Amendment of Rule 18 of SEZs Rules, 2006

REGD. No. D. L.-33004/99 The Gazette of India CG-DL-E-20062024-254829 EXTRAORDINARY PART II-Section 3-Sub-section (i) PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY No. 315] NEW DELHI, THURSDAY, JUNE 20, 2024/JYAISHTHA 30, 1946 MINISTRY OF COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY (Department of Commerce) NOTIFICATION New Delhi, the 20th June, 2024 G.S.R. 338(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 (Fourth Amendment) Rules, 2024. (2) They shall come into force on the date of their publication in the Official Gazette. 2. In the Special Economic Zones Rules, 2006, in rule 18, in sub-rule (4), in clause (d), for second proviso, the following provisos shall be substituted, namely: - “Provided further that reconditioning, repair and re-engineering may be permitted subject to the conditions that export shall have one to one correlation with imports and all the reconditioned or repaired or re-engineered products shall be exported: Provided also that only non-hazardous metal and metal-alloy wastes in metallic, non-dispersible form having no contaminants enlisted against Basel No. B1010 in Part D of Schedule III of the Hazardous and Other Wastes (Management and Transboundary Movement) Rules, 2016 generated from the reconditioning, repair or re- engineering, may be allowed to be sold in the Domestic Tariff Area on payment of applicable customs duty and this shall be treated as import and will be permitted only to the actual user or to the trader for use of the actual users authorized by the State Pollution Control Board on one-time basis and subject to verification of documents specified in Schedule VIII of the Hazardous and Other Wastes (Management and Transboundary Movement) Rules, 2016 by the Custom Authority”. [F. No. K.43014(16)/22/2022-SEZ] VIMAL ANAND, Jt. Secy. Note: The principal rules were published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part-II, Section 3, Sub-section (i), vide notification number G.S.R. 54(E), dated the 10th February, 2006 and lastly amended vide notification number G.S.R. 314 (E), dated the 6th June, 2024.