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Issues: Whether refusal to register the assessee-firm for the assessment year 1961-62 was in accordance with law, including whether the firm stood dissolved on the death of a partner, whether the renewal application was validly made, and whether the fresh registration application was time-barred.
Analysis: In the absence of any clause continuing the partnership after the death of a partner, the firm was taken to have dissolved on the death of the partner under the Partnership Act. Even so, the renewal application was not confined to the period up to the date of death and was signed only by the surviving partners, without any signature of the deceased partner's legal representatives. There was no material to show that the signatories acted in both their individual capacity and as heirs of the deceased. The application for fresh registration was also beyond time, and its rejection was therefore unassailable.
Conclusion: The refusal to register the assessee-firm was held to be in accordance with law and the question was answered against the assessee-firm.
Final Conclusion: The assessee-firm was not entitled to registration for the assessment year 1961-62, and the reference was answered in favour of the Revenue.
Ratio Decidendi: A renewal application for firm registration must comply with the statutory requirements as to the persons entitled to sign it and the period for which registration is sought; where the firm has dissolved on the death of a partner, an application signed only by surviving partners and unsupported by the legal representatives of the deceased is invalid.
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