[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. 10/2016 – Central Excise (N.T.)

New Delhi, the 1^st of March, 2016

G.S.R. (E). – In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-sections (2) and (3) of section 3A of the Central Excise Act, 1944 (1 of 1944), the Central Government hereby makes the following rules further to amend the Chewing Tobacco and Unmanufactured Tobacco Packing Machines (Capacity Determination and Collection of Duty) Rules, 2010, namely:-

1.         (1) These rules may be called the Chewing Tobacco and Unmanufactured Tobacco Packing Machines (Capacity Determination and Collection of Duty) Amendment Rules, 2016.

(2) They shall come into force on the date of their publication in the Official Gazette.

2.         In the Chewing Tobacco and Unmanufactured Tobacco Packing Machines (Capacity Determination and Collection of Duty) Rules, 2010, -

(i) for rule 5, the following shall be substituted, namely:-

“ 5. Quantity deemed to be produced.- The quantity of notified goods, having retail sale prices as specified in column (2) of Table-1 or Table-2 below, deemed to be produced by use of one operating packing machine, having maximum packing speed at which it can be operated for packing of notified goods as specified in column (3) or column (4) or column (5) or column (6) of Table-1, or column (3) or column (4) or column (5) or column (6) of Table-2, as the case may be, per month shall be as is equal to the corresponding entry specified in column (3a) or column (3b) or column (4a) or column (4b) or column (5a) or column (5b) or column (6) of Table-1, or column (3) or column (4) or column (5) or column (6a) or column (6b) of Table-2, as the case may be.