Document — The West Bengal Motor Vehicles Tax Act, 1979

West Ben. Act IX of 1979. GOVERNMENT OF WEST BENGAL LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENT West Bengal Act XXIV of 1982 THE WEST BENGAL MOTOR VEHICLES TAX (AMENDMENT) Act, 1982. [Passed by the West Bengal Legislature. ] [Assent of the President was first published in the Calcutta Gazette, Extraordinary, of the 22nd February, 1983.] [22nd February, 1983.] An Act to amend the West Bengal Motor Vehicles Tax Act, 1979. WHEREAS it is expedient to amend the West Bengal Motor Vehicles Tax Act, 1979, for the purpose and in the manner hereinafter appearing; It is hereby enacted in the Thirty-third Year of the Republic of India, by the Legislature of West Bengal, as follows:- 1. (1) This Act may be called the West Bengal Motor Vehicles Tax (Amendment) Act, 1982. (2) It shall come into force on such date as the State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint. Short title and comm- encement. 2. In the West Bengal Motor Vehicles Tax Act, 1979, after Section Insertion of 5, the following Section shall be inserted:— new Section 5A in West Ben. Act IX "Special 5A. (1) Every person who is liable to pay under of 1979. provision regarding this Act tax in respect of a contract carriage plying on contract a specified route shall, at the time of paying the tax carriage. to the Taxing Officer, furnish a 'no objection certificate' from the person with whom the registered owner of the contract carriage has entered into a hire-purchase agreement (such person being hereafter in this Section referred to as the financier). (2) The provisions of sub-sections (5A) to (5D) of Section 31A 4 of 1939. of the Motor Vehicles Act, 1939 shall apply, mutatis mutandis, to every `no objection certificate' from the financier.". 167

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