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MINISTRY OF COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY
(Department of Commerce)
NOTIFICATION
New Delhi, the 3rd February, 2009
G.S.R.72 (E).— In exercise of the powers conferred
by Section 55 of the Special Economic Zones Act, 2005
(28 of 2005), the Central Government hereby makes the
following rules further to amend the Special Economic
Zones Rules, 2006, namely:—
1. (1) These rules may be called the Special
Economic Zones (Amendment) Rules, 2009.
(2) They shall come into force on the date of their
publication in the Official Gazette.
2. In the Special Economic Zones Rules, 2006 (here-
inafter referred to as the principal rules), in rule 2, for clause
(za), the following clause shall be substituted, namely:—
'(za) "Special Economic Zone for multi-product"
means a Special Economic Zone for more than one
sector where Units may be set up for manufacture
of goods falling in two or more sectors or rendering
of services falling in two or more sectors or any
combination thereof including trading and
warehousing'.
3. In the principal rules, in rule 10, for the second
and third provisos, the following provisos shall be substi-
tuted, namely:—
"Provided further that exemptions, drawbacks and
concessions on the goods and services allowed to a
Developer or Co-developer, as the case may be, shall
also be available to the contractors including sub-
contractors appointed by such Developer or Co-
developer, and all the documents in such cases shall
bear the name ofthe Developer or Co-developer along
with the contractor or sub-contractor and these shall
be filed jointly in the name of the Developer or Co-
developer and the contractor or sub-contractor, as
the case may be :
Provided also that the Developer or Co-developer,
as the case may be, or the Special Economic Zone
Unit shall be responsible and liable for proper
utilisation of such goods in all cases".
4. In the principal rules, in rule 11,
(i) for sub-rule (4), the following sub-rule shall be
substituted, namely :—
"The persons authorised by the Development Com-
missioner shall only be allowed to enter the process-
ing area of a Special Economic Zone";
(ii) in sub-rule (10), after the second proviso, the
following proviso shall be inserted, namely :—
"Provided also that the Developer or Co-Developer
shall strive to provide adequate housing facilities
not only for the management and office staff but
also for the workers of the Special Economic Zones
Units".
5. In the principal rules, in rule 18, in sub-rule (2), for
the second proviso, the following proviso shall be
substituted, namely :—
"Provided further that a copy of the registered Lease
Deed shall be furnished to the Development
Commissioner concerned within six monthsfromthe
issuance of the Letter of Approval and failure to do
so, the Approval Committee may take action to
withdraw the Letter of Approval after giving an
opportunity of being heard."
6. In the principal rules, in rule 19,—
(i) in sub-rule (2), for the first proviso, the following
proviso shall be substituted, namely:—
"Provided that no such approval shall be granted by
the Approval Committee in those cases which fall
within the competence of the Board of Approval";
(ii) in sub-rule (7), for the proviso, the following
proviso shall be substituted, namely:—
"Provided that foreign companies can also set up
manufacturing Units as their branch operations in
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the Special Economic Zones in accordance with the
provisions of Foreign Exchange Management
(Establishment in India of branch or office or other
place of business) Regulations, 2000 as amended
from time to time".
7. In the principal rules, in rule 28, in sub-rule (7), for
the words "is other than the Special Economic Zone" the
words "is the Special Economic Zone" shall be substi-
tuted.
8. In the principal rules, in rule 29, for sub-rule (7), the
following sub-rule shall be substituted, namely :—
"(7) A Unit may import the goods exported by it
which are either found to be defective or damaged
by the overseas buyer or have not been taken deliv-
ery of by the overseas buyer or when the payment is
not forthcoming from the buyer as per agreed sched-
ule after having taken delivery of goods or when
buyers return goods due to change of fashion and
other market factors by following the procedure un-
der sub-rule (2) and subject to the following condi-
tions, namely: —
(i) the identity of the goods is established at the time
of re-import; and
(ii) the goods are re-imported within the warranty
period or the validity of the maintenance contract or
a period of one year from the date of export, which-
ever is later."
9. In the principal rules, in rule 30,
(i) in sub-rule (1), for the words, figures, brackets
and letters "notification number 40/2001-Central Excise
(NT)", the words, figures, brackets and letters
"notification number 42/2001 -Central Excise (NT)" shall be
substituted;
(ii) in sub-rule (8), the following proviso shall be
inserted, namely:—
"provided that the reimbursement of duty in lieu of
drawback or Duty Entitlement Pass Book credit
against supply of goods by Domestic Tariff Area
supplier to Special Economic Zone developers shall
be admissible even if payment is made in Indian
Rupees. Reimbursement of duty in lieu of drawback
against supply of goods to Special Economic Zone
developer shall be made as per the procedure
prescribed by the Central Government".
10. In the principal rules, in rule 39,
(i) in sub-rule (1), after the words "advance intima-
tion" the following words shall be inserted, namely: —-
"of not less than seven days";
(ii) in sub-rule (4), after the words "Duty Entitlement
Pass Book Scheme Credit" the following words shall be
inserted, namely :—
"or any other export incentive".
11. In the principal rules, in rule 46, in sub-rule (8), for
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the proviso, the following shall be substituted, namely :—
"Provided that the items not sold abroad may be
re-imported within a period of three hundred and
sixty five days from the date of their export inclusive
of the period of forty-five days".
12. In the principal rule, in rule 48, in sub-rule (2), the
proviso shall be omitted.
13. In the principal rules, for rule 55, the following
rule shall be substituted, namely :—
"55 Form of Appeal.- Any person aggrieved by an
order passed by the Approval Committee under
Section 15 or against cancellation of Letter of Ap-
proval under section 16, may prefer an appeal to the
Board in Form J".
14. In the principal rules, in rule 56, for sub-rule (1),
the following sub-rule shall be substituted, namely :—
"(1) An appeal shall be preferred by the aggrieved
person within a period of thirty days from the date of
receipt of the order of the Approval Committee
under rule 18".
15. In the principal rules, in rule 70, in sub-rule(2), for
the proviso, the following shall be substituted, namely :—
"Provided that when the Unit ceases to hold a valid
Letter of Approval, all identity cards issued to the
Entrepreneurs and employees of such Unit shall be
deemed to be invalid and shall be surrendered
forthwith".
16. In the principal rules,
(i) in Form A', in paragraph v, as per item (i) the
following item shall be inserted namely:—
"(ia) Type and quality of land i.e. waste and barren
land, single crop or double crop etc."
(ii) in Form 'B', in paragraph III, after item (xvii), the
following item shall be inserted, namely: —
"(xviii) The Developer shall bear the cost of staff
provided by the Government to man the posts in the
Special Economic Zone and will deposit the
requisite amount as and when demanded by the
Development Commissioner".
[F.No.C.2/3/2008-SEZ]
ANIL MUKIM.Jt. Secy.
Note:— The principal rules were published in the Gazette
of India, Extraordinary vide number G.S.R. 54(E), .
dated the 10th day of February, 2006 and
subsequently amended vide notification number
(i) G.S.R. 470(E), dated the 10th day of August,
2006, (ii) G.S.R. 393 (E), dated, the 16th day of
March, 2007, (iii) G.S.R. 1744(E), dated, the 12th
day of October, 2007 and (iv) S.0.2661(E), dated