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TypeBare Act JurisdictionCentral Government

Customs Act, 1962 Section 116

PENALTY FOR NOT ACCOUNTING FOR GOODS If any goods loaded in a conveyance for importation into India, or any goods

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Customs Act, 1962 Section 116 is part of Customs Act, 1962 - PENALTY FOR NOT ACCOUNTING FOR GOODS If any goods loaded in a conveyance for importation into India, or any goods. Read the section text below and explore Indian court judgments that cite it.

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Section Text

a) in the case of goods loaded in a conveyance for importation into India or goods transhipped under the provisions of this Act, to a penalty not exceeding twice the amount of duty that would have been chargeable on the goods not unloaded or the deficient goods, as the case may be, had such goods been imported;

(b) in the case of coastal goods, to a penalty not exceeding twice the amount of export duty that would have been chargeable on the goods not unloaded or the deficient goods, as the case may be, had such goods been exported.

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What does Customs Act, 1962 Section 116 provide?

Section Section 116 of the Customs Act, 1962 (PENALTY FOR NOT ACCOUNTING FOR GOODS If any goods loaded in a conveyance for importation into India, or any goods) is reproduced on this page as part of the Customs Act, 1962. Lawyers and researchers use it to read the statutory wording before checking how courts have applied this section in reported judgments.

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