[1969: Act IV]

60. Power to depute officers of customs to board conveyances. At any time while a conveyance is in a customs-station or is proceeding towards such station, the appropriate officer may depute one or more officers of customs to board the conveyance, and every officer so deputed shall remain on board such conveyance for such time as the appropriate officer may consider necessary.

61. Officer to be received and accommodation to be provided. Whenever an officer of customs is so deputed to be on board any conveyance, the person-in-charge shall be bound to receive him on board and provide him with suitable accommodation and adequate quantity of fresh water.

62. Officer's power to access, etc. (1) Every officer deputed as aforesaid shall have free access to every part of the conveyance and may —

(a) cause any goods to be marked before they are unloaded from the conveyance;

(b) lock up, seal, mark or otherwise secure any goods carried in the conveyance or any place or container in which they are carried; or

(c) fasten down any hatchway or entrance to the hold.

(2) if any box, place or closed receptacle in any such conveyance be locked, and the key be withheld, such officer shall report the same to the appropriate officer, who may thereupon issue to the officer on board the conveyance, or to any other officer under his authority, a written order for search.

(3) On production of such order, the officer empowered thereunder may require that any such box, place or closed receptacle be opened in his presence; and if it be not opened upon his requisition, he may break open the same.

63. Sealing of conveyance. Conveyance carrying transit goods for destinations outside Pakistan or goods from some foreign territory to a customs-station or from a customs-station to some foreign territory may be sealed in such cases and in such manner as may be provided in the rules.

64. Goods not to be loaded or unloaded or water-borne except in presence of officer. Save where general permission is given under section 67 or with permission in writing of the appropriate officer, no goods other than passengers' baggage or ballast urgently required to be loaded for the vessel's safety, shall be shipped or water-borne to be shipped or discharged from any vessel, in any customs-port, nor any goods except passengers' baggage shall be loaded in or unloaded from any conveyance other than a vessel at any land customs-station or customs-airport except in the presence of an officer of customs.

65. Goods not to be loaded or unloaded or passed on certain days or at certain times. Except with the permission in writing of the appropriate officer and on payment of such fees as may be prescribed by the Board no goods, other than passengers' baggage or mail bags, shall in any customs-port be discharged, or be shipped or water-borne to be shipped or shall be loaded or unloaded or passed at any land customs-station or customs-airport—

(a) on any public holiday within the meaning of section 25 of the Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881 (XXVI of 1881), or on any day on which the discharge or shipping of cargo at customs-port or loading, unloading passage or delivery of cargo at any land customs-station or customs-airport, as the case may be, is prohibited by the Board by notification in the official Gazette; or

(b) on any day except between such hours as the Board may, from time to time, by a like notification, appoint.

66. Goods not to be loaded or unloaded except at approved places. Save where general permission is given under section 67 or with permission in writing of the appropriate officer, no imported goods shall be unloaded or goods for export loaded at any place other than a place duly approved under clause (b) of section 10 for the unloading or loading of such goods.

67. Power to exempt from sections 64 and 66. Notwithstanding anything contained in section 64 or section 66, the Board may, by notification in the official Gazette, give general permission for goods to be loaded at any customs-station from any place not duly appointed for loading and without the presence or authority of an officer of customs.

68. Boat-note. (1) When any goods are water-borne for the purpose of being landed from any vessel and warehoused or cleared for home-consumption, or of being shipped for exportation on board any vessel, there shall be sent, with each boat-load or other separate despatch, a boat-note specifying the number of packages so sent and the marks or number or other descriptions thereof.

(2) Each boat-note for goods to be landed shall be signed by an officer of the vessel, and likewise by the officer of customs on board, if any such officer be no board, and shall be delivered on arrival to any officer of customs authorized to receive the same.

(3) Each boat-note for goods to be shipped shall be signed by the appropriate officer and, if an officer of customs is on board the vessel on which such goods are to be shipped, shall be delivered to such officer, and if no such officer be on board, shall be delivered to the master of the vessel or to an officer of the vessel appointed by him to receive it.

(4) The officer of customs who receives any boat-note of goods landed, and the officer of customs, master or other officer as the case may be, who receives any boat-note of goods shipped, shall sign the same and note thereon such particulars as the Collector of Customs may from time to time direct.

(5) The Board may from time to time, by notification in the official Gazette, suspend the operation of this section in any customs-port or part thereof.

69. Goods water-borne to be forthwith landed of shipped. All goods water-borne for the purpose of being landed or shipped shall be landed or shipped without any unnecessary delay.

70. Goods to be transhipped without permission. Except in cases of imminent danger, no goods discharged into or loaded in any boat for the purpose of being landed or shipped shall be transhipped into any other boat without the permission of an officer of customs.

71. Power to prohibit plying of unlicensed cargo-boats. (1) The Board may declare with regard to any customs-port, by notification in the official Gazette, that, after a date therein specified, no boat not duly licensed and registered shall be allowed to ply as a cargo-boat for the landing and shipping of merchandise within the limits of such port.

(2) In any port with regard to which such notification has been issued, the Collector of Customs or other officer whom the Board appoints in this behalf, may, subject to rules and on payment of such fees as the Board may, by notification in the official Gazette, prescribe, issue licences for and register cargo-boats, or cancel the same.

72. Plying of ships of less than one hundred tons. (1) Every boat belonging to a Pakistani ship and every other vessel not exceeding one hundred tons, shall be marked in such manner as may be prescribed by rules.

(2) Plying of all or any class or description of vessels of less than one hundred tons, whether in sea or inland waters, may be prohibited or regulated or restricted as to the purposes and limits of plying by rules.