The Gazette of India
EXTRAORDINARY
PART II—Section 3—Sub-section (i)
PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY
No. 15] NEW DELHI, FRIDAY, JANUARY 6, 1978/PAUSA 16, 1899
Separate paging is given to this part in order that it may be filed as a separate compilation
MINISTRY OF FINANCE
(Department of Revenue)
New Delhi, the 6th January, 1978
CUSTOMS
40 THE GAZETTE OF INDIA : EXTRAORDINARY [PART II—SEC. 3(i)]of 1962), the Central Government being satisfied that it is necessary in the public interest so to do, hereby exempts medical, surgical and diagnostic equipment/apparatus and appliances, falling under Heading Nos. 90.17/18, 90.19 and 90.20 of the First Schedule to the Customs Tariff Act, 1975 (51 of 1973) the import of which is approved, either gene- rally or in each case by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India, as essential for use in the hospitals, specified in the Table below, fiom the whole of tile duty of customs leviable thereon under the First Schedule to the Customs Tariff Act, 1975 (51 of 1975) and the additional duty leiiablc thereon under section 3 of the 'tiid Customs Taiiff Act.
THE TABLE
1. All hospitals run by—
(a) the Central Government, a State Government, a Union territory Administration or a local authority ;
(b) institutions established by or under a law;
(c) societies registered under any law relating to regis- tration of societies, such societies being controlled by any of the authorities referred to in clause (a),
2, AJ1 such hospitals as may be certified by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India, to be run or substantially aided by such charitable organisations as arc approved, from time to timo, by the said Ministry.
3. Any other hospital which may be certified by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India eilhcr generally oi in each case, to be- pio- viding diagnostic or treatment facilities not only without any distinction of caste, creed, race, religion or language but also,—
(a) free to, at least 40 per cent of all their out-door patients :
(b) free to all indoor patients belonging to families with an income of less than Rupees three hundred per monlh, keeping for this purpose at least 10 per cent of all their beds reserved for such patients ; and
(c) at reasonable charges either on the basis of the income of the patients concerned or otherwise, to patients other than those specified in clause (a) and (b).
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CUSTOMS
G.S.R. 17(E).—In exercise of the powers conferred by sub- section (1) of section 25 of the Customs Act, 1962 (52 of J 962), read with sub-section (4) of section 3 of the Finance Act, 1977 (11 of 1977), the Central Government being satisfied that it is necessary in the public interest so to do; hereby makes the following further amendment in the notification of the Government of India in the Department of Revenue and Bank- ing (Revenue Wing) No. 123-Customs, dated the 1st July, 1977, namely :—
In the Schedule annexed to the said notification, after Serial No. 166 and the enlrtes relating thereto, the following shall be inserted, namely :—
"167 No. 8 Customs, dated 6th January 1978",
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A. K. SARKAR, Under Secy.