Commencement date specified for central excise amendment rules, bringing the identified clause and rule into force. The Central Government specifies the seventeenth day of August, 2016 as the date on which clause (v) of rule 5 and rule 6 of the Central Excise (Amendment) Rules, 2016 notified earlier shall come into force, identifying the prior notification by Gazette reference and thereby operationalising those amended provisions from that date.