ALLIED ACTS

1. The Foreign Trade (Development and Regulation) Act, 1992

2. ARMS ACT, 1959
3. Plant Quarantine (Regulation of Import into India) Order, 2003
4. Destructive Insects and Pests (Amendment and Validation) Act,
1992
5. Drugs and Cosmetics Act
ALLIED ACTS

6. Live Stock Importation Act, 1898 (amended in

2001)
7. The Aircraft Act, 1934
8. Tea Act, 1953.
9. Food Safety and Standards (Import) Regulations,
2017
ALLIED ACTS

10.The Spices Board Act, 1986

11.Insecticides Act, 1968
12.Legal Metrology Act, 2009
13.Environment (Protection) Act, 1986
14.The Explosives Act, 1884
15.Wild Life Protection Act, 1972
 FOREIGN TRADE (DEVELOPMENT AND
REGULATION) ACT, 1992
SECTION 3 (1) The Central Government may, by Order published in the Official
Gazette, make provision for the development and regulation of foreign trade by
facilitating imports and increasing exports. (example – notification)

(2) The Central Government may also, by Order published in the Official Gazette,
make provision for prohibiting, restricting or otherwise regulating, in all cases or
in specified classes of cases and subject to such exceptions, if any, as may be
made by or under the Order, the import or export of goods or services or
technology
 FOREIGN TRADE (DEVELOPMENT AND
REGULATION) ACT, 1992
(3) All goods to which any Order under sub-section (2) applies shall be deemed to
be goods the import or Export of which has been prohibited under section 11 of
the Customs Act, 1962 and all the provisions of the Act shall have effect
accordingly,

(5) The Central Government may, from time to time, formulate and announce, by
notification in the Official Gazette, the Foreign Trade policy and may also, in like
manner, amend that policy.
 FOREIGN TRADE POLICY 2022

 The Government of India has issued various notifications indicating procedure

for export and import of certain items. The following link contains the details

https://www.dgft.gov.in/CP/?opt=itchs-import-export
FOREIGN TRADE POLICY 2022
 SCOMET ITEM

 Exports of certain commodities may require special

approval or license. SCOMET lists down a few such items.
SCOMET item is an acronym for Special Chemicals,
Organisms, Materials, Equipment, and Technologies, and
these are dual-use items that can be used for both civilian
and military applications. India's Foreign Trade Policy
regulates the export of items on the SCOMET List.
 SCOMET ITEM

 The SCOMET list classifies items into 9 distinct

categories. Special Materials and Related Equipment,
Material Processing, Electronics, Computers,
Telecommunications, Information Security, Sensors and
Lasers, Navigation and Avionics, Marine, Aerospace and
Propulsion
 SCOMET ITEMS

 Export/Import of SCOMET items, listed in the FTP of

Government of India, shall be permitted only against an export
authorization issued in this behalf, unless export is prohibited
or is permitted without authorization subject to fulfillment of
conditions, if any, as indicated under/against any
 THE ARMS ACT, 1959

SECTION 10. Licence for import and export of arms, etc.―(1) No

person shall bring into, or take out of, India by sea, land or air any
arms or ammunition unless he holds in this behalf a licence
issued in accordance with the provisions of this Act and the rules
made thereunder:

Provided that—
 THE ARMS ACT, 1959

(a) a person who is entitled by virtue of this Act or any other law
for the time being in force to have, or is not prohibited by this Act
or such other law from having, in his possession any arms or
ammunition, may without a licence in this behalf bring into, or
take out of, India such arms or ammunition in reasonable
quantities for his own private use;
 THE ARMS ACT, 1959

(b) a person being a bona fide tourist belonging to any such country
as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official
Gazette, specify, who is not prohibited by the laws of that country
from having in his possession any arms or ammunition, may,
without a licence under this section but in accordance with such
conditions as may be prescribed, bring with him into India arms and
ammunition in reasonable quantities for use by him for purposes
only of sport and for no other purpose
 Plant Quarantine (Regulation of Import into India) Order, 2003

CHAPTER II

General conditions for import

SECTION 3 Permit for Import of plants, plant products etc.

