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16. Miscellaneous

(1) The summons under section 81 for the production of a document or for the appearance of any person shall be in Form PP.

(2) Where a person to whom a notice under section 45 is served objects to it by a statement under subsection (5) of section 45, such statement shall be in Form QQ.

 (3) A person other than the assessee or his agent or representative who appears pursuant to a summon under section 81 to give oral or documentary evidence shall be paid traveling allowance and bata at such rates as may be fixed by the State Government from time to time.

(4) The Government may, in the public interest or to mitigate hardship to the trade remit the whole or any part of the tax or penalty or fee payable in respect of any period by any dealer under section 31 subject to the condition that in respect of remission of tax the dealer had not collected tax on the turnover in respect of that period for which remission is sought to be granted.

(5) The notice for levy of penalty or interest will be issued in Form RR.

 (6) In the case of any guardian, trustee, or agent of any minor carrying on a business on behalf of and for the benefit of such minor, the tax shall be levied and collected from such guardian, trustee or agent, as if the minor was conducting the business and all the provisions of the Act and Rules made under shall apply accordingly.

 (7) In the case of business owned by a registered dealer whose estate or any portion of whose estate is under the control of the Court of Wards, the Administrator-General the Official Trustee or any Receiver or Manager (including any person, whatever be his designation), who in fact manages the business on behalf of the registered dealer appointed by, or under any order of a Court, the tax shall be levied upon and recoverable from such Court of Wards, AdministratorGeneral, Official Trustee, Receiver or Manager in like manner and on the same terms as it would be leviable upon and recoverable from the registered dealer as if he were conducting the business himself, and all the provisions of the Act and Rules made there under shall apply accordingly. 1