Customs Act, 1962 › Chapter XI — Special provisions regarding baggage, goods imported or exported by post, courier and stores
Section 88. Application of section 69 and Chapter X to stores
Customs Act, 1962
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Stores: Section 88. Application of section 69 and Chapter X to stores. — The provisions of section 69 and Chapter X shall apply to stores (other than those to which section 90 applies) as they apply to other goods, subject to the modifications that -
(a) for the words "exported to any place outside India" or the word" exported", wherever they occur, the words "taken on board any foreign-going vessel or aircraft as stores" shall be substituted.
(b) in the case of drawback on fuel and lubricating oil taken on board any foreign-going aircraft as stores, sub-section (1) of section 74 shall have effect as if for the words "ninety-eight per cent", the words "the whole" were substituted.
Judgments on Section 88
- J M Baxi And Co vs Commissioner Of Customs-Nhava Sheva — CESTAT, 13 Dec 2024. Salvage equipment consigned to the master of a 'foreign going vessel' under salvage and used in her refloating constitutes 'stores' under section 88 of the Customs Act, 1962, and an agent such as a shipping agent is not…
- Hi-Tech Engineers vs Union Of India (Uoi) — Bombay High Court, 28 Jul 2003. Where duty-free clearance of warehoused goods under Section 90 is obtained by misdeclaration, the clearance becomes an improper removal and, once the assessment is set aside and duty is found payable, Section 72 read…