Repealed or not in force · As amended up to 2026-08
PART II.
INLAND CUSTOMS DUTIES.
Levy of duties on cotton yarns and manufactures passing into British India from foreign territory.
36. (1) Duties of customs shall be levied at the rates for the time being prescribed in the Indian Tariff Act, 1894, upon cotton yarn, and upon cotton manufactures of all kinds, passing into British India out of any territory declared, under the power hereinafter in this section conferred, to be foreign territory.
(2) The Governor General in Council may, by notification in the Gazette of India, declare that any territory situated within or bordering on, but not forming part of, British India shall be deemed, for the purposes of this section, to be foreign territory.
(3) The Governor General in Council may, from time to time, by notification in the Gazette of India, prohibit or restrict the bringing of cotton yarns or cotton manufactures into British India from any such foreign territory, or may prescribe the routes by which alone they may be brought.
(4) The provisions of section 19A of the Principal Act shall apply to all goods brought or attempted to be brought into British India in contravention of any such notification.
Application of provisions of Sea Customs Act as to drawback to goods taxed under this Part.
6. (1) The Governor General in Council may from time to time, by notification in the Gazette of India, fix, for the purpose of levying the said duties, tariff values of all such yarns as aforesaid or of any particular count or counts thereof, and alter any tariff values for the time being in force.
(2) In the absence of any notification under subsection (1), the tariff values shall be those specified in the schedule to this Act.
(3) Such tariff value shall, for the purposes of this Act, be deemed to be the "real value" of the yarns to which it applies, but save as aforesaid all yarns shall be assessed under this Act at their real value as defined in section 30 of the Principal Act.
Delivery of monthly returns of yarn produced by mill-owners.
6. Omitting to keep such proper records and books of account as may be prescribed by any rule under this Act.
Penalty not exceeding five hundred rupees and a further penalty of twenty rupees for every day after the date of the conviction during which the offence is continued.
Source: India Code