{"id":620,"date":"2019-03-18T03:54:24","date_gmt":"2019-03-18T03:54:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lex-warrier.in\/archives\/?p=620"},"modified":"2019-10-25T01:58:18","modified_gmt":"2019-10-25T01:58:18","slug":"cofeposa-key-aspects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lex-warrier.in\/archives\/cofeposa-key-aspects.html","title":{"rendered":"Preventive detention and the conservation of foreign exchange and prevention of smuggling activities Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>Shivam Goel<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nAdvocate, High Court of Delhi<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Abstract<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Article 13 (2) of the <a href=\"https:\/\/lex-warrier.in\/archives\/doctrine-of-sovereign-immunity.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Constitution<\/a> of India, 1950 mandates that the State shall not make any law which takes away or abridges the rights conferred by Part III of the Constitution of India, 1950 and any law made in contravention of this provision shall be void to the extent of the contravention. Article 31-B of the Constitution of India, 1950 saves challenge to the Acts and Regulations specified in the Ninth Schedule on the ground of inconsistency with, taking away or abridging any fundamental right. The <a href=\"https:\/\/dor.gov.in\/sites\/default\/files\/Conservation%20of%20Foreign%20Exchange%20and%20Prevention%20of%20Smuggling%20Activities%20Act%201974.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">COFEPOSA Act<\/a> came into force on: 13.12.1974, and is specified in the Ninth Schedule at Item No. 104. The amendment in the COFEPOSA Act by the Central Act 20 of 1976 is specified at Item No. 129 in the Ninth Schedule . According to Section 2 (39) of the Customs Act, 1962, \u201csmuggling\u201d, in relation to any goods, means any act or omission, which will render such goods liable to confiscation under Section 111 or Section 113 of the Customs Act, 1962. Article 22 of the Constitution of India, 1950 is in two parts. The first part that comprises of Clauses (1) and (2) is applicable to those persons arrested or detained under a law otherwise than a preventive detention law. The second part that comprises of Clauses (4) to (7) applies to persons arrested or detained under the preventive detention law.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>Keywords:<\/strong> <\/span>Indian Constitution, Customs Act, COFEPOSA, Fundamental rights<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>Preferred Citation<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"su-quote su-quote-style-default\"><div class=\"su-quote-inner su-u-clearfix su-u-trim\">Shivam Goel, Preventive detention and the conservation of foreign exchange and prevention of smuggling activities Act, 1974: 15 key aspects, The Lex-Warrier: Online Law Journal (2019) 3, pp. 146 &#8211; 172, ISSN (O): 2319-8338<\/div><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lex-warrier.in\/archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Preventive-detention-and-the-conservation-of-foreign-exchange-and-prevention-of-smuggling-activities-act-1974.pdf\" class=\"su-button su-button-style-glass\" style=\"color:#FFFFFF;background-color:#ef792d;border-color:#c06124;border-radius:7px\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color:#FFFFFF;padding:7px 20px;font-size:16px;line-height:24px;border-color:#f4a26c;border-radius:7px;text-shadow:none\"><i class=\"sui sui-file-pdf-o\" style=\"font-size:16px;color:#FFFFFF\"><\/i> Read the full paper<\/span><\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shivam Goel Advocate, High Court of Delhi Abstract Article 13 (2) of the Constitution of India, 1950 mandates that the State shall not make any law which takes away or&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abstract","no-post-thumbnail","clearfix","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>COFEPOSA Act Key aspects | The Lex-Warrier: Online Law Journal<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"COFEPOSA Act came into force on: 13.12.1974, and is specified in the Ninth Schedule at Item No. 104. 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