RULE 6. Conditions for allowing CENVAT credit. —

(1) The CENVAT credit in respect of inputs may be taken immediately on receipt of the inputs in the factory of the manufacturer or in the premises of the job worker, in case goods are sent directly to the job worker on the direction of the manufacturer :

Provided that the manufacturer shall not take CENVAT credit after one year of the date of issue of any of the documents specified in sub-rule (1) of rule 11. 

(2)  (a) The CENVAT credit on inputs shall be allowed even if any inputs as such or after being partially processed are sent to a job worker and from there subsequently sent to another job worker and likewise, for further processing, testing, repairing, re-conditioning or for the manufacture of intermediate goods necessary for the manufacture of final products or any other purpose, and it is established from the records, challans or memos or any other document produced by the manufacturer taking the CENVAT credit that the inputs or the products produced therefrom are received back by the manufacturer, within one hundred and eighty days of their being sent from the factory : 

Provided that credit shall also be allowed even if any inputs are directly sent to a job worker without their being first brought to the premises of the manufacturer, and in such a case, the period of one hundred and eighty days shall be counted from the date of receipt of the inputs by the job worker; 

(b)    if the inputs are not received back within the time specified under sub-clause (a) by the manufacturer, the manufacturer shall pay an amount equivalent to the CENVAT credit attributable to the inputs, by debiting the CENVAT credit or otherwise, but the manufacturer may take the CENVAT credit again when the inputs are received back in the factory. 

(3)    The Deputy Commissioner of Central Excise or the Assistant Commissioner of Central Excise, as the case may be, having jurisdiction over the factory of the manufacturer of the final products who has sent the input or partially processed inputs outside his factory to a job-worker may, by an order, which shall be valid for three financial years, in respect of removal of such input or partially processed input, and subject to such conditions as he may impose in the interest of revenue including the manner in which duty, if leviable, is to be paid, allow final products to be cleared from the premises of the job-worker. 

Explanation I. - The amount mentioned in this rule, unless specified otherwise, shall be paid by the manufacturer of goods by debiting the CENVAT credit or otherwise on or before the 5th day of the following month except for the month of March, when such payment shall be made on or before the 31st day of the month of March. 

Explanation II. - If the manufacturer of goods fails to pay the amount payable under this rule, it shall be recovered, in the manner as provided in rule 16, for recovery of CENVAT credit wrongly taken. 

Explanation III. - In case of a manufacturer who avails the exemption under a notification based on the value of clearances in a financial year, the expressions, “following month” and “month of March” occurring in Explanation I shall be read respectively as “following quarter” and “quarter ending with the month of March”.