Section 45: Signature and contents of import manifest and amendment thereof

45. Signature and contents of import manifest and amendment thereof.- (1) Every manifest delivered under section 43 or section 44 shall be signed by the person- in-charge of the conveyance or his duly authorized agent and shall specify all goods imported in such conveyance showing separately all goods, if any, intended to be landed, transshipped, transited or taken into another customs-station or to a destination outside Pakistan and stores intended for consumption at the customs-station or on the outward voyage or journey, and shall be made out in such form and contain such further particulars as the Board may from time to time direct5[:] 6[Provided that the Collector of Customs, through a special order, on such terms and conditions as he may deem fit to impose, may allow acceptance of digital signatures instead of manual ones, on electronically transmitted import manifest.] (2) The appropriate officer shall permit the person-in-charge of a conveyance or his duly authorized agent to correct any obvious error in the import manifest or to supply any omission which in the opinion of such officer results from accident or inadvertence, by furnishing an amended or supplementary import manifest 7[or by making an amendment electronically] and shall levy thereon such fees as the Board from time to time directs: 18[Provided that before the berthing of the vessel or the cross-over of the vehicle, as the case may be, the person incharge of a conveyance or his duly authorized agent may amend the import manifest subject to the rules notified by the Board.] (3) 18[Omitted]

Effective date: 1969-03-03

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