Notification No. 15/2010-Central Excise
New Delhi, the 27th February, 2010
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 Governmenton being satisfied that it is necessary in the public interest so to do, hereby exempts all items of machinery, including prime movers, instruments, apparatus and appliances, control gear and transmission equipment and auxiliary equipment (including those required for testing and quality control) and components, required for initial setting up of a solar power generation project or facility, from the whole of the duty of excise leviable thereon which is specified in the First schedule to the Central Excise Tariff Act, 1985 (5 of 1986), subject to the following conditions, namely:-
(1) before the clearance of the goods from the factory, the manufacturer produces to the Deputy Commissioner of Central Excise or the Assistant Commissioner of Central Excise, as the case may be, a certificate, from an officer not below the rank of a Deputy Secretary to the Government of India in the Ministry of ewNand RenewableEnergy recommending the grant of this exemption and the said officer certifies thatsolar power generation project or facility; and
(2)the manufacturer of such goods furnishes an undertaking to the Deputy Commissioner of Central Excise or the Assistant Commissioner of Central Excise, the duty which would have been leviable at the time of clearance of goods, but for this exemption.”.
