In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) of section 4 of the Customs Act, 1962 (52 of 1962) and in supersession of the notifications of the Government of India in the Ministry of Finance (Department of Revenue) No. 250/83-Customs, dated 27th August, 1983 and No. 251/83- customs, dated 27th August, 1983,the Central Government hereby appoints the officers mentioned in column (3) of the Table below to be the Commissioners of Customs, the officers mentioned in column (4) thereof to be the Joint Commissioner of Customs, and the officers mentioned in the column (5) thereof to be the Assistant Commissioner of Customs or Deputy Commissioner of Customs, for the areas mentioned in the corresponding entry in column (2) of the said Table with effect from the date to be notified by the Central Government in the Official Gazette :
| S. No. | Area | Designation of the Officer |
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| (1) | (2) | (3) | (4) | (5) |
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| 1 | (a) Port of Mumbai, Mumbai Airport (santacruz and Sahar Airports), the area under the jurisdiction of the Bombay Municipal Corporation, and the designated areas in the Continental Shelf and Exclusive Economic Zone of India as declared by the notification of the Government of India in the Ministry of External Affairs.
(b) The Jawaharlal Nehru Port and the Taluka of Panvel in the District of Raigad in the State of Maharashtra. | Commissioners of Customs, Mumbai, Sahar Airport and Sahar Air Cargo, Jawaharlal Nehru Port. | Joint Commissioners of Customs, working under the control of the Commissioners of Customs, Mumbai, Sahar Airport, Sahar Air Cargo, and Jawaharlal Nehru Port. | Assistant Commissioners of Customs or Deputy Commissioners of Customs, working under the control of the Commissioners of Customs, Mumbai, SaharAirport, Sahar Air Cargo, and Jawaharlal Nehru Port. |
| 2 | Mumbai, Thane and Raigarh districts ,in the State of Maharashtra. | Commissioner of Customs, (Preventive) Mumbai. | Joint Commissioners of Customs working under the control of the Commissioner of Customs, (Preventive), Mumbai. | Assistant Commissioners of Customs or Deputy Commissioners of Customs working under the control of the Commissioners of Customs, (Preventive), Mumbai. |
| 3 | (a) Ports of Calcutta, and Haldia, Dum Dum Airport, the area under the jurisdiction of Calctitta, Howrah and South Suburban Corporations, so much of the Hooghly river as is downstream of the Northern limit of Calcutta port, and all lands as are within 10 kilometres of the high water mark at spring tide on either side of the river.
(b) The Andaman and Nicobar Islands. | Commissioner of Customs Calcutta and Calcutta Airport. | Joint Commissioners of Customs working under the control of the Commissioner of Customs, Calcutta and Calcutta Airport. | Assistant Commissioners of Customs or Deputy Commissioners of Customs working under the control of the Commissioners of Customs, Calcutta and Calcutta Airport. |
| 4 | The whole of -
(a) the State of West Bengal;
(b) the State of Sikkim;
(c) the Union Territory of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands; and
(d) Districts of Purnea, Katihar Sahabganj and Godda in the State of Bihar. | Commissioner of Customs, West Bengal. | Joint Commissioners of Customs working under the control of the Commissioner of Cusloms, West Bengal. | Assistant Commissioners of Customs or Deputy Commissioners of Customs working under the control of the Commissioner of Customs, West Bengal. |
| 5 | Port of Chennai , the Meenambakkam Airport and the area under the jurisdiction of the Chennai Corporation and Ambattur, Gummidipoondi, Poonamallee Airport. and Ponneri Taluks of Thiruvallur District, Tambaram Taluk of Kanchipuram District and the designated areas in the Continental Shelf and Exclusive Economic Zone of India as declared by Government of India from time to time. | Commissioner of Customs Chennai, Chennai | Deputy Commissioners of Customs working under the control of the Commissioners of Customs, Chennai, Chennai Airport. | Assistant Commissioners of Customs working under the control of the Commissioners of Customs, Chennai, Chennai. Airport |
