The Gazette of India
EXTRAORDINARY
PART II—Section 3—Sub-Section (i)
PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY
No. 186] NEW DELHI, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 17,1966/BHADRA 26,1888
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MINISTRY OF FINANCE
(Department of Revenue and Insurance)
NOTIFICATION
CENTRAL EXCISES
New Delhi, the 17th September 1966
G.S.R. 1483.—In exorcise of the powers conferred by sub-rule (1) of rule 8 of the Central Excise Rules, 1944, read with sub-section (3) of section 3 of the Mineral Products (Additional Duties of Excise and Customs) Act, 1858 (27 of 1958), the Central Government hereby exempts any mineral oil, falling under Item No. 9 of the First Schedule to the Central Excises and Salt Act, 1944 (1 of 1944) produced in the Stale of Assam or the State of Bihar—
(i) from so much of the duty of excise leviable thereon under section 3 of the second mentioned Act as is in excess of such duty leviable on Furnace Oil falling under Item No. 10 of the said First Schedule; and
(ii) from so much of the additional duty of excise leviable thereon under section 3 of the first mentioned Act as is in excess of such duty levi- able on Furnace Oil falling under Item No. 10 of the first Schedule:
Provided that the said mineral oil satisfies each of the following requirements, namely:—
7 O8 THE GAZETTE OF INDIA EXTRAORDINARY [PART II-SEC. 8 (i)] (b) it has a flame height of less than ten millimetres;(c) It has pour point as determined by the method I.P. 15/60 prescribed by the Institute of Petroleum, London, at or above fifty degrees of Fahrenheit's thermometer;
(d) it has a viscosity of over thirty five seconds by Bedwood I Viscometer at one hundred degrees of Fahrenheit's thermometer; and (e) il contains two pel conl or more by weight of Rambsbottom carbon residue.
[No. 141/aa-CK/F. No. 9/30/65-CX.IIL]
T. C. SETH, Jt. Secy.