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

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
MINISTRY OF FINANCE
(DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE)

NOTIFICATION No. 16/2017-Central Excise


New Delhi, the 30
th
, June, 2017

G.S.R. ___ (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. 23/2003-Central
Excise, dated the 31
st
March, 2003, published in the Gazette of India
Extraordinary, Part II, Section 3, Sub-section (i) vide number G.S.R 266 (E),
dated the 31
st
March, 2003, namely :-

2. In the said notification, -

(a) in the opening paragraph, for the words, digits and brackets “Chapter,
heading No. or sub-heading No. of the First Schedule to the Central Excise
Tariff Act, 1985 (5 of 1986) (hereinafter referred to as the Central Excise
Tariff Act)”, the words and digits “Chapter No. of the Fourth Schedule of
the Central Excise Act, 1944” shall be substituted;

(b) in the TABLE, -
(i) Sr.No’s 3A and 5 to 21 and the entries relating thereto shall be
omitted;

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(ii) in Sr.No. 4, in Column (3), the words, figures and letters “,other than
those referred to in Sr. Nos 5, 5A, 6, 7 and 7A of this Table” shall be
omitted;
(c) after the TABLE, in the ANNEXURE, the conditions at Sr. Nos 3A and 5 to
10 and the entries relating thereto shall be omitted.
3. This notification shall come into force with effect from the 1
st
July, 2017.



[F.No. DGEP/SEZ/09/2017 ]


(Dharmvir Sharma)
Under Secretary to the Government of India


Note. - The principal notification No. 23/2003-Central Excise, dated the
31
st
March, 2003 was published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II,
Section 3, Sub-section (i), vide G.S.R 266 (E), dated the 31
st
March, 2003 and
last amended by notification No. 28/2015-Central Excise dated the 15
th
May,
2015 published vide G.S.R. 388 (E), dated the 15
th
May, 2015.

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