Where any amount payable by a person (hereafter referred to in this rule as ―the defaulter‖) to the Government under any of the provisions of the Act or the rules made thereunder is not paid, the proper officer may require, in FORM GST DRC-09, a specified officer to deduct the amount from any money owing to such defaulter in accordance with the provisions of clause (a) of sub-section (1) of section 79.
Explanation.-For the purposes of this rule, ―specified officer‖ shall mean any officer of the Central Government or a State Government or the Government of a Union territory or a local authority, or of a Board or Corporation or a company owned or controlled, wholly or 114 Inserted vide notification No. 48/2018-CT, dated 10.09.2018.
115 Inserted vide notification No. 28/2018-Central Tax, dated 19.06.2018.
125 partly, by the Central Government or a State Government or the Government of a Union territory or a local authority.