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The Gazette of India

EXTRAORDINARY

PART II—Section 3—Sub-section (i)

PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY

No. 3311

NEW DELHI, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1978/KARTIKA 19, 1900

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MINISTRY OF FINANCE

(Department of Revenue)

NOTIFICATIONS

New Delhi, the 10th November, 1978

CUSTOMS

G.S.R. 548(E).—In exercise of the powers conferred by the

sub-section (1)

of section

25 of the

Customs Act, 1962

(52 of 1962), the Central Government, being satisfied that

it is necessary in the public interest so to do, hereby exempts

the goods specified in the Table below, when imported into

India by a handicapped or

disabled person for his personal

use, from the whole of the duty of customs leviable thereon

under the first Schedule to the Customs Tariff Act, 1975

(51 of 1975) and the additional duty leviable

thereon

under Section 3 of the said Tariff Act, subject to

the

condition that the importer produces to the Assistant Collector

of Customs, at the time of importation, a certificate from

the Civil Surgeon or the District Medical Officer or the Ad-

ministrative Medical Officer

or the Director

of

Health

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Services of the concerned '^tate or a Specialist in the con-

cerned Specially attached to a

Government hospital or a

recognised medical colleuo to. the effect that the

importer

Buffers from the particular handicapped or disability and that

the imported goods in respect of which the

exemption is

claimed are «ssential to overcome the said

handicap or

disability.

TABLE

(a)

(b)

Orthopaedic

appliances

failing under

Heading

90.19 of the First Schedule to the

said Customs

Tariff Act;

Wheel chairs falling under Heading 87.09/12 (3)

of the First

Schedule to

the said Customs Tariff

Act.

[No. 209/F. No. 459/79/78-CUS. V,]

CUSTOMS

G.S.R. 549(E).—In exercise

of the powers conferred by

sub-section (1) of section 25 of the Customs Act, 1962

(52 of 1962), read with sub-section (4) of section 35 of the

Finance Act, 1978 (19 of 1978), 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 Ministry of

Finance (Department

of Revenue)

No. 96 Customs, date

the 12th May, 1978, namely ;—

In the Schedule to the said notification, after Serial No.

217 and the entries relating thereto, the following shall be

inserted, namely :—

,

"218 No. 209 dated 10-11-1978"

[No. 210-Customs/78/F. No. 459/79/78-CUS. VJ

S. BASU, Under Secy.

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