Deposit of confiscated gold: mandatory inventory, separate sealed packing, mint acknowledgement and procedures for tampered consignments. Procedure requires itemwise inventorisation of confiscated gold showing description, weight and purity, consolidated by category. Gold bars with foreign markings, primary gold and ornaments must be separately packed and sealed; packages locked and sealed before the Assistant Collector and seals broken only before an authorised Mint officer, with facsimiles of seals sent to the Mint. The Bullion Keeper must give categorywise acknowledgement and any quantity or weight variation must be investigated; damaged seals accepted with remarks and reported, but consignments with clear tampering returned to the Collectorate.
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Deposit of confiscated gold: mandatory inventory, separate sealed packing, mint acknowledgement and procedures for tampered consignments.
Procedure requires itemwise inventorisation of confiscated gold showing description, weight and purity, consolidated by category. Gold bars with foreign markings, primary gold and ornaments must be separately packed and sealed; packages locked and sealed before the Assistant Collector and seals broken only before an authorised Mint officer, with facsimiles of seals sent to the Mint. The Bullion Keeper must give categorywise acknowledgement and any quantity or weight variation must be investigated; damaged seals accepted with remarks and reported, but consignments with clear tampering returned to the Collectorate.
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