Central Board of Excise and Customs (CBEC)

BAGGAGE RULES 1998

Notification No. 11/2002-Customs (N.T.), dated 01.03.2002

[TO BE PUBLISHED IN THE GAZETTE OF INDIA, EXTRAORDINARY, PART II, SECTION 3, SUB-SECTION (i)]

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

MINISTRY OF FINANCE

(DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE)

Notification No. 11/2002-Customs (N.T.)

New Delhi dated the 1st March, 2002

            In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (2) of section 79 of the Customs Act, 1962 (52 of 1962), the Central Government hereby makes the following rules further to amend the Baggage Rules, 1998, namely:-

(1) These rules may be called the Baggage (Amendment) Rules, 2002-

(2) They shall come into force on the 1st day of March, 2002.

In the Baggage Rules, 1998,-

a) in ‘Appendix C’, against item (c), in column(2), in entry (i), for the figures "30,000", the figures "75,000" shall be substituted;

b) for ‘Annex II’, the following shall be substituted, namely:-

"Annex II

1. Colour Television/ Monochrome Television.
2. Video Cassette Recorder/Video Cassette Player/Video Television Receiver / Video Cassette Disc Player.
3. Digital Video Disc Player
4. Video Home Theatre System.
5. Washing Machine.
6. Electrical/Liquefied Petroleum Gas Cooking Range with four or more burners.
7. Dish Washer.
8. Music System.
9. Personal Computer/ Desktop Computer.
10. Notebook Computer/ Laptop Computer.
11. Air-Conditioner.
12. Refrigerator.
13. Deep Freezer.
14. Microwave Oven.
15. Video camera or the combination of any such video camera with one or more of the following goods, namely:-
(a) Television Receiver;
(b) Sound recording or reproducing apparatus;
(c) Video reproducing apparatus.
16. Word Processing Machine.
17. Fax Machine.
18. Portable Photocopying Machine.
19. Vessels.
20. Aircraft
21. Cinematographic films of 35 mm and above.
22. Gold or silver, in any form, other than ornaments.".

T.R.Rustagi
Joint Secretary to the Government of India

F.No 334/1/2002-TRU

Note : The principal rules were published vide notification No.30/98-Customs (N.T) dated the 2nd June, 1998, [G.S.R. 296 (E), dated the 2nd June, 1998] and were last amended vide notification No. 50/2000-Customs (N.T), dated the 9th August, 2000, G.S.R. 658(E), dated the 9th August, 2000.

[Notification No. 11/2002-Cus. (N.T.), dated 01-03-2002]