{"act":{"id":"assam-goods-services-tax-act-2017","short_title":"The Assam Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017","long_title":null,"act_number":"28","act_year":2017,"enact_date":null,"enforcement_date":null,"ministry":null,"department":null,"jurisdiction":"Assam","unit":"section","section_count":157,"in_force":true,"spent":false,"spent_note":null,"duplicate_of":null,"text_source":"ocr","scan_url":"https://indiacode.ecourtsindia.com/scan/fdbd939d-814c-496c-be80-1a4eb655bc6f.pdf","url":"https://indiacode.ecourtsindia.com/assam-goods-services-tax-act-2017/"},"unit":"section","section":{"number":"69","heading":null,"text":"(1) Where the Commissioner has reasons to believe that a person has committed any offence specified in clause (a) or clause (b) or clause (c) or clause (d) of sub-section (1) of section 132 which is punishable under clause (i) or (ii) of sub-section (1), or sub-section (2) of the said section, he may, by order, authorise any officer of State tax to arrest such person. (2) Where a person is arrested under sub-section (1) for an offence specified under sub-section (5) of section 132, the officer authorised to arrest the person shall inform such person of the grounds of arrest and produce him before a Magistrate within twenty four hours. (3) Subject to the provisions of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973, (a) where a person is arrested under sub-section (1) for any offence specified under sub-section (4) of section 132, he shall be admitted to bail or in default of bail, forwarded to the custody of the Magistrate; (b) in the case of a non-cognizable and bailable offence, the Deputy Commissioner or the Assistant Commissioner shall, for the purpose of releasing an arrested person on bail or otherwise, have the same powers and be subject to the same provisions as an officer-in-charge of a police station Power to summon persons to give evidence and produce documents .","html":"<p>(1) Where the Commissioner has reasons to believe that a person has committed any offence specified in clause (a) or clause (b) or clause (c) or clause (d) of sub-section (1) of section <a href=\"/assam-goods-services-tax-act-2017/section/132/\">132</a> which is punishable under clause (i) or (ii) of sub-section (1), or sub-section (2) of the said section, he may, by order, authorise any officer of State tax to arrest such person. (2) Where a person is arrested under sub-section (1) for an offence specified under sub-section (5) of section <a href=\"/assam-goods-services-tax-act-2017/section/132/\">132</a>, the officer authorised to arrest the person shall inform such person of the grounds of arrest and produce him before a Magistrate within twenty four hours. (3) Subject to the provisions of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973, (a) where a person is arrested under sub-section (1) for any offence specified under sub-section (4) of section <a href=\"/assam-goods-services-tax-act-2017/section/132/\">132</a>, he shall be admitted to bail or in default of bail, forwarded to the custody of the Magistrate; (b) in the case of a non-cognizable and bailable offence, the Deputy Commissioner or the Assistant Commissioner shall, for the purpose of releasing an arrested person on bail or otherwise, have the same powers and be subject to the same provisions as an officer-in-charge of a police station Power to summon persons to give evidence and produce documents .</p>","words":219,"text_source":"ocr"},"classification":[],"instruments":[],"judgments":[],"corresponds_to":[],"url":"https://indiacode.ecourtsindia.com/assam-goods-services-tax-act-2017/section/69/","note":null,"source_note":"Read from the Government's own scanned gazette with Azure Document Intelligence, then split into sections by their numbering. India Code publishes no text for this Act. The scan itself is mirrored into our own storage and served at /scan/fdbd939d-814c-496c-be80-1a4eb655bc6f.pdf, so the reading here can be checked against the page it came from without depending on India Code's own copy staying where it is (it was at https://indiacode.gov.in/server/api/core/bitstreams/0ebad97c-7474-4c53-a1c0-f3c3582cb481/content).","judgments_note":"Judgment holdings are the ratio decidendi as extracted from the order by eCourts India, reproduced unaltered. Reported judgments only.","licence":"Published with commentary and other original matter under s.52(1)(q)(ii), Copyright Act 1957."}