Customs Forms
Continuity Bond
Customs
Series Form No.6
[See Customs (Provisional Duty Assessment) Regulation, 1963]
Continuity Bond
(To be executed by importer with provision for security deposit)
KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS THAT
I/we................................................of
No............................. here in after called the "Importer"
(which expression shall include its successors/heirs, executors, administrators
and legal representatives) am/are held and firmly bound unto the President of
India hereinafter called the "President" (which expression shall
include his successors and assigns) in the sum of Rs (Rupees ) to be paid to the
President for which payment well and truly to be made, I/we bind
myself/ourselves, my/our successors, heirs, executors, administrators and legal
representatives firmly by these presents.
Sealed with my/our seal (s) this ................day of 19...........
WHEREAS The Assistant Commissioner of Customs Principle Appraiser
at..............(hereinafter called the "Proper Officer") has agreed
to make provisional assessment of the goods imported from time to time by the
importer pending.
submission of further documents and furnishing information and/or completion of
further enquiries and/or chemical or other test and the Proper Officer has
agreed to allow clearance of the goods subject to the importers proving to the
satisfaction of Proper Officer that the Import Trade Control Licences produced
by the importer is valid for and covers the entire goods mentioned in the
Schedule below and upon the importer agreeing to furnish such bond as is herein
contained; and
WHEREAS the importer has deposited with the Commissioner of Customs at a sum of
Rs in cash for being applied in part or full towards the indemnity hereby given
or otherwise according to law; or the importer has deposited with the
Commissioner of Customs the securities mentioned in the Schedule hereunder
written of the face value of Rs (Rupees ) only endorsed in favour of as security
for the due observance and performance of the terms and undertakings on the part
of the importer and for being applied in part or full towards the indemnity
hereby given or otherwise according to law.
NOW THE CONDITION of the above written bond is such that -
(1) If the importer shall within one month or within such extended period as the
Proper Officer may allow produce such documents and furnish such information as
may be called for by the Proper Officer, and
(2) If the importer pays to the President the difference between the duty
finally assessed and the duty provisionally assessed in respect of the goods
imported from time to time, and
(3) If the importer pays to the President any penalty and fine that may be
adjudged in lieu of confiscation of the said goods for importation of the goods
or part thereof without a valid import licence.
Then the above written bond shall be void and of no effect otherwise the same
shall remain in full force and virtue.
AND IT IS HEREBY AGREED AND DECLARED by the importer as follows :-
1. This bond is given under the orders of the Central Government for the
performance of an act in which the public are interested.
2. This bond shall remain in force for a period of months/years from the date
hereof and the obligation and liability of the importer shall be a continuing
one in respect of all goods imported by the importer from time to time between
the period............ and..........
3. The President through the Assistant Commissioner of Customs or other officer
may recover the said sum of Rs or portion thereof in the manner laid down in
sub-section (1) of Section 142 of the Customs Act, 1962 without prejudice to any
other mode of recovery and may inter a/is adjust the aforesaid security
deposit/securities in part or full towards payment of the said amount.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF the importer has herein set and subscribed its hands and
seals the day, month and year first above written.
SIGNED AND DELIVERED by and on behalf of the importer at.......... in the
presence of :-
1.................
2.................
SIGNED AND DELIVERED by and on behalf of the Surety at in the presence of :-
1................
2..............
Accepted
For and on behalf of the President of India
(Signature of the Authorised Officer)
In the presence of :-
1…………………………………………
2…………………………………………