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Issues: Whether, for the purpose of computing the aggregate value of clearances under the small scale industry exemption notification, clearances made before the goods became eligible for the notification could be excluded, and whether the relevant clearances were to be reckoned from the date when the benefit was extended to the goods.
Analysis: The exemption under Notification No. 1/93-C.E. became applicable to the goods only from 25-04-1994 by virtue of Notification No. 90/94-C.E., while the Modvat benefit was made available later by Notification No. 24/94-C.E. (N.T.) dated 20-05-1994. The relevant computation of the first clearances had to be made with reference to the period from the date the goods actually became eligible for the exemption notification, and not from the later date on which credit-related benefit was introduced. Clearances of duty-paid goods during the eligible period could not be ignored for the purpose of aggregate value computation.
Conclusion: The aggregate value of clearances was to be computed from 25-04-1994, and not from 20-05-1994; the Revenue's objection succeeded.
Ratio Decidendi: For SSI exemption, the expression 'first clearances' must be linked to the date from which the goods become eligible for the exemption notification, and clearances made in that eligible period must be included in computing the aggregate value of clearances.