MINISTRY OF LAW AND JUSTICE
(Legislative Department)

New Delhi, the 4th April, 2021/Chaitra 14, 1943 (Saka)

THE TRIBUNALS REFORMS
(RATIONALISATION AND CONDITIONS OF
SERVICE) ORDINANCE, 2021

NO. 2 OF 2021

Promulgated by the President in the Seventy-Second Year of the Republic of India.

An Ordinance further to amend the Cinematograph Act, 1952, the Customs Act, 1962, the Airports Authority of India Act, 1994, the Trade Marks Act, 1999 and the Protection of Plant Varieties and Farmers’ Rights Act, 2001 and certain other Acts.

WHEREAS The Tribunal Reforms (Rationalisation and Conditions of Service) Bill, 2021 has been introduced in the House of the People on the 13th day of February, 2021;

AND WHEREAS the aforesaid Bill could not be taken up for consideration and passing in the House of the People;

AND WHEREAS the aforesaid Bill could not be taken up for consideration and passing in the House of the People;

NOW, THEREFORE, in exercise of the powers conferred by clause (1) of article 123 of the Constitution, the President is pleased to promulgate the following Ordinance:—

CHAPTER IV

AMENDMENTS TO THE CUSTOMS ACT, 1962

5. In the Customs Act, 1962,–

(a) in section 28E, clauses (ba), (f) and (g) shall be omitted;

(b) in section 28EA, the proviso shall be omitted;

(c) in section 28F, sub-section (1) shall be omitted;

(d) in section 28KA,––

(i) in sub-section (1), for the word “Appellate Authority”, at both the places where they occur, the words “High Court” shall be substituted;

(ii) sub-section (2) shall be omitted;

(e) in section 28L, the words “or Appellate Authority”, wherever they occur, shall be omitted;

(f) in section 28M,––

(i) in the marginal heading, the words “and Appellate Authority” shall be omitted;

(ii) sub-section (2) shall be omitted.

RAM NATH KOVIND,
President.

DR. G. NARAYANA RAJU,
Secretary to the Govt. of India.