{"act":{"id":"finance-act-2018","short_title":"The Finance Act, 2018","long_title":"An Act to give effect to the financial proposals of the Central Government for the financial year 2018-2019.","act_number":"13","act_year":2018,"enact_date":null,"enforcement_date":null,"ministry":"Ministry of Finance","department":"Department of Revenue","jurisdiction":"CENTRAL","unit":"section","section_count":227,"in_force":true,"spent":false,"spent_note":null,"duplicate_of":null,"text_source":"published","scan_url":null,"url":"https://indiacode.ecourtsindia.com/finance-act-2018/"},"unit":"section","section":{"number":"90","heading":"Insertion of new Chapter XIIA","text":"Insertion of new Chapter XIIA 90. In the Customs Act, after Chapter XII, the following Chapter shall be inserted, namely:— 'CHAPTER XIIA AUDIT 99A. Audit.—The proper officer may carry out the audit of assessment of imported goods or export goods or of an auditee under this Act either in his office or in the premises of the auditee in such manner as may be prescribed. Explanation.—For the purposes of this section, \"auditee\" means a person who is subject to an audit under this section and includes an importer or exporter or custodian approved under section 45 or licensee of a warehouse and any other person concerned directly or indirectly in clearing, forwarding, stocking, carrying, selling or purchasing of imported goods or export goods or dutiable goods.'.","html":"<p><b>Insertion of new Chapter XIIA</b></p><p><b>90. </b>In the Customs Act, after Chapter XII, the following Chapter shall be inserted, namely:—</p><p>'CHAPTER XIIA</p><p><b>AUDIT</b></p><p>99A. <i>Audit</i>.—The proper officer may carry out the audit of assessment of imported goods or export goods or of an auditee under this Act either in his office or in the premises of the auditee in such manner as may be prescribed.</p><p><i>Explanation</i>.—For the purposes of this section, \"auditee\" means a person who is subject to an audit under this section and includes an importer or exporter or custodian approved under section 45 or licensee of a warehouse and any other person concerned directly or indirectly in clearing, forwarding, stocking, carrying, selling or purchasing of imported goods or export goods or dutiable goods.'.</p>","words":126,"text_source":"published"},"classification":[],"instruments":[],"judgments":[],"corresponds_to":[],"url":"https://indiacode.ecourtsindia.com/finance-act-2018/section/90/","note":null,"source_note":"Harvested from the Income Tax Department's own portal at incometaxindia.gov.in, which publishes the Finance Acts section by section. India Code carries none of them: its Central community holds the Acts that stand as general law, and a Finance Act is an amending and rate-fixing instrument.","judgments_note":"Judgment holdings are the ratio decidendi as extracted from the order by eCourts India, reproduced unaltered. Reported judgments only.","licence":"Published with commentary and other original matter under s.52(1)(q)(ii), Copyright Act 1957."}