[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 19, Volume 2]
[Revised as of April 1, 2003]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 19CFR161.12]

[Page 242-243]
 
                        TITLE 19--CUSTOMS DUTIES
 
  CHAPTER I--UNITED STATES CUSTOMS SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY
 
PART 161--GENERAL ENFORCEMENT PROVISIONS--Table of Contents
 
                  Subpart B--Compensation of Informant
 
Sec. 161.12  Eligibility for compensation.

    Source: T.D. 91-14, 56 FR 5349, Feb. 11, 1991, unless otherwise 
noted.


    In accordance with section 619, Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (19 
U.S.C. 1619), any person not an employee or officer

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of the United States who either furnishes original information 
concerning any fraud upon the customs revenue or any violation, 
perpetrated or contemplated, of the customs or navigation laws or any 
other laws administered or enforced by Customs, or detects and seizes 
any item subject to seizure and forfeiture under the customs or 
navigationlaws or other laws enforced by Customs and reports the same to 
a Customs officer, may file a claim for compensation, provided there is 
a net amount recovered from such detection and seizure or such 
information, unless other laws specify different procedures. Any 
employee or officer of the United States who receives, accepts, or 
contracts for any portion of such compensation, either directly or 
indirectly, is subject to criminal prosecution and civil liability as 
provided by 19 U.S.C. 1620.

[T.D. 98-22, 63 FR 11826, Mar. 11, 1998]