Amends the Central Excise Rules, 2002 - 034/2007 - Central Excise - Non Tariff

Amends the Central Excise Rules, 2002

New Delhi the  September 11, 2007

20 ,Bhadrapada 1929 Saka

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 (Third Amendment) Rules, 2007.

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

2. In the Central Excise Rules, 2002, in rule 8, in sub-rule (1),-  

(a) for the words and figure "the 5th day of the following month" the following shall be substituted, namely,-

" the 6^th day of the following month, if the duty is paid electronically through internet banking and by the 5^th day of the following month, in any other case"

(b) in the second proviso, for the words and figure "the 15^th day of the following month", the following shall be substituted, namely,-

" the 16^th day of the following month, if the duty is paid electronically through internet banking and by the 15^th day of the following month, in any other case,"

[F.No.201/21/2007-CX.6]

(Rahul Nangare)

Under Secretary to the Government of India.
 

Note : The principal rules were published in the Gazette of India vide notification No. 4/2002-Central Excise (N.T.), dated the 1st March, 2002, vide GSR 143 (E) dated the 1^st  March, 2002, and were last amended by notification No.08/2007-Central Excise (N.T.), dated the 1^st March, 2007, vide GSR 148(E) dated the1^st March, 2007.