CBLR18 AMENDED AND EXAM WILL BE CONDUCTED BY NACIN DURING MARCH 19 & Eligibility conditions

From the below latest notification we can understand that proviso to Regulation 6 got amended and exam will be conducted by NACIN. Online line written exam will be conducted First Quarter of each calendar year. Hence it is clear that before 31.03.2019 exam will be conducted by NACIN 

Eligibility to appear CBLR 18 exam ?

5. Conditions to be fulfilled by the applicants.-(1) The applicant for a license to act as a Customs Broker in a Customs Station, shall before applying to the Principal Commissioner of Customs or Commissioner of Customs, meet the following conditions that: -
(a) he is a citizen of India;
(b) he is a person of sound mind;
(c) he is not adjudicated as insolvent;
(d) he holds an Aadhaarnumber;
(e) he holds a valid PAN card;
(f) he has not been penalised for any offence under the Act, the Central Excise Act, 1944 (1 of 1944), the Finance Act, 1994(32 of 1994), the Central Goods and Services Act, 2017 (12 of 2017) and Integrated Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017 (13 of 2017);
(g) he has neither been convicted by a competent court for an offence nor any criminal proceeding is pending against him in any court of law;
(h) an individual applicant or in case the applicant is a firm, its partner or in the case of a company, its director or an authorised employee who may handle the Customs work shall-

(i) be a graduate from a recognized University; and

(ii) possess a professional degree such as Masters or equivalent degree in Accounting, Finance or Management, CA/CS/MBA/LLM/ACMA/FCMA or Diploma in Customs Clearance work from any Institutes or University recognised by the Government oris having at least two years’ experience in transacting Customs Broker work as G-Card holder;

(i) the applicant has financial viability as evidenced by a certificate issued by a Scheduled Bank or such other proof acceptable to the Principal Commissioner of Customs or Commissioner of Customs, as the case may be, in terms of possession of assets of value of not less than five lakhs rupees.
(2) A retired Group A officer from the Indian Revenue Service(Customs and Central Excise)having a minimum of five years’ experience in Group 'A' post shall also be eligible to apply for a license to act as a Customs Broker provided he satisfies the conditions specified at (a), (b), (c), (d), (e), (f), (g) and (i)of sub-regulation (1) above.
(3) The Principal Commissioner or Commissioner of Customs, as the case may be, may for the purpose of this regulation, make such enquiries to verify the eligibility of the applicant as he may deem fit before forwarding the application to Directorate General of Performance Management.

Notification No. 08/2019 - Customs (N.T.)

New Delhi, the 6th February, 2019

G.S.R. 96 (E).- In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (2) of section 146 of the Customs Act, 1962 (52 of 1962), the Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs hereby makes the following regulations to amend the Customs Brokers Licensing Regulations, 2018, namely:-
1.  (1) These regulations may be called the Customs Brokers Licensing (Amendment) Regulations, 2019.
     (2) They shall come into force on the date of their publication in the Official Gazette.
2. In the Customs Brokers Licensing Regulations, 2018 (hereinafter referred to as the said regulations), for the words and brackets “Directorate General of Performance Management (DGPM)” and “Directorate General of Performance Management”, wherever they occur, the words and brackets, “National Academy of Customs, Indirect Taxes and Narcotics (NACIN)” shall respectively be substituted.
3. In the said regulations, in regulation 4, -

(a) in sub- regulation(1), for the word, “April”, the word, “August” shall be substituted;

(b) after sub-regulation(1), the following proviso shall be inserted, namely:-

“Provided that in respect of the applications invited by the Directorate General of Performance Management (DGPM) in April, 2018, the online written examination shall be conducted by the National Academy of Customs, Indirect Taxes and Narcotics (NACIN) in the first quarter of the calendar year 2019.”.

4. In the said regulations, in regulation 6, -

(a) in sub-regulation (1), the words and brackets “(preferably online)” shall be omitted;

(b) for sub-regulations (2) and (3), the following sub-regulations shall be substituted, namely:-

“(2) The online written examination shall be conducted by the National Academy of Customs, Indirect Taxes and Narcotics (NACIN) in the first quarter of each calendar year for which intimation shall be sent individually to applicants in advance before the date of examination and the result of the said examination shall be declared preferably within one month of the date of examination.

(3) The applicant who is declared successful in the written examination shall be called for an oral examination on specified dates in the second quarter of the same calendar year, the result of which shall be declared in the month of July of the same calendar year.”.

[F. No. 502/07/2013- Cus.VI]

(Zubair Riaz Kamili)

Director (Customs