Notification No. 323

A notification under section 35AC of the Income-tax Act, 1961

What this is

Notification No. 323 was published on 27 November 2003. Its subject is A notification under section 35AC of the Income-tax Act, 1961.

The provisions it speaks to

Left, the provision of the Income-tax Act, 1961 as the instrument itself names it. Right, the section of the Income-tax Act, 2025 that the department’s own concordance maps it to — which is where the same ground is now covered.

Under the 1961 Act	Now
s.35AC	no counterpart recorded

The instrument, as the Board published it

The words below are the department’s own, reproduced from its published text. Where the department’s copy carried a publisher’s notes after the instrument, those are not reproduced.

Notification No : 323

Section(s) Referred : section 35AC

Date of Issue : 27/11/2003

Notification No : 323 Date of Issue : 27/11/2003

Whereas by notification of the Government of India in the Ministry of Finance (Department of Revenue) number S.0.469(E) dated the 2nd July, 1996, issued under sub-section (1) read with clause (b) of the Explanation to section 35AC of the Income-tax Act, 1961 (43 of 1961), the Central Government had specified at serial number 4, for Mid-day Meal Scheme in three schools of Bangalore, by Maria Seva Sangha. Villa Maria, No. 12 Rest House road, Bangalore-560001, as eligible project or scheme for a period of three years beginning with assessment year 1997-1998 which was extended further vide notification number S.0.317(E) dated the 11th May, 1999 for a period of two years beginning with assessment year 2000-2001 which was extended further vide notification number, S.0.552(E) dated the 20th June, 2001 for a period of two years beginning with assessment year 2002-2003 and which was extended further vide notification number S.O.688(E) dated the 13th June, 2003 for a period of one year beginning with assessment year 2004-2005;

And, whereas, the National Committee for the Promotion of Social and Economic Welfare, being satisfied that the said project or scheme is being executed properly, made a further recommendation under sub-rule (5) of rule 11M of the Income-tax Rules, 1962 for specifying the said project or scheme for enhanced the approved cost of the project from Rs. 15.00 lakhs to 30.00 lakhs;

Now, therefore, the Central Government, in exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) read with clause (b) of the Explanation to section 35AC of the Income-tax Act, 1961 (43 of 1961),-

(a) hereby specifies the scheme or project of Mid-day Meal Scheme in three schools of Bangalore which is being carried out by Maria Seva Sangha, Villa Maria, No. 12 Rest House road, Bangalore-560001 as an eligible project or scheme and further amends the said notification number S.O. 469(E) dated the 2nd July, 1996, to the following effect, namely:-

In the said notification, in the Table against serial number 5, in column (4), the committee, however, enhanced the approved cost of the project from Rs. 15.00 lakhs to Rs.30.00 lakhs, i.e., approved cost of the project shall be substituted.

F.No.NC-240/2003

What it names

Rules it names. Rule 11M of the Income-tax Rules, 1962. The 1962 Rules were replaced by the Income-tax Rules, 2026, which renumbered nearly everything: a rule number quoted here almost never means the same rule today.

On the same provision

Other instruments in this library that name the same provision of the 1961 Act. They are not necessarily still operative, and a later one may have replaced an earlier one without saying so.

Notification No. 3/2022 — Specifying forms returns statements reports orders by whatever name called prescribed in appendix ii to be furnished ele 16 July 2022
Notification No. 2/2019 [F. No. V. 27013/3/2018-SO(NAT.COM)]/SO 3122(E) — Ministry of Finance 28 August 2019
Notification No. 1/2019 [F. No. V. 27013/3/2018-SO(NAT.COM)] / SO 1706(E) — Ministry of Finance 8 May 2019
Notification No. S.O. 1706 [No. 1/2019 (F.No.V.27013/3/2018-SO(nat.com)] — Section 35AC of the Income-tax Act, 1961, read with rule 11G of the Income-tax Rules, 1962 - Eligible Projects or Scheme 8 May 2019
Notification No. 2/2018 [F.No.V.27013/3/2018-SO(NAT.COM)] SO 5160(E) — Ministry of Finance 5 October 2018
Notification No. 1/2018 [F.No.V.27013/3/2018-SO(NAT.COM)] / SO 1658(E) — MINISTRY OF FINANCE (Department of Revenue) NOTIFICATION New Delhi, the 17th April, 2018 S.O 17 April 2018

What a notification is. A notification is made under a power the Act itself gives, and within that power it is law — unlike a circular, which only binds the department. Its reach is the reach of the enabling provision and no wider, and the date it carries decides from when it works.

Source: the Income Tax Department’s own published text — its page for this instrument.