Assam Electricity Duty (Amendment) Act, 2018

No: 24 Dated: Oct, 24 2018

THE ASSAM ELECTRICITY DUTY (AMENDMENT) ACT, 2018

ASSAM ACT NO. XXIV OF 2018

    An Act further to amend the Assam Electricity Duty Act, 1964.

    Preamble:- Whereas it is expedient further to amend the Assam Electricity Duty Act, 1964, hereinafter referred to as the principal Act, in the maimer hereinafter appearing; 

    It is hereby enacted in the Sixty-ninth Year of the Republic o f India as follows:- 

1. Short title, extent and commencement:-(1) This Act may be called the Assam Electricity Duty (Amendment) Act, 2018,

(2) It shall have the like extent as the principal Act.

(3) It shall come into force at once.

2. Amendment o f section 3:- In the principal Act, in section 3,-

(i) in sub-section (1), for the words “at the rate of twenty paise per unit of energy’5 , the words, “at five percentum of the aggregate value of energy charges and fixed charges” shall be substituted;

(ii) in sub-section (4), in the proviso, for the words ‘Twenty paise per unit of energy”, the words “ten percentum o f the aggregate value of energy’ charges and fixed charges” shal 1 be substituted.