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					 GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF FINANCE (Department of Revenue)
  
Notification No. 5 /2017 – Union Territory Tax 
New Delhi, the 30th June, 2017 9 Ashadha, Saka 1939 
G.S.R. …..(E).— In pursuance of sub-section (1) of section 22, read with 
section 21 of the Union Territory Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017 (14 of 2017), 
the Central Government hereby makes the following rules for the Union Territory 
of Andaman and Nicobar Islands, namely:-- 
Short title and Commencement.
   1. (1) These rules may be called the Union 
Territory Goods and Services Tax (Andaman and Nicobar Islands) Rules, 2017.      (2) They shall come into force with effect from the 1st day of July, 2017. 
Adaptation of Central Goods and Services Tax Rules, 2017.  
  2. (1) The Central 
Goods and Services Tax Rules, 2017, in respect of scope of supply, composition 
levy, composite supply and mixed supply, time and value of supply, input tax 
credit, registration, tax invoice, credit and debit notes, accounts and records, 
returns, payment of tax, tax deduction at source, collection of tax at source, 
assessment, refunds, audit, inspection, search, seizure and arrest, demands and 
recovery, liability to pay in certain cases, advance ruling, appeals and 
revision, presumption as to documents, offences and penalties, job work, 
electronic commerce, settlement of funds, transitional provisions, and 
miscellaneous provisions including the provisions relating to the imposition of 
interest and penalty, shall, mutatis mutandis, apply, with the following 
modifications, namely:- 
(a) in Rule 1,-  (i) for the words and figures “ the Central Goods and 
Services Tax Rules, 2017”, the words, brackets and figures “the Union Territory 
Goods and Services Tax (Andaman and Nicobar Islands) Rules, 2017” shall be 
substituted; 
  (b) in rule 90, for sub-rule (4) the following sub-rule shall be 
substituted, namely:-  “(4) Where deficiencies have been communicated in FORM GST 
RFD-03 under the Central Goods and Service Tax Rules, 2017, the same shall also 
deemed to have been communicated under this rule along with the deficiencies 
communicated under sub-rule (3).”; 
(c) in rule 117, in sub-rule (1), for the second proviso, the following 
proviso shall be substituted, namely:-  “Provided further that in the case of a 
claim under sub-section (1) of section 140, the application shall specify 
separately—  (i) the value of claims under section 3, sub-section (3) of section 
5, sections 6 and 6A and sub-section (8) of section 8 of the Central Sales Tax 
Act, 1956 made by the applicant;  (ii) the serial number and value of 
declarations in Forms C or F and certificates in Forms E or H or Form I 
specified in rule 12 of the Central Sales Tax (Registration and Turnover) Rules, 
1957 submitted by the applicant in support of the claims referred to in 
sub-clause (i); and  (iii) the value of claims of Octroi levied by the Port Blair 
Municipal Council in exercise of powers conferred under Section 80 (1) (e) of 
the Andaman and Nicobar Islands (Municipal) Regulations, 1994.”; 
(d) in rule 117, clauses (a) and (b) of sub-rule (4) shall be omitted;  
(e) 
for rule 119, the following rule shall be substituted, namely:- “Declaration of 
stock held by a principal and agent.- Every person to whom the provisions of 
sub-section (14) of section 142 apply shall, within ninety days of the appointed 
day, submit a declaration electronically in FORM GST TRAN-1, specifying therein, 
the stock of the inputs, semi-finished goods or finished goods, as applicable, 
held by him on the appointed day.”  
(f) the following explanation shall be 
inserted at the end of these rules, namely:- ‘Explanation.- For the purposes of 
these rules, it is hereby clarified that all references to section 140 of the 
Central Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017, shall be construed to refer to section 
18 of the Union Territory Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017.’ 
[F.No. S-31011/25/2017-ST-I-DOR] (S.R.MEENA) Under Secretary to 
the Government of India 
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