Jurisdictional assignment to commissioner-rank officers to decide appeals pending as on the prescribed cut-off date. The notification appoints Principal Additional Directors General or Additional Directors General posted within the territorial jurisdiction of Principal Chief Commissioners or Chief Commissioners as Central Excise officers, vests them with powers under central excise and Finance Act provisions, and assigns them, together with Principal Commissioners and Commissioners (including Audit and Appeals), the jurisdiction to pass orders in appeals filed on or before the prescribed cut-off date in those territorial jurisdictions.