Status Holders Licences to be Separated from EPCG – Excise

[Ref: Notification No. 19/ 2015 – Central Excise dated 1 /April 2015]

In exercise of the powers 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 makes the following further amendments in the notification of the Government of India in the Ministry of Finance (Department of Revenue), No. 33/2012-Central Excise dated the 9^th July, 2012 published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 3, Sub-section (i) vide number G.S.R. 545 (E), dated the 9^th July, 2012, namely:-

In the said notification, in paragraph 2, in condition (a), for the second proviso, the following proviso shall be substituted namely:-

“Provided further that the said scrip has not been issued in violation of the condition contained in the sub-paragraph (5) of paragraph 2 of notification No.101 of 2009 – Customs, dated the 11th September, 2009 or sub-paragraph (4) of paragraph 2 of notification No.102 of 2009 – Customs, dated the 11th September, 2009 or the second proviso to sub-paragraph (1) of paragraph 2 of notification No. 05 of 2013 – Customs, dated the 18th February, 2013 or sub- paragraph (3) of paragraph 2 of notification No. 22 of 2013 – Customs, dated the 18th April, 2013 or first proviso to sub-paragraph (1) of paragraph 2 of notification No. 23 of 2013-Customs, dated the 18^th April, 2013 or sub-paragraph (3) of paragraph 2 of notification No. 16 of 2015 – Customs, dated the 1^st April, 2015 or first proviso to sub-paragraph (1) of paragraph 2 of notification No. 17 of 2015 - Customs, dated the 1^st April, 2015, as the case may be,”.

[F.No.605/55/2014-DBK]