Skip to content
Contents

Section 3

Warehouse rent shall be paid on all goods Warehouse deposited in the Customs Warehouse at the rates rent.

specified in the Second Schedule and bonding rent shall be paid on all dutiable goods deposited in a customs bonded store at the rates specified in the

Third Schedule:

Provided that-

(a)

no rent shall be chargeable for the first forty-eight hours of deposit;

(b)

when goods are deposited in a Customs

Warehouse upon any day immediately preceding a day on which such ware·

house is closed and are removed upon the first subsequent day during which such warehouse is open the intervening day or days during which such warehouse is closed shall not be counted for the purpose of assessing the rent due;

(c)

when it is shown to the satisfaction of the

Controller that any goods deposited in a

Customs Warehouse have been detained for any cause not attributable to an act or commission of the importer or his agent, he may on receipt of an applica·

tion from the importer or his agent remit or refund the whole or part of the ware-house rent in respect of such goods; and

(d)

when any goods are removed from one

Customs Warehouse to any other

Customs Warehouse rent shall be charged as if such goods had remained in the Customs Warehouse wherein they first deposited:

Provided that rent shall not be charged in respect of the period during which the goods were in transit from one warehouse to another.

Report

Schedules