Indian Customs Water
Legal definition for Indian law research
Definition
Indian customs water, means the waters extending into the sea upto the limit of contiguous zone of India under s. 5 of the Territorial Waters Continental Shelf, Exclusive Economic Zone and other Maritime Zones Act, 1976 and includes any bay, gulf, harbour, creek or tidal river. [Customs Act, 1962 (52 of 1962), s. 2 (28)]
Indian customs waters, Indian Customs waters' covers not only, Indian coastal waters but also much more because the customs waters extends 24 nautical miles from the coastal baseline which follows that Indian coastal waters are within the Indian Customs Waters, Hawabi Sayed Arif Sayed Hanif v. L. Hrringliana, (1993) 1 SCC 163: AIR 1993 SC 810 (816). [Territorial Waters, Continental Shelf, Exclusive Economic Zone and other Maritime Zones Act, 1976, ss. 3(2) and 5]
Indian customs waters, Indian Customs waters' covers not only, Indian coastal waters but also much more because the customs waters extends 24 nautical miles from the coastal baseline which follows that Indian coastal waters are within the Indian Customs Waters, Hawabi Sayed Arif Sayed Hanif v. L. Hrringliana, (1993) 1 SCC 163: AIR 1993 SC 810 (816). [Territorial Waters, Continental Shelf, Exclusive Economic Zone and other Maritime Zones Act, 1976, ss. 3(2) and 5]
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