Provisions under Rule 138B of the Central Goods and Services Tax (CGST) Rules, 2017 relating to “Verification of Documents and conveyances”, are as under:
CGST Rule 138B: Verification of Documents and conveyances (Chapter-XVI: E-way Rules)
(1) The Commissioner or an officer empowered by him in this behalf may authorize the proper officer to intercept any conveyance to verify the e-way bill in physical or electronic form for all inter-State and intra-State movement of goods.
(2) The Commissioner shall get Radio Frequency Identification Device readers installed at places where the verification of movement of goods is required to be carried out and verification of movement of vehicles shall be done through such device readers where the eway bill has been mapped with the said device.
(3) The physical verification of conveyances shall be carried out by the proper officer as authorised by the Commissioner or an officer empowered by him in this behalf:
Provided that on receipt of specific information on evasion of tax, physical verification of a specific conveyance can also be carried out by any other officer after obtaining necessary approval of the Commissioner or an officer authorised by him in this behalf.
Amendments History:
CGST Rule 138 was initially notified by CBEC vide Notification 10/2017 dated 28/06/2017. Subsequently, CGST Rule 138 has been substituted and Rules 138A, 138B, 138C & 138D have been inserted vide Notification 27/2017 dated 30/08/2017. Further, two Provisos and Explanation were inserted in Rule 138(1) vide Notification 34/2017 dated 15/09/2017. Later, Rule 138 was re-substituted with amendments in Rule 138A & 138B vide Notification 3/2018 dated 23/01/2018. However, the Final e-way bill rules were notified on 07/03/2018, whereby Rules 138, 138A, 138B, 138C & 138D were substituted vide Notification 12/2018 dated 07/03/2018, followed with Notification 15/2018 on commencement date of 01/04/2018. It may be noted that above text of this Rule is based on such final E-way Bill Rules (Notification 12/2018) and subsequent amendments:
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