Amends Notification No. 6/2006-Central Excise dated the 1st March, 2006 - seeks to provide concessional rate of Central Excise duty on specified goods of Chapter 84-98

Last updated: 10 May 2010

Notice Date : 07 May 2010

Amends Notification No. 6/2006-Central Excise dated the 1st March, 2006 - seeks to provide concessional rate of Central Excise duty on specified goods of Chapter 84-98

[TO BE PUBLISHED IN THE GAZETTE OF INDIA, EXTRAORDINARY, PART II, SECTION 3, SUB-SECTION (i)]

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

MINISTRY OF FINANCE

(DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE)

New Delhi, the 07th May, 2010

Notification No. 25/2010-Central Excise

G.S.R. (E).-In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) of section 5A of the Central Excise Act, 1944 (1 of 1944), the Central Government, on being satisfied that it is necessary in the public interest so to do, hereby makes the following further amendments in the notification of the Government of India, in the Ministry of Finance (Department of Revenue), No. 6/2006-Central Excise, dated the 1st March, 2006, published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary vide number G.S.R. 96(E) dated 1st March, 2006, namely:-

In the said notification, -

(I) in the Table,-

(i) for S. No. 17 and the entries relating thereto, the following shall be substituted, namely:-

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

(5)

“17.

8471 70 or 8473 30 or 8523 51 00

The following goods, namely:-

(a) Microprocessor for computer, other than motherboards;

(b) Floppy disc drive;

(d) CD-ROM drive;

(e) DVD Drive /DVD Writers;

(f) Flash memory;

(g) Combo drive,-

(i) meant for fitment inside the CPU housing/laptop body only;

(ii) meant for use other than at (i) above

Nil

-“ ;

(II) in the Annexure,-

(i) for condition No. 28 and the entries relating thereto, the following shall be substituted, namely:-

Condition No.

Conditions

“28.

If,-

(a) such goods are exempted from the duties of customs leviable under the First Schedule to the Customs Tariff Act, 1975 (51 of 1975) and the additional duty leviable under section 3 of the said Customs Tariff Act when imported into India;

(b) an officer not below the rank of a Joint Secretary to the Government of India, in the Ministry of Power certifies that the goods are required for a project of the nature specified in column (3) against S. No. 91B of the table;

(c) the Chief executive officer of the project furnishes an undertaking to the Deputy Commissioner of Central Excise or the Assistant Commissioner of Central Excise, as the case may be, having jurisdiction, to the effect that-

(i) the said goods will be used only in the said project and not for any other use; and

(ii) in the event of failure to observe sub-clause (i) above, the manufacturer will pay the duty which would have been leviable at the time of clearance of goods, but for this exemption.”;

[F. No. 354/59/2010- TRU]

(Prashant Kumar)

Under Secretary to the Government of India

Note: The principal notification No. 6/2006-Central Excise dated the 1^st March, 2006, published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, vide number G.S.R. 96(E), dated the 1^st March, 2006 was last amended vide notification No. 12/2010-Central Excise, dated the 27^th February, 2010, published vide number G.S.R. 114(E), dated the 27^th February, 2010.