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Issues: Whether, in cases governed by Section 3A of the Central Excise Act, 1944, an assessee who had opted to pay duty under Rule 96ZO(3) of the Central Excise Rules, 1944 could still claim determination of duty with reference to actual production under Section 3A(4).
Analysis: The appeals turned on the conflict between the charging scheme under Section 3A and the procedural mechanism under Rule 96ZO(3). The Tribunal treated the issue as identical to an earlier decision of the same Tribunal and applied that ratio. It held that the right conferred by Section 3A(4) to have duty redetermined on the basis of actual production is a statutory right and cannot be taken away by a subordinate rule. Since the earlier decision had not been stayed, the same approach was followed and the matter was remanded for determination of furnace capacity and consequential redetermination of duty.
Conclusion: The benefit of assessment on actual production under Section 3A(4) could not be denied merely because duty had been paid under Rule 96ZO(3), and remand to the adjudicating authority was warranted.
Final Conclusion: The assessee succeeded on the substantive legal issue and the matter was sent back for fresh determination of capacity and duty in accordance with law.
Ratio Decidendi: A rule made under the Act cannot curtail a statutory entitlement conferred by the Act itself, and where Section 3A(4) applies, duty must be redetermined on the basis of actual production notwithstanding election under Rule 96ZO(3).
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