Seeks to further amend the CGST Rules, 2017

[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
Central Board of Excise and Customs
Notification No.27 /2017 – Central Tax

New Delhi, the 30th August, 2017

G.S.R. ( )E.:- In exercise of the powers conferred by section 164 of the Central Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017 (12 of 2017), the Central Government hereby makes the following rules further to amend the Central Goods and Services Tax Rules, 2017, namely:-

(1) These rules may be called the Central Goods and Services Tax (Sixth Amendment) Rules, 2017.

(2) Save as otherwise provided in these rules, they shall come into force on such date as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint.

2. In the Central Goods and Services Tax Rules, 2017 (hereafter in this notification referred to as the principal rules), -

(i) for rule 138, the following shall be substituted, namely:-

“138. Information to be furnished prior to commencement of movement of goods and generation of e-way bill.- (1) Every registered person who causes movement of goods of consignment value exceeding fifty thousand rupees -

(i) in relation to a supply; or
(ii) for reasons other than supply; or
(iii) due to inward supply from an unregistered person,

shall, before commencement of such movement, furnish information relating to the said goods in Part A of FORM GST EWB-01, electronically, on the common portal.

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