Benami property: removal provisions for adjudicating authority members were omitted; previously specified grounds and hearing. Section 14, formerly governing removal of the Chairperson and Members of the Adjudicating Authority, listed substantive grounds-insolvency, conviction for offences of moral turpitude, incapacity, conflicting financial or other interests, and abuse of position-and required a reasonable opportunity to be heard before removal on grounds of interest or abuse; the provision was inserted by the 2016 amendment and later omitted by the 2021 Finance Act.
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Benami property: removal provisions for adjudicating authority members were omitted; previously specified grounds and hearing.
Section 14, formerly governing removal of the Chairperson and Members of the Adjudicating Authority, listed substantive grounds-insolvency, conviction for offences of moral turpitude, incapacity, conflicting financial or other interests, and abuse of position-and required a reasonable opportunity to be heard before removal on grounds of interest or abuse; the provision was inserted by the 2016 amendment and later omitted by the 2021 Finance Act.
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