Section 8: Penalties

UP Electricity Duty Act 1952State Act of Uttar Pradesh · Act 33 of 1952

8. (1) If any person -

(a) required by section 5 to keep record or to submit returns fails to keep or submit the same in the prescribed manner or form, or

(b) intentionally obstructs an inspecting officer appointed under section 6 in the exercise of his powers and duties under this Act and the rules, or,

he shall be liable, on conviction before a Magistrate, to a fine not exceeding two hundred rupees.

[(2) If any person keeps any record or submits any return specified in section 5, which he knows or has reasonable cause to believe to be false, or not true in any material particular, he shall be punishable with a fine not exceeding one thousand rupees.]

Where this provision sits

Act	UP Electricity Duty Act 1952
Section	8
Marginal note	Penalties
Jurisdiction	State of Uttar Pradesh
Status	In force as published by the source

How this provision has been amended

Taken from the footnotes printed with the provision by the source. Where a footnote names the amending instrument, it is quoted as printed.

inserted. Renumbered and Ins. Sub-sec. (2) by sec. 8 of U.P. Act no. 2 of 1971.

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