Limitation for recovery sales extends only for live claims, with COVID-19 and stay periods excluded for quasi-judicial proceedings.

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....Extended limitation for sale of attached immovable property operates retrospectively as a procedural amendment only where the original limitation had not expired when the amendment took effect; it cannot revive already time-barred recovery claims. The seven-year period therefore applied to later assessment years whose unamended limitation remained alive, while sale proceedings for earlier time-barred years were barred. Tax Recovery Officer functions concerning attachment, sale proclamation and setting aside sales are quasi-judicial, allowing exclusion of the Supreme Court-prescribed COVID-19 limitation period and court-ordered stay periods. Where no appeal is filed, limitation under Rule 68B begins after expiry of the notice-of-demand period, when the assessment becomes final for recovery purposes.....