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The Kerala General Sales Tax Act, 1963
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Body 3. Sales tax Authorities

(1) The Board of Revenue shall have and exercise all the powers and shall perform all the duties conferred or imposed upon it by or under this Act.

(1A) The Board of Revenue shall have superintendence over all officers and persons employed in the executive of this Act and the Board of Revenue may:-

    (a) call for returns from such officers and persons;

    (b) make and issue general rules and prescribe forms for regulating the practice and proceeding of such officers and persons;

    (c) issue such orders, instructions and directions to such officers and persons as it may deem fit, for the proper administration of this Act.

(2) The Government shall appoint as many Joint Commissioners, Deputy Commissioners, Appellate Commissioners, Inspecting Assistant Commissioners, Sales Tax Officers and such other officers as they think fit for the purpose of performing the function respectively assigned to them by or under this Act. Such officer shall perform the said functions within such local limits as the Government or any authority of officer empowered by them in this behalf may to them.

(3) All officers and persons employed in the execution of this Act shall observe and follow the orders, instructions and directions of the officers superior to them;

Provided that no such orders, instruction or directions shall be given so as to interfere with the discretion of the Appellate Assistant Commissioner in the exercise of his appellate functions

(4) The Board of Revenue or the Deputy Commissioner may, by order in writing;

    (a) transfer any case or cases relating to any assessee or class of assessees pending before an assessing authority to another assessing authority having jurisdiction to deal with such case or cases: or

    (b) specify one of the assessing authorities having jurisdiction over an area, which shall deal with any case or cases relating to any assessee or class of assessees.

(5) Where any case is transferred to an assessing authority under clause (a) of sub-section (4), such assessing authority may deal with the case either de novo or from the stage at which it was transferred.