Cenvat Credit Rules 2004 Amended for Gold Jewellery

[Central Excise Notification No. 36 (Non Tariff) dated 26^th July 2016]

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 37 of the Central Excise Act,1944 (1 of 1944) and section 94 of the Finance Act, 1994 (32 of 1994), the Central Government hereby makes the following rules further to amend the CENVAT Credit Rules, 2004, namely:-

1. (1) These rules may be called the CENVAT Credit (Eighth Amendment) Rules, 2016.

(2) They shall come into force on the date of their publication in the Official Gazette.

2. In the CENVAT Credit Rules, 2004 (hereinafter referred to as the said rules), -

(A) in rule 2, in clause (naa), for sub-clause (i), the following shall be substituted, namely:-

“(i) in relation to articles of jewellery or parts of articles of jewellery or both, falling under heading 7113 of the First Schedule to the Excise Tariff Act, includes a person who is liable to pay duty of excise leviable on such goods under sub-rule (1) of rule 9 of the Articles of Jewellery (Collection of Duty) Rules, 2016;"

(ia) in relation to articles of precious metals falling under heading 7114 of the First Schedule to the Excise Tariff Act, includes a person who is liable to pay duty of excise leviable on such goods under sub-rule (1) of rule 12AA of the Central Excise Rules, 2002;"

(B) in rule 4, in sub-rule (2), in clause (a), in the Explanation, for item (i), the following item shall be substituted, namely:-

“(i) an assessee engaged in the manufacture of articles of jewellery or parts of articles of jewellery or both, falling under heading 7113 of the First Schedule of the Excise Tariff Act, shall be eligible, if his aggregate value of clearances of all excisable goods for home consumption in the preceding financial year, computed in the manner specified in the said notification, did not exceed rupees fifteen crore;”.

[F. No. 354/25/2016 –TRU (Pt.-I)]