RULE 202.
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- Rule
- Dated
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- CENTRAL EXCISE RULES, 1944
Power to require access to place, vessel or conveyance for inspection or examination of goods.
RULE 202. Power to require access to place, vessel or conveyance for inspection or examination of goods
-(1) Any officer duly empowered under rule 200 or rule 201, as the case may be, may require any person who has the immediate possession, control or use of any land, building, enclosed place, premises, vessel, conveyance or other place which he desires to search under these rules, or of any excisable goods, composition for match-heads or saltpetre, for the manufacture of matches, processed, sorted, stored, manufactured or carried thereupon or therein to open or allow access to inspect or examine such place or conveyance, or to open, unload, unpack or allow the inspection or examination of such articles.
(2) If such person fails to comply with any such requirement, such officer may cause anything to be done which he may deem necessary in order to exercise his powers, under these Rules in a proper manner, and the cost incurred in this behalf, unless paid to such officer, shall be recoverable from the said person as an arrear of land revenue.