4.29

Time Period For Depositing Fines, Customs Duty, etc.

(a) Customs duty with interest to be recovered from Authorisation holder on account of regularisation or enforcement of BG / LUT, shall be deposited by Authorisation holder in relevant Head of Account of Customs Revenue i.e., "Major Head 0037 - Customs and minor head 001- Import Duties” in prescribed T.R. Challan within 30 days of demand raised by Regional / Customs Authority and documentary evidence shall be produced to this effect to RA / Customs Authority immediately. However, for the customs duty component, the authorisation holder has the option to furnish valid duty credit scrips issued under Chapter 3 of FTP and DEPB.

(b) On receipt of such documentary evidence from Authorisation holder, RA shall intimate details of recovery/ deposits made to Customs Authority at port of registration or Commissioner of Central Excise having jurisdiction over the factory of the Authorisation holder, as the case may be, under intimation to Joint Secretary (Drawback), Department of Revenue, Ministry of Finance, Jeevan Deep Building, New Delhi.

(c) Payment of duty, interest and any dues for regularisation shall, however, be without prejudice to any other action that may be taken by Customs Authorities at any stage under Customs Act, 1962.