17th February,2004
                                                                                            

Notification No.4/2004 - Central Excise (N.T.)

            In exercise of the powers conferred by section 11 of the Central Excise Act, 1944 (1 of 1944), the Central Board of Excise and Customs, referred to in that section, empowers every Central Excise Officer, not below the rank of an Assistant Commissioner of Central Excise, to require the payment of duty and any other sums of any kind payable to the Central Government under any of the provisions of the said Act or of the rules made there under (including the amount required to be paid to the credit of the Central Government under Section 11D of the said Act) within his jurisdiction and thereby to exercise all the powers of such officer specified under the said section 11.                                                                                                

Neerav Kumar Mallick 
Under Secretary to the Government of India

F.No.224 /31/2003-CX.6