CUSTOMS Notification No 06 of 2021 dated 1st February, 2021

Notification No 06/2021 Customs date on 1st February, 2021

Seeks to further amend notification No. 08/2020-Customs dated 2nd February, 2020 so as to exempt the medical devices imported by international organizations and diplomatic missions, from the levy of Health Cess. 

The extract of CUSTOMS Notification No. 06/2021- CUSTOMS is given below: 

 Notification No. 06/2021-CUSTOMS

TO BE PUBLISHED IN THE GAZETTE OF INDIA, EXTRAORDINARY, PART II, SECTION 3, SUB-SECTION (i)] 

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

MINISTRY OF FINANCE

(DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE) 

Notification No. 06/2021 – Customs

New Delhi, the 1^st  February, 2021

G.S.R…..(E).- In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) of section 25 of the Customs Act, 1962 (52 of 1962) read with section 141 of the Finance Act, 2020 (12 of 2020), the Central Government, on being satisfied that it is necessary in the public interest so to do, hereby makes the following further amendments in the notification of the Government of India, Ministry of Finance (Department of Revenue) No. 08/2020-Customs, dated the 2^nd February, 2020, published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 3, Sub-section (i), vide number G.S.R. 68 (E), dated the 2^nd February, 2020, namely:-

1. In the said notification, in the TABLE, against Sl.No.2, in column (2), after item (vi), the following items shall be inserted, namely: -

“ (vii) Notification No. 84/97-Customs, dated the 11^th November, 1997, published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 3, Sub-section (i) vide number G.S.R. 645(E), dated the 11^th November, 1997;

(viii)   Notification No. 3/57-Customs, dated the 8^th January, 1957, published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 3, Sub-section (i) vide number G.S.R. 98 (E), dated the 08^th January, 1957”. 

1. This notification shall come into force on 2^nd February, 2021. 

(F. No. 334/2/2021-TRU)

(Rajeev Ranjan)

Under Secretary to the Government of India 

Note: The principal notification No. 08/2020-Customs, dated the 2^nd February, 2020 was published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 3, Sub-section (i), vide number G.S.R. 68 (E), dated the 2^nd February, 2020 and last amended vide notification No. 19/2020 -Customs, dated the 9^th April, 2020, vide number G.S.R. 246(E), dated the 9^th April, 2020.