Notification No. 39/2017 - Central Tax (Rate) dated 18-10-2017 [CGST Rate on Food intended for free distribution to economically weaker]

Notification No. 39/2017-Central Tax (Rate) dated 18-10-2017

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 9(1) of the CGST ACT, 2017  

the Central Government, on the recommendations of the Council, hereby notifies the central tax rate of 2.5 per cent on intraState supplies of goods, the description of which is specified in column (3) of the Table below, falling under the tariff item, sub-heading, heading or Chapter, as the case may be, as specified in the corresponding entry in column (2), subject to the condition specified in column (4) of the Table below, namely:-

 

Table

SN

Tariff item, sub- heading, heading or Chapter

Description of Goods

Condition No.

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)                   

1.

19 or 21

[1][(a) Food preparations put up in unit containers and intended for free distribution to economically weaker sections of the society under a programme duly approved by the Central Government or any State Government;

(b) Fortified Rice Kernel (Premix) supply for ICDS or similar scheme duly approved by the Central Government or any State Government.]

When the supplier of such [2][goods] produces a certificate from an officer not below the rank of the Deputy Secretary to the Government of India or the Deputy Secretary to the State Government or the Deputy Secretary in the Union Territory concerned to the effect that such [3][goods] have been distributed free to the economically weaker sections of the society under a programme duly approved by the Central Government or the State Government concerned, within a period of five months from the date of supply of such goods or within such further period as the jurisdictional commissioner of the Central tax or jurisdictional commissioner of the State tax, or jurisdictional officer of the Union Territory Tax as the case maybe, may allow in this regard.

 

Explanation

(1) In this notification, “tariff item”, “sub-heading” “heading” and “Chapter” shall mean respectively a tariff item, heading, sub-heading and Chapter as specified in the First Schedule to the Customs Tariff Act, 1975 (51 of 1975).

(2) The rules for the interpretation of the First Schedule to the said Customs Tariff Act, 1975, including the Section and Chapter Notes and the General Explanatory Notes of the First Schedule shall, so far as may be, apply to the interpretation of this notification.

 

[1] Substituted by Notification No. 11/2021-Central Tax (Rate) dt. 30-09-2021 wef 01-10-2021 for

Food preparations put up in unit containers and intended for free distribution to economically weaker sections of the society under a programme duly approved by the Central Government or any State Government.

 

[2] Substituted for “food preparations” by Notification No. 11/2021-Central Tax (Rate) dt. 30-09-2021 wef 01-10-2021.

[3] Substituted for “food preparations” by Notification No. 11/2021-Central Tax (Rate) dt. 30-09-2021 wef 01-10-2021.

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