| (Sl.No.5 Coumn(2) has been substituted vide Cus Ntf.22/2001(NT) dt.18/05/2001) |
| [OLD- 5 | Port of Chennai, the Meenambakkam Airport and the area under the jurisdiction of the Chennai Corporation and Ambattur and Ponneri taluks of M.G.R. District Tambaram Taluk of Anna District and the designated areas in the Continental Shelf and Exclusive Economic Zone of India as declared by Government of India from time to time. | Commissioner of Customs, Chennai, Chennai Airport | Joint Commissioners of Customs working under the control of the Commissioners of Customs, Chennai, Chennai Airport. | Assistant Commissioners of Customs or Deputy Commissioners of Customs working under the control of the Commissioners of Customs, Chennai, Chennai Airport] |
| 6 | Port of Cochin, Cochin Airport, Cochin Export Processing Zone, and Customs formation under the area under the jurisdiction of Greater Cochin Development Authority. | Commissioner of Customs Cochin. | Joint Commissioners of Customs working under the control of the Commissioner of Customs, Cochin | Assistant Commissioners of Customs or Deputy Commissioners of Customs working under the control of the Commissioner of Customs, Cochin |
| 7 | The Union Territory of Delhi, the whole of the State of Haryana and the NOIDA Export Processing Zone in the State of Uttar Pradesh. | Commissioners of Customs, Delhi | Joint Commissioners of Customs working under the control of the Commissioners of the Customs, Delhi. | Assistant Commissioners of Customs or Deputy Commissioners of Customs working under the control of the Commissioners of Customs, Delhi. |
| 8 | Port and airport of Visakhapatnam, Visakhapatnam Export Processing Zone and the areas under the Municipal Corporation of Visakhapatnam in the State of Andhra Pradesh. | Commissioner of Customs, Visakhapatnam | Joint Com missioners of Customs working under the control of the Commissioner of Customs, Visakhapatnam. | Assistant Commissioners of Customs or Deputy Commissioners of Customs working under the control of the Commissioner of Customs, Visakhapatnam. |
| 9 | The whole of the State of Goa. | Commissioner of Customs, Goa. | Joint Commissioners of Customs working under the control of the Commissioner of Customs, Goa. | Assistant Commissioners of Customs or Deputy Commissioner of Customs working under the control of the Commissioner of Customs, Goa. |
| 10 | port and airport of Kandla, Kandla Free Trade Zone and the areas within a radius of 8 kilometres around that Zone and the areas under the jurisdiction of Gandhidham Municipality. | Commissioner of Customs, Kandla. | Joint Commissioners of Customs working under the control of the Commissioner of Customs, Kandla. | Assistant Commissioners of Customs or Deputy Commissioner of Customs working under the control of the Commissioner of Customs, Kandla. |
| 11 | The whole of
(a) The State of Gujarat (excluding Kandla Free Trade Zone);
(b) The Union territory of Dadra and Nagar Haveli and the Union territory of Daman and Diu. | Commissioner of Customs, Ahmedabad. | Joint Commissioners of Customs working under the control of the Commissioner of Customs, Ahmedabad. | Assistant Commissioners of Customs or Deputy Commissioner of Customs working under the control of the Commissioner of Customs, Ahmedabad. |
| 12 | The whole of the State of Rajasthan. | Commissioner of Customs, Jodhpur. | Joint Commissioners of Customs working under the control of the Commissioner of Customs, Jodhpur. | Assistant Commissioners of Customs or Deputy Commissioner of Customs working under the control of the Commissioner of Customs, Jodhpur. |
