Amendment of Schedule-III

In Schedule-III of the principal Act,– (i) in paragraph 8, after clause (a), the following clause shall be inserted and shall be deemed to have been inserted with effect from the 1st day of July, 2017, namely:–– “(aa) Supply of goods warehoused in a Special Economic Zone or in a Free Trade Warehousing Zone to any person before clearance for exports or to the Domestic Tariff Area;”; (ii) in Explanation 2, after the words “For the purposes of”, the words, brackets and letter “clause (a) of” shall be inserted and shall be deemed to have been inserted with effect from the 1st day of July, 2017; (iii) after Explanation 2, the following Explanation shall be inserted and shall be deemed to have been inserted with effect from the 1st day of July, 2017, namely:– “Explanation 3––For the purposes of clause (aa) of paragraph 8, the expressions “Special Economic Zone”, “Free Trade Warehousing Zone” and “Domestic Tariff Area” shall have the same meanings respectively as assigned to them in Section 2 of the Special Economic Zones Act, 2005.”