(1) If the Commissioner considers that for the purposes of the better administration it is necessary so to do, he may by notification in the Official Gazette, direct that statistics be collected relating to any matter dealt with, by or in connection with this Regulation.
(2) Upon such direction being made, the Commissioner or any person or persons authorised by him in this behalf may call upon all dealers or any class of dealers or persons to furnish such information or statements as may be stated therein relating to any matter in respect of which statistics are to be collected and the form in which the persons to whom or, the authorities to which, such information or returns should be furnished, the particulars which they should contain, and the intervals in which such information or returns should be furnished, shall be such as may be prescribed:
Provided that the call for information may be made by notification in the Official Gazette, by notice in newspapers or in such other manner as, in the opinion of the Commissioner or the said person, is best calculated to bring to the attention of the dealers and other persons.
(3) Without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing provisions, the Government may by rules provide that every dealer or, as the case may be, any class of dealer shall furnish such statements as may be prescribed, with the self assessment, and different provisions may be made for different classes of dealers.
Publication and disclosure of information in respect of dealers and other persons in public interest.
Power to collect statistics.
2 of 1899.
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(4) (a) The Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, provide that the provisions contained in the Information Technology Act, 2000, as amended from time to time, and the rules made and directions given under that Act, including the provisions relating to digital signatures, electronic governance, attributation, acknowledgement and dispatch of electronic records, secure electronic records and secure digital signatures and digital signature certificates as are specified in the said notification, shall, insofar as they may, as far as feasible, apply to the procedures under this Regulation.
(b) Where a notice or communication is prepared on any automated data processing system and is properly served on any dealer or person, then, the said notice or communication shall not be required to be personally signed by the Commissioner or any other officer subordinate to him, and the said notice or communication shall not be deemed to be invalid only on the ground that it is not personally signed by the Commissioner.
111. The Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, set up check-posts or barriers, or both, at any place in Andaman and Nicobar Islands with a view to prevent evasion of tax and other dues payable under this Regulation.