11.1 It may be noted that pursuant to the coming into force of the Goods and Services Tax Acts, the Gujarat Value Added Tax Act, 2003 (hereinafter referred to as the “GVAT ACT”) came to be amended and by virtue of section 27A of that Act, it was provided that all registered dealers not dealing with goods defined in section 2(13) shall be deemed to be deregistered from the date of coming into force of the Gujarat Value Added Tax (Amendment) Act, 2017 and their registration certificates shall stand cancelled. Thus, the GVAT Act provides for automatic deregistration of dealers not dealing with goods denied in section 2(13) thereof, whereas no such provision providing for automatic deregistration of dealers under the CST Act has been made in the Taxation Laws (Amendment) Act, 2017 whereby amendments were made in the Central Sales Tax Act. It is therefore clear that when the legislature wants to provide for automatic cancellation of the registration granted under an enactment, it is expressly provided in such enactment. Since no such provision has been made in the CST Act, no such intention can be read into it and consequently, upon the coming into force of the Taxation Laws (Amendment) Act, 2017 whereby the definition of goods in the CST Act came to be amended, CST registrations of dealers other than those dealing in the specified commodities would not become inactive automatically.
