THE GOODS AND SERVICES TAX (COMPENSATION TO STATES)
AMENDMENT ORDINANCE, 2017
NO. 5 OF 2017

Promulgated by the President in the Sixty-eighth Year of the Republic of India.

An Ordinance to amend the Goods and Services Tax (Compensation to States) Act, 2017.

WHEREAS Parliament is not in session and the President is satisfied that the circumstances exist which render it necessary for him to take immediate action;

NOW, THEREFORE, in exercise of the powers conferred by clause (1) of article 123 of the
Constitution, the President is pleased to promulgate the following Ordinance:

Short title and commencement

1. (1) This Ordinance may be called the Goods and Services Tax (Compensation to States) Amendment Ordinance, 2017.

(2) It shall come into force at once

Amendment to Schedule.

2. (1) In the Goods and Services Tax (Compensation to States) Act, 2017, in the Schedule,—

(i) after serial number 4 and the entries relating thereto, the following serial number shall be inserted, namely:—

(1)                                         (2)                                                               (3)                            (4)
“4A       Motor vehicles for the transport of                  8702 10, 8702            Twenty-five
not more than thirteen persons,                                    20, 870230or              per cent. ad
including the driver.                                                          8702 90                      valorem.”

(ii) against serial number 5, for the entry in column (4), the entry “Twenty-five
per cent. ad valorem” shall be substituted.

RAM NATH KOVIND,
President.

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