Exemption to machinery, equipment, instruments etc. for purposes of light combat aircraft programme - 228/88 - Customs -Tariff

Exemption to machinery, equipment, instruments etc. for purposes of light combat aircraft programme Notification No. 228/88-Cus. Dated 1-8-1988 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 exempts machinery, equipment, instruments, components, spares, raw-materials and consumables required for the purposes of the Light Combat Aircraft Programme of the Ministry of Defence (hereinafter referred to as the LCA Programme goods), when imported into India by an Authorised Work Centre therefor specified in the Table below, from - (i) the whole of the duty of customs leviable thereon which is specified in the First Schedule to the Customs Tariff Act, 1975 (51 of 1975); and (ii) the whole of the additional duty leviable thereon under Section 3 of the said Customs Tariff Act : Provided that the Authorised Work Centre produces to the Assistant Collector of Customs at the time of importation, in each case, a list of the LCA Programme goods to be imported, with the relevant description of such goods, - (i) duly certified by the Senior Manager, Aeronautical Development Agency, to the effect, - (a) that the LCA Programme goods mentioned in the list are required for the purposes of the Light Combat Aircraft Programme of the Ministry of Defence, (b) that such goods are not manufactured in India, (c) that the same shall be used only for the purposes of the said Programme; and (ii) duly certified also by an officer not below the rank of a Deputy Secretary to the Government of India, in the Ministry of Defence, to the effect that the import of the LCA Programme goods mentioned in the said list is authorised by the Ministry of Defence under and for the purposes of the Light Combat Aircraft Programme of the Ministry of Defence. THE TABLE THE AUTHORIZED WORK CENTRES 1. Hindustan Aeronautics Limited. 2. Hindustan Machine Tools Limited. 3. Bharat Electronics Limited. 4. Indian Telephone Industries. 5. Mishra Dhatu Nigam, Hyderabad. 6. Nuclear Fuel Complex, Hyderabad 7. Electronics Corporation of India Limited, Hyderabad. 8. Central Machine Tools Institute, Bangalore. 9. Gas Turbine Research Establishment, Bangalore 10. Aeronautical Development Establishment, Bangalore. 11. Electronics Radar Development Establishment, Bangalore. 12. Instruments Research Development Establishment, Dehradun. 13. Defence Metallurgical Research Laboratory, Hyderabad. 14. Defence Research Development Laboratory, Hyderabad. 15. Aerial Delivery Research Development Establishment, Agra. 16. Defence Materials Stores Research and Development Establishment, Kanpur. 17. Aircraft System Integration Engineering Organisation, Bangalore. 18. Defence Bio-Engineering and Electro Medical Laboratory, Bangalore. 19. Defence Institute of Fire Research, Delhi. 20. Combat Vehicle Research Development Establishment, Madras. 21. Naval Chemicals Metallurgical Laboratory, Bombay. 22. Solidstate Physics Laboratory, New Delhi. 23. Institute of Armament Technology, Pune. 24. Armament Research Development Establishment, Pune. 25. Centre for Artificial Intelligence Robotics, Bangalore. 26. Centre for Aeronautical Systems Studies and Analysis, Bangalore. 27. Defence Electronics Applications Laboratory, Dehradun. 28. Defence Laboratory, Jodhpur. 29. Defence Electronics Research Laboratory, Hyderabad. 30. Naval Physical and Oceonographic Laboratory, Cochin. 31. Scientific Analysis Group, Delhi. 32. National Aeronautical Laboratory, Bangalore. 33. Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre, Trivandrum. 34. Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. 35. Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. 36. Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. 37. Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. 38. Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. 2. This notification shall remain in force up to and inclusive of the 30th day of June, 1992.