Chapter XXI MISCELLANEOUS

1. (1) A registered person (hereafter in this section referred to as the "principal") may, under intimation and subject to such conditions as may be prescribed, send any inputs or capital goods, without payment of tax, to a jobworker for jobwork and from there subsequently send to another jobworker and likewise, and shall,-
   • (a) bring back inputs, after completion of jobwork or otherwise, or capital goods, other than moulds and dies, jigs and fixtures, or tools, within one year and three years, respectively, of their being sent out, to any of his place of business, without payment of tax;
   • (b) supply such inputs, after completion of jobwork or otherwise, or capital goods, other than moulds and dies, jigs and fixtures, or tools, within one year and three years, respectively, of their being sent out from the place of business of a jobworker on payment of tax within India, or with or without payment of tax for export, as the case may be: Provided that the principal shall not supply the goods from the place of business of a jobworker in accordance with the provisions of this clause unless the said principal declares the place of business of the jobworker as his additional place of business except in a case-
     • (i) where the jobworker is registered under section 25; or
     • (ii) where the principal is engaged in the supply of such goods as may be notified by the Commissioner: 1[Provided further that, the period of one year and three years may, on sufficient cause being shown, be extended by the Commissioner for a further period not exceeding one year and two years respectively.]
2. (2) The responsibility for keeping proper accounts for the inputs or capital goods shall lie with the principal.
3. (3) Where the inputs sent for jobwork are not received back by the principal after completion of jobwork or otherwise in accordance with the provisions of clause (a) of sub-section (1) or are not supplied from the place of business of the jobworker in accordance with the provisions of clause (b) of sub-section (1) within a period of one year of their being sent out, it shall be deemed that such inputs had been supplied by the principal to the jobworker on the day when the said inputs were sent out.
4. (4) Where the capital goods, other than moulds and dies, jigs and fixtures, or tools, sent for jobwork are not received back by the principal in accordance with the provisions of clause (a) of sub-section (1) or are not supplied from the place of business of the jobworker in accordance with the provisions of clause (b) of sub-section (1) within a period of three years of their being sent out, it shall be deemed that such capital goods had been supplied by the principal to the jobworker on the day when the said capital goods were sent out.
5. (5) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-sections (1) and (2), any waste and scrap generated during the jobwork may be supplied by the jobworker directly from his place of business on payment of tax, if such jobworker is registered, or by the principal, if the jobworker is not registered. Explanation.- For the purposes of jobwork, input includes intermediate goods arising from any treatment or process carried out on the inputs by the principal or the jobworker.

Where any document-

1. (i) is produced by any person under this Act or any other law for the time being in force; or
2. (ii) has been seized from the custody or control of any person under this Act or any other law for the time being in force; or
3. (iii) has been received from any place outside India in the course of any proceedings under this Act or any other law for the time being in force, and such document is tendered by the prosecution in evidence against him or any other person who is tried jointly with him, the court shall-

1. (a) unless the contrary is proved by such person, presume-
   • (i) the truth of the contents of such document;
   • (ii) that the signature and every other part of such document which purports to be in the handwriting of any particular person or which the court may reasonably assume to have been signed by, or to be in the handwriting of, any particular person, is in that person’s handwriting, and in the case of a document executed or attested, that it was executed or attested by the person by whom it purports to have been so executed or attested;
2. (b) admit the document in evidence notwithstanding that it is not duly stamped, if such document is otherwise admissible in evidence.

1. (1) Notwithstanding anything contained in any other law for the time being in force,-
   • (a) a micro film of a document or the reproduction of the image or images embodied in such micro film (whether enlarged or not); or
   • (b) a facsimile copy of a document; or
   • (c) a statement contained in a document and included in a printed material produced by a computer, subject to such conditions as may be prescribed; or
   • (d) any information stored electronically in any device or media, including any hard copies made of such information, shall be deemed to be a document for the purposes of this Act and the rules made thereunder and shall be admissible in any proceedings thereunder, without further proof or production of the original, as evidence of any contents of the original or of any fact stated therein of which direct evidence would be admissible.
2. (2) In any proceedings under this Act or the rules made thereunder, where it is desired to give a statement in evidence by virtue of this section, a certificate,-
   • (a) identifying the document containing the statement and describing the manner in which it was produced;
   • (b) giving such particulars of any device involved in the production of that document as may be appropriate for the purpose of showing that the document was produced by a computer, shall be evidence of any matter stated in the certificate and for the purposes of this sub-section it shall be sufficient for a matter to be stated to the best of the knowledge and belief of the person stating it.

