Central Excise exemption amendment broadens covered persons and removes proviso and Explanation in the notification rules. The amendment to Notification No. 36/2001-Central Excise (N.T.) substitutes the words 'every manufacturer' with 'every person, other than the said person referred to in sub-rule (1) of rule 12B of the Central Excise Rules, 2002,' in the opening paragraph, clause (1)(ii), and omits the proviso and the Explanation, thereby redefining the class of persons covered by the exemption under the notification.