Compound levy rate for stainless pattis/pattas increased per cold rolling machine per month under amended Central Excise notification.
Amendment substitutes the monetary entry in para 1, item (i) of Notification No.17/2007 Central Excise to increase the compound levy rate for stainless pattis/pattas per cold rolling machine per month, effected by Notification No.5/2013 Central Excise issued under Rule 15 of the Central Excise Rules, 2002.

Resident public limited company specified as class under Central Excise Act, with company and resident definitions provided.
Specifies resident public limited company as a class of persons under sub-clause (iii) of clause (c) of section 23A of the Central Excise Act, 1944. The notification supplies operative definitions: "public limited company" adopts the companies statute meaning for "public company" and includes a private company that becomes public by the relevant corporate provision; "resident" adopts the resident meaning from the income-tax statute insofar as it applies to a company.

Recovery of CENVAT credit triggers recovery under rule 14 if mandated amounts by manufacturers or service providers remain unpaid.
Adds an Explanation to rule 3 of the CENVAT Credit Rules, 2004 stating that if a manufacturer or provider of output service fails to pay amounts payable under sub rules (5), (5A) and (5B), those amounts shall be recovered in the manner provided in rule 14 for recovery of CENVAT credit wrongly taken.

Interest on refund: amendment mandates statutory interest on refunds from final assessment, subject to conditional limitation.
Substitutes sub-rule (5) of rule 7 to provide that where an assessee is entitled to a refund consequent to an order of final assessment under the final-assessment provision, interest shall be paid on such refund subject to sub-rule (6) and in accordance with the interest provision in the Act.

MRP based assessment for branded AYUSH medicaments establishes abatement and aligns tariff classification for pressure cookers.
Amendment prescribes MRP based assessment with a thirty-five percent abatement for branded medicaments used in Ayurvedic, Unani, Siddha, Homeopathic or Bio-chemic systems, substitutes tariff entries to align a pressure cooker heading, and replaces serial number 125 to define two categories of medicaments and a brand name definition.

Exemption for defense missile programme supplies: duty relief if certified by Programme Director and supplied to programme; subject to expiry.
Provides excise exemption for specified machinery, equipment, components, spares, tools, software, raw materials and consumables supplied to the LR-SAM programme of the Ministry of Defence, where, before clearance, a certificate from the Programme Director is produced to the proper officer, and the exemption expires on 25th May, 2013.

Post-export EPCG duty scrip exemption permits excise remission on specified goods subject to procedural validation and safeguards.
Exemption permits remission of central excise and specified additional duties on goods cleared against a Post Export EPCG duty credit scrip, conditional on Customs registration and debit on the scrip, written advice to the jurisdictional Central Excise Officer, endorsement and validation of clearances by that Officer based on an undertaking by the scrip-holder, retention of debited and endorsed scrip copies by the manufacturer, exclusion of specified items, eighteen-month scrip validity, and entitlement of the scrip-holder to avail drawback or CENVAT credit against the debited and validated amount.

Post Export EPCG duty credit scrip exemption permits excise-free clearance of specified goods subject to registration, debiting, validation and compliance.
Goods specified in the Central Excise schedules are exempt from excise and additional duties when cleared against a registered Post Export EPCG duty credit scrip (0% variant) issued under paragraph 5.11 of the Foreign Trade Policy, provided Customs debits the scrip, updates records and advises the jurisdictional Central Excise Officer, the holder presents a debited scrip with an undertaking, the Officer validates and endorses clearance particulars, the manufacturer retains an attested copy, the scrip is within its eighteen-month validity, exclusions in Appendix 37B and prohibited imports apply, and the holder may claim drawback or CENVAT credit against the debited amount.

Duty on gold bars revised to specify rates for manufactured gold and silver dore bars under excise notification.
Substitutes the tariff entry for gold bars to impose specified excise rates on gold bars (other than tola bars) bearing manufacturer's engraved serial number and metric weight manufactured from gold ore or concentrate, gold dore bar, or silver dore bar; defines gold dore bar and silver dore bar as dore bars with metal content not exceeding 95% and requires an assay certificate for silver dore bars showing composition.

Corrigendum correcting thermal power project name and capacity entries in a Central Excise tariff notification.
Corrigendum correcting entries in a Gazette-published Central Excise notification by substituting a corrected thermal power project name in List 11 and amending the stated generation capacity for a second listed power project, with specified textual substitutions to replace erroneous text in the original notification.