The Government may, on the recommendations of the Council, notify the Common Goods and Services Tax Electronic Portal for facilitating registration, payment of tax, furnishing of returns, computation and settlement of integrated tax, electronic way bill and for carrying out such other functions and for such purposes as may be prescribed.

The Government may, on the recommendations of the Council, notify certain supplies of goods as "deemed exports", where goods supplied do not leave India, and payment for such supplies is received either in Indian rupees or in convertible foreign exchange, if such goods are manufactured in India.

The Government may, on the recommendations of the Council, and subject to such conditions and safeguards as may be prescribed, notify certain classes of registered persons, and the special procedures to be followed by such persons including those with regard to registration, furnishing of return, payment of tax and administration of such persons.

1[148A. Track and trace mechanism for certain goods.- (1) The Government may, on the recommendations of the Council, by notification, specify,-

1. (a) the goods;
2. (b) persons or class of persons who are in possession or deal with such goods, to which the provisions of this section shall apply.

1. (2) The Government may, in respect of the goods referred to in clause (a) of sub-section (1),-
   • (a) provide a system for enabling affixation of unique identification marking and for electronic storage and access of information contained therein, through such persons, as may be prescribed; and ;
   • (b) prescribe the unique identification marking for such goods; including the information to be recorded therein.
2. (3) The persons referred to in sub-section (1) shall,-
   • (a) affix on the said goods or packages thereof, a unique identification marking, containing such information and in such manner;
   • (b) furnish such information and details within such time and maintain such records or documents, in such form and manner;
   • (c) furnish details of the machinery installed in the place of business of manufacture of such goods, including the identification, capacity, duration of operation and such other details or information, within such time and in such form and manner;
   • (d) pay such amount in relation to the system referred to in sub-section (2), as may be prescribed.]

1. (1) Every registered person may be assigned a goods and services tax compliance rating score by the Government based on his record of compliance with the provisions of this Act.
2. (2) The goods and services tax compliance rating score may be determined on the basis of such parameters as may be prescribed.br
3. (3) The goods and services tax compliance rating score may be updated at periodic intervals and intimated to the registered person and also placed in the public domain in such manner as may be prescribed.

1. (1) Any person, being-
   • (a) a taxable person; or
   • (b) a local authority or other public body or association; or
   • (c) any authority of the State Government responsible for the collection of value added tax or sales tax or State excise duty or an authority of the Central Government responsible for the collection of excise duty or customs duty; or
   • (d) an income tax authority appointed under the provisions of the Income-tax Act, 1961 (43 of 1961); or
   • (e) a banking company within the meaning of clause (a) of section 45A of the Reserve Bank of India Act, 1934 (2 of 1934); or
   • (f) a State Electricity Board or an electricity distribution or transmission licensee under the Electricity Act, 2003 (36 of 2003), or any other entity entrusted with such functions by the Central Government or the State Government; or
   • (g) the Registrar or Sub-Registrar appointed under section 6 of the Registration Act, 1908 (16 of 1908); or
   • (h) a Registrar within the meaning of the Companies Act, 2013 (18 of 2013); or
     • (i) the registering authority empowered to register motor vehicles under the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 (59 of 1988); or
   • (j) the Collector referred to in clause (c) of section 3 of the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013 (30 of 2013); or
   • (k) the recognised stock exchange referred to in clause (f) of section 2 of the Securities Contracts (Regulation) Act, 1956 (42 of 1956); or
   • (l) a depository referred to in clause (e) of sub-section (1) of section 2 of the Depositories Act, 1996 (22 of 1996); or
   • (m) an officer of the Reserve Bank of India as constituted under section 3 of the Reserve Bank of India Act, 1934 (2 of 1934); or
   • (n) the Goods and Services Tax Network, a company registered under the Companies Act, 2013 (18 of 2013); or
   • (o) a person to whom a Unique Identity Number has been granted under sub-section (9) of section 25; or
   • (p) any other person as may be specified, on the recommendations of the Council, by the Government, who is responsible for maintaining record of registration or statement of accounts or any periodic return or document containing details of payment of tax and other details of transaction of goods or services or both or transactions related to a bank account or consumption of electricity or transaction of purchase, sale or exchange of goods or property or right or interest in a property under any law for the time being in force, shall furnish an information return of the same in respect of such periods, within such time, in such form and manner and to such authority or agency as may be prescribed.
2. (2) Where the Commissioner, or an officer authorised by him in this behalf, considers that the information furnished in the information return is defective, he may intimate the defect to the person who has furnished such information return and give him an opportunity of rectifying the defect within a period of thirty days from the date of such intimation or within such further period which, on an application made in this behalf, the said authority may allow and if the defect is not rectified within the said period of thirty days or, the further period so allowed, then, notwithstanding anything contained in any other provisions of this Act, such information return shall be treated as not furnished and the provisions of this Act shall apply.
3. (3) Where a person who is required to furnish information return has not furnished the same within the time specified in sub-section (1) or sub-section (2), the said authority may serve upon him a notice requiring furnishing of such information return within a period not exceeding ninety days from the date of service of the notice and such person shall furnish the information return.

