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GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

MINISTRY OF FINANCE

(DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE)

Notification

No. 35/2016 - Central Excise (N.T.)

 New Delhi, the 26th July, 2016

                       G.S.R (E). - In exercise of the powers conferred by section 37 of the Central Excise Act, 1944 (1 of 1944), the Central Government hereby makes the following rules further to amend the Central Excise Rules, 2002, namely :-

1. (1) These rules may be called the Central Excise (Second Amendment) Rules, 2016.

 (2) They shall come into force on the date of their publication in the Official Gazette.

 2. In the Central Excise Rules, 2002 (hereinafter referred to as the said rules), -

(A) in rule 8, in Explanation-1,-

(i) item (a) and the entries relating thereto shall be omitted;

(ii) in item (b), the expression “, other than (a) above” shall be omitted.  

B) in rule 12, in sub-rule (1),

 (i) in the fourth proviso, in clause (ii), after the figures, brackets and letters “199(I)”, the figures, brackets and letters “,199(II)” shall be inserted;

 (ii) in the fourth proviso, for the words beginning with “and does not manufacture any other”, and ending with “close of the quarter to which the return relates.”, the following shall be substituted, namely:-

                  “and does not manufacture any other excisable goods other than those specified in the said notifications, he shall file a quarterly return in the form specified by notification by the Board, of production and removal of goods and other relevant particulars, within ten days after the close of the quarter to which the return relates.

 Explanation. – In the case of the assesse  availing exemption under Sl. No. 199(I) and 199(II), of Notification No. 12/2012-Central excise, dated the 17th march, 2012, the date of submission of quarterly return for quarter ending on 31st March, 2016, and quarter ending on 30th June, 2016, shall be the 10th August, 2016.”