Change in territorial jurisdiction reassigns Central Excise zone boundaries in Karnataka by statutory notification.
Amendment to the Central Excise (Non Tariff) notification substitutes entries in Table II to redefine territorial jurisdiction for Central Excise commissionerates in Karnataka. Serial numbers six to eight are replaced to prescribe the ward numbers, hoblis, taluks and districts comprising Bangalore I, Bangalore II and Bangalore III, and the Belgaum entry is substituted to enumerate its constituent districts. The substitution controls allocation of local areas to each Central Excise zone for administrative purposes under sub rule (2) of rule 3 of the Central Excise Rules, 2002.

Exemption for Project ASTRA: equipment and stores exempted from central excise subject to certification and post-clearance verification.
Exemption added for equipment and stores used for systems and sub-systems of Project ASTRA, subject to (i) a pre-clearance certificate from the Project Director, ASTRA, Defence Research and Development Laboratory, Hyderabad presented to the proper officer, and (ii) post-clearance production by the manufacturer, within five months or extended period allowed by the Deputy/Assistant Commissioner of Central Excise, of a Project Director certificate evidencing receipt and actual use when use occurs outside the factory of production.

Excise duty exemption for LR-SAM programme subject to supply to programme and certificate prior to clearance.
The amendment adds an excise duty exemption for specified goods for the LR-SAM Programme where the goods are supplied to the Programme and a certificate from the Programme Director confirming intended use is produced to the proper officer before clearance; the exemption is time-limited and ceases to have effect on or after the stated expiry date.

Correction to exemption list: beneficiary name for a mega power project amended, record updated accordingly.
Corrigendum amends the Central Excise notification's exemptions list by substituting the named beneficiary for item 63 in List 11, sub-para (iii), para (B), replacing the previously published corporate name with the correct corporate name for the 3x382.5 MW project; the project capacity and list placement remain unchanged.

Extension of notification benefit to DVD-ROMs expands exemption coverage for optical media under central excise law.
The Central Government amended an existing exemption notification by substituting the tariff entry description so that the entry formerly limited to CD-ROMs now reads CD-ROMs or DVD-ROMs, thereby extending the exemption to include DVD-ROMs and broadening the class of optical media covered by the specified miscellaneous exemption.

Applicability of section 28AAA to central excise law extends Customs like matters framework to excise duties with adaptations.
The notification declares that the provisions of section 28AAA of the Customs Act shall apply to like matters concerning duties under the Central Excise Act, 1944, subject to specific textual adaptations: replacing references to "this Act" with the Central Excise Act, treating "importer under section 28" as the person chargeable under the corresponding excise provision, construing "section 28AA" and "section 28" as their excise counterparts, and deeming "proper officer" to mean the Central Excise Officer.

Substitution of beneficiary designation: amendment names oil corporations as the specified entities for the LPG/kerosene excise exemption.
Amendment to a central excise notification replaces the prior reference to subsidised distribution under the public distribution system and a named subsidy scheme with an explicit designation of Indian Oil Corporation Limited, Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited and Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited as the named entities in the exemption entry for Sl. No. 81, effectuating a textual substitution without creating new exemption categories.

Central Excise Tariff amendment updates specified notification entries, altering per litre cess rates for listed items.
The Central Government, under section 5A of the Central Excise Act, 1944, amends Notification No.12/2012 Central Excise by substituting in the Table: for Sl. No. 70, column (4), item (i) the entry "1.20 per litre" and for Sl. No. 71, column (4), item (i) the entry "1.46 per litre."

Duty exemption for power project inputs narrowed to specified projects and time-limited eligibility under amended notification.
Notification No. 34/2012 amends the prior Central Excise exemption framework by substituting open-ended references to goods "required for setting up" or "supplied to" mega/ultra-mega power projects with explicit cross-references to newly inserted List 10 and List 11, enumerating named projects and specific expansion units. Conditions No. 42 and 43 in the Annexure are amended to require certification before a specified cut-off date for eligibility, converting the exemption into a project-specific, time-limited regime and including corrigenda to certain project entries.

Exemption for capital goods under SHIS: excise duties waived when scrip conditions, registration, and actual user obligations are met.
Capital goods cleared against a Status Holder Incentive Scrip (SHIS) are exempt from the whole of excise and specified additional duties when the scrip is issued for eligible exports; the scrip must be registered with the customs authority which debits duties otherwise payable, informs the Central Excise Officer who endorses and validates clearances. The exemption is subject to sectoral and product eligibility, specified exclusions (including EOUs, SEZ-related exports, deemed exports and other restricted exports), non-transferability except as endorsed transfers to manufacturers or within group companies, an actual user condition with undertakings for short-debits or misuse, retention of debited and endorsed scrip copies, and entitlement to drawback or CENVAT credit against the debited amount.