Rule 41 implementation directions remain outside appellate review, while mistaken service-tax payments attract compensatory interest from the original refund claim.

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....Appealability of Tribunal directions under Rule 41 is limited: a procedural or implementation direction intended to give effect to a final order is not an order passed in appeal and falls outside Section 35G appellate jurisdiction. Rule 41 permits consequential directions, including compensatory interest, where necessary to implement a final refund order. Service tax paid for laying potable-water pipelines for a State agency's public-welfare project was treated as paid under a mistake of law rather than as duty, displacing duty-refund limitation requirements. Interest runs from three months after the original refund application, not later supporting documents; statutory delayed-duty refund rate limits do not govern compensatory interest.....