The Integrated Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017 Notifications
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Body Notification No. 40/2017 -Integrated Tax (Rate) F. No.354/117/2017-TRU(Pt.III) Dated 18th October, 2017

In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) of section 5 of the Integrated Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017 (13 of 2017), the Central Government, on the recommendations of the Council, hereby notifies the rate of the integrated tax of 5 per cent on inter-State 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

S. No,	Tariff item, sub- heading, heading or Chapter	Description of Goods	Condition
(1)	(2)	(3)	(4)
1	19 or 21	(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 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 concerned to the effect that such 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, as the case may be, 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 (Central Act No. 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.

(Mohit Tewari)

Under Secretary to the Government of India.