1978 (10) TMI 132

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.... of the High Court of Punjab and Haryana allowing the writ petition of the respondent and declaring the amendment of item 30 in Schedule B to the Punjab General Sales Tax Act, 1948, hereinafter referred to as the Act, invalid. The composite and the then existing State of Punjab was reorganised by the Punjab Reorganisation Act, 1966 (Central Act 31 of 1966). The Union Territory of Chandigarh was carved out as one of the States on and from November 1, 1966. Under section 6 of the Act no tax was payable on the sale of goods specified in Schedule B. The State Government could amend this schedule and at the relevant time the power so conferred on the State Government was in the following terms: "The State Government, after giving by notifi....

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....eaning of section 88 of Central Act 31 of 1966. The High Court repelled this argument and, in our opinion, rightly. It is plain on the wordings of section 6 of the Act, extracted above, that a notification merely notifying the intention of the State Government to add to or delete from Schedule B any article, by itself, had no force of law until and unless on the expiry of the period of three months a like notification was issued amending the schedule. The erstwhile State Government of Punjab could not issue a second notification in respect of the Union Territory after it ceased to be a part of the State of Punjab. Sales tax could not be charged on pure silken fabrics by the said State Government on October 31, 1966, merely by virtue of t....