1[151. Power to call for information.-The Commissioner or an officer authorised by him may, by an order, direct any person to furnish information relating to any matter dealt with in connection with this Act, within such time, in such form, and in such manner, as may be specified therein.]

1. (1) No information 1[* *] with respect to any matter given for the purposes of section 150 or section 151 shall, without the previous consent in writing of the concerned person or his authorised representative, be published in such manner so as to enable such particulars to be identified as referring to a particular person and no such information shall be used for the purpose of any proceedings under this Act 2[without giving an opportunity of being heard to the person concerned.] 3[* *]
2. (3) Nothing in this section shall apply to the publication of any information relating to a class of taxable persons or class of transactions, if in the opinion of the Commissioner, it is desirable in the public interest to publish such information.

Any officer not below the rank of Assistant Commissioner may, having regard to the nature and complexity of the case and the interest of revenue, take assistance of any expert at any stage of scrutiny, inquiry, investigation or any other proceedings before him.

The Commissioner or an officer authorised by him may take samples of goods from the possession of any taxable person, where he considers it necessary, and provide a receipt for any samples so taken.

Where any person claims that he is eligible for input tax credit under this Act, the burden of proving such claim shall lie on such person.

All persons discharging functions under this Act shall be deemed to be public servants within the meaning of section 21 of the Indian Penal Code (45 of 1860).

1. (1) No suit, prosecution or other legal proceedings shall lie against the President, State President, Members, Officers or other employees of the Appellate Tribunal or any other person authorised by the said Appellate Tribunal for anything which is in good faith done or intended to be done under this Act or the rules made thereunder.
2. (2) No suit, prosecution or other legal proceedings shall lie against any officer appointed or authorised under this Act for anything which is done or intended to be done in good faith under this Act or the rules made thereunder.

