Specify rate of excise duty leviable under Section 3A of the Central Excise Act on chewing tobacco and branded unmanufactured tobacco –Amendment in N/No 16/2010

Last updated: 01 May 2015

Notice Date : 30 April 2015

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

MINISTRY OF FINANCE

(Department of Revenue)

Notification No. 25 /2015-Central Excise

New Delhi, the 30th April, 2015

G.S.R. (E).- In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (3) of section 3A of the Central Excise Act, 1944 (1 of 1944), the Central Government hereby makes the following further amendments in the notification of the Government of India in the Ministry of Finance (Department of Revenue) No. 16/2010-Central Excise, dated the 27th February, 2010, published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 3, Sub-section (i) vide number G.S.R. 118 (E), dated the 27th February, 2010, namely :-

In the said notification, in the first paragraph,-

(i) for the portion beginning with the words “having maximum speed” and ending with the words, brackets, figures and letter “or column (4b) of Table-2”, the words, brackets, figures and letters “having maximum packing speed as specified in column (3) or column (4) or column (5) of Table-1 or column (3) or column (4) or column (5) of Table-2, as the case may be, at which they can be operated for packing of specified goods which are packed in pouches of retail sale prices as specified in column (2) of Table-1 or Table-2, as the case may be, the rates of duty specified in the corresponding entry in column (3a) or column (3b) or column (4a) or column (4b) or column (5) of the said Table-1 or column (3) or column (4) or column (5a) or column (5b) of the said Table-2”, shall be substituted;

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