Notification No. 39 dated 31st
July 2001
(As amended by Notification No. 42 dated 21st September 2001,
Notification No. 45 dated 2nd September 2002, Notification
No. 60 dated 19th December 2002, Notification No. 5 dated 13th
February 2003, Notification No. 16 dated 1st March 2003)
In
exercise of the power conferred by sub-section (1) of section 5A of the Central
Excise Act, 1944 (1 of 1944) read with sub-section (3) of section 3 of the
Additional Duties of Excise (Goods of Special Importance) Act, 1957 (58 of
1957) and sub-section (3) of Section 3 of the Additional Duties of Excise
(Textiles and Textile Articles) Act, 1978 (40 of 1978), the Central Government
being satisfied that it is necessary in the public interest so to do, hereby
exempts the goods specified in the First Schedule to the Central Excise Tariff
Act, 1985 (5 of 1986) other than goods specified in the Annexure appended to this notification
and cleared from a unit located in Kutch district of Gujarat from so much of
the duty of excise or the additional duty of excise, as the case may be,
leviable thereon under any of the said Acts as is equivalent to the amount of
duty paid by the manufacturer of goods other than the amount of duty paid by
utilization of CENVAT credit under the CENVAT Credit Rules, 2001:
Provided that in the case of a unit having an original value of
investment in plant and machinery installed in the factory below Rupees
Twenty Crore on the date of commencement of commercial production in that
unit, the exemption contained herein shall apply only for the first clearances
upto an aggregate value not exceeding twice the value of such investment from
the date of commencement of commercial production, in each year.
2.������� The exemption contained in this
notification shall be given effect to in the following manner, namely:
(a)��� The
manufacturer shall submit a statement of the duty paid other than the amount of
duty paid by utilization of CENVAT credit under the CENVAT Credit Rules, 2001,
to the Assistant Commissioner or the Deputy Commissioner of Central Excise, as
the case may be, by the 7th day of the next month in which the duty
has been so paid.
(b)��� The
Assistant Commissioner or Deputy Commissioner of Central Excise, as the case
may be, after such verification, as he may deem necessary, shall refund the
amount of duty paid other than the amount of duty paid by utilization of CENVAT
credit during the month under consideration to the manufacturer by the 15th
day of the next month.
������� Provided
that such refund shall not exceed the amount of duty paid less
the amount of the CENVAT credit availed of, in respect of the duty paid on the
inputs used in or in relation to the manufacture of goods cleared under this
notification.
(c)��� If
there is likely to be any delay in such verification, the Assistant
Commissioner or the Deputy Commissioner of Central Excise, as the case my be,
shall refund the amount on provisional basis by the 15th day of the
next month to the month under consideration, and thereafter may adjust the
amount of refund by such amount as may be necessary in the subsequent refunds
admissible to the manufacturer.
3.������� The exemption contained in this notification
shall be subject to the following conditions, namely:
(i)���� It
shall apply only to new industrial units, that is to say, units which are set
up on or after the date of publication of this notification in the official
Gazette but not later than the 31st day of July, 2004;
(ii)��� In
order to avail of this exemption, the manufacturer shall produce a certificate
from a Committee consisting of the Chief Commissioner of Central Excise,
Ahmedabad and the Principal Secretary to the Government of Gujarat, Department
of Industry, to the jurisdictional Assistant Commissioner or the Deputy
Commissioner of Central Excise, as the case may be, that the unit in respect of
which exemption is claimed is a new unit and has been set up during the time
period specified in condition (i) above.
(iii)�� Before effecting clearances under this notification, the
manufacturer shall also furnish a declaration regarding the original value of
investment in plant and machinery installed in the factory as on the date of
commencement of commercial production, to the Assistant Commissioner or the
Deputy Commissioner of Central Excise, as the case may be.
(iv)��� The
manufacturer shall also produce a certificate from the said Committee
confirming the original value of investment and such a certificate shall be
produced within a period of one month from the date of commencement of
commercial production, or such extended period as the said Assistant
Commissioner or Deputy Commissioner may allow.
