The principal notification was published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, vide notification No. 16/2000-Customs, dated the 1st March, 2000 [G.S.R. 168 (E), dated the 1st March, 2000] and was last amended by notification No. 2/2001 – Customs, dated the 8th January, 2001 [G.S.R. 12 (E), dated the 8th January, 2001].
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, 1944, except as respects things done or omitted to be done before such amendment