COVID-19 Facilitation measures- Guidelines for conduct of personal hearings in virtual mode under Customs Act, 1962

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....de F. NO. 390/Misc/3/2019-JC dated 27.04.2020 wherein, it has been decided by the Board that personal hearing, in respect to any proceeding under Customs Act, 1962, given by various authorities, such as Commissioner (A), Original adjudicating authorities and Compounding Authority, may be conducted through video Conferencing facility so that various guidelines and instructions issued by the Government and public authorities can be complied. 2) The following instruction must be followed to conduct virtual mode of personal hearing through video conferencing facility: (i) In any proceedings before appellate or adjudicating authority under the Customs Act, 1962, the party, either as an applicant or a respondent, shall give his consen....

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....office of the concerned officers (v) The virtual hearing through video conference should be conducted through available applications like VIDYO, or other secured computer network. The appellant/respondent should download such application in their computer system/ laptop/ mobile phone beforehand for ready connectivity during virtual hearing and join the video conferencing at the time allotted to them, as given in point (ii) above. (vi) In cases where the party/ his representative wishes to participate in virtual hearing proceeding along with their advocate , they should do so under proper intimation to the concerned authority as mentioned at point (ii) above. They may participate in virtual hearing along with their advocate....

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.... purpose of Customs Act, 1962 in terms of Section 138C of the said Act, read with Section 4 of the Information Techn010U Act, 2000. (xi) If the party/ advocate prefers to submit any documents including additional submissions during the virtual hearing, they may do so by self- attesting such document and a scanned copy of the same may be e-mailed to the Adjudicating/appellate authority immediately after virtual hearing and in no case after 3 days of virtual hearing, The date of the hearing will be excluded for this purpose. (xii) Any official representing the Department's side can also participate in the virtual hearing through video conferencing, The Commissionerate concerned shall inform the details in advance regardi....