Anti-dumping duty rescission on metallurgical coke withdraws prior notification and ends provisional duties under tariff rules.
The Central Government has withdrawn the prior anti-dumping duty notification on metallurgical coke, rescinding the earlier Ministry of Finance customs notification that imposed anti-dumping measures, and thereby terminating the previously notified anti-dumping obligation under the customs tariff and anti-dumping rules.

Jurisdiction of customs appeals amended to assign appellate oversight for aircargo import and export authorities.
Amendment substitutes the Table entry in Notification No. 16/2002 to designate Commissioner of Customs (Appeals), Delhi-I as the appellate authority for the Commissioners handling aircargo import (general) and aircargo export, effected under powers conferred by the Customs Act.

Common Adjudicating Authority appointment assigning a commissioner to adjudicate a specified customs show cause notice.
The Central Board of Excise and Customs, exercising powers under the Customs Act, appointed the Commissioner of Customs (Imports), Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust, Nhava Sheva, Mumbai to act as Commissioner of Customs (Imports), Chennai Seaport for the purpose of adjudicating the show cause notice issued against M/s. I.G. International, thereby effecting a jurisdictional assignment of that specific adjudicatory matter to the designated commissioner.

Drawback claim extension: exporters may obtain a further period on supplementary claims when prevented by sufficient cause.
The amendment substitutes the proviso to rule 15(1) to allow the Assistant Commissioner of Customs or Deputy Commissioner of Customs to extend the initial three month period for filing a supplementary drawback claim by a further nine months if satisfied that the exporter was prevented by sufficient cause from filing within the initial period.

Export procedure requires Form ARE-2 and compliance with prescribed procedures; duty-free inputs must be exported accordingly.
The notification substitutes paragraph (vi) to require that goods shall be exported on application in Form ARE-2 and that the procedures specified in the related Ministry of Finance notification shall be followed. An inserted Explanation II clarifies that goods manufactured or processed using excisable inputs procured without payment of duty under the notification shall be exported in terms of sub-rule (1) of rule 19 of the Central Excise Rules, 2002.

Exemption under section 35AC expanded to include more vocational centres and an increased approved project cost by Sterlite Foundation.
The notification amends the existing specification of an eligible charitable project by Sterlite Foundation to expand the project to 386 vocational training centres for computer and tailoring courses and to increase the estimated total project cost and the corpus fund; the Table entry for the serial number is substituted so the project description, estimated cost, and the maximum amount allowable as a deduction under the tax provision reflect the revised figures following the National Committee's recommendation.

Rectification of Reference Year: corrected to 2004-2005 in income tax notification to ensure accurate statutory reference.
Corrigendum corrects Government of India, Ministry of Finance (Department of Revenue) Notification S.O.381(E) (Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 3, Sub-section (ii) dated 19th March, 2004) by directing that the reference in paragraph 4(a) to the year 2003-2004 shall be read as 2004-2005, effecting a formal rectification of the published entry.

Monetary threshold amendment: correction increases the prescribed limit in a prior income-tax notification.
Corrigendum amends paragraph 4 of Notification S.O.1253(E) (30th October, 2003, Gazette of India) by substituting the originally stated monetary amount with a revised higher limit, formally rectifying the notification's operative text.

Income Tax corrigendum corrects 'appellant' to 'respondent' in the proviso to rule 25 of ITAT amendment rules.
Corrigendum to Notification No. F.71-Ad(AT)/2002 (Income-tax (Appellate Tribunal) (Amendment) Rules, 2002) directs that, in the proviso to rule 25, the word "appellant" should be read as "respondent", correcting the original notification dated 8 April 2002 by way of Notification No. F.71-Ad(AT)/2002 dated 1 June 2004.

Tariff values updated for imported goods: customs notification substitutes valuation table and fixes oil and scrap rates.
The Board, exercising statutory power under the Customs Act, amends a prior customs notification by substituting the tariff value table to set per metric tonne tariff values for various vegetable oils and related products, and specifically fixes values for Crude Soyabean Oil and Brass Scrap (all grades); the amendment references the principal gazetted notification and its recent amendment history.

