Custom Act, 1962
11K.
Transport of Specified Goods to be Covered by Vouchers. –
(1)
No specified goods shall be transported from, into or within any specified area
or loaded on any animal or conveyance in such area, unless they are accompanied
by a transport voucher (in such form and containing such particulars as may be
specified by rules made in this behalf) prepared by the person owning,
possessing, controlling or selling such goods :
Provided
that no transport voucher shall be
necessary for the transport, within a village, town or city, of any specified
goods the market price of which, on the date of transport, does not exceed one
thousand rupees.
(2)
Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (1), where the Central
Government, after considering the nature of any specified goods, the time, mode,
route and the market price of the goods intended to be transported, the purpose
of the transportation and the vulnerability of the specified area with regard
to the illegal export of such goods, is satisfied that it is expedient in the
public interest so to do, it may, -
( i ) by notification in the Official Gazette,
specify goods of such class or description and of a market price exceeding such
sum as that Government may notify; and different sums in relation to the
specified goods of the same class or description, or different classes or
descriptions, may be notified for the same specified area or for different
specified areas, and
(ii) direct that no person shall transport any goods so specified unless
the transport voucher in relation to them has been countersigned by the proper
officer.