The Gazette of India
EXTRAORDINARY
PART II—Section 3—Sub-section (i)
PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY
NX 254] NEW DELHI, MONDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1966/AGRAHAYANA 28,1888
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MINISTRY OF FINANCE
(Department of Revenue and Insurance)
NOTIFICATION
CENTRAL EXCISES
New Delhi, the 19th December 1966
G.S.K. 1930.—In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-rule (1) of rule 6 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, 1958 (27 of 1958), the Central Government hereby exempts with effect from the 1st Decem- ber, 1966, 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 State or Assam— (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 leviable on Furnace Oil falling under Item No. 10 of the said First Schedule:
Provided that the said mineral oil satisfies the following requirements, namely:—
954 THE GAZETTE OF INDIA EXTRAORDINARY [PAW n - t oc 8 (i)] (111) It has pour point as determined by the method I.P. 15/60 prescrib- ed by the Institute of Petroleum, London, at or above fifty degrees of Fahrenheit's thermometer;(Iv) It has a viscosity of over thirty five seconds by Redwood I Vlsco- meter at one hundred degrees of Fahrenheit's thermometer; and (v) it contains more than 1'75 per cent by weight of any bituminous substance.
2. The exemptions granted by this notification shall remain in force upto and Inclusive of the 28th day of February, 1967.
[No. 202/66.]
T. C. SETH, Jt. Secy.