Signed Hard Copy of digitally signed Excise Invoice can be accepted

Notification No. 18/2015 dated 06-07-2015, authorized assesses to issue Excise invoices using digital signs. But the people who receive such invoice do not have infrastructure  to accept or received digitally signed invoice . So, CBEC vide Circular dated 19-07-2016, has permitted to take print of hard copy of such invoice and hand over after manual signatures. Thus such invoices shall stand authenticated twice.