Friday, March 29, 2013

Definitions in the Act

Section 2 of the LBT Rules (Act) defines the following terms 

The exact wordings of Section 2 of the act are reproduced below :-

In these rules, unless the context otherwise  requires,-

(a)  "Act " means the Bombay Provincial Municipal Corporations  Act, 1949 (Bom LIX of 1949) ;

(b) "Appointed  day" means the day as notified by the Government,  in the Official Gazette, to be the day from which the levy of local body tax is to commence in the area of a Corporation.

(c) "Designated Bank" means the bank authorized by the Corporation, to accept the payment oflocal body tax on its behalf.

(d) "Form" means a form appended  to these   rules.

(e) "Section" means a section of the Act.

(j) "Schedule A:", in relation to a Corporation,  means a   schedule as notified by the State Government in the Official Gazette, under  the provisions of section 99B enumerating goods on which and the rates  at which    local body tax is leviable under  the provisions of the Act, in the area of such Corporation.


(g)  "Schedule B", in relation to a Corporation, means a schedule as notified by the State Government in the Official Gazette, under the provisions of section 152Q enumerating goods on which no local body tax is leviable under  the provisions of the Act,  in the area of  such Corporation.

(h)  ''Notified day" means the day on which the Government  publishes  a notification in the Official Gazette, directing  a Corporation to levy in lieu of octroi, cess ro, as the case may be, local body tax, in its area.