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(1) A Special Economic Zone shall, on and from the appointed day, be deemed to be a territory outside the customs territory of India for the purposes of undertaking the authorised operations. (2) A Special Economic Zone shall, with effect from such date[1] as the Central Government may notify, be deemed to be a port, airport, inland container depot, land station and land customs stations, as the case may be under section 7 of the Customs Act, 1962 (52 of 1962): Provided that for the purposes of this section, the Central Government may notify different dates for different Special Economic Zones. The Central Government as Vide S.O. 319(E), dated 14th March, 2006, appointed 14th March, 2006 as the date from which Cochin Special Economic Zone, Cochin shall be deemed to be port under section 7 of the Customs Act, 1962: 1. Kandla Special Economic Zone, Gandhidam 2. SEEPZ Special Economic Zone, Mumbai 3. Noida Special Economic Zone, Noida 4. Madras Special Economic Zone, Chennai 5. Cochin Special Economic Zone, Cochin 6. Falta Special Economic Zone, Kolkata 7. Visakhapatnam Special Economic Zone, Visakhapatnam 8. Surat Special Economic Zone, Surat 9. Manikanchan Special Economic Zone, Kolkata 10. Jaipur Special Economic Zone, Jaipur 11. Indore Special Economic Zone, Indore 12. Salt Lake Electronic City, Kolkata 13. Mahindra City, Chennai 14. Jodhpur Special Economic Zone, Jodhpur.