Portfolio manager registration fees revised: new non-refundable application fee and prescribed registration fee required on grant.
Applications for a portfolio manager certificate must be submitted to the Board in Form A with a non-refundable application fee paid as specified in Part B of Schedule II; a separate registration fee is payable at the time the Board grants the certificate, with Regulation 8 and Schedule II amended to reference payment of registration fees as specified in clause (1A) of Schedule II.

Renewal of recognition under Securities Contracts (Regulation) Act granted for an exchange, subject to prescribed and imposed conditions.
Renewal of recognition is granted to the Uttar Pradesh Stock Exchange Association Limited under the Securities Contracts (Regulation) Act for a limited term in respect of contracts in securities, exercised under the Act's empowering provisions and expressly made subject to conditions that may be prescribed or imposed subsequently.

Exchange recognition renewed subject to final approval for a settlement or trade guarantee fund before trading commences.
SEBI has renewed recognition of the Bhubaneshwar Stock Exchange for a one year period under the Securities Contracts (Regulation) Act, subject to the express condition that the exchange shall commence trading only after obtaining SEBI's final approval for establishment of a Settlement Guarantee Fund or Trade Guarantee Fund, and subject to any further prescribed or imposed regulatory conditions.

Amendment to notified interest rates creates a tiered interest schedule for specified taxable securities under the notification.
The Central Government amends Notification S.O.459(E) by substituting its operative wording to split the previously continuous serial-range description for specified Rs.5000 securities into three distinct serial-number bands, each assigned a different annual interest rate, thereby creating a tiered interest-rate structure across the series.

Exchange rate determination for export valuation sets specified foreign currency conversion rates for calculating export transaction values.
The Board, under section 14(3)(a)(i) of the Customs Act, determines specified exchange rates for conversion of listed foreign currencies into Indian rupees (and vice versa) for export valuation, effective 1st June, 2004, superseding the prior notification; Schedule I lists per unit rates for major currencies and Schedule II lists the rate for 100 Japanese Yen.

Exchange rate determination sets import valuation rates under Customs Act, updating prescribed currency conversion rates by notification.
Determination of exchange rates for import valuation under the Customs Act, superseding a prior notification and prescribing, by attached schedules, the conversion rates for specified foreign currencies into Indian rupees for the purposes of assessing imported goods.

Third-party repayment by a relative permitted: relatives may credit borrowers' loan accounts through their bank accounts.
Regulation 8(d) is amended to permit crediting of a borrower's loan account "by any relative of the borrower in India by crediting the borrower's loan account through the bank account of such relative," and defines "relative" by reference to Section 6 of the Companies Act, 1956. The change explicitly authorises funds routed through a relative's bank account for the utilization of the loan under the Borrowing and Lending in Rupees Regulations.

Inquiry officer eligibility expanded to include retired senior judicial and administrative officers, broadening selection for disciplinary inquiries.
The amendment expands eligibility to serve as the inquiry officer under the Employees' Service Regulations by adding retired District Judges, retired High Court Judges, retired Joint Secretaries to the Central Government, retired Secretaries to State Governments and retired Executive Directors of Financial Institutions, Nationalised Banks or the Reserve Bank of India; the regulation takes effect upon publication in the Official Gazette.

Research institution approval requires separate research accounts and annual audited reporting to designated authorities under prescribed conditions.
Approval granted to The Institution of Engineers (India), Calcutta as an Institution for research-related tax benefits, subject to maintaining separate books for research, filing an annual return of scientific research activities to the Secretary, Department of Scientific & Industrial Research by 31 May, and submitting audited annual accounts and an audited income & expenditure account for research activities to designated tax and scientific authorities and filing the return of income by 31 October each year.

Customs notification amendment: Tourist chartered flight baggage permissions expanded to additional airports and unloading permitted.
The notification amends the list of designated airports to add Tiruchirapalli and Varanasi and revises customs permissions: Tiruchirapalli is amended to permit baggage brought in tourist chartered flights and to allow loading of goods of Indian origin (excluding diamonds, precious and semi-precious stones) and such baggage; Varanasi is amended to permit unloading of baggage brought in tourist chartered flights.