1. (1) All particulars contained in any statement made, return furnished or accounts or documents produced in accordance with this Act, or in any record of evidence given in the course of any proceedings under this Act (other than proceedings before a criminal court), or in any record of any proceedings under this Act shall, save as provided in sub-section (3), not be disclosed.
2. (2) Notwithstanding anything contained in the Indian Evidence Act, 1872 (1 of 1872) no court shall, save as otherwise provided in sub-section (3), require any officer appointed or authorised under this Act to produce before it or to give evidence before it in respect of particulars referred to in sub-section (1).
3. (3) Nothing contained in this section shall apply to the disclosure of,-
   • (a) any particulars in respect of any statement, return, accounts, documents, evidence, affidavit or deposition, for the purpose of any prosecution under the Indian Penal Code (45 of 1860) or the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 (49 of 1988) or any other law for the time being in force; or
   • (b) any particulars to the Central Government or the State Government or to any person acting in the implementation of this Act, for the purposes of carrying out the objects of this Act; or
   • (c) any particulars when such disclosure is occasioned by the lawful exercise under this Act of any process for the service of any notice or recovery of any demand; or
   • (d) any particulars to a civil court in any suit or proceedings, to which the Government or any authority under this Act is a party, which relates to any matter arising out of any proceedings under this Act or under any other law for the time being in force authorising any such authority to exercise any powers thereunder; or
   • (e) any particulars to any officer appointed for the purpose of audit of tax receipts or refunds of the tax imposed by this Act; or
   • (f) any particulars where such particulars are relevant for the purposes of any inquiry into the conduct of any officer appointed or authorised under this Act, to any person or persons appointed as an inquiry officer under any law for the time being in force; or
   • (g) any such particulars to an officer of the Central Government or of any State Government, as may be necessary for the purpose of enabling that Government to levy or realise any tax or duty; or
   • (h) any particulars when such disclosure is occasioned by the lawful exercise by a public servant or any other statutory authority, of his or its powers under any law for the time being in force; or
     • (i) any particulars relevant to any inquiry into a charge of misconduct in connection with any proceedings under this Act against a practising advocate, a tax practitioner, a practising cost accountant, a practising chartered accountant, a practising company secretary to the authority empowered to take disciplinary action against the members practising the profession of a legal practitioner, a cost accountant, a chartered accountant or a company secretary, as the case may be; or
   • (j) any particulars to any agency appointed for the purposes of data entry on any automated system or for the purpose of operating, upgrading or maintaining any automated system where such agency is contractually bound not to use or disclose such particulars except for the aforesaid purposes; or
   • (k) any such particulars to an officer of the Government as may be necessary for the purposes of any other law for the time being in force; and
   • (l) any information relating to any class of taxable persons or class of transactions for publication, if, in the opinion of the Commissioner, it is desirable in the public interest, to publish such information.

1[158A. Consent based sharing of information furnished by taxable person.- (1) Notwithstanding anything contained in sections 133, 152 and 158, the following details furnished by a registered person may, subject to the provisions of sub-section (2), and on the recommendations of the Council, be shared by the common portal with such other systems as may be notified by the Government, in such manner and subject to such conditions as may be prescribed, namely :-

1. (a) particulars furnished in the application for registration under section 25 or in the return filed under section 39 or under section 44;
2. (b) the particulars uploaded on the common portal for preparation of invoice, the details of outward supplies furnished under section 37 and the particulars uploaded on the common portal for generation of documents under section 68;
3. (c) such other details as may be prescribed.

1. (2) For the purposes of sharing details under sub-section (1), the consent shall be obtained, of-
   • (a) the supplier, in respect of details furnished under clauses (a), (b) and (c) of sub-section (1); and
   • (b) the recipient, in respect of details furnished under clause (b) of sub-section (1), and under clause (c) of sub-section (1) only where such details include identity information of the recipient, in such form and manner as may be prescribed.
2. (3) Notwithstanding anything contained in any law for the time being in force, no action shall lie against the Government or the common portal with respect to any liability arising consequent to information shared under this section and there shall be no impact on the liability to pay tax on the relevant supply or as per the relevant return.]

1. (1) If the Commissioner, or any other officer authorised by him in this behalf, is of the opinion that it is necessary or expedient in the public interest to publish the name of any person and any other particulars relating to any proceedings or prosecution under this Act in respect of such person, it may cause to be published such name and particulars in such manner as it thinks fit.
2. (2) No publication under this section shall be made in relation to any penalty imposed under this Act until the time for presenting an appeal to the Appellate Authority under section 107 has expired without an appeal having been presented or the appeal, if presented, has been disposed of. Explanation.- In the case of firm, company or other association of persons, the names of the partners of the firm, directors, managing agents, secretaries and treasurers or managers of the company, or the members of the association, as the case may be, may also be published if, in the opinion of the Commissioner, or any other officer authorised by him in this behalf, circumstances of the case justify it.

1. (1) No assessment, re-assessment, adjudication, review, revision, appeal, rectification, notice, summons or other proceedings done, accepted, made, issued, initiated, or purported to have been done, accepted, made, issued, initiated in pursuance of any of the provisions of this Act shall be invalid or deemed to be invalid merely by reason of any mistake, defect or omission therein, if such assessment, re-assessment, adjudication, review, revision, appeal, rectification, notice, summons or other proceedings are in substance and effect in conformity with or according to the intents, purposes and requirements of this Act or any existing law.
2. (2) The service of any notice, order or communication shall not be called in question, if the notice, order or communication, as the case may be, has already been acted upon by the person to whom it is issued or where such service has not been called in question at or in the earlier proceedings commenced, continued or finalised pursuant to such notice, order or communication.

