[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.22/2015-Central Excise (N.T.)
New Delhi, the 29
th
October, 2015
G.S.R. (E).- In exercise of the powers conferred by section 37 of the Central Excise Act, 1944 (1 of 1944) and section
94 of the Finance Act, 1994 (32 of 1994), the Central Government hereby makes the following rules further to amend the
CENVAT Credit Rules, 2004, namely:​
1. (1) These rules may be called the CENVAT Credit (Fifth Amendment) Rules, 2015.
(2) They shall come into force on the date of their publication in the Official Gazette.
2. In the CENVAT Credit Rules, 2004 (hereinafter referred to as the said rules), in rule 3, in sub-rule (7), in clause (b), after
the fifth proviso, the following proviso shall be inserted, namely:-
​Provided also that the credit of Education Cess and Secondary and Higher Education Cess paid on inputs or capital goods
received in the premises of the provider of output service on or after the 1st day of June, 2015 can be utilized for payment of
service tax on any output service:
Provided also that the credit of balance fifty per cent. Education Cess and Secondary and Higher Education Cess paid on
capital goods received in the premises of the provider of output service in the financial year 2014-15 can be utilized for
payment of service tax on any output service:
Provided also that the credit of Education Cess and Secondary and Higher Education Cess paid on input service in respect of
which the invoice, bill, challan or Service Tax Certificate for Transportation of Goods by Rail (referred to in rule 9), as the case
may be, is received by the provider of output service on or after the 1st day of June, 2015 can be utilized for payment of service
tax on any output service.​.
[F. No. 334/5/2015-TRU]
(Anurag Sehgal)
Under Secretary to the Government of India
Note.- The principal rules were published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 3, Sub-section (i), vide
notification No.23/2004-Central Excise (N.T.), dated the 10th September, 2004 vide number G.S.R. 600(E), dated the 10th
September, 2004 and last amended vide notification No.21/2015-Central Excise (N.T.), dated 7
th
October, 2015
published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 3, Sub-section (i), by number G.S.R. 764(E), dated the 7
th
October, 2015.
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