LawgistThe Customs Act
109Power to require production of order permitting clearance of goods imported by land
Any officer of customs appointed for any area adjoining the land frontier of India and empowered in this behalf by general or special order of the Board, may require any person in possession of any goods which such officer has reason to believe to have been imported into India by land, to produce the order made under section 47 permitting clearance of the goods:
Provided that nothing in this section shall apply to any imported goods passing from a land frontier to a land customs station by a route appointed under clause (c) of section 7.
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SEARCHES, SEIZURE AND ARREST
- 100 Power to search suspected persons entering or leaving India, etc
- 101 Power to search suspected persons in certain other cases
- 102 Persons to be searched may require to be taken before gazetted officer of customs or magistrate
- 103 Power to screen or X-ray bodies of suspected persons for detecting secreted goods
- 104 Power to arrest
- 105 Power to search premises
- 106 Power to stop and search conveyances
- 106A Power to inspect
- 107 Power to examine persons
- 108 Power to summon persons to give evidence and produce documents
- 108A Obligation to furnish informatio
- 108B Penalty for failure to furnish information return
- 109 Power to require production of order permitting clearance of goods imported by land
- 109A Power to undertake controlled delivery
- 110 Seizure of goods, documents and things
- 110A Provisional release of goods, documents and things seized pending adjudication