(1) No consignment of plants or plant products or other regulated articles (hereinafter referred to as
'consignments') shall be imported into India without a valid permit issued under this Order.

(2) No categories of plant materials in respect of the plant species or variety mentioned in Schedule
IV shall be allowed to be imported into India from the countries mentioned against each in column (4)
of the said Schedule.
 Destructive Insects and Pests Act, 1914

SECTION 3 Power of Central Government to regulate or prohibit

the import of articles likely to infect.—

(1) The Central Government may, by notification in the Official

Gazette, prohibit or regulate, subject to such restrictions and
conditions as it may impose, the import into India, or any part
thereof, or any specified place therein, of any article or class of
articles likely to cause infection to any crop or of insects generally or
any class of insects.
 Destructive Insects and Pests Act, 1914

(2) A notification under this section may specify any article or class
of articles or any insect or class of insects, either generally or in any
particular manner, whether with reference to the country of origin
or the route by which imported or otherwise.
 Drugs and Cosmetics Act, 1940

SECTION 10 Prohibition of import of certain drugs or cosmetics.—From

such date as may be fixed by the Central Government by notification in
the Official Gazette in this behalf, no person shall
import—
(a) any drug or cosmetic which is not of standard quality;
(b) any misbranded drug or misbranded or spurious cosmetics
(bb) any adulterated or spurious drug
 Drugs and Cosmetics Act, 1940

(c) any drug or cosmetic for the import of which a licence is prescribed,
otherwise than under, in accordance with, such licence;

(d) any patent or proprietary medicine, unless there is displayed in the

prescribed manner on the label or container thereof

[the true formula or list of active ingredients contained in it together with

the quantities thereof];
 Drugs and Cosmetics Act, 1940

(e) any drug which by means of any statement, design or device

accompanying it or by any other means, purports or claims to cure or
mitigate any such disease or ailment, or to have any such other effect, as
may be prescribed;

(ee) any cosmetic containing any ingredient which may render it unsafe or
harmful for use under the directions indicated or recommended;

(f) any drug or cosmetic the import of which is prohibited by rule made
under this Chapter
 THE AIRCRAFT ACT, 1934

 SECTION 5 Power of Central Government to make rules.—

(1) Subject to the provisions of section 14, the Central Government may, by
notification in the Official Gazette, make rules regulating the manufacture,
possession, use, operation, sale, import or export of any aircraft or class of
aircraft and for securing the safety of aircraft operations.

 In exercise of the above powers, the Government of India has made the
Drone Rules, 2021, prescribing certain regulations for import of and use of
drones in India
 Tea Act, 1953
CHAPTER IV
CONTROL OVER THE EXPORT OF TEA AND TEA SEED
SECTION 17 Control of export of tea and tea seed.

(1) No tea shall be exported unless covered by a licence issued by or on behalf of the Board.

(2) No tea seed shall be exported unless covered by a permit issued by or on behalf of the
Central Government.

(3) No tea or tea seed shall be taken by land, sea or air out of any State to any of the
Portuguese Settlements bounded by India, unless covered by a permit issued by or on behalf of

the Board.
 The Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006
CHAPTER V
PROVISIONS RELATING TO IMPORT
SECTION 25 All imports of articles of food to be subject to this Act.–No person shall

import into India–

(i) any unsafe or misbranded or sub-standard food or food containing extraneous matter;

(ii) any article of food for the import of which a licence is required under any Act or rules

or regulations, except in accordance with the conditions of the licence; and

(iii) any article of food in contravention of any other provision of this Act or of any rule or

regulation made thereunder or any other Act.

 The Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006

2) The Central Government shall, while prohibiting, restricting or otherwise

regulating import of article of food under the Foreign Trade (Development and
Regulation) Act, 1992 (22 of 1992), follow the standards laid down by the Food
Authority under the provisions of this Act and the Rules and regulations made
thereunder.
 THE SPICES BOARD ACT, 1986
CHAPTER IV
CERTIFICATE FOR EXPORT OF SPICES

SECTION 11. No person to export spices without certificate.—

Save as otherwise provided in this Act, no person shall, after the

commencement of this Act, commence or carry on the business of
export of any spice except under and in accordance with a
certificate.
 THE SPICES BOARD ACT, 1986
CHAPTER V
CONTROL BY THE CENTRAL GOVERNMENT
SECTION 17. Power to prohibit or control import of cardamom.