Without prejudice to the provisions of section 160, and notwithstanding anything contained in any other provisions of this Act, any authority, who has passed or issued any decision or order or notice or certificate or any other document, may rectify any error which is apparent on the face of record in such decision or order or notice or certificate or any other document, either on its own motion or where such error is brought to its notice by any officer appointed under this Act or an officer appointed under the Central Goods and Services Tax Act or by the affected person within a period of three months from the date of issue of such decision or order or notice or certificate or any other document, as the case may be: Provided that no such rectification shall be done after a period of six months from the date of issue of such decision or order or notice or certificate or any other document: Provided further that the said period of six months shall not apply in such cases where the rectification is purely in the nature of correction of a clerical or arithmetical error, arising from any accidental slip or omission: Provided also that where such rectification adversely affects any person, the principles of natural justice shall be followed by the authority carrying out such rectification.

Save as provided in sections 117 and 118, no civil court shall have jurisdiction to deal with or decide any question arising from or relating to anything done or purported to be done under this Act.

Wherever a copy of any order or document is to be provided to any person on an application made by him for that purpose, there shall be paid such fee as may be prescribed.

1. (1) The Government may, on the recommendations of the Council, by notification, make rules for carrying out the provisions of this Act.
2. (2) Without prejudice to the generality of the provisions of sub-section (1), the Government may make rules for all or any of the matters which by this Act are required to be, or may be, prescribed or in respect of which provisions are to be or may be made by rules.
3. (3) The power to make rules conferred by this section shall include the power to give retrospective effect to the rules or any of them from a date not earlier than the date on which the provisions of this Act come into force.
4. (4) Any rules made under sub-section (1) or sub-section (2) may provide that a contravention thereof shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding ten thousand rupees.

The Government may, by notification, make regulations consistent with this Act and the rules made thereunder to carry out the purposes of this Act.

Every rule made by the Government, every regulation made by the Government and every notification issued by the Government under this Act, shall be laid, as soon as may be after it is made or issued, before the State Legislature, while it is in session, for a total period of thirty days which may be comprised in one session or in two or more successive sessions, and if, before the expiry of the session immediately following the session or the successive sessions aforesaid, the State Legislature agrees in making any modification in the rule or regulation or in the notification, as the case may be, or the State Legislature agrees that the rule or regulation or the notification should not be made, the rule or regulation or notification, as the case may be, shall thereafter have effect only in such modified form or be of no effect, as the case may be; so, however, that any such modification or annulment shall be without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done under that rule or regulation or notification, as the case may be.

The Commissioner may, by notification, direct that subject to such conditions, if any, as may be specified in the notification, any power exercisable by any authority or officer under this Act may be exercisable also by another authority or officer as may be specified in such notification.

The Commissioner may, if he considers it necessary or expedient so to do for the purpose of uniformity in the implementation of this Act, issue such orders, instructions or directions to the State tax officers as it may deem fit, and thereupon all such officers and all other persons employed in the implementation of this Act shall observe and follow such orders, instructions or directions.

1[168A. Power of Government to extend time limit in special circumstances.- (1) Notwithstanding anything contained in this Act, the Government may, on the recommendations of the Council, by notification, extend the time limit specified in, or prescribed or notified under this Act in respect of actions which cannot be completed or complied with, due to force majeure.

1. (2) The power to issue notification under sub-section (1) shall include the power to give retrospective effect to such notification from a date not earlier than the date of commencement of this Act. Explanation.- For the purposes of this section, the expression "force majeure" means a case of war, epidemic, flood, drought, fire, cyclone, earthquake or any other calamity caused by nature or otherwise affecting the implementation of any of the provisions of this Act.]

