Section 67: Power of Chief Administrative Officer to direct any person to make payments.

(1) Notwithstanding anything contained in any other law for the time being in force, the Chief Administrative Officer, if he is satisfied that it is necessary and expedient so to do, make an order directing any person with whom any money belonging to a trust or endowment, is deposited, to pay the contribution, leviable under section 66, out of such money, as may be standing to the credit of the trust and endowment, by way of deposit, or in any other manner and on receipt of such orders, such person, shall, where no appeal has been preferred under subsection (3), comply with such orders or where an appeal has been preferred under sub-section (3), shall comply with the orders made by the Court on such appeal. (2) Every payment made by a person in pursuance of any order made under sub-section (1), shall operate as a full discharge of the liability of such person in relation to the sum so paid. (3) Any person who is ordered under sub-section (1) to make any payment may, within thirty days from the date of the order, prefer an appeal against such order to the Court and the decision of the Court on such appeal shall be final. (4) Every person who fails, without any reasonable excuse to comply with the order made under sub-section (1) or, as the case may be, under sub-section (3), shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to six months or with fine which may extend to eight thousand rupees, or with both.