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Issues: Whether oil rigs operating in the continental shelf and exclusive economic zone, in designated areas to which the Customs Act had been extended, were foreign-going vessels so as to permit consumption of imported stores without payment of customs duty under the statutory exemption.
Analysis: The Customs Act had to be read with the Maritime Zones Act, 1976 and the notifications issued thereunder. The territorial waters of India remained distinct from the continental shelf and exclusive economic zone, but the latter areas were brought within the customs regime by the statutory deeming provisions and the relevant notifications. Once the Customs Act was extended to designated areas, those areas were treated as part of India for the purposes of that enactment. In that setting, imported stores consumed on rigs stationed in such designated areas could not be treated as consumed on a foreign-going vessel outside the reach of Indian customs law. The exemption under the provisions relating to transit and consumption of stores on foreign-going vessels therefore did not apply.
Conclusion: The rigs were not entitled to claim consumption of the imported stores without payment of customs duty. The issue was decided against the assessee and in favour of the Revenue.
Ratio Decidendi: Where the Customs Act is validly extended to a designated area in the continental shelf or exclusive economic zone, the deeming provision brings that area within the customs regime for the purpose of levy of duty, and a vessel operating there cannot claim exemption as a foreign-going vessel merely because it is outside territorial waters.
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