time period as specified under any provision
of these regulations, for the reasons beyond his or its control, but otherwise satisfy all
other conditions, if any, as provided under such provision, the Board may, after
consideration of the representation, and for reasons to be recorded in writing, allow a
further time period for compliance of such duties or obligations.”.
[F. No. 520/07/2013-Cus.VI (Vol.III)]
(Manish Kumar Choudhary)
Under Secretary to the Government of India
Note:- The principal regulation No. 41/2018-Customs (N.T.), dated the 14th May, 2018
were published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, vide number G.S.R. 451( E ),
dated the 14th May, 2018.