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Issues: Whether, for computing eligibility to small scale exemption under the two exemption notifications, clearances made under one notification had to be clubbed with clearances under the other notification, and whether the matter required reference to a Larger Bench.
Analysis: The notifications granted exemption to small scale units subject to value-based conditions. The Tribunal followed its later decisions holding that clearances under one exemption notification were not to be aggregated with clearances under the other for the purpose of determining the first clearances eligible for exemption in the current financial year. It held that the restriction in paragraph 3 of Notification No. 10/99 was not attracted in the manner suggested by the department, and that the corresponding condition in Notification No. 8/99 was also to be read similarly. On the request for reference to a Larger Bench, the Tribunal found that the later decisions had correctly interpreted the notifications, and that the existence of one earlier contrary decision did not justify such reference.
Conclusion: The issue of clubbing clearances was decided in favour of the appellants, and the request for reference to a Larger Bench was rejected.
Final Conclusion: The appeals succeeded and the appellants were held entitled to the claimed exemption treatment with consequential relief.
Ratio Decidendi: Where two small scale exemption notifications operate independently, clearances under one notification are not required to be clubbed with clearances under the other unless the notifications expressly so provide.