Ninety-day limitation for Customs Broker licence revocation bars delayed notices and requires restoration where the deadline is missed.

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....Regulation 17(1) of the CBLR, 2018 requires a notice proposing revocation of a Customs Broker licence to be issued within ninety days of receipt of the offence report. Where no separate investigation report exists, Customs Act show-cause notices containing the investigation summary, allegations and relied-upon documents constitute the offence report. The limitation period cannot be deferred by later requesting documents already received. A notice issued after the mandatory period leaves no statutory authority to revoke the licence; the revocation was set aside and restoration of the licence directed.....