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Issues: (i) Whether the benefit of Notification No. 64/88 could be denied merely because the importer was a diagnostic centre without indoor hospital beds. (ii) Whether the requirement of an installation certificate applied where the establishment was already in existence before import of the goods.
Issue (i): Whether the benefit of Notification No. 64/88 could be denied merely because the importer was a diagnostic centre without indoor hospital beds.
Analysis: The exemption under Notification No. 64/88 was construed in the light of earlier tribunal rulings which had treated a diagnostic centre as capable of claiming the benefit, so long as the notification was not read narrowly to exclude a centre merely because it did not house in-patients. The decisive factor was the nature of the medical institution and its use of the imported equipment, not the existence of beds for indoor treatment.
Conclusion: The denial of exemption on the ground that the appellant was only a diagnostic centre without indoor beds was not sustainable.
Issue (ii): Whether the requirement of an installation certificate applied where the establishment was already in existence before import of the goods.
Analysis: The installation-certificate condition was read as applying to hospitals or institutions still in the process of being established. If the appellant's centre was already functioning before import, the condition would not operate against it. Since the material on record did not conclusively establish the date of existence, the matter required verification on evidence before the benefit could be denied on this ground.
Conclusion: The exemption could not be denied on this ground unless it was first established that the centre was not already in existence before import.
Final Conclusion: The order of denial of exemption was set aside and the matter was sent back for fresh decision on the unresolved factual aspects.
Ratio Decidendi: An exemption notification for medical equipment cannot be denied to a diagnostic centre merely because it lacks indoor beds, and a pre-establishment installation-certificate condition does not apply where the institution was already in existence before import.
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