The principal notification was published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, vide notification No. 6/2002-Central Excise, dated the 1st March, 2002 [G.S.R. 127 (E), dated the 1st March, 2002] and was last amended by notification No. 44/2004-Central Excise, dated the 18th August, 2004 [G.S.R. No. 526 (E), dated the 18th August, 2004.