Government of India
Ministry of Finance
Department of Revenue
Central Board of Excise & Customs
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Circular No. 991/15/2014-CX
New Delhi, dated 17th December, 2014
To,
- All Principal/Chief Commissioners and Director Generals under the Central
Board of Excise and Customs.
- Chief Commissioner (AR), CESTAT, New Delhi.
- All Principal/Commissioners of Customs / Central Excise/ Service Tax.
- Registrar, CESTAT, New Delhi, Deputy/Assistant Registrar, CESTAT, Mumbai,
Ahmedabad, Chennai, Bangalore & Kolkata.
- <[email protected]>
Sub: - Amendment to CESTAT Appeal Forms – reg.
Sir / Madam,
Reference is invited to
Circular No.969/03/2013-CX dated 11th April, 2013
whereby the forms for filing appeal in the CESTAT were amended/revised and new
forms for Central Excise (E.A.-3, E.A.-4, E.A.-5), Customs (C.A.-3, C.A.-4,
C.A.-5) and Service Tax (S.T.-5, S.T.-6, S.T.-7) were notified vide
Notification Nos 6/2013-Central Excise (N.T.),
37/2013-Customs (N.T.) and
5/2013-Service Tax,
all dated 10.04.2013 respectively and made effective from 1.6 2013.
- Along with the above forms, the pre-figured alpha numeric numbers to be
filled in for the orders passed by the Commissioner or Commissioner (Appeal) or
Commissioner (Adjudication), as the case may be were also issued for all the Commissionerates of Central Excise, Customs and Service Tax including all the
Commissioners (Appeals) and Commissioners (Adjudication).
- Consequent to Cadre Restructuring certain new Commissionerates have been
created, Board has received references from the field formations requesting for
assigning/creating alpha-numeric codes for new Commissionerates.
- In respect of Customs Commissionerates in Chennai/Delhi/Mumbai, the codes
given in the third part has been suitably amended to capture the nature of the
Commissionerate. For example, code CHN-CUSTM-AIR refers to refers to the
Commissionerate of “Chennai Customs (I) Airport”, CHN-CUSTM-002 refers to
“Chennai Customs (II)”, CHN-CUSTM-006 refers to “Chennai Customs (VI)”,
CHN-CUSTM-ACC refers to “ Chennai (VII) Air Cargo Complex” and CHN-CUSTM-GEN
refers to Chennai (VIII) (General) Commissionerates as per the table given
below:
CHENNAI (I) (AIRPORT) |
CUSTOMS |
CHN |
CUSTM |
AIR |
CHENNAI (II) |
CUSTOMS |
CHN |
CUSTM |
002 |
CHENNAI (III) |
CUSTOMS |
CHN |
CUSTM |
003 |
CHENNAI (IV) |
CUSTOMS |
CHN |
CUSTM |
004 |
CHENNAI (V) |
CUSTOMS |
CHN |
CUSTM |
005 |
CHENNAI (VI) |
CUSTOMS |
CHN |
CUSTM |
006 |
CHENNAI (VII) (AIR CARGO COMPLEX) |
CUSTOMS |
CHN |
CUSTM |
ACC |
CHENNAI (VIII) (GENERAL) |
CUSTOMS |
CHN |
CUSTM |
GEN |
- References have been received from field formations regarding difficulties
being faced in accommodating order number in given three boxes in cases where
the Adjudicating Authority/Commissioner (Appeals) has passed a common order
disposing of multiple cases or appeals involving more than one party and wherein
range of order number has to be assigned to such orders viz. order no 12-15 or
12 to 15. In such cases, Adjudicating Authority/Commissioner (Appeals) may pass
individual orders in each case and assign single number only viz Order No 999
etc.
- In Commissionerates where more than 999 orders are being passed, the number
of boxes (meant for order number) are being increased from three to four to
accommodate an order number exceeding 999. Accordingly the total number of boxes
given for alpha numeric code is increased from 21 to 22.
- Therefore, revised/amended pre-figured alpha numeric numbers are being
issued and annexed herewith.
(2) The new alpha numeric series would be effective from 01-01-2015.
(3) Hindi version follows.
-sd-
(Sunil K. Sinha)
Director (Judicial Cell)
F.No.390/Misc./46/2011-JC
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