1. (1) Any decision, order, summons, notice or other communication under this Act or the rules made thereunder shall be served by any one of the following methods, namely :-
   • (a) by giving or tendering it directly or by a messenger including a courier to the addressee or the taxable person or to his manager or authorised representative or an advocate or a tax practitioner holding authority to appear in the proceedings on behalf of the taxable person or to a person regularly employed by him in connection with the business, or to any adult member of family residing with the taxable person; or
   • (b) by registered post or speed post or courier with acknowledgement due, to the person for whom it is intended or his authorised representative, if any, at his last known place of business or residence; or
   • (c) by sending a communication to his e-mail address provided at the time of registration or as amended from time to time; or
   • (d) by making it available on the common portal; or
   • (e) by publication in a newspaper circulating in the locality in which the taxable person or the person to whom it is issued is last known to have resided, carried on business or personally worked for gain; or
   • (f) if none of the modes aforesaid is practicable, by affixing it in some conspicuous place at his last known place of business or residence and if such mode is not practicable for any reason, then by affixing a copy thereof on the notice board of the office of the concerned officer or authority who or which passed such decision or order or issued such summons or notice.
2. (2) Every decision, order, summons, notice or any communication shall be deemed to have been served on the date on which it is tendered or published or a copy thereof is affixed in the manner provided in sub-section (1).
3. (3) When such decision, order, summons, notice or any communication is sent by registered post or speed post, it shall be deemed to have been received by the addressee at the expiry of the period normally taken by such post in transit unless the contrary is proved.

The amount of tax, interest, penalty, fine or any other sum payable, and the amount of refund or any other sum due, under the provisions of this Act shall be rounded off to the nearest rupee and, for this purpose, where such amount contains a part of a rupee consisting of paise, then, if such part is fifty paise or more, it shall be increased to one rupee and if such part is less than fifty paise it shall be ignored.

1. (1) Any reduction in rate of tax on any supply of goods or services or the benefit of input tax credit shall be passed on to the recipient by way of commensurate reduction in prices.
2. (2) The Central Government may, on recommendations of the Council, by notification, constitute an Authority, or empower an existing Authority constituted under any law for the time being in force, to examine whether input tax credits availed by any registered person or the reduction in the tax rate have actually resulted in a commensurate reduction in the price of the goods or services or both supplied by him. 1[Provided that, the Government may by notification, on the recommendations of the Council, specify the date from which the said Authority shall not accept any request for examination as to whether input tax credits availed by any registered person or the reduction in the tax rate have actually resulted in a commensurate reduction in the price of the goods or services or both supplied by him. Explanation.- For the purposes of this sub-section, "request for examination" shall mean the written application filed by an applicant requesting for examination as to whether input tax credits availed by any registered person or the reduction in the tax rate have actually resulted in a commensurate reduction in the price of the goods or services or both supplied by him.]
3. (3) The Authority referred to in sub-section (2) shall exercise such powers and discharge such functions as may be prescribed. 2[(3A) Where the Authority referred to in sub-section (2), after holding examination as required under the said sub-section comes to the conclusion that any registered person has profiteered under sub-section (1), such person shall be liable to pay penalty equivalent to ten per cent. of the amount so profiteered: Provided that, no penalty shall be leviable if the profiteered amount is deposited within thirty days of the date of passing of the order by the Authority. Explanation 2[1].- For the purposes of this section, the expression "profiteered" shall mean the amount determined on account of not passing the benefit of reduction in rate of tax on supply of goods or services or both or the benefit of input tax credit to the recipient by way of commensurate reduction in the price of the goods or services or both.] 3[Explanation 2.- For the purposes of this section, the expression "Authority" shall include the "Appellate Tribunal".]

1. (1) If any difficulty arises in giving effect to any provisions of this Act, the Government may, on the recommendations of the Council, by a general or a special order published in the Official Gazette, make such provisions not inconsistent with the provisions of this Act or the rules or regulations made thereunder, as may be necessary or expedient for the purpose of removing the said difficulty: Provided that no such order shall be made after the expiry of a period of 1[five years] from the date of commencement of this Act.
2. (2) Every order made under this section shall be laid, as soon as may be, after it is made, before the State Legislature.

