Fully exempts 58 items of specified sight saving equipments
Notification No. 69/93-C.E.
Dated 28-2-1993
In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) of section 5A of the Central Excises and Salt Act, 1944 (1 of 1944), the Central Government, being satisfied that it is necessary in the public interest so to do, hereby exempts goods of the description specified in the Table hereto annexed and falling within Chapter 90 of the Schedule to the Central Excise Tariff Act, 1985 (5 of 1986), from the whole of the duty of excise leviable thereon which is specified in the said Schedule.
TABLE
S. No. |
Description of the goods |
1. |
Argon/Krypton Laser. |
2. |
Aspiration - irrigation - equipment. |
3. |
Automatic keratometer. |
4. |
Automatic refractometer. |
5. |
C.A.M. stimulator. |
6. |
Colour vision testing equipment. |
7. |
Complete refraction unit with phoropter/projecto-chart. |
8. |
Contact lens lathes. |
9. |
Contact lens polishing machines. |
10. |
Contact lens thickness measuring gauge. |
11. |
Corneal Anesthesiometer. |
12. |
Cryolathe. |
13. |
Dark Adaptometer. |
14. |
Diathermy equipment. |
15. |
Exophthalmometer. |
16. |
Fluorescein angiography equipment including fundus camera. |
17. |
Glare testing equipment. |
18. |
Gonioscope, 3 mirror lens, special lenses for laser delivery, special diagnostic lenses (14D, 20D, 90D), Endo lens. |
19. |
Intraocular lenses/Keratoprosthesis/orbital inplants. |
20. |
Keratometer. |
21. |
Laser Interferometer. |
22. |
Lensometer/ Projection lensometer. |
23. |
Low visual Aids and sets (telescopic glasses). |
24. |
Microsurgical needles, cannulas, blades, trephine blades, membrane peelers, diathermy probes, vitreous cutters, atraumatic needles and sutures, intra ocular scissors and forceps. |
25. |
Ocular electro physiological testing equipment.
(Electroretinography/Electroculography/Visually evoked response equipment (ERG, EOG & VER). |
26. |
Operating glasses (2X, 4X, 6X)/Binomag. |
27. |
Ophthalmic cryo equipments. |
28. |
Ophthalmic hydraulic chair. |
29. |
Ophthalmic operating lights and fibre optic lights. |
30. |
Ophthalmic/Xenon Arc. |
31. |
Ophthalmoscope - Direct/Indirect. |
32. |
Ophthalmo dynamometer. |
33. |
Pachhy meter - Opitcal/ Electronic. |
34. |
Pantoscope. |
35. |
Phaco-emulsification system (fragmentome) |
36. |
Photoelectric keratoscope and Thermokeratoscope. |
37. |
Photo slit lamp |
38. |
Prism bars |
39. |
Projection magnifier for contact lens inspection and verification. |
40. |
Pseudo-isochromatic Chart Book/Ishaire. |
41. |
Radiuscope base curve (for measurement of contact lenses). |
42. |
Refractometer. |
43. |
Retinoscope Streak/spot. |
44. |
Roper Hall Foreign Body Locator. |
45. |
Silicone Sponges/rubber/bands, for Retinal Detachment Surgery. |
46. |
Slit lamp biomicroscope. |
47. |
Softometer for measurement of the base curve of soft contact lenses. |
48. |
Specular microscope with monitor and recorder. |
49. |
Stereozoom microscope for inspection of contact lenses. |
50. |
Sterilisers (high speed /ethylene). |
51. |
Surgical Operating Microscope Manual. |
52. |
Surgical Operating Zoom Microscope with close circuit T.V Camera. |
53. |
Synoptophore. |
54. |
Tonometer (Schtotz/Applensation/Pneumo). |
55. |
Ultrasonography A,B,M Scan /Pacchymeter/ cleaners |
56. |
Visual field recording equipment. |
57. |
Vitrectomy equipment (Ocutome system). |
58. |
Yag Laser. |