21/2011-CE(NT), Dated: 14/09/2011
Amends Central Excise Rules, 2002 (Fourth Amendment) thereby making e-filing of Central Excise returns mandatory in ACES
Government of India G.S.R ( E ) . – In exercise of the powers conferred by section 37 of the Central Excise Act, 1944 ( 1 of 1944), the Central Government hereby makes the following rules further to amend the Central Excise Rules, 2002, namely :- 1. Short title and commencement.- (1) These rules may be called the Central Excise(Fourth Amendment ) Rules, 2011. (2) They shall come into force on the 1st day of October, 2011. 2. In the Central Excise Rules, 2002, – (a) in rule 12, - (i) in sub-rule (1), the fourth proviso shall be omitted; (ii) in sub-rule (2), the proviso to clause (a) shall be omitted; (iii) after sub-rule (4), the following sub-rule shall be inserted, namely :- “(5) Every assessee other than assessees availing the exemption under notification No. 49/2003-Central Excise, dated the 10th June 2003 or notification No. 50/2003-Central Excise, dated the 10th June 2003, shall file electronically the return or the statement, as the case may be, specified in this rule.” (b) in rule 17,- (i) in sub-rule (3), after the words “The unit shall,” the word “electronically” shall be inserted. (ii) the proviso to sub-rule (3) shall be omitted. F.No. 201/10/2011-CX.6 |