https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=165756 The licensing authority's discretion in deciding a gold dealer's licence application was confined to the statutory framework under Section 27 of the Gold (Control) Act, 1968 and Rule 2 of the Gold Control (Licensing of Dealers) Rules, 1969. Government norms fixed outside the Act and Rules were treated as non-statutory and incapable of governing the grant or refusal of a licence. Departmental instructions likewise could not override the legal requirements of the Act and Rules or operate as law for deciding the application. On that basis, external norms and instructions could not be used as an independent ground for the licence decision, and the application was rejected. en-us Thu, 25 Feb 1982 00:00:00 +0530 Mon, 11 Aug 2014 12:27:21 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=165756 The licensing authority's discretion in deciding a gold dealer's licence application was confined to the statutory framework under Section 27 of the Gold (Control) Act, 1968 and Rule 2 of the Gold Control (Licensing of Dealers) Rules, 1969. Government norms fixed outside the Act and Rules were treated as non-statutory and incapable of governing the grant or refusal of a licence. Departmental instructions likewise could not override the legal requirements of the Act and Rules or operate as law for deciding the application. On that basis, external norms and instructions could not be used as an independent ground for the licence decision, and the application was rejected. Case-Laws Customs Thu, 25 Feb 1982 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=165756