The Principal notification was published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, vide Notification No.36/2001 – Customs (N.T.), dated, the 3rd August, 2001 (S.O.748 (E), dated, the 3rd August, 2001) and was last amended vide Notification No. 101/2008-Customs (N.T.), dated, the 14th August, 2008 (S.O. 2053 (E) dated 14th August, 2008).
Keeping in view that the Income-tax Act, 1961 was amended by the Finance Act, 2005 permitting an individual to deposit to the maximum of Rs. 1,00,000/- in any of the specified schemes, the concerned authorities should take steps to amend clause 3 of the PPF Scheme in terms of section 80C of the Income-tax Act.
The principal notification No.8/2003-Central Excise, dated the 1st March, 2003 was published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, vide number G.S.R.138 (E), dated the 1st March, 2003 and was last amended by notification No.8/2008-Central Excise, dated the 1st March, 2008 which was published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary [vide number G.S.R. 136(E), dated the 1st March, 2008].