The Government has invited Applications for the post of CESTAT Members and also issued the Selection procedure for the posts of Customs, Excise, and Service Tax Appellate Tribunal (CESTAT) members.
The Customs, Excise and Service Tax Appellate Tribunal is an appellate authority established under Customs Act, 1962 to hear various appeals under the Customs Act, 1962, Central Excise Act, 1944 and Finance Act, 1994. CESTAT’s headquarter is situated at New Delhi and its regional Benches are situated at Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai, Bangalore, Ahmedabad, Allahabad, Chandigarh and Hyderabad.
Applications are being invited for 12 existing/anticipated vacancies of Technical Member and 7 existing/anticipated vacancies of Judicial Member. Selected candidates are liable to be posted at any of the Benches of the Tribunal. Interested and eligible applicants, who have applied in response to this Department’s Vacancy Circular/Office Memorandum of even no. dated 14.07.2020 may apply again.
The qualifications, eligibility, salary & other terms & conditions of the appointment of a candidate will be governed by the provision of the Tribunal Reforms Act, 2021 and the Tribunal (Conditions of Service) Rules, 2021. The Member shall be paid a salary of Rs. 2,25,000/- and shall be entitled to draw allowance as are admissible to a Government of India Officer holding Group ‘A’ post carrying the same pay. In case a person appointed as the Member, is in receipt of any pension, the pay of such person shall be reduced by the gross amount of pension drawn by him. The Member shall hold office for a term of four years or till he attains the age of Sixty-Seven years, whichever is earlier.
In terms of the Tribunal (Conditions of Service) Rules, 2021 a person shall not be qualified for appointment as Judicial Member, unless he has, for a combined period of ten years, been a District Judge and Additional District Judge; or he has been a member of the Indian Legal Service with ten years of experience in litigation and has held a post of Additional Secretary or any equivalent or higher post for two years; or he has been an advocate for ten years with substantial experience in litigation under indirect tax laws in Customs, Excise and Service Tax Appellate Tribunal, High Court or Supreme Court; Technical Member, unless he has been a member of the Indian Revenue Service (Customs and Central Excise Service Group ‘A’) and has held the post of Principal Commissioner of Customs or Central Excise or any equivalent or higher post and has performed judicial, quasi-judicial or adjudicating function for three years. A person who has not completed the age of fifty years shall not be eligible for appointment as a Member.
The Search-Cum-Section Committee constituted for recommending names for appointment to the said post shall scrutinise the applications with respect to suitability of application for the posts by giving due weightage to qualification and experience of candidates and shortlist candidates for conducting personal interaction. The final selection will be done on the basis of overall evaluation of candidates done by the Committee based on the qualification, experience and personal interaction.
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