Boarding functions–Improving transparency using boarding Jacket fitted with Body Worn Camera(BWC) having video/audio recording Facility by Boarding Officer -reg.

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....er -reg. ******* Kind attention to the Master of the Vessels calling at Mangaluru/Karwar/ Old Port, respective Vessel Operators/Steamer Agents, Custodians/Stakeholders and the officers concerned regarding relevant instructions issued in the Customs Preventive Manual 1987, Circular No. 36/95-Cus dated 10.04.1995, Instruction No.25/2016-Customs dated 23.08.2016 and Circular No. 07/2022-Customs dated 7th March, 2023, whereby Board had issued guidelines relating to boarding of vessels by Customs Officers. 2.1 It is well known that all vessels arriving into the country report their arrival to the Customs and Port authorities. The Boarding Officer/s are usually the first to set foot on any vessel entering the Indian frontiers and they are the....

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....g documents prescribed under Circular 36/95 -Cus. Dated 10.04.95) and putting the bond stores of the Vessels under Customs Seals. The responsibilities of the Boarding Officer stipulated in the Customs Preventive Manual 1987 are re-iterated for ease of reference asunder: a. keeping an updated record of arrival/departure programmes of all the Vessels in the Port and maintain a register for all the Vessels which have arrived, anchored in the stream or taken berth in the docks, indicating all the details therein. b. boarding all the Vessels immediately on their first arrival in the Port in a voyage and collecting the Arrival Report thereof in the manner described above and endorsement of the same. c. verifying the consumable stores of the....

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.... or quantity in the stores of the vessel or the property of the crew are to be reported to the Asstt. /Dy. Commissioner (Preventive) through Superintendent as the sea nomalies attract penal provisions of the Customs Act, 1962. k. To regularly intimate the Rummaging Section of the Custom House about the arrival/departure of the vessels into/from the port/harbour. 3.2 The Boarding officer shall continue to follow instructions issued vide para 5 of Instruction No.25/2016-Customs dated 23.08.2016 including the collection of feedback in the enclosed format. The Arrival Report would continue to be submitted as per prevalent practice till the full operationalization of the Sea Cargo Manifest and Transshipment Regulations, 2018, after which the ....