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Section 46A: Power to make exemption, etc., in relation to certain Union territories

The Wealth-Tax Act, 1957Central Act · Act 27 of 1957

[Power to make exemption, etc., in relation to certain Union territories.

If the Central Government considers it necessary or expedient so to do for avoiding any hardship or anomaly or removing any difficulty that may arise as a result of the application of this Act to the Union territories of Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Goa, Daman and Diu, and Pondicherry, or in the case of the Union territory of Pondicherry, for implementing any provision of the Treaty of Cession concluded between France and India on the 28th day of May, 1956, that Government may, by general or special order, make an exemption, reduction in rate or other modification in respect of wealth-tax in favour of any class of assets or in regard to the whole or any part of the net wealth of any assessee or class of assessees:

Provided that the power conferred by this section shall not be exercisable after the 31st day of March, 1967, except for the purposes of rescinding an exemption, reduction or modification already made.]

Where this provision sits

ActThe Wealth-Tax Act, 1957
Section46A
Marginal notePower to make exemption, etc., in relation to certain Union territories
JurisdictionCentral
StatusIn 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. Inserted by the Taxation Laws (Extension to Union Territories) Regulation, 1963, w.e.f. 1-4-1963.

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