Committee of Commissioners - Jurisdiction renotified – Who is Customs Commissioner Vizag I?
Ever since four commissioners were appointed to hear appeals in Visakhapatnam, the Board was finding it difficult to understand the intricacies of jurisdiction for these Commissioners. Office orders, circulars, oral instructions and notifications have all added to the confusion which TIOL has been highlighting regularly. Now the Board has appointed the committees of commissioners to review the orders passed by these four commissioners (appeals) ofVisakhapatnam. Doesn’t it mean that all these days there was no committee to review the orders of these commissioners and if any committee was reviewing them it was without jurisdiction? And if any case is lost because of the lack of jurisdiction, who should be held responsible?
And as usual, every rectification by the Board invariably leads to another mistake which has to be corrected later. Now the committee to review the customs orders passed by the four Appellate commissioners of Vizag includes the Commissioner of Customs Visakhapatnam I. No problem on this except for the fact that there is only one Commissioner of Customs in Vizag and there is no post designated as Commissioner of Customs Visakhapatnam I. This would mean we are back to square one. No review of orders of these commissioners.
NOTIFICATION NOs. 63 and and Dated : June, 9 2006.