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The Bihar Electricity Duty Rules, 1949

The Bihar Electricity Duty Rules, 1949

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Sections

1. Short title.

Section 1

2. Definitions.

Section 2

7. Method of payment.

Section 7

8. Submission of challans with returns.

Section 8

9A. Submission of return by an assessee having more places of business than one.

Section 9A

10. Rebate.

Section 10

12. Assessment.

Section 12

15A. Refund payment order.

Section 15A

16. Power to enter premises and seize papers.

Section 16

17. Reading of meters.

Section 17

18. Adjustment.

Section 18

19. Provision of meters.

Section 19

20. Books of accounts.

Section 20

21. Notices.

Section 21

22. Punishment.

Section 22

1. Name of the assessee:

Section 1

2. Status (Whether individual, a Hindu undivided family firm, limited company, association of persons etc.)

Section 2

3. Name and designation of the person in charge of management.

Section 3

4. Nature of business (state whether generation, distribution, consumption or combination of any of these)

Section 4

5. Location of generating plant.

Section 5

6. Location of distributing plant.

Section 6

7. Address of office or any other place where notices and communications should be ordinarily despatched-

Section 7

8. Boundary of the area of supply

Section 8

9. State if the energy is supplied to consumers in metered or unmetered premises or both.

Section 9

10. Complete list of other places of generation and/or distribution for which the assessee holds separate licence and for which separate application has been/will be made.

Section 10

11. Total units generated during the previous year.

Section 11

12. Books of accounts ordinarily maintained.

Section 12

13. Particulars of persons having interest in the business in case of an assessee other than a company registered under the Indian Companies Act, 1913 (VII of 1913).

Section 13

14. I declare that t he above statements are true and complete to the best of my knowledge and belief.

Section 14

1. Name of the assessee-

Section 1

2. Name of the person incharge of management

Section 2

3. Nature of business-

Section 3

4. Location of generating/distributing plant.

Section 4

5. Name of the Treasury where the duty is to be deposited-

Section 5

1. Books of Accounts maintained under Section 5 of the Bihar Electricity Duty Act, 1948.

Section 5

2. All other relevant documents and papers relating to and in support of the return required to be verified.

Section 2

1. This exemption shall be available to unit going into production on or after 1st September, 1986, for a period of five years from the date on which the unit starts its production.

Section 1

2. The exemption will be admissible only on electrical energy used for production purposes.

Section 2

3. This exemption shall be limited to the extent of 25 percent of electricity duty payable or Rs. one lakh, whichever is less in year.

Section 3

4. This exemption shall not be admissible to Atta Chakkies, Hullars, Cold Storage, Cinema and Hotels.

Section 4

5. The Notification No. S.O. 645, dated 15th May, 1986, is hereby superseded, but units which have gone into production before 1st September, 1986 and have not availed of the facilities of exemption as provided in resolution No. 1153, dated the 30th January, 1981 of the Department of Industries for the full period of five years of their eligibility, shall be entitled to avail of the exemption for the remaining period of admissibility.

Section 5

6. This exemption shall be admissible only, to such unit which is registered as large, medium, small or tiny Industrial unit by Industries Department, or a competent authority of Government of India.

Section 6

7. If the concerned unit itself generates electrical energy and/or registered as assessee under the Bihar Electricity Duty Act, 1948, it shall keep separate accounts of total energy generated, energy used for production purposes and energy used for other than production purposes and shall produce the same for verification of the claim for exemption.

Section 7

8. If the concerned unit purchases electrical energy either from Bihar State Electricity Board or any other Licencee it will furnish to the seller a certificate of declaration (in the form appended herewith) which shall be filed by the seller before the assessing authority as an evidence for exemption from duty under this notification.

Section 8

9. If a small Industrial unit is converted into a medium Industrial unit, the said facility of exemption from the electricity duty to a small Industrial unit, shall be admissible for the remaining period of eligibility or for a period of two years, whichever is earlier from the date of registration of that unit as medium Industrial unit.

Section 9

10. In case of violation of any of the aforesaid condition or conditions or issuing a wrong certificate or furnishing wrong figures in respect of energy consumed for production purpose, this facility of exemption from electricity duty shall be treated as cancelled from the beginning and the owner of the Industries shall be liable for the payment of entire amount of duty.

Section 10

11. This notification shall be deemed to have come into force from the 1st September, 1986 and shall remain valid up to 31st August, 1991.

Section 11