The Central Government may, by order published in the Official

Gazette, make provision for prohibiting, restricting or otherwise
controlling the import of cardamom, either generally or in specified
classes of cases.
 Insecticides Act, 1968
SECTION 17. Prohibition of import and manufacture of certain
insecticides.—
(1) No person shall, himself or by any person on his behalf, import or
manufacture—
(a) any misbranded insecticide;
(b) any insecticide the sale, distribution or use of which is for the time being
prohibited under section 27;
(c) any insecticide except in accordance with the conditions on which it was
registered;
(d) any insecticide in contravention of any other provision of this Act or of any
rule made thereunder.
 LEGAL METROLOGY ACT, 2009

SECTION 8 Standard weight, measure or numeral.—

(1) Any weight or measure which conforms to the standard unit of such
weight or measure and also conforms to such of the provisions of section
7 as are applicable to it shall be the standard weight or measure.

(2) Any numeral which conforms to the provisions of section 6 shall be the

standard numeral.
 LEGAL METROLOGY ACT, 2009
(3)No weight, measure or numeral, other than the standard weight,
measure or numeral, shall be used as a standard weight, measure
or numeral.
(4) No weight or measure, shall be manufactured or imported
unless it conforms to the standards of weight or measure specified
under section 8:
Provided that provisions of this section shall not apply for
manufacture done exclusively for export or for the purpose of any
scientific investigation or research
 LEGAL METROLOGY ACT, 2009

SECTION 19 Registration for importer of weight or measure.—

No person shall import any weight or measure unless he is registered with the
Director in such manner and on payment of such fees, as may be prescribed.

SECTION 20. Non-standard weights and measures not to be imported.—

No weight or measure, whether singly or as a part or component of any machine

shall be imported unless it conforms to the standards of weight or measure
established by or under this Act.
Environment (Protection) Act, 1986
In exercise of the powers conferred by Section 6, 8 and 25 of the
Environment (Protection) Act, 1986, Government of India made
a) The Manufacture, Storage and Import of Hazardous Chemicals Rules,
1989.
b) Manufacture, Use, Import, Export and Storage of Hazardous Micro
organisms, Genetically/Engineered Organisms or Cells Rules, 1989
c) Ozone Depleting Substances (Regulation And Control) Rules, 2000
d) E-Waste Management Rules, 2016
e) Batteries (Management and Handling) Rules, 2001
f) Battery Waste Management Rules, 2022
g) Plastic Waste Management Rules, 2016
 THE EXPLOSIVES ACT, 1884

SECTION 5 Power to make rules as to licensing of the manufacture,

possession, use, sale, transport, import and export of explosives.—

(1) The Central Government may, for any part of India, make rules
consistent with this Act to regulate or prohibit, except under and in
accordance with the conditions of a licence granted as provided by
those rules, the manufacture, possession, use, sale, transport, import
and export of explosives, or any specified class of explosives.
 THE EXPLOSIVES ACT, 1884

SECTION 6 Power for Central Government to prohibit the. manufacture,

possession or importation of specially dangerous explosives.—
(1) Notwithstanding anything in the rules under the last foregoing section,
the Central Government may, from time to time, by notification in the
Official Gazette,—
(a) prohibit, either absolutely or subject to conditions, the manufacture,
possession or importation of any explosive which is of so dangerous a
character that, in the opinion of the Central Government, it is expedient
for the public safety to issue the notification.
 THE EXPLOSIVES ACT, 1884

(2)The Customs Act, 1962 (52 of 1962) shall have effect in relation
to any explosive with regard to the importation of which a
notification has been issued under this section and the vessel,
carriage or aircraft containing such explosive as that Act has in
relation to any article the importance of which is prohibited or
regulated thereunder and the vessel, carriage or aircraft containing
such article
 Wild Life Protection Act, 1972
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