The Tamil Nadu Prevention of Incitement to refuse on defer Payment of Tax Act, 1981.

 
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The Tamil Nadu Prevention of Incitement to Refuse or Defer Payment of Tax 
Act, 1981 
 
Act 9 of 1981 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Keyword(s): 
Public Servant, Government, Payment of Tax 
 
TAMIL NADU ACT NO. 9 OF 1981.2 
THE TAMIL NADU PREVENTION OF INCITEMENT 
TO REFUSE OR DEFER PAYMENT WTAX ACT, 1981. 
[Received the assent of the President on the 3rd M~ch 
1981, first published in the Tamil Nadu Oovermept 
Gazette Extraordinary, on the 3rd Mmh 1981 (Mad 
20, ~owthiri-2012-Tir uvalluvar Aundu).] 
An Act to prevent incitement to re use or defer payment f of tax and other dues payab e to the Government, 
local authorities, etc. 
BE it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Tamil 
Nadu in the Thirty-Second Year of the Republic of India 
as follows :- 
S%rt t itk and 1. (1) This Act may be called the Tamil Nadu Preven- 
C6~nmence~5nt4 tion of Incitement to Refuse or Defer Payment of Tax 
Act, 1981. 
(2) It shall be deemed to have come into f~ on 
the 10th November 1980. 
Dednttiom. 2. In this Act, dss the context otherwise reqm'res,- 
(a) " Government " mean:: the State Government ; 
(b) '~ublic servant " shall have ths same meaning 
as in section 21 of the Indian Penal Code (Ccntral Act 
XLV of 1860). 
P-haea for 3. Notwithstanding anything cantdwd in any la+ for 
iaeitemont to the timr; bdng in force, whoever by words, &her spoken refvse or defer pa+nt 0': written, or by signs or by visible representations, or 
of land otherwise,-- r8vanve; tax, 
c~c., d~i8 t~ 
the Govern- 
ment, etc. 
(aj (i) encourages or incites any person or cb of 
persons, or the public generally, to refuse or defer payment 
of, or to rssist or obstruct payment or co1Iection of, any 
land revenue, tax, rat% ass or other dues or amount 
payable to the Government or any local authority, or 
ayable under any law or custom havin8 the form of law 
f~r any services rendered to the communrty or any rat of 
agricultural land or anything recoverable aS arrears of 
*Fox Ststement of Objects and Reasons, see . TumfJ Nadu 
Gov~~~en~ Gazette Extraordinary, dated the 29th fanuam 1981, 
Pan N-Section 1, Page 50. 
1981: T. R Act 91 Prerentionaffncfte~ettrt~ 147 
Refuse or Defer Puyment Tax 
or along with, such rent and if such encouragement or 
incitement undermines the security of the State or puUe 
order or decency or morality or the sovereignty of India J 
or 
(ii) encourages or incites any person or class of 
persons, or the public generally, to refuse or defer payment 
sf, or to resist or obstruct payment or collection of,- 
$" (A) any rate, cess or other dues or amount payabh 
to the Tml Nadu Electricity Board and if such encourajc 
ment or incitement undermines the security of the State 
or public order or decency or morality ; or 
(B) any dues or amount payable to any co- 
operative society (including State and primary land 1 
development banks), registered or deemed to be registered 
under the Tamil Nadu Co-operative Socielies Act, 1961 ,. . . (Tamil Nadu Act 53 of 1961) and if such encouragement 
. or incitement undermines the security of the State or 
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public order or decency or morality, or 
(b) instigates ciirectly or indirectly the use of criminal 
force against public Fervants generally or any class of 
public servants or any inaivi~ual public servant, 
sfuill be punished with rigorous impriscnment for a term 
which may extend to five years ard wlth fine which may 
extend to five thousand ruptes, but such rigorcus im- 
prisonment shall not be less than two years ano such 
fine shall not be less tnan threc thousand rupees. 
4. Whoever abets the commirsion of any offence ~betme.1 tab. 
punishable under section 3 shall be deemed to have corn- an offence. 
mitted that offence. 
5. (1) Where an offence under this Act has ken My S 
comtted by a company, every person, who, at tk Companer* 
tlme the offence was committed, wac in charge oi, b~d was 
responsible to, the corn any for ine conduct of the business 
of the company, as we f 1 as tae company, shall be deemed to be guilty of the offence and shall be liable to be pro- 
ceeded against and punished accordingly : 
Provided that nothing contained in this sub-sedio~ 
shall render any such person liable to any punishment, if 
he proves, that the offence was committed wjthout b@ 
knowledge, or that he had exercised all due diligence to 
prevent the commission of such offence. 
125-1 2-10A 
1 48 Pre ven tion of Znc f temen t id [I981 f T.N. 9 
Refice or Defer Payment of Tm 
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(2) Notwithstanding anything ccntaned in sub. 
section (I), where 'any offence under this Act has been 
committea by a company and it is proved that the dffe~ce 
has been committed with the consent or connivance of, 
or is attributabb to any neglect on the part of, any drector, 
manager, secretary or othtr officer of the company, such 
director, mrtnager, secretary or other officer shiill also be 
deemed to be guilty of that offence and shall be liable to 
t - nroceeded against and punished accordingly. 
Explanation.-For the purpose of this section,- 
(a) " company " means any body corporate and 
includes a firm or other association of individuals ; and 
(6) " director " in relation to a firm mhans ? partner 
in the firm. 
Power toma ke 
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rules, 6. (1) The Government may make rnles to ;carry out 1 
the purpose of this Act. 
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(2) All rules made under this Act shall be publisbd 
in the Tamil Nadu Government Gazette and unles 'tl&y are 
'expressed to come into force on a 8bll come into fore on the day on which they are so pu LsW. 
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(3) Every iule made under this Act shall; as:; eon'! as 
possible after it is made, be placed on the ~able%ffb~th 
Houses of the Legislatuie, and if, before the exfi3@f%f.the 
session in which it is so placed or the next setpion, 1 bbth 
:Houses agree in making any modification ih aaLfly"$btxch 
j ,: +b :. . ': .rule or {both Houses agree that the rule should not be + .,a. 
- ... I . . . ,pade, tl; e rule shall thereafter have effect dfy ih such modified form or be of no effect, as the case say be;cso, 
however, that any such modification or annulmht  shall 
p! , .": , -. J* 9 . be without prejudice to the validity of anything previously . P 
,aC jq4 cz.epr , , done under 'that ,rule. iii :. 
#e and 
s'tr, . #d :, -- Refuse or Defer Payment of Tax 0rdioa nace, !'1980-~@a~il 
7. (1) The ~amii Nadu Prevention of Incitkment7 t'o 
.s , $%k4 a. ' * Nadu Ordirianp 9 of 1980) and the 'Tamil Nadu,~~qy~~- 
-, +, 
': tion of Incitement: to Refuse. or Defer ~~yq~$t if ,Tm 
t . (Amendment) Ordinance, 198 1 (Tamil Nqdq , Oq&wce 
t -1 of 1981), are hereby repealed. a --.. 
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, . (2) ~otwithstank*~ such repeal, inyt~d''i done or 
,: if any action taken under the said Tamil Nadu . 'QrduPoe 
'1 ~9 of 1980, as amended by the said Tamil Nidu $;Driji*&ce 
1 of 1981, shall be deenied to have been dooe*or2't&ken 
under this Act. . , . . is 
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