Special measures for the purpose of checking illegal export through Bangladesh – goods notified.
Section 11I of the Customs Act empowers the Central Government to take special measures for the purpose of checking the illegal export or facilitating the detection of goods which are likely to be illegally exported, and to specify by notification in the Official Gazette, the goods of such class or description.
Under Section 11 H the Government may notify the area vulnerable for smuggling and vide Notification 31/2008 Cus (NT) dated 25.3.2008, the inland area, fifty kilometres in width, from India’s land border with Bangladesh falling within the territories of West Bengal, Tripura, Assam, Meghalaya and Mizoram has been notified as specified area for the purpose of Section 11 H.
Now the Government has notified “Drug formulations containing Codeine or its salts” as the goods which are likely to be illegally exported and in respect of which special measures for the purpose of checking their illegal export and facilitating the detection of the said goods shall be taken in the areas specified.
Notification , Dated: April 2, 2008