TaxTMI 
TaxTMI 
2012 (10) TMI 186
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.... the following orders may appeal to the Appellate Tribunal against such order - "(a) a decision or order passed by the Commissioner of Central Excise as an adjudicating authority; (b) an order passed by the Commissioner of Appeals under Section 35A; (c) an order passed by the Central Board of Excise and Customs constituted under the Central Boards of Revenue Act, 1963 (54 of 1963) (hereinafter in this Chapter referred to as the Board) or the Appellate Commissioner of Central Excise under Section 35, as it stood immediately before the appointed day; (d) an order passed by the Board or the Commissioner of Central Excise, either before or after the appointed day, under Section 35A, as it stood immediately before that da....
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....duty of excise or to the value of goods for purposes of assessment is in issue or is one of the points in issue, the difference in duty involved or the duty involved; or (ii) the amount of fine or penalty determined by such order, does not exceed [fifty thousand rupees.] [(1A) Every appeal against any order of the nature referred to in the first proviso to sub-section (1), which is pending immediately before the commencement of section 47 of the Finance Act, 1984, before the Appellate Tribunal and any matter arising out of, or connected with, such appeal and which is so pending shall stand transferred on such commencement to the Central Government, and the Central Government shall deal with such appeal or matter un....
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....ave appealed against such order or any part thereof, file, within forty-five days of the receipt of the notice, a memorandum of cross-objections verified in the prescribed manner against any part of the order appealed against and such memorandum shall be disposed of by the Appellate Tribunal as if it were an appeal presented within the time specified in sub-section (3). (5) The Appellate Tribunal may admit an appeal or permit the filing of a memorandum of cross-objections after the expiry of the relevant period referred to in sub-section (3) or sub-section (4), if it is satisfied that there was sufficient cause for not presenting it within that period. (6) An appeal to the Appellate Tribunal shall be in the prescribed form and s....
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....ommissioner of Central Excise under this sub-section.]" A reading of the aforesaid provision makes it very clear that the proviso to Section 35 categorically states that no appeal shall lie to the appellate Tribunal and the appellate Tribunal shall not have jurisdiction to decide any appeal in respect of any order referred to in Clause (b) that is an order passed by the Commissioner of Appeals under Section 35A, if such an order relates to rebate of duty of excise on goods exported to any country or territory outside India or exercisable materials used in the manufacture of goods which are exported to any country or territory outside India. Therefore, the exclusion of the jurisdiction of the appellate Tribunal is expressly stated in the St....