[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. 01/2024-Central Excise (N.T.)

New Delhi, dated the 3rd December, 2024

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 to amend the Central Excise Rules, 2017, namely: -

1. Short title and commencement -

(1) These rules may be called the Central Excise (Amendment) Rules, 2024.

(2) This notification shall come into force with immediate effect.

2. In the Central Excise Rules, 2017 (hereinafter referred to as the said Rules), in rule 18, before the explanation, the first proviso shall be omitted;

3. In the said Rules, in rule 19, the proviso shall be omitted.

[F. No. 354/15/2022-TRU]

(Amreeta Titus)

Deputy Secretary to Government of India