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GOVERNMENT OF PUDUCHERRY
LAW DEPARTMENT
No. 112/Leg./2017-LD.
Puducherry, the 15th May 2017.
The following Act of the Legislative Assembly, Puducherry received
the assent of the Lieutenant-Governor, Puducherry, on the 9th day of
May, 2017 and is hereby published for general information :—
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No. 28
Poudouchéry
Mercredi
17
Mai
2017
No.
Puducherry
Wednesday
17th
May
2017
( 27 Vaisakha 1939 )
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THE PUDUCHERRY MUNICIPALITIES
(AMENDMENT) ACT, 2017
(Act No. 5 of 2017)
(9-5-2017)
AN
ACT
further to
amend
the
Puducherry Municipalities
Act, 1973.
BE it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of
Puducherry in the Sixty-eighth Year of the Republic of
India as follows :—
1. (1) This Act may be called the Puducherry
Municipalities (Amendment) Act, 2017.
(2) It shall come into force with effect from
the date of its publication in the Official Gazette.
2. In the Puducherry Municipalities Act, 1973
(hereinafter referred to as the Principal Act), for
Schedule-IV, the following Schedule shall be substituted,
namely:–
SCHEDULE-IV
[See section 144(1)(b)]
PROFESSION TAX
Persons shall be assessed by the Commissioner to
Profession tax under the following classes on a scale
to be determined by the Municipal Council from time
to time.
Provided that such scale shall be subject to the
maximum specified against each class.
Provided further that the proportion which the tax
on any class bears to the minimum income of that class
shall in no case be smaller than the proportion which
the tax on any lower class bears to the minimum
income of such lower class:
Short title and
commencement.
Amendment of
Schedule-IV.
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Class
Half-yearly
Maximum
income
half-yearly tax
(1)
(2)
(3)
(4)
`
`
`
I
Up to 99,999
.........
Nil
II
1,00,000
2,00,000
250
III
2,00,001
3,00,000
500
IV
3,00,001
4,00,000
750
V
4,00,001
5,00,000
1,000
VI
5,00,001
.........
1,250
and above
3. In the said Principal Act, 1973, in section 152,—
(i) for sub-section (1) the following sub-section
shall be substituted, namely:–
“Every person who erects, exhibits, fixes or
retains upon or over any land, building, wall,
hoarding or structure any advertisement or who
displays any advertisement to public view in any
manner whatsoever, in any place whether public or
private, shall pay on every advertisement which is so
erected, exhibited, fixed, retained, or displayed to
public view, a tax as determined by the Council at
such rates which shall not be less than the rates as
specified in Schedule-VII”.
(ii) for the existing Schedule-VII, the following
Schedule shall be substituted, namely:–
From
To
Amendment of
section 152.
Act
No. 9
of 1973.
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SCHEDULE-VII
(See section 152)
TAX ON ADVERTISEMENT OTHER THAN ADVERTISEMENTS
PUBLISHED IN THE NEWSPAPERS
Tax on advertisement other than advertisements published in the
newspapers shall be levied at such rates which shall not be less than
the following:–
Sl.
Description of advertisements
Minimum
No.
half-yearly tax
(1)
(2)
(3)
`
1
Illuminated advertisements on
200 per sq.mt.
land, building, wall hoardings
or frame, post, structures, etc.
2
Illuminated advertisement boards
250 per sq.mt.
carried on vehicles including
automobiles.
3
Non-Illuminated advertisements
100 per sq.mt.
on land, building, wall hoardings,
frame, post, structures, etc.
4
Non-Illuminated advertisements
100 per sq.mt.
suspended across streets.
5
Non-Illuminated advertisements
130 per sq.mt.
carried on vehicles including
automobiles.
6
Non-Illuminated advertisement
50 per sq.mt.
hoardings, standing blank but,
bearing the name of the advertiser
or with the announcement “To be
let” displayed thereon:
7
“Electronic Display Board”.
500 per sq.mt.
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online publication at “http://styandptg.puducherry.gov.in”
Government Central Press
Directorate of Stationery and Printing
Puducherry-605 009.
(iii) In sub-section (2), the following clause shall
be substituted, namely:–
“The rates of the tax shall be determined by the
Council subject to the condition that they shall not
be less than the minimum laid down in that
Schedule:”.
N. MURUGAVEL,
Under Secretary to Government (Law).
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