Designation of Central Excise Commissioners as Customs Commissioners expands adjudicatory jurisdiction under Central Excise Rules and appeals framework. The notification substitutes clause (aa) to provide that the Commissioners of Central Excise shall be Commissioners of Customs within their respective jurisdictions as specified under rule 3 of the Central Excise Rules, 2002, and that the Commissioner of Central Excise (Appeals) shall be Commissioner of Customs (Appeals) within their respective jurisdictions; the amendment is made under the powers of the Customs Act and takes effect on a date to be notified in the Official Gazette.