law: Custom Act, 1962 
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  APPELLATE TRIBUNAL. – 
  (1)
  
  The Central Government shall constitute an Appellate Tribunal to be called the
  
  Customs, Excise and Gold (Control) Appellate Tribunal consisting of as many
  
  judicial and technical members as it thinks fit to exercise the powers and
  
  discharge the functions conferred on the Appellate Tribunal by this Act.
  (2)
  
  A judicial member shall be a person who has for at least ten years held a
  
  judicial office in the territory of India or who has been a member of the
  
  Central Legal Service and has held a post in Grade I of that service or any
  
  equivalent or higher post for at least three years, or who has been an advocate
  
  for at least ten years.
  Explanation
  
  :  For the purposes of this sub-section, - 
  (i ) in computing the period during which a person has held
  
  judicial office in the territory of India, there shall be included any period,
  
  after he has held any judicial office, during which the person has been an
  
  advocate or has held the office of a member of a tribunal or any post, under
  
  the Union or a State, requiring special knowledge of law;
  (ii)
  
  in computing the period during which a person has been an advocate, there shall
  
  be included any period during which the person has held a judicial office, or
  
  the office of a member of a tribunal or any post, under the Union or a State,
  
  requiring special knowledge of law after he became an advocate.
  (2A)
  
  A technical member shall be a person who has been a member of the Indian
  
  Customs and Central Excise Service, Group A, and has held the post of
  
  Commissioner of Customs or Central Excise or any equivalent or higher post for
  
  at least three years.
  (3)
  
  The Central Government shall appoint –
  (a) a person who is or has been a Judge of a High Court; or
  (b) one of the members of the Appellate Tribunal, to be the President
  
  thereof.
  (4)
  
  The Central Government may appoint one or more members of the Appellate
  
  Tribunal to be the Vice-President, or, as the case may be, Vice-Presidents,
  
  thereof.
  (4A)
  
  The Central Government may appoint one of the Vice-Presidents of the Appellate
  
  Tribunal to be the Senior Vice-President thereof.
  (5)
  
  The Senior Vice-President or a Vice-President shall exercise such of the powers
  
  and perform such of the functions of the President as may be delegated to him
  
  by the President by a general or special order in writing.