Newsprint defined for Central Excise Duty Purposes - 023/98 - Central Excise - Tariff

Newsprint defined for Central Excise Duty Purposes

Notification No. 23/98-CE, dated: 1-8-1998

In exercise of the power conferred by Note 3 to chapter 48 of the Schedule to the Central Excise Tariff Act, 1985 (5 of 1986), the Central Government, hereby defines 'newsprint', for the purposes of the said Chapter 48, as paper of a kind, -

(a) intended for the printing of newspapers; and

(b) manufactured by a manufacturer of newsprint specified under ¹Schedule of the Newsprint Control Order, 2004, and supplied against a purchase order placed upon such manufacturer by a newspaper which is registered by the Registrar of Newspapers for India under the provisions of the Press and Registration of Books Act, 1867 (25 of 1867).

Sd/-
(Srinivas Tata)
Under Secretary to the Government of India

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Note :

1. For the figures, letters and words "Schedule I of the Newsprint Control Order, 1962", the figures, letters and words "Schedule of the Newsprint Control Order, 2004", has been substituted vide Notification No. 53/2004 dated 11/10/2004