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If accommodation sufficient, all sea-going vessels compelled to use docks, Wharves etc., - When sufficient number of docks, berths, wharves, quays, stages, jetties or piers have been provided at any port or port approaches as aforesaid, the Board after the Customs Cargo Service provider obtains the approval of the Commissioner of Customs and by notification published in three consecutive issues of the Official Gazette, direct that no goods or passengers shall be landed or shipped from or upon any sea-going vessel within the Non-Major port or port approaches otherwise than at such docks, berths, wharves, quays, stages, jetties or piers, except with the sanction of the Board and in accordance with such conditions as the Board may specify: Provided that the Board shall ensure that prior to such notifications, the provisions of sections 29 and 33 of the Customs Act, 1962 shall be complied with which provides that the person-in-charge of a vessel shall not cause or permit the vessel to call at any place other than a Customs Port and that unloading of imported goods and loading of export goods shall not take place in any place other than a place approved under clause (a) of section 8 of the said Act for the unloading of loading of such goods, except with the permission of the proper officer.