https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=113437 Section 38 of the Insurance Act limits the fee for acknowledgement of notice of assignment and does not confer an independent power on the Corporation to impose a service charge by circular. A levy styled as a service fee is valid only where there is statutory authorisation and a broad co-relation between the charge and the service rendered; absent delegated authority, the charge is ultra vires and without authority of law. The Article 14 challenge failed because the classification of assignees had an intelligible differentia and rational nexus, but the levy still infringed the rights protected by Articles 19(1)(g) and 300A. en-us Wed, 19 May 2010 00:00:00 +0530 Tue, 07 Oct 2014 10:45:00 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=113437 Section 38 of the Insurance Act limits the fee for acknowledgement of notice of assignment and does not confer an independent power on the Corporation to impose a service charge by circular. A levy styled as a service fee is valid only where there is statutory authorisation and a broad co-relation between the charge and the service rendered; absent delegated authority, the charge is ultra vires and without authority of law. The Article 14 challenge failed because the classification of assignees had an intelligible differentia and rational nexus, but the levy still infringed the rights protected by Articles 19(1)(g) and 300A. Case-Laws Companies Law Wed, 19 May 2010 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=113437