GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
MINISTRY OF FINANCE
(DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE)
Notification No. 04/2010-Central Excise (N.T.)
New Delhi, the 19th February, 2010.
G.S.R. (E).- In exercise of the powers conferred by section 37 of the Central
Excise Act, 1944 (1 of 1944), the Central Government hereby makes the following
rules further to amend the Central Excise Rules, 2002, namely:-
- Short title and commencement.-
- These rules may be called the Central Excise (Amendment) Rules, 2010.
- They shall come into force from the 1st April, 2010.
- In the Central Excise Rules, 2002 (hereinafter referred to as the said
rules), in rule 8, in sub-rule (1), in third proviso, for the words “duty of
fifty lakhs rupees or more, other than the amount of duty paid by utilization of
CENVAT credit, in the preceding financial year,” the words, “total duty of
rupees ten lakh or more including the amount of duty paid by utilization of
CENVAT credit in the preceding financial year” shall be substituted
- In the said rules, in rule 12, in sub-rule (1), after the second proviso and
before third proviso, the following proviso shall be inserted, namely:-
“Provided also that where an assessee has paid total duty of rupees ten lakh or
more including the amount of duty paid by utilization of CENVAT credit in the
preceding financial year, he shall file the monthly or quarterly return, as the
case may be, electronically:”
F.No. 201/20/2009-CX.6
(V.P. Singh)
Under Secretary to the Government of India
Note: The principal rules were published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary,
Part II, Section 3, sub-section(i), dated 1st March, 2002 vide
notification No.
4/2002-Central Excise (N.T.), dated the 1st March, 2002, [G.S.R. 143 (E), dated
the 1st March, 2002] and were last amended, vide, notification No.
17/2009-Central Excise (N.T.), dated the 7th July, 2009, [G.S.R. 482 (E) dated
the 7th July, 2009].