PILGRIMS. BAGGAGE
(IMPORTS) RULES, 1972
[Gazette
of Pakistan, Extraordinary, 5th September 1972]
S.R.
O. 682 (I)/72.‑In exercise of the powers conferred by section 219 of the
Customs Act, 19§9 (1V of 1969), read with item 17 of the First Schedule thereof,
and in supersession of its Notification No. S. R. O. 445 (K)/619. dated the
13th April 1961, the Central Board of Revenue is pleased to make ‑the following
rules for passing free of customs‑duties the incoming baggage the customs‑stations
of pilgrims arriving from the Hedjaz, Iraq and Iran
:
l.‑(1) These rules may
be called the Pilgrims, Baggage (Imports) Rules, 1972.
(2) They shall apply to
pilgrims returning to Pakistan from Hedjaz, Iraq or Iran.
(3") The) shall
come into force at once.
2. In these rules,
unless there is anything repugnant in `the subject or context,‑‑
(a) "baggage"
means personal wearing apparel in reasonable quantities, either for use
immediately after importation (but does not include partially or crudely
stitched or cut to size garments or loose turbans of silk cloth or of other
material measuring more than six yards in length) and other personal or
professional effects of a pilgrim, provided that the officer of customs is
satisfied that such articles are not for sale and are imported for the personal
use of the pilgrim or members of his family travelling with
him ;
(b) "pilgrim"
means a Muslim citizen of Pakistan returning to Pakistan from pilgrimage tote
Hedjaz or the holy places In Iraq or Iran.
3.‑(1) In the case of a
man and his wife travelling together, separate allowances up to the extent
specified in these rules may be admitted.
(2) No such allowance 6
aforesaid excepting for articles of wearing apparel toys in reasonable quantity
and provisions such as tinned milk shallbe admissible to dependent
children travelling with their parents.
4. A pilgrim may without
an import permit and free of customs‑duty import the following goods on his
person or in his baggage, namely ;‑
(a) (i) zam zam water in
any quantity ;
(ii) religious books (in
reasonable quantity) ;
(iii) clay bricks with
inscribed text from the Holy Quran not exceeding Rs: 40 in value ;
(iv) coffin cloth dipped
in holy water up to 40 yards in one piece ;
(v) small prayer carpets
not exceeding six in number ;
(vi) shawls, that is,
big handkerchiefs (whether of silk or cotton) not exceeding six in number ;
(vii) beads (whether of
clay, glass o) not exceeding six dozens in number ;
(viii) surma, that is,
antimony crude sir otherwise not exceeding Rs. 20 in value ;
(ix) charms and pictures
of holy shrines in reasonable quantity ;
(x) wet or dry dates‑one
case of the size of a kerosene oil tin of four imperial gallons capacity or
equivalent in weight in any other receptacle or container;--
(xi) one watch and one
traveller's clock ;
(xii) spectacles and
other physical aids in use ;
(xiii) one cigarette
lighter ;
(xiv) one fountain‑pen
set and one pen knife ;
(xv) cigarettes not
exceeding 200 or cigars not exceeding 50 or tobacco not exceeding 1/2 lb. in
weight or snuff not exceeding 20 tolas in weight ;
(xvi) medicines in use
by the a pilgrim in reasonable quantity ;
(b) such personal
jewellery as is allowed export under endorsement in the passport ; and ,
(c) any other articles
of personal effects, whether used or not, acquired abroad, subject to the limit
that the aggregate value of such effects does not .exceed list 200.
5.
'Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in rule 3, bona‑fide baggage
shall include‑-----
(a) the personal effects
of a pilgrim who dies either during his stay .abroad or on the voyage from or
to Pakistan.
(b) articles imported by
a pilgrim and proved to the satisfaction of the officer of customs to have
belonged to his or tier deceased spouse or other'
deceased member of his or her family, provided that the effects or articles are
such as would have been passed free under rule 4 if the deceased had been a
pilgrim and these' had accompanied him or her.
6. Where an officer of
customs requires any pilgrim to make a declaration in writing relating to the
goods imported by him, such pilgrim shall not be entitled to the exemptions in,
the foregoing rules unless Te makes such declaration.
7:‑(1) 'where a pilgrim on
his arrival in Pakistan makes a declaration to the requisite form
obtainable from the officer of customs that he has unaccompanied baggage which
is to follow or has preceded him, the exemption in the foregoing rules in
respect of goods in the accompanying baggage shall also apply to such goods
in the said unaccompanied baggage, if they are
despatched within 60 days of the embarkation for Pakistan of the pilgrim
concerned, provided that the over all limits of exemptions laid down to these
rules are not
exceeded.
(2) If for any reason
the said baggage is not despatched within the said ‑period, the officer of
customs may grant the said exemption in respect of the goods in such baggage if
he is satisfied that they were dispatched at the earliest practicable date.
[176/72. C. No. 3(8)‑SS
(L&P)/72].
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