Expiry of eligibility certificate bars later cancellation proceedings; invalid initiation after the certificate period ends.

Cancellation proceedings against an eligibility certificate cannot be sustained once the fixed eligibility period has expired. The Court treated the expiry of the certificate as ative, holding that a cancellation initiated after the life of the certificate was over was invalid. On that basis, the proposed cancellation failed and the revision could not succeed.

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Issues: Whether cancellation proceedings for an eligibility certificate could be initiated or sustained after the expiry of the eligibility period.

Analysis: The eligibility certificate had been granted for a fixed period and the cancellation was recommended only after that period had already expired. Since the proceeding for cancellation commenced after the life of the certificate was over, the Court treated such proceedings as invalid. It accepted the settled position that a cancellation certificate cannot be issued once the eligibility certificate has expired.

Conclusion: The cancellation proceedings were invalid after expiry of the eligibility certificate, and the revision was liable to fail.

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