| 13 | The whole of the State of Uttar Pradesh. | Commissioner of Customs, Lucknow. | Joint Commissioners of Customs working under the control of the Commissioner of Customs, Lucknow. | Assistant Commissioners of Customs or Deputy Commissioner of Customs working under the control of the Commissioner of Customs, Lucknow. |
| 14 | States of Meghalaya, Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram and Tripura. | Commissioner of Customs, Shillong. | Joint Commissioners of Customs working under the control of the Commissioner of Customs, Shillong. | Assistant Commissioners of Customs or Deputy Commissioners Customs working under the control of the Commissioner of Customs, Shillong. |
| 15 | (a) Whole of the State of Bihar;
(b ) District of Darjeeling, Islampur Sub-division of Dinajpur District and Jalpaiguri Sadar Sub-division of Jalpaiguri District in the State of West Bengal;
(c)The State of Sikkim. | Commissioner of Customs, Patna. | Joint Commissioners of Customs working under the control of the Commissioner of Customs, Patna. | Assistant Commissioners of Customs or Deputy Commissioners of Customs working under the control of the Commissioner of Customs, Patna. |
| 16 | The whole of the State of Kamataka excluding the areas falling under the jurisdiction of Commissioner of Customs, Mangalore. | Commissioner of Customs, Bangalore. | Joint Commissioners of Customs working under the control of the Commissioner of Customs, Bangalore. | Assistant Commissioners of Customs or Deputy Commissioners of Customs working under the control of the Commissioner of Customs, Bangalore. |
| 17 | The whole of the areas in the districts of the Uttar Kannada, Dakshina Kannada, Kodagu, Hassan, Chikmagalur, Shimoga, Belgaum, Bijapur, Udupi, Gadag, Dharwad, Koppal, Bellary, Raichur, Bagalkot, Gulbarga and Bidar, in the State of Kamataka including areas under Mangalore Port. | Commissioner of Customs, Mangalore. | Joint Commissioners of Customs working under the control of the Commissioner of Customs, Mangalore. | Assistant Commissioners of Customs or Deputy Commissioner of Customs working under the control of the Commissioner of Customs, Mangalore. |
| 18 | The whole of -
(a) the State of Punjab;
(b) the State of Himachal Pradesh;
(c) the State of Jammu and Kashmir;
(d) the Union Territory of Chandigarh. | Commissioner of Customs, Amritsar. | Joint Commissioners of Customs working under the control of Commissioner of Customs, Amritsar. | Assistant Commissioners of Customs or Deputy Commissioners of Customs working under the control of the Commissioner of Customs, Amritsar. |
| 19 | The whole of the areas in the districts of "Pune, Sindhudurg, Ratnagiri, Sangli, Kolhapur, Satara, and Solapur in the State of Maharashtra. | Commissioner of Customs, Pune. | Joint Commissioners of Customs working under the control of the Commissioner of Customs, Pune. | Assistant Commissioners of Customs or Deputy Commissioners of Customs working under the control of the Commissioner of Customs, Pune. |
| 20 | (a) Whole of the State of Tamil Nadu, excluding the area falling under the jurisdiction of Commissioner of Customs, Chennai.
(b) the Union territory of Pondicherry excluding Mahe Commune and yanam territory. | Commissioner of Customs Tiruchirapalli. | Deputy Commissioners of Customs working under the control of the Commissioner of Customs, Tiruchirapalli. | Assistant Commissioners of Customs working under the control of the Commissioner of Customs, Tiruchirapalli. |
| (Sl.No.20 Coumn(2) has been substituted vide Cus Ntf.22/2001(NT) dt.18/05/2001) |
| [OLD-20 | Whole of the State of Tamil Nadu, excluding the area falling under the jurisdiction of Commissioner of Customs, Chennai. | Commissioner of Customs, Tiruchirapalli. | Joint Commissioners of Customs working under the control of the Commissioner of Customs, Tiruchirapalli. | Assistant Commissioners of Customs or Deputy Commissioners of Customs working under the control of the Commissioner of Customs,Tiruchira palli.] |
As amended by Notifications No. 40/97-Cus. (N.T.), dated 10-9-1997; No. 6/98-Cus. (N.T.), dated 3-2-1998 and