Capital adequacy requirement exemption: internal corporate departments performing registrar functions are excluded from the capital threshold.
The 1999 amendment inserts a proviso to regulation 7(2)(b) of the SEBI (Registrar to an Issue and Share Transfer Agents) Regulations, 1993, providing that the capital adequacy requirement shall not apply to a department or division of a body corporate performing the activities specified in sub clause (i) of clause (g) of regulation 2, thereby exempting such internal corporate divisions from the capital adequacy threshold.

Merchant banker registration as primary or satellite dealer permitted subject to RBI permission and prohibition on accepting public deposits.
The amendment allows merchant bankers registered by the Reserve Bank of India to act as primary or satellite dealers, subject to the condition that they shall not accept or hold public deposits, and permits them to carry on dealer business to the extent allowed by the Reserve Bank of India.

Corporate venture capital eligibility requires statutory formation, permission for VC activity, fit and proper status, and no disqualifying convictions or securities litigation.
Corporate applicants for registration as venture capital funds must be bodies corporate constituted under Central or State legislation, be permitted to carry on venture capital activities, and satisfy a fit and proper test. Directors or trustees must not have convictions for moral turpitude or economic offences and must not be involved in securities market litigation that could adversely affect the applicant. The amendment renumbers the existing sub clause to accommodate the new corporate applicant criteria.

Appointment of Customs Port: Padubidri authorised for unloading of imported coal under amended customs notification.
The Central Government amends Notification No. 62/94-Customs (N.T.) to insert Padubidri as a designated customs port and to authorize the specific activity of Unloading of imported Coal at that port.

Reference applications and cross-objections require prescribed forms, quadruplicate filing, verified signatures, and supporting documents for questions of law.
Applications seeking a direction to refer questions of law and memoranda of cross-objections must be filed in prescribed Forms C.A.-6 and C.A.-7, respectively, in quadruplicate. The forms require particulars of the originating appeal, parties, service addresses, Tribunal decision, relevant facts, questions of law, supporting documents, translations where necessary, signatures and verification. Filings by persons other than the Commissioner of Customs must be signed by the person authorised under rule 3.

Anti-dumping duty on barium carbonate imports: differential duty imposed against exporters to offset dumped imports originating abroad.
Imposition of anti-dumping duty on barium carbonate imports from China PR is prescribed as the difference between a specified amount per metric ton and the assessable landed value per metric ton; the notification lists an exporter-specific entry and a residual entry for other exporters at the same duty amount and defines "landed value" as the assessable value under the Customs Act inclusive of customs duties except specified tariff duties.

Application to High Court under section 35H: prescribed forms and filing requirements for references from the Appellate Tribunal.
Rule 218 is substituted to require applications under section 35H(1) to be made in Form No. E.A.-6 and memoranda of cross-objections under section 35H(3) in Form No. E.A.-7, each filed in quadruplicate. Where filed by persons other than the Commissioner of Central Excise, the forms and verification must be signed as specified in rule 213. Appendix I is amended to list Series Nos. 93 and 94 for E.A.-6 and E.A.-7 and specimen forms set out required particulars, enclosures, verification, signature blocks and filing notes, including fee payment by demand draft to the High Court Registrar.

Jurisdictional boundary changes in excise rules alter administrative areas and remove specified procedural rules and form series.
The amendment revises territorial entries in rule 2(4) to substitute and exclude specified localities, omits rules 83 to 92 thereby removing the provisions on maintenance of accounts by sugar units, and deletes specified Central Excise form series from Appendix I under both the List of Central Excise Forms and the Specimen Forms.

Anti-dumping duty on acrylic fibre from Turkey imposed as a provisional exporter-specific difference against landed value.
Provisional anti-dumping duty is imposed on acrylic fibre under sub-headings 5501.30 and 5503.30 originating in or exported from Turkey, applied exporter-wise as the difference between a specified amount and the landed value per kg. The measure follows preliminary findings of dumping, material injury and causation and is issued under section 9A(2) of the Customs Tariff Act, 1975 read with rule 13 and rule 20 of the 1995 Anti-dumping Rules. "Landed value" means assessable value under the Customs Act, 1962, excluding certain specified tariff duties.

Tax exemption approval under section 10(23G) granted to Harihar combined cycle power project, subject to compliance and audit conditions.
Approval under section 10(23G) read with rule 2E was granted for assessment years 1999-2000 through 2001-2002 to the 104MW Combined Cycle Power Project at Harihar by M/s Atria Power Corporation Limited. The approval is subject to compliance with section 10(23G) and rule 2E and is withdrawable if the undertaking ceases to be an infrastructure facility, fails to maintain books and obtain the audit required by sub-rule (7) of rule 2F, or fails to furnish the audit report required by sub-rule (7) of rule 2E.

