1st March 2006.
Notification No. 10/2006-Central Excise
G.S.R. (E).- In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) of section 5A of the Central Excise Act, 1944 (1 of 1944), the Central Government, being satisfied that it is necessary in the public interest so to do and in supersession of the notification of the Government of India, in the Ministry of Finance (Department of Revenue), No. 10/2003-Central Excise dated the 1st March, 2003 [G.S.R 140(E), dated the 1st March, 2003], except as respects things done or omitted to be done before such supersession, hereby exempts excisable goods of the description specified in column (3) of the Table below and falling within the Chapter, heading, sub-heading or the tariff item of the First Schedule to the Central Excise Tariff Act, 1985 (5 of 1986) (hereinafter referred to as the Central Excise Tariff Act), specified in the corresponding entry in column (2) of the said Table (hereinafter referred to as the said goods), from so much of the duty of excise leviable thereon under the First Schedule to the Central Excise Tariff Act, as is in excess of the amount calculated at the rate specified in the corresponding entry in column (4) of the said Table.
Explanation i-For the removal of doubts, it is clarified that a manufacturer who has availed of full exemption under notification No.8/2003 -Central Excise, dated the 1st March, 2003, published in the Gazette of India vide number G.S.R. 129 (E), as the case may be, in any financial year, is permitted to avail this exemption in the same financial year.
Explanation II..-For the purposes of this notification the “retail sale price” means the maximum price at which the excisable goods in packaged form may be sold to the ultimate consumer and includes all taxes, local or otherwise, freight, transport charges, commission payable to dealers and all charges towards advertisement, delivery, packing, forwarding and the like, as the case may be, and the price is the sole consideration for such sale.
Explanation III .–For the purposes of this notification, the rates specified in column (4) of the said Table are ad valorem rates, unless otherwise specified.
