Central Excise Rules - Thirteenth Amendment of 1998 - 36/98 - Central Excise - Non Tariff

Central Excise Rules - Thirteenth Amendment of 1998 Notification No. 36/98-C.E. (N.T.) Dated 2-9-1998 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, 1944, namely :- 1. (1) These rules may be called the Central Excise (Thirteenth Amendment) Rules, 1998. (2) They shall come into force on the date of their publication in the Official Gazette. 2. In the Central Excise Rules, 1944, in rule 187A, after the proviso, the following proviso shall be inserted, namely :- "Provided further that a manufacturer-exporter who paid duty exceeding rupees ten crores in cash or through account current in the preceding financial year or a manufacturer-exporter who had been accorded status of Super Star Trading House, Star Trading House, Trading House or Export House under the provisions of the Export and Import Policy, notified by the Central Government under section 5 of the Foreign Trade (Development and Regulation) Act, 1992 (22 of 1992), containing the goods may seal the packages or containers himself at the place of despatch and remove them for export subject to the conditions that - (i) an intimation to proper officer shall be given by the manufacturer-exporter at least twentyfour hours before the intended removal or within such shorter period as the Commissioner of Central Excise having jurisdiction over the factory of manufacture of the goods may allow, and (ii) the owner, the working partner, the Managing Director or the Company Secretary, of the manufacturing unit of the goods or a person duly authorised by the Board of Directors of such Company, as the case may be, shall certify on the application that the goods have been sealed in his presence."