Investor Education and Protection Fund administration: committee constituted to manage the fund and maintain prescribed accounts.
A statutory committee is constituted to administer the Investor Education and Protection Fund and to maintain separate accounts and related records in a form prescribed in consultation with the Comptroller and Auditor General; members from government, regulatory, professional and consumer sectors are appointed for a two-year term from publication.

Anti-dumping duty on Nylon Tyre Cord Fabric imposed for dumped imports causing cumulative injury from specified exporter countries.
Preliminary findings concluded that imports of Nylon Tyre Cord Fabric (NTCF) under sub-heading 5902.10 from South Korea, Indonesia, Thailand and Taiwan were exported to India below normal value, resulting in dumping, and that the Indian industry suffered material injury caused cumulatively by those imports. On that basis, the Central Government provisionally imposed anti-dumping duty on NTCF from the specified countries, set on a country- and exporter-specific basis, with the notification effective up to and inclusive of 8 May 2000.

Lining and inter-lining materials exemption requires AEPC certification and restricts domestic use for garment exporters.
An exemption was added granting nil customs duty on lining and inter-lining materials imported by manufacturers registered with the Apparel Export Promotion Council for use in manufacturing textile garments for export, subject to an AEPC certificate certifying export value and prior imports and a representation that the goods will not be used or sold domestically; the Commissioner may order sample drawal at export where doubt exists about useability.

Tax exemption under Section 10(23C)(v): Shri Saibaba Sansthan must apply income, limit investments, maintain separate books.
Notification under Section 10(23C)(v) confers tax-exempt status on Shri Saibaba Sansthan for assessment years 1999-2000 to 2001-2002 subject to conditions: (i) income must be applied or accumulated wholly and exclusively for the institution's objects; (ii) funds must be invested only in modes specified in section 11(5) except voluntary contributions preserved as specified; and (iii) exemption does not cover business income unless incidental to objectives and maintained in separate books.

Tax exemption notification grants conditional recognition to a religious congregation subject to income application, investment, and business-accounting conditions.
Notification grants conditional tax-exempt recognition to The Congregation of the Franciscan Sisters of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Coimbatore for specified assessment periods, subject to application of income wholly and exclusively to its objects, restriction of investments to prescribed modes (with limited exceptions for voluntary contributions retained as jewellery or furniture), and exclusion of business income unless incidental to objectives and maintained in separate books.

Tax exemption under section 10(23C)(vi) approved for The Mahindra United World College, subject to compliance.
Approval is granted to The Mahindra United World College of India, Mumbai as eligible for a charitable education exemption under section 10(23C)(vi) read with rule 2CA, subject to the Trust's conformity and compliance with the statutory and regulatory conditions specified under that provision.

Canalised export permitted for Bangalore rose onion through designated state export corporation under amended foreign trade policy.
Amendment authorises canalised export of Bangalore rose onion (ITC(HS) Code 0703) to be routed through M/s Karnataka State Agriculture Produce Processing and Export Corporation Ltd (KAPPEC) as the designated agency for a limited three month period, by altering the entry for onions in Schedule 2, Table B of the ITC(HS) Classifications under the Export and Import Policy.

EPCG scheme eligibility expanded to include textile and chemical manufacturing with specified machinery and environmental equipment allowed.
Amendment to the EPCG notification adds "textile and chemical sectors" to eligibility conditions and inserts Annexures III and IV listing eligible capital goods: textile machinery for spinning, weaving, processing, composite and worsted operations, associated testing and effluent-control equipment, and chemical/process capital goods including effluent treatment plants, process instrumentation, quality control, safety equipment, incinerators, scientific instruments and computer software systems.

Import ports for Advance/Value Based Advance Licence expanded to include additional seaports and a land customs station.
The Government amends multiple miscellaneous exemption notifications under the Customs Act by substituting port and station names in specified conditions to broaden authorised entry points for imports under Advance/Value Based Advance Licence. Amendments add "Dehej/Dahej" to Tuticorin and Visakhapatnam entries; add Nagpur and Cochin to Trivandrum and Varanasi entries; and expand listings for Surat, Tirupur and Varanasi to include numerous additional ports and localities, expressly permitting entry also through the Land Customs Station at Ranaghat.

Approval as long term industrial finance corporation recognized for tax treatment, subject to statutory compliance.
The Central Government approved M/s Meghalaya Industrial Development Corporation Limited as a corporation providing long term finance for industrial development for purposes of section 36(1)(viii) of the Income tax Act, recognising its status for the specified assessment years. The approval is subject to the condition that the company will conform to and comply with the provisions of section 36(1)(viii) of the Act.