Notification amendment: substitution of operative date postpones earlier effective date to first day of May. Central Government, under sub section (1) of section 30 of the Customs Act, 1962, amends notification No. 111/2003 CUSTOMS (N.T) dated 19th December, 2003 by substituting the figures, letters and words '18th February, 2004' with the figures, letters and words '1st day of May, 2004', thereby changing the operative date of the principal notification as published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, section 3, sub section (i) vide G.S.R. 956(E).