Sec 7: Scope of supply.

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(1) For the purposes of this Act, the expression “supply” includes––

(a) all forms of supply of goods or services or both such as sale, transfer, barter,
exchange, licence, rental, lease or disposal made or agreed to be made for a consideration
by a person in the course or furtherance of business;
(b) import of services for a consideration whether or not in the course or
furtherance of business;
(c) the activities specified in Schedule I, made or agreed to be made without a
consideration; and
(d) the activities to be treated as supply of goods or supply of services as
referred to in Schedule II.

(2) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (1),––
(a) activities or transactions specified in Schedule III; or
(b) such activities or transactions undertaken by the Central Government, a
State Government or any local authority in which they are engaged as public
authorities, as may be notified by the Government on the recommendations of the
Council, shall be treated neither as a supply of goods nor a supply of services.

(3) Subject to the provisions of sub-sections (1) and (2), the Government may, on the
recommendations of the Council, specify, by notification, the transactions that are to be
treated as—
(a) a supply of goods and not as a supply of services; or
(b) a supply of services and not as a supply of goods.

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