Seeks to amend the notification No. 64/95 - CE dated 16th March, 1995 to provide exemption to project ASTRAs - 13/2013 - Central Excise - Tariff

[TO BE PUBLISHED IN THE GAZETTE OF INDIA, EXTRAORDINARY, PART II, SECTION 3, SUB-SECTION (i)]

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

MINISTRY OF FINANCE

(DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE)

NOTIFICATION No. 13/2013- CENTRAL EXCISE

New Delhi, dated the 25^th March, 2013

G.S.R.    189 (E).- In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) of section 5A of the Central Excise Act, 1944 (1 of 1944), the Central Government, on being satisfied that it is necessary in the public interest so to do, hereby makes the following further amendments in the notification of the Government of India in the Ministry of Finance (Department of Revenue), No.64/95-Central Excise, dated the 16^th March,1995, published in the Gazette of India,Extraordinary, vide number G.S.R.256 (E), dated the 16^th March, 1995, namely:-

In the said notification, in the Table, after serial number 33 and the entries relating thereto, the following serial number and entries shall be inserted, namely:-

(1)	(2)	(3)
“3 4	Equipment and                 stores	If,- (i) used for the systems and sub-systems of Project ASTRA of the Government of India in the Ministry of Defence; (ii) before clearance of the said goods, a certificate from the Project Director, ASTRA, Defence Research and Development Laboratory, Hyderabad, in the Ministry of Defence to the effect that the goods are intended for the aforesaid use is produced to the proper officer; and (iii) the aforesaid use is elsewhere than in the factory of production of the said   goods, the manufacturer produces   within five months from   the date of   clearance or within   such extended period as the Deputy Commissioner of  Central  Excise or the Assistant Commissioner of Central Excise, as the case may be, may allow in this regard,   a certificate from   the said Project   Director, ASTRA, indicating the date of receipt of the said goods by that organisation and certifying that they have been actually put to the aforesaid use. Explanation. - Nothing contained in this exemption shall have effect on or after the 1st day of September, 2013.”.

[F.No.354/14/2006 -TRU(Pt- II)]

(Raj Kumar Digvijay)

Under Secretary to the Government of India

Note : - The principal notification No.64/95-Central Excise, dated the 16^th March, 1995 was published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, vide number G.S.R. 256(E), dated the 16^th March, 1995 and was last amended by notification No. 4/2013- Central Excise, dated the 20^th February, 2013 vide number G.S.R. 113(E), dated the 20^th February, 2013.