Validation and savings

(a) all acts, proceedings or things done or taken by the State Government or by any officer of the State Government or by any other authority in connection with the assessment, re-assessment, levy or collection of any such tax, shall for all purposes be deemed to be, and to have always been done or taken in accordance with law; (b) no suit, appeal, application or other proceedings shall lie or be maintained or continued in any Court or before any Tribunal, officer or other authority, for the refund of any tax so paid; and (c) no Court, Tribunal, officer or other authority shall enforce any decree or order directing the refund of any such tax. (2) For the removal of doubts, it is hereby declared that nothing in sub-section (1) shall be construed as preventing a person,— (a) from questioning in accordance with the provisions of the Maharashtra State Tax on Professions, Trades, Callings and Employments Act, 1975, the Maharashtra Tax on Luxuries Act, 1987, the Maharashtra Tax on Entry of Motor Vehicles into Local Areas Act, 1987, the Maharashtra Tax on Entry of Goods into Local Areas Act, 2002 and the Maharashtra Value Added Tax Act, 2002, as amended by the Amendment Act, any assessment, re-assessment, levy or collection of tax referred to in sub-section (1), or (b) from claiming refund of any tax paid by him in excess of the amount due from him by way of tax under the Maharashtra State Tax on Professions, Trades, Callings and Employments Act, 1975, the Maharashtra Tax on Luxuries Act, 1987, the Maharashtra Tax on Entry of Motor Vehicles into Local Areas Act, 1987, the Maharashtra Tax on Entry of Goods into Local Areas Act, 2002 and the Maharashtra Value Added Tax Act, 2002, as amended by the Amendment Act. (3) Nothing in the Amendment Act shall render any person liable to be convicted of any offence in respect of anything done or omitted to be done by him, before the commencement of the Amendment Act, if such act or omission was not an offence under the Maharashtra State Tax on Professions, Trades, Callings and Employments Act, 1975, the Maharashtra Tax on Luxuries Act, 1987, the Maharashtra Tax on Entry of Motor Vehicles into Local Areas Act, 1987, the Maharashtra Tax on Entry of Goods into Local Areas Act, 2002, but for the amendments made by the Amendment Act; nor shall any person in respect of such act or omission be subject to a penalty greater than that which could have been inflicted on him under the law in force immediately before the commencement of the Amendment Act.