Application for conversion of shipping bills - time limitation -...

Application for conversion of shipping bills - time limitation - Facilitative Measures vs. Procedural Rigidity - The Tribunal held that the appellant had justified the necessity of conversion as they had produced the documents in terms of the Section 149 of the Act which entitles an amendment in the Bill of Entry even after the imported goods have been cleared for home consumption except on the basis of documentary evidence which was in existence at the time the goods were cleared and in the present case it is not that such documents were not in existence at the time of export of goods. - Accordingly, the appeal is allowed with consequential relief as per law.

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