Appointment of Officers under GST: VAT and sales tax designations mapped to State Tax officers, enabling administration under Ordinance Notification designates specific classes of officers from the Kerala VAT and General Sales Tax frameworks and maps their prior titles to corresponding State Tax roles to perform functions under the Kerala Goods and Services Tax Ordinance, 2017; the Government exercises its statutory power to notify and appoint officers and declares the appointments operative from the stated commencement date.