Prescribing effective rate of basic excise duty at 15% on specified telecommunication equipments required for rural telecommunication net work. - 73/90 - Central Excise - Tariff

Prescribing effective rate of basic excise duty at 15% on specified telecommunication equipments required for rural telecommunication net work.

Notification No. 73/90-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 column (2) of the Table annexed hereto and falling within Chapter 85 of the Schedule to the Central Excise Tariff Act, 1985 (5 of 1986), from so much of the duty of excise leviable thereon which is specified in the said Schedule as is in excess of the amount calculated at the rate of 15% ad valorem:

Provided that the manufacturer produces at the time of clearance a certificate from an officer not below the rank of General Manager in the Department of Telecommunications of the Government of India that the goods in question (including the quantity and technical specifications) are required for the establishment of rural telecommunication network by the Department of Telecommunications and will not be used for any other purpose.

TABLE

S. NO.	DESCRIPTION OF GOODS
1.	Rural Automatic Exchanges (upto 512 Ports)
2.	Integrated Line & TRUNK Exchange (ILT) (upto 512 Ports)
3.	Shared Radio Systems (upto 8/64 capacity)
4.	Multi-Access Radio Systems (upto 30/256 capacity)
5.	Single Channel VHF equipment
6.	Wireless Telephones having range of more than 1 kilometre
7.	10 Channel Digital UHF equipment
8.	4/6 Channel Analogue/UHF equipment
9.	1 + 9 Line sharing System
10.	Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA) equipment
11.	3/8 Channel open wire carrier equipment