Amendments to four notifications - 19/97 - Customs -Tariff

Amendments to four notifications Notification No. 19/97-Cus. Dated 1-3-1997 In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) of section 25 of the Customs Act, 1962 (52 of 1962), the Central Government, being satisfied that it is necessary in the public interest so to do, hereby directs that each of the notifications of the Government of India in the Ministry of Finance (Department of Revenue), specified in column (2) of the Table hereto annexed, shall be amended or further amended, as the case may be, in the manner specified in the corresponding entry in column (3) of the said Table. TABLE S. No. Notification No. and date Amendment (1) (2) (3) 1. 236/89-Customs, dated the 1st September, 1989. In the said notification, in the Explanation, for the figures, words and letters "165/95-Customs, dated the 7th December, 1995", the figures, words and letters "15/97-Customs, dated the 1st March, 1997" shall be substituted. 2. 136/90-Customs, dated the 20th March, 1990. In the said notification, in the Table, in column (2), for the entry "60% ad valorem" at both the places where it occurs, the entry "50% ad valorem" shall be substituted. 3. 39/96-Customs, dated the 23rd July, 1996. In the Table annexed to the said notification, - (A) against S. No. 11, in column (2), in item (i), for the words "instruments and equipment", the words "instruments, parts and equipment" shall be substituted; (B) against S. No. 20, - (1) in the entry in column (2), for the words "and Telescopic manipulator", the words "and Telescopic manipulator, Non-linear junction detector, Optical fibre scopes, Search lights (dragon variety), Radiation detectors, X-ray scanner, Parcel viewer, Alarm systems, CCTV systems, Bomb disrupter, Bomb trailer, Blasting machines, Wire and cable locators" shall be substituted; (2) in the entry in column (3), - (i) in item (a), for the words "Central Reserve Police Force", the words "Central Reserve Police Force, National Security Guard or Special Protection Group" shall be substituted; (ii) in item (b), for the words "certificate from the Under Secretary to the Government of India in the Ministry of Home Affairs", the words "certificate from an officer in the Ministry of Home Affairs not below the rank of an Under Secretary to the Government of India" shall be substituted. 4. 51/96-Customs, dated the 23rd July, 1996. In the Table annexed to the said notification, - (A) against S. No. 1, in column (3), after item (c), the following item shall be added, namely:- "(d) proto-types, the C.I.F. value of which does not exceed rupees fifty thousand in a financial year."; (B) against S. No. 2, - (1) in column (3), after item (c), the following item shall be added, namely:- "(d) proto-types."; (2) in column (4), in item (iv), for the word "consumables", the words "consumables, rupees fifty thousand in the case of proto-types" shall be substituted.