NOTIFICATION                     New Delhi, dated the 1st  March,1997.
No.8/97-CENTRAL EXCISES(N.T)     10 Phalguna, 1918 (Saka)
        
  
G.S.R.         (E).-  In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-
rule  (4)  of  rule  57F of the Central Excise Rules,  1944,  the
Central  Board of Excise and Customs, hereby makes the  following
amendments in the notification of the Government of India in  the
Ministry  of  Finance (Department of Revenue)  No.  28/96-Central
Excises (N.T.),  dated the 31st August, 1996, namely :-
      
In the said notification, in the opening  paragraph,-
      
(a)  for clause (iii), the following clause shall be substituted,
namely :-
     
"(iii)  Each  foil of the challan book shall be authenticated  by
the owner or a working partner or  the Managing Director  or  the
Company  Secretary, of the factory, as the case may  be,   before
being brought into use by the manufacturer;  and";
      
(b)  in clause (iv), the following proviso shall be added at  the
end, namely :-
     
"Provided that no such pre-printing of name and address shall  be
insisted upon in case the challans are generated on computer.".
  
      

                                             (NAVANEET GOEL)
                       UNDER SECRETARY TO THE GOVERNMENT OF INDIA