Custom Act, 1962
130.
Statement of Case to High Court. –
(1)
The Commissioner of Customs or the other party may, within sixty days of the
date upon which he is served with notice of an order under section 129B passed
before 1st day of July,1999 (not being an order relating, among other things,
to the determination of any question having a relation to the rate of duty of
customs or to the value of goods for purposes of assessment), by application in
such form as may be specified by rules made in this behalf, accompanied, where
the application is made by the other party, by a fee of two hundred rupees,
require the Appellate Tribunal to refer to the High Court any question of law
arising out of such order and, subject to the other provisions contained in
this section, the Appellate Tribunal shall, within one hundred and twenty days
of the receipt of such application, draw up a statement of the case and refer
it to the High Court :
Provided
that the Appellate Tribunal may, if it
is satisfied that the applicant was prevented by sufficient cause from
presenting the application within the period hereinbefore specified, allow it
to be presented within a further period not exceeding thirty days.
(2)
On receipt of notice that an application has been made under sub-section (1),
the person against whom such application has been made, may, notwithstanding that
he may not have filed such an application, file, within forty-five days of the
receipt of the notice, a memorandum of cross-objections verified in such manner
as may be specified by rules made in this behalf against any part of the order
in relation to which an application for reference has been made and such
memorandum shall be disposed of by the Appellate Tribunal as if it were an
application presented within the time specified in sub-section (1).
(3)
If, on an application made under sub-section (1), the Appellate Tribunal
refuses to state the case on the ground that no question of law arises, the
Commissioner of Customs, or, as the case may be, the other party may, within
six months from the date on which he is served with notice of such refusal, apply
to the High Court and the High Court may, if it is not satisfied with the
correctness of the decision of the Appellate Tribunal, require the Appellate
Tribunal to state the case and to refer it, and on receipt of any such
requisition, the Appellate Tribunal shall state the case and refer it
accordingly.
(4)
Where in the exercise of its powers under sub-section (3), the Appellate
Tribunal refuses to state a case which it has been required by an applicant to
state, the applicant may, within thirty days from the date on which he receives
notice of such refusal, withdraw his application and, if he does so, the fee,
if any, paid by him shall be refunded.