Prescribing effective rate of basic excise duty of 5% ad valorem for specified pollution control equipments. - 78/90 - Central Excise - Tariff

Prescribing effective rate of basic excise duty of 5% ad valorem for specified pollution control equipments.

Notification No. 78/90-C.E.

Dated 20-3-1990

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 specified in the Schedule hereto annexed and falling within the Schedule to the Central Excise Tariff Act, 1985 (5 of 1986), from the duty of excise leviable thereon as is in excess of 5% ad valorem, subject to the conditions that an officer not below in rank of Deputy Secretary in the Ministry of Environment and Forests certifies in each case to the effect that the goods manufactured are intended for pollution control purposes.

THE SCHEDULE

Sl. No.	Description of goods
1.	Electrostatic precipitation system including Automining Spray Nozzle, CO Analyser, Emitting Electrode.
2.	Foll-filter systems including Pulse Valve, Filter Bag.
3.	Dust collector systems.
4.	Scrubber-counter current/venturi/packed-bed/cyclonic scrubbers.
5.	Air Sampler (CO, SO2, NOx, H2, SO3).
6.	Continuous analyser for CO, SO2, NOx.
7.	Halogen detector.
8.	Mechanically skimmed oil and grease removal systems.
9.	Mechanical flocculators.
10.	Diffused air/surface aeration systems for activated sludge systems.
11.	Surface aeration system for aerated lagoon systems
12.	Bio-filters rotating arms.
13.	Methane recovery anaerobic digestor system.
14.	Air floatation systems.
15.	Marine outfall systems.
16.	Centrifuge and vacuum filters for dewatering sludge.
17.	pH meter (digital as well as analog-type)
18.	Conductivity meter.
19.	Turbidity meter.
20.	Water pollution test kit.
21.	Water flow meter.
22.	BOD Incubator.
23.	Mercury analyser.
24.	Spectropho to meters (UV-VIS and VIS-IR digital).
25.	Continuous flow recorder with integrator.
26.	Continuous pH recorder.