Appointment of CE Officers as Customs Officers - Hyderabad Error Rectified
AS per Notification No. dated 30.06.2004, the Commissioners of Central Excise were appointed to be Commissioners of Customs within their respective jurisdiction as specified under rule 3 of the Central Excise Rules 2002, subject to modification that such jurisdiction of Commissioner of Customs in respect of the areas comprising the Airport, Inland Container Depot, Container Freight Station and Air Cargo Complex at Hyderabad notified under section 7 or, as the case may be, under section 8 of the Customs Act, 1962 (52 of 1962), exercisable by the Commissioner of Central Excise Hyderabad-I or Hyderabad-II or Hyderabad -III or Hyderabad-IV shall be exercised by the Commissioner of Central Excise Hyderabad -II.
Now the international airport near Hyderabad is at Shamshabad about 40 kms away from Hyderabad. This airport is not in Hyderabad, not even in Hyderabad District. So, this airport being under the jurisdiction of Hyderabad II Commissionerate was technically wrong. This lapse is now rectified by deleting the words, "at Hyderabad" from the notification.
Notification No. , Dated: July 23, 2012