Amend the Central Excise Rules, 2002 - Units availing exemption under notification no. 49/2003 and 50/2003 in the state of Himachal Pradesh and Uttrakhand shall be required to file mandatory quarterly return with the office of Commissioner of Central Excise - 003/2008 - Central Excise - Non Tariff

Amend the Central Excise Rules, 2002 - Units availing exemption under notification no. 49/2003 and 50/2003 in the state of Himachal Pradesh and Uttrakhand shall be required to file mandatory quarterly return with the office of Commissioner of Central Excise (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) Notification No. 3 / 2008 - Central Excise (N.T.) New Delhi, dated the 18 th January, 2008 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 (Amendment) Rules, 2008. (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 12 , in sub-rule (1), after the second proviso, the following proviso shall be inserted, namely :- "Provided also that where an assessee is availing the exemption notification of the Government of India, Ministry of Finance (Department of Revenue) No. 49/2003-Central Excise, dated the 10 th June, 2003 vide number G.S.R. 471(E), published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part-II, section 3, sub-section (i) dated the 10 th June, 2003 or No. 50/2003-Central Excise, dated the 10 th June, 2003 vide number G.S.R. 472(E), published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part-II, section 3, sub-section (i), dated the 10 th June, 2003, he shall file a quarterly return with the jurisdictional Commissioner of Central Excise, in the form specified by notification by the Board, of production and removal of goods and other relevant particulars, within twenty days after the close of the quarter to which the return relates and in case of goods produced and removed during the quarter ending on the 31 st day of December, 2007, such return shall be submitted by the 20 th February, 2008." F.No.354/122/2002-TRU(Pt-I) (G. G. Pai) Under Secretary to the Government of India Note. - The principal rules were published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part-II, section 3, sub-section (i), vide notification No. 4/2002-Central Excise (N.T.), vide number G.S.R. 143(E), dated the 1 st March, 2002, and were last amended vide notification No. 36/2007-Central Excise (N.T.) vide number G.S.R.597(E), published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part-II, section 3, sub-section (i), dated the 14 th September, 2007.