9. The Board may, by notification in the official Gazette, declare-(a) the ports and airports which alone shall be customs-ports or customs-airports for the unloading of imported goods and loading of goods for export or any class of such goods;(b) the places which alone shall be land customs-stations ¹[or customs-inland container depot] ²[or customs inland-water container terminal] for the clearance of goods or any class of goods imported or to be exported by land or inland waterways;(c) the routes by which alone goods or any class of goods specified in the notification may pass by land or inland waterways into or out of Bangladesh, or to or from any land customs-station ³[or customs stations] or to or from any land frontier;(d) the places which alone shall be ports for the carrying on of coastal trade with any specified customs-ports in Bangladesh; and(e) what shall for the purposes of this Act be deemed to be a custom-house and the limits thereof.

10. The Board may, by notification in the official Gazette-(a) specify the limits of any customs-station; and(b) approve proper places in any customs-station for the loading and unloading of goods or any class of goods.

11. The Board may, by notification in the official Gazette, declare places to be warehousing stations at which alone public warehouses may be appointed and private warehouses may be licensed.

12. At any warehousing station, the ⁴[Commissioner of Customs (Bond) or any other Commissioner of Customs authorised by the Board] may, from time to time, appoint public warehouses wherein dutiable goods may be deposited without payment of customs-duty.

⁵[ 13. (1) Subject to sub-section (2), at any warehousing station, the Commissioner of Customs (Bond) or any other Commissioner of Customs authorised by the Board may, license private warehouses wherein dutiable goods imported by or on behalf of the licensee, or any other imported goods in respect of which facilities for deposit in a public warehouse are not available, may be deposited.(2) The Board may, from time to time, by notification in the official Gazette, impose conditions, limitations or restrictions-(a) on granting licence for private warehouse;(b) on goods to be warehoused; and(c) on import entitlement of the warehouse.(3) The Commissioner of Customs (Bond) or any other Commissioner of Customs authorised by the Board may, suspend or cancel a licence granted under sub-section (1)-(a) if the licensee contravenes any provision of this Act or the rules made thereunder or commits breach of any of the conditions of the licence; or(b) in the case where, he deems fit, a license to be suspended or cancelled in the public interest:Provided that in case of cancellation of any licence, the licensee shall be served with a show cause notice of thirty days, and be given a reasonable opportunity of being heard.⁶[ (c) In case of suspension under clause (b), the Business Identification Number (BIN) of the licensee issued under মূল্য সংযোজন কর আইন, ১৯৯১ (১৯৯১ সনের ২২ নং আইন) shall remain suspended till the disposal of the matter.]]

14. The Commissioner of Customs may, from time to time, appoint, in or near any customs-ports, stations or limits at or within which vessels arriving at or departing from such port shall bring to for the boarding or landing of officers of customs, and may, unless separate provisions therefore have been made under the Ports Act, 1908 (XV of 1908) direct at what particular place in any such port vessels, not brought into port by pilots, shall anchor or moor.