GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
MINISTRY OF FINANCE
(DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE)
Notification No. 23/2011- Central Excise (N.T.)
New Delhi, dated 1st December , 2011
10 Agrhayan, 1933 (SAKA)
G.S.R (E). – Whereas the Central Government is satisfied that according to a
practice that was generally prevalent regarding levy of duty of excise
(including non-levy thereof) under section 3 of the Central Excise Act, 1944 ( 1
of 1944), (hereinafter referred to as the said Act) the duty of excise on pile
liners fabricated at the site of construction for use at the marine site,
falling under heading 7305 of Schedule to the Central Excise Tariff Act, 1985 (5
of 1985) (hereinafter referred to as said goods) was not being levied under
section 3 of the said Act, during the period commencing on the 1st day of April,
2005 and ending with 17th day of November, 2011;
- Now, therefore, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 11C of the
said Act, the Central Government hereby directs that the whole of the duty of
excise payable under section 3 of the said Act on said goods but for the said
practice, shall not be required to be paid in respect of said goods on which the
said duty of excise were not levied during the period aforesaid in accordance
with the said practice:
Provided that that the benefit under this notification shall not be admissible
unless the unit claiming benefits in terms of this notification reverses the
input credit, if any, taken in respect of inputs used in the manufacture of said
goods on which the duty of excise was not levied during the aforesaid period in
accordance with the said practice.
(MADAN MOHAN)
Under Secretary to the Government of India
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