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1 [(1)]The Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint--
(a) the ports andairports which alone shall be customs ports or customs airports for theunloading of imported goods and the loading of export goods or any class ofsuch goods;
2 [(aa) the places whichalone shall be inland container depots for the unloading of imported goods andthe loading of export goods or any class of such goods;]
(b) the places whichalone shall be land customs stations for the clearance of goods imported or tobe exported by land or inland water or any class of such goods;
(c) the routes by whichalone goods or any class of goods specified in the notification may pass byland or inland water into or out of India, or to or from any land customsstation from or to any land frontier;
(d) the ports whichalone shall be coastal ports for the carrying on of trade in coastal goods orany class of such goods with all or any specified ports in India.
3 [(2) Every notification issued under this sectionand in force immediately before the commencement of the Finance Act, 2003 shall, on such commencement, bedeemed to have been issued under the provisions of this section as amended bysection 105 of the Finance Act, 2003 andshall continue to have the same force and effect after such commencementuntil it is amended, rescinded or superseded under the provisions of thissection.]
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1.Section 7 renumbered as sub-section (1) thereof by Act 32 of 2003, section 105(w.e.f. 14-5-2003).
2.Inserted by Act 11 of 1983, section 47 (w.e.f. 13-5-1983).
3.Inserted by Act 32 of 2003, section 105 (w.e.f. 14-5-2003).