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Amendments made by Income-tax (Amendment) Act, 1973 in sections 269D and 269P - Implications explained
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....3, as passed by Parliament, received the assent of the President on December 25, 1973 and has been enacted as the Income-tax (Amendment) Act, 1973. This circular explains the provisions of the aforesaid Act (hereinafter referred to as "the Amending Act"). 2. The object of the Amending Act is to remove certain practical difficulties experienced in the administration of the provisions contained in ....
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....erty can be initiated by the competent authority has now been raised from six months to nine months from the end of the month in which the instrument of transfer in respect of the property is registered. This amendment has been made with retrospective effect from November 15, 1972 (i.e., from the date of coming into force of the provisions of Chapter XX-A with a view to protecting past cases where....
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....e injunction is vacated. In such cases, the extended period of limitation will be reckoned after excluding the time of the continuance of the injunction or order, the day on which it was issued or made and the day on which it was withdrawn [vide clause (b) of the second proviso to section 269D(1)]. 4. It is not unlikely that in some cases which have now been validated by the Amending Act, the con....
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....fore February 9, 1974), whichever period expires later. 5. Section 269P as it stood prior to its amendment by the Amending Act, provided that no registering officer shall register any document purporting to transfer any immovable property unless a statement in duplicate in respect of such transfer is furnished to him along with the instrument of transfer. The statement was required to be furnishe....