The principal rules were published in the Gazette of India vide notification No. 4/2002-Central Excise (N.T.), dated the 1st March, 2002, vide GSR 143 (E) dated the 1st March, 2002, and were last amended by notification No.08/2007-Central Excise (N.T.), dated the 1st March, 2007, vide GSR 148(E) dated the1st March, 2007.
Attention is invited to Circular No. 53/88-CX-6 dated 12.07.1998 wherein a revised abstract of XT-I diary was circulated. Over the years, the Central Excise laws and procedures have undergone several changes, and a need was felt to revise the format of the XT-I Diary. The revised XT-I contains important work carried out during a month and it does not require reporting of daily functioning as was being done in present XT-I format.
For the purposes of this notification, “applied rate of duty” means the standard rate of duty specified in the First Schedule to the said Customs Tariff Act, 1975 in respect of the goods specified in the said Table, read with any other notification for the time being in force, issued in respect of such goods under sub-section (1) of section 25 of the Customs Act, 1962 (52 of 1962).
The clearing corporation shall take adequate care to ensure that the sovereign securities accepted by it as margin are tendered under a mechanism which does not unduly hinder timely liquidation in the event of default by the clearing member.
In exercise of the powers conferred by section 28A of the said Customs Act, the Central Government hereby directs that the whole of the additional duty of Customs under sub-section (5) of section 3 of the said Customs Tariff Act, payable on such goods, but for the said practice, shall not be required to be paid in respect of such goods on which the said additional duty of Customs was not levied during the period aforesaid, in accordance with the said practice.
