Validity Period

3.5.3

All status certificates issued or renewed on or after 01.09.2004 shall be valid from 1st April of the licensing year during which the application for the grant of such recognition is made upto 31st March, 2009, unless otherwise specified.

On the expiry of status certificate, application for grant of status shall be required to be made within a period as prescribed in the Handbook of Procedures (Vol. I), as a fresh application for continued recognition. During the intervening period, the star export house shall be eligible to claim the usual privileges under Para 3.5.2.1 above, subject to furnishing of an undertaking by the applicant at the time of claiming such facilities and benefits that they are eligible for continued recognition as per current policy.