SEZ area requirement amended to reduce the prescribed area threshold in Annexure II, affecting zone designation. The Central Government, invoking its rulemaking power under the enabling statute, amends the Special Economic Zones Rules, 2006 by substituting a reduced area figure in Annexure II at serial number 3. The amendment alters the prescribed territorial requirement applicable to that category of special economic zone, is promulgated as the Special Economic Zones (Amendment) Rules, 2015, and takes effect on publication in the Official Gazette.