1. (1) Save as otherwise provided in this Act, on and from the date of commencement of this Act, the following laws are hereby repealed (hereinafter referred to as "the repealed Acts"), namely :-
   • (a) The Maharashtra Betting Tax Act, 1925 (VI of 1925).
   • (b) The Maharashtra Purchase Tax on Sugarcane Act, 1962 (Mah. IX of 1962).
   • (c) The Maharashtra Advertisements Tax Act, 1967 (Mah. XVIII of 1967).
   • (d) The Maharashtra Forest Development (Tax on sale of Forest Produce by Government or Forest Development Corporation) Act, 1983 (Mah. XXII of 1983).
   • (e) The Maharashtra Tax on Luxuries Act, 1987 (Mah. XLI of 1987).
   • (f) The Maharashtra Tax on Entry of Motor Vehicles into Local Areas Act, 1987 (Mah. XLII of 1987).
   • (g) The Maharashtra Tax on the Entry of Goods into Local Areas Act, 2002 (Mah. IV of 2003).
   • (h) The Maharashtra Tax on Lotteries Act, 2006 (Mah. XLIII of 2006).

1. (1) The repeal of the said Acts specified in section 173 shall not,-
   • (a) revive anything not in force or existing at the time at which such repeal takes effect; or
   • (b) affect the previous operation of any enactment or part thereof, so repealed and orders or anything duly done or suffered thereunder; or
   • (c) affect any right, privilege, obligation, or liability acquired, accrued or incurred under the repealed Acts, orders under repealed Acts; or
   • (d) affect any tax, surcharge, penalty, interest, fee or fine as are due or may become due or any forfeiture or punishment incurred or inflicted in respect of any offence or violation committed against the provisions of repealed Acts; or
   • (e) affect any investigation, inquiry, audit, assessment, reassessment, refund, determination, advance ruling, rectification and any other legal proceedings or recovery of arrears or remedy in respect of any such tax, surcharge, penalty, interest, fee, fine, right, privilege, obligation, liability, forfeiture or punishment, as aforesaid, and any such investigation, inquiry, audit, assessment, reassessment, refund, determination, advance ruling, rectification and any other legal proceedings or recovery of arrears or remedy in respect of any such tax, surcharge, penalty, interest, fee, fine, interest, right, privilege, obligation, liability, forfeiture or punishment, as aforesaid, may be instituted, continued or enforced, and any such tax, surcharge, penalty, interest, fee, fine, forfeiture or punishment may be levied or imposed as if these Acts had not been so repealed; or
   • (f) affect any proceedings including that relating to an appeal, revision, review or reference, instituted before, on or after the appointed day under the said repealed Acts or repealed provisions, and such proceedings shall be continued under the said repealed Acts or repealed provisions, as if this Act had not come into force;
   • (g) those laws (including any earlier law continued in force under any provisions thereof), and all rules, regulations, orders, notifications, forms, certificates and notices, appointments and delegation of powers issued under those laws and in force immediately before the appointed day shall, subject to the other provisions of this Act, in so far as they apply, continue to have effect after the appointed day for the purposes of the levy, returns, assessment, reassessment, appeal, determination, revision, rectification, reference, limitation, production and inspection of accounts and documents and search of premises, transfer of proceedings, payment and recovery, calculation of cumulative quantum of benefits, exemption from payment of tax and deferment of due date for payment of tax, cancellation of the certificate of entitlement, collection, or deduction of tax at source, refund or set off of any tax withholding of any refund, exemption from payment of tax, collection of statistics, the power to make rules, the imposition of any penalty, or of interest or forfeiture of an sum where such levy, returns, assessment, reassessment, appeal, determination, revision, rectification, reference, limitation, payment and recovery, calculation of cumulative quantum of benefits, exemption from payment of tax and deferment of due date for payment of tax, cancellation of the certificate of entitlement, collection, deduction of tax at source, refund, set-off, withholding of any refund exemption, collection of statistics, the power to make rules, limitation, production and inspection of accounts and documents and search of premises, transfer of proceedings, penalty, interest or forfeiture of any sum relates to any period ending before the appointed day, or for any other purpose whatsoever connected with or incidental to any of the purposes aforesaid and whether or not the tax, penalty, interest, sum forfeited or tax deducted at source, if any, in relation to such proceedings is paid before or after the appointed day.
2. (2) Without prejudice to the provisions contained in the foregoing sub-section, the provisions of sections 7 and 25 of the Maharashtra General Clauses Act (I of 1904) shall apply in relation to the repeal of any of the laws referred to in this section as if the law so repealed had been an enactment within the meaning of section 7 of the said Act.