Amendments in Cenvat Credit Rules 2004 – Online Filing of Return

[Central Excise Notification No. 22 dated 14^th September 2011]

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. Short title and commencement.- (1) These rules may be called the CENVAT Credit ( Fourth Amendment) Rules, 2011.

(2) They shall come into force on the 1st day of October, 2011.

2. In the CENVAT Credit Rules, 2004,-

(a) in rule 9A, -

(i) in sub-rule (1), the second proviso shall be omitted;

(ii) in sub-rule(3), the proviso shall be omitted;

(iii) after sub-rule (4), the following sub-rule shall be inserted, namely :-

“(5) Every assessee shall file electronically, the declaration or the return, as the case may be, specified in this rule.”

[F.No.201/10/2011-CX 6]