[Central Excise Tariff Notification] : Seeks to amend notification No. 15/2010-CE, dated the 27th February, 2010 so as to provide for exemption of excise duty on machineries required for initial setting up of solar energy production projects.

[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. 15/2014-Central Excise

New Delhi, the 11th July, 2014

G.S.R. (E).- In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) of section 5A of the Central Excise Act, 1944(1 of 1944), the Central Government, being satisfied that it is necessary in the public interest so to do, hereby makes the following further amendments in the notification of the Government of India in the Ministry of Finance (Department of Revenue) No. 15/2010- Central Excise, dated the 27th February, 2010, published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 3, Sub-section (i) vide number G.S.R.117(E), dated the 27th February, 2010, namely: -

In the said notification,-

(a) in the opening paragraph, after the words "components, required for initial setting up of a solar power generation", the words "or solar energy production" shall be inserted;

(b) for condition (1), the following condition shall be substituted, namely:-

"(1) that an officer not below the rank of a Deputy Secretary to the Government of India, in the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy recommends the grant of this exemption, indicating the quantity, description and specification of the goods and certifies that they are required for initial setting up of a solar power generation or solar energy production project or facility, as the case may be; and".

[F.No.334/15/2014-TRU]

(Akshay Joshi)

Under Secretary to the Government of India

Note: The principal notification was published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section-3, Sub-section (i), vide number G.S.R.117(E), dated the 27th February, 2010 and was

last amended by notification No. 26/2012-C.E., dated the 8th May, 2012 vide number G.S.R. 342(E), dated the 8th May, 2012.