(v)���������� In case
on the basis of such certification, or otherwise, the original value of
investment in plant and machinery,
(a)��� is
found to be less than Rupees Twenty Crore but was declared to be Rupees
Twenty Crore or more, the manufacturer shall be liable to pay back the
entire amount of duty exemption availed under the notification alongwith
interest at the rate of twenty four percent per annum as if no exemption were
available; or
(b)��� is
found to be less than the declared value and was declared to be below Rupees
Twenty Crore, the manufacturer shall be liable to pay duty on the goods
cleared, if any, in excess of twice the actual value of original investment in
each of the years during which exemption has been claimed under this
notification alongwith interest at the rate of twenty four percent per annum,
as if no exemption were available to those clearances under this notification.
(vi)��� The
exemption shall apply for period not exceeding five years from the date of
commencement of commercial production by the unit.
4.���� Nothing
contained in this notification shall apply to a manufacturer or a factory
availing of exemption under any of the following notifications, namely:
(a)��������� Notification
No. 8/2003-CE dated the 1st of March, 2003;
(b)��������� Notification
No. 9/2003-CE dated the 1st of March, 2003; and
Explanation I: For the purpose of this notification -
(i)
a change in the name or in the nature of ownership or a change in location of
an existing unit would not entitle anyone for treatment as a �new� industrial
unit.
(ii)
the expression �set up on or after the date of publication of this notification
in the Official Gazette� shall mean that any civil construction work on its
factory premises and any installation of plant and machinery therein commences
only on or after the date of publication of this notification in the Official
Gazette.
(iii)
the expression� �aggregate value of
clearances� shall mean the total value of clearances of excisable goods,
whatsoever, from the unit in each year but shall not include goods cleared for
use in the manufacture of other excisable goods in the same unit.
Explanation II: For the removal of doubt, it is hereby clarified that �original value
of investment in plant and machinery installed in the factory� shall be the
original value as determined in accordance with the Accounting Standards issued
by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India on accounting for Fixed
Assets.
ANNEXURE
1.������� Goods falling under Chapter 24 of the
First Schedule to the Central Excise Tariff Act, 1985 (5 of 1986);
2.������� The following goods, falling under the
said First Schedule to the Central Excise Tariff Act, 1985, namely:
(a)��������� Candles;
(b)��������� Footwear
of a retail sale price not exceeding Rs. 125 per pair;
(c)���������� Tableware
and kitchenware of glass;
(d)��������� Imitation
jewellery;
(e)��������� Monochrome
television receivers;
(f)Vacuum and
gas-filled bulbs of retails sale price not exceeding Rs. 20 per bulb;
(g)��������� Sunglasses
for correcting vision;
(h)��������� Watches
and clocks of retail sale price not exceeding Rs. 500 per piece;
(i)Rubberised coir
mattresses;
(j)Toothbrushes;
(k)��� Kerosene,
that is to say, any hydrocarbon oil (excluding mineral colza oil and white
spirit) which has a smoke content of 18mm or more [determined in the apparatus
known as smoke point lamp in the manner included in the Bureau of Indian
Standards Specification ISI: 1448 (P.31) � 1968 as in force for the time being)
and is ordinarily used as an illuminate in oil burning lamps;
(l)���� Liquefied
petroleum gases and other gaseous hydrocarbons other than natural gas, ethylene,
propylene, butylenes and butadiene;
(m)�������� Compressed
Natural Gas (CNG);
(n)��������� Cotton
sewing thread, not containing synthetic staple fibres;
(o)��������� Cotton
yarn, not containing synthetic staple fibres;
(p)��������� Diesel
engines upto 10 HP; and
(q)��������� Goods
specified in the Table annexed to notification No. 11/2001-Central Excise dated
the 1st of March 2001.
3.������� Goods specified in the Second Schedule
to the Central Excise Tariff Act, 1985 (5 of 1986).