Project Imports Regulations - Amendment - 153/95 - Customs -Tariff

Project Imports Regulations - Amendment Notification No. 153/95-Cus. Dated 27-10-1995 In exercise of the powers conferred by section 157 of the Customs Act, 1962 (52 of 1962), the Central Board of Excise and Customs hereby, makes the following regulations further to amend the Project Imports Regulations, 1986, namely : 1. (1) These regulations may be called the Project Imports (Amendment) Regulations, 1995. (2) They shall come into force on the date of their publication in the Official Gazette. 2. In the Project Imports Regulations, 1986, - (1) for regulation 3, the following regulation shall be substituted, namely :- `3. Definitions. - For the purposes of these regulations, - (a) "industrial plants" means an industrial system designed to be employed directly in the performance of any process or series of processes necessary for manufacture, production or extraction of a commodity, but does not include - (i) establishments designed to offer services of any description such as hotels, hospitals, photographic studios, photographic film processing laboratories, photocopying studios, laundries, garages and workshops; or (ii) a single machine or a composite machine, within the meaning assigned to it, in Notes 3 and 4 to Section XVI of the said First Schedule. Explanation :- For the purposes of sub-clause (i), the expression "establishments designed to offer services of any description" shall not include video recording or editing units, cinematographic studios, cinematographic film processing laboratories and sound recording, processing, mixing or editing studios; (b) "Sponsoring authority" means an authority specified in the Table annexed to these regulations; (c) "substantial expansion" means an expansion which will increase the existing installed capacity by not less than 25 per cent; (d) "unit" means any self-contained portion of an industrial plant or any self-contained portion of a project specified under the said Heading No. 98.01 and having an independent function in the execution of the said project'. (2) in regulations 5 and 6, for the words "concerned Administrative Ministry or Department", wherever they appear, the words "concerned sponsoring authority" shall be substituted. (3) after regulation 7, the following Table shall be added, namely :- `TABLE Sr. No. Name of the Plant or Project Sponsoring Authority 1. All Plants and Projects under SSI Units. Director of Industries of the concerned State. 2. All Power Plants under the National Thermal Power Corporation Ltd. National Thermal Power Corporation Ltd. NTPC Bhavan, Scope Complex, 7, Lodhi Road, Institutional Area, New Delhi-110003. 3. Any other Plant and Project Concerned Administrative Ministry or Department."