(1) When two or more companies are to be amalgamated by the order of a court or of the Central Government and the order is to take effect from a date earlier to the date of the order and any two or more of such companies have sold or purchased any goods to or from each other in the period commencing on the date from which the order is to take effect and ending on the date of the order, then such transactions of sale and purchase shall be included in the turnover of sales or of purchases of the respective companies and shall be assessed to tax accordingly.
(2) Notwithstanding anything contained in the said order of amalgamation, for all of the purposes of this Act, the said two or more companies shall be treated as distinct companies for all periods up to the date of the said order and the registration certificates of the said companies shall be cancelled, where necessary, with effect from the date of said order.
(3) Any tax or other sum found recoverable under this Act for the period prior to the operative date of amalgamation, from the company being amalgamated, shall be payable by the company formed after amalgamation.
(4) Words and expressions used in this section, but not defined shall have the respective meanings assigned to them in the Companies Act, 1956 (Central Act No. 1 of 1956).