The Gazette of India
EXTRAORDINARY
PART II—Section 3—Sub-section (i)
PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY
No. 68] NEW DELHI, FRIDAY, MAY 14, 1965/VAISAKHA 24, 1887
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CENTRAL BOARD OF DIRECT TAXES
NOTIFICATION
ESTATE DUTY
New Delhi, the 14th May 1965
G.S.R. 742.—In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) of section 85 of the Estate Duty Act, 1953 (34 of 1953), the Central Board of Direct Taxes hereby makes the following amendments in the Estate Duly Rules, 1953, the same having, been previously published as required by the said sub-section, namely:—
1. These rules may be called the Estate Duty (Amendment) Rules, 1965.
2. In the Estate Duty Rules, 1953,—
(a) rules 3 and 4 shall be omitted; (b) for rule 6, the following rule shall be substituted, namely: —
"6. Power of the Central Board of Direct Taxes to transfer proceedings.—
(1) Notwithstanding anything contained in rule 5, the Board may at any stage of the proceeding relating to the case of any estate transfer It from one assessing authority to another.
218 THE GAZETTE OF INDIA EXTRAORDINARY [PART II-SEC. J (i)l(3) Whenever, a Deputy Controller or an Assistant Controller ceases to exercise jurisdiction in respect of any proceeding under the Act and is succeeded by another who has or exercises such jurisdic- tion, the Deputy Controller or the Assistant Controller so succeed- ing may continue the proceeding from the siage at which it wes left by his predecessor:
Provided that the accountable person may, when the succeeding Deputy Controller or Assistant Controller commences to exercise juris- diction, demand that the previous proceeding or any part there- of taken before his predecessor be re-opened or that before any order imposing the duty is paused, he be re-heard,"
(c) in sub-rule (2) of rule 25. for the words "the Assistant Controller, the Deputy Controller or the Controller as the case may be", the word* "the Assistant Controller or the Deputy Controller, as the case may be" shall be substituted,
(d) sub-rule (6) of rule 26 shall be omitted. (e) Form E.D. 9 shall be omitted.
Explanatory Note
[This note is not part of the Notification but is intended to be merely clariflca- tory].
The Deputy Controllers of Estate Duty are no longer exercising any assessment powers and the Central Board of Direct Taxes is no longer an appellate authority to hear appeals against the orders of a Controller. It has, therefore, become neces- sary to make suitable amendments in the Estate Duty Rules, 1953.
{No. 8/F. No. 12/1/64-E.D.]
S. A. L. KARAYANA ROW, Member,