YOGESH KANSAL AND COMPANY

Seeks to further amend CENVAT Credit Rules, 2004 so as to allow input credit of duty paid on molasses generated from cane crushed in the sugar season 2015-16 i.e. 1st October, 2015 onwards, used for producing ethanol for supply to the public sector oil ma

[TO BE PUBLISHED IN THE GAZETTE OF INDIA, EXTRAORDINARY, PART II, SECTION 3, SUB-SECTION (i)]
GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
MINISTRY OF FINANCE
(Department of Revenue)
Notification No. 21/2015-Central Excise (N.T.)

New Delhi, the 7th October, 2015

G.S.R.     (E).- In exercise of the powers conferred by section 37 of the Central Excise Act, 1944 (1 of 1944) and section 94 of the Finance Act, 1994 (32 of 1994), the Central Government hereby makes the following rules further to amend the CENVAT Credit Rules, 2004, namely:–

1.         (1)        These rules may be called the CENVAT Credit (Fourth Amendment) Rules, 2015.
(2)        They shall come into force from the date of their publication in the Official Gazette.

2.         In the CENVAT Credit Rules, 2004 (hereinafter referred to as the said rules), in rule 6, in sub-rule (6), after clause (viii) and the entries relating thereto, the following shall be inserted, namely:-
“(ix) Ethanol produced from molasses generated from cane crushed in the sugar season 2015-16 i.e. 1st October, 2015 onwards, for supply to the public sector oil marketing companies, namely, Indian Oil Corporation Ltd., Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd. or Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd., for the purposes of blending with petrol, in terms of the provisions of S.No.40A of the Table in notification No.12/2012-Central Excise, dated the 17th March, 2012, number G.S.R. 163(E), dated that 17th March, 2012.”

[F. No. 354/78/2009-TRU (Pt.)]
(Anurag Sehgal)
Under Secretary to the Government of India

Note.- The principal rules were published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 3, Sub-section (i), vide notification No.23/2004-Central Excise (N.T.) dated the 10th September, 2004 vide number G.S.R. 600(E) dated the 10th September, 2004 and last amended vide notification No.14/2015-Central Excise (N.T.) dated 19th May, 2015 published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 3, Sub-section (i), by number G.S.R. 402(E), dated the 19th May, 2015.