| 1. | In these rules, unless               the context otherwise requires, | 
                    
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                                    | a. | Act                       means the Delhi Value Added Tax Act, 2004 (Delhi Act 3 of                       2005); |  
                                    | b. | form                       means a form appended to these rules; |  
                                    | c. | Schedule                       means a Schedule appended to the Act; |  
                                    | d. | section                       or sub-section means a section or sub-section of the Act. |  | 
                    
                        | 2. | Words and expressions defined in the               Act and used but not defined in these rules have the same meaning               as assigned to them in the Act. | 
                    
                        | 3. | Unless otherwise specified in these               rules- | 
                    
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                                    | a. | words importing                       the masculine gender shall include the feminine gender; |  
                                    | b. | words in singular shall                       include their plural and vice versa; |  
                                    | c. | expressions referring to                       writing shall include printing, typing, lithography,                       photography and other methods of representing or                       reproducing words in a visible form; |  
                                    | d. | with reference to a person                       who is unable to sign his name, the words signature shall                       include his thumb impression or other mark duly attested                       to signify his signature. |  
                                    | e. | Signature shall include                       digital signature. |  | 
                    
                        | 4. | In these rules, unless the context               otherwise requires, | 
                    
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                                    | 1. | address                       for service means the address determined in accordance                       with rule 21; |  
                                    | 2. | appropriate                       Government treasury means Pay and Accounts offices of                       Reserve Bank of India or State Bank of India, or such                       other scheduled bank within the meaning of the Reserve                       Bank of India Act, 1934 (2 of 1934) or any other bank as                       may be notified by the Commissioner; |  
                                    | 3. | quarter                       means the periods of three calendar months |  
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                                                | a. | April 1                               to June 30; |  
                                                | b. | July 1 to September                               30; |  
                                                | c. | October 1 to                               December 31; and |  
                                                | d. | January 1 to March                               31. |  |  | 
                    
                        | 5. | For the purposes of clause (ra) of               sub-section (1) of section 2, manufacture shall not include the               following processes or modes of manufacture, namely:- | 
                    
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                                    | a. | dispensing                       of medicines according to prescription of medical                       practitioners; |  
                                    | b. | cutting                       of paper from reels into reams; |  
                                    | c. | recovering                       of jewels and other components from old jewellery and                       ornaments; |  
                                    | d. | conversion                       of milk into khoa; |  
                                    | e. | rolling                       of bidis by hand and without the use of any mechanical aid                       or device; |  
                                    | f. | dismantling                       of old motor vehicles; |  
                                    | g. | killing,                       dressing and freezing chickens; |  
                                    | h. | removal                       of peanuts from the shell; |  
                                    | i. | collecting                       of bristles, boiling and washing them with soap and other                       chemicals, sorting out according to their sizes and                       colouring and then tying them in separate bundles of                       different sizes and clipping them for uniformity of size; |  
                                    | j. | repairing,                       cleaning and oiling of watches, clocks or time-pieces; |  
                                    | k. | boiling                       of butter into ghee or separation of cream from milk or                       ghee from curd; |  
                                    | l. | assembling                       of lenses and other part of spectacles according to the                       prescription of ophthalmologists; |  
                                    | m. | boiling                       of milk and adding sugar to it; and |  
                                    | n. | making                       of garlands and bouquets from fresh flowers. |  |