{"act":{"id":"finance-act-2000","short_title":"The Finance Act, 2000","long_title":"An Act to give effect to the financial proposals of the Central Government for the financial year 2000-2001.","act_number":null,"act_year":2000,"enact_date":null,"enforcement_date":null,"ministry":"Ministry of Finance","department":"Department of Revenue","jurisdiction":"CENTRAL","unit":"section","section_count":82,"in_force":true,"spent":false,"spent_note":null,"duplicate_of":null,"text_source":"published","scan_url":null,"url":"https://indiacode.ecourtsindia.com/finance-act-2000/"},"unit":"section","section":{"number":"117","heading":"Validation of certain action taken under Service Tax Rules","text":"Validation of certain action taken under Service Tax Rules. 117. Notwithstanding anything contained in any judgment, decree or order of any court, Tribunal or other authority, sub-clauses (xii) and (xvii) of clause (d) of sub-rule (1) of rule 2 of the Service Tax Rules, 1994 as they stood immediately before the commencement of the Service Tax (Amendment) Rules, 1998 shall be deemed to be valid and to have always been valid as if the said sub-clauses had been in force at all material times and accord­ingly,— (i) any action taken or anything done or purported to have been taken or done at any time during the period commencing on and from the 16th day of July, 1997 and ending with the day, the Finance Act, 2000 receives the assent of the President shall be deemed to be valid and always to have been valid for all pur­poses, as validly and effectively taken or done; (ii) any service tax refunded in pursuance of any judgment, decree or order of any court striking down sub-clauses (xii) and (xvii) of clause (d) of sub-rule (1) of rule 2 of the Service Tax Rules, 1994 before the date on which the Finance Act, 2000 re­ceives the assent of the President shall be recoverable within a period of thirty days from the date on which the Finance Act, 2000 receives the assent of the President, and in the event of non-payment of such service tax refunded within this period, in addition to the amount of service tax recoverable, interest at the rate of twenty-four per cent per annum shall be payable, from the date immediately after the expiry of the said period of thirty days till the date of payment. Explanation.—For the removal of doubts, it is hereby declared that no act or omission on the part of any person shall be pun­ishable as an offence which would not have been so punishable if this section had not come into force. ** ** ** © Copyright. Taxmann Publications Pvt. Ltd.","html":"<p><b>Validation of certain action taken under Service Tax Rules.</b></p><p><b>117.</b> Notwithstanding anything contained in any judgment, decree or order of any court, Tribunal or other authority, sub-clauses (<i>xii</i>) and (<i>xvii</i>) of clause (<i>d</i>) of sub-rule (1) of rule 2 of the Service Tax Rules, 1994 as they stood immediately before the commencement of the Service Tax (Amendment) Rules, 1998 shall be deemed to be valid and to have always been valid as if the said sub-clauses had been in force at all material times and accord­ingly,—</p><p>(<i>i</i>) any action taken or anything done or purported to have been taken or done at any time during the period commencing on and from the 16th day of July, 1997 and ending with the day, the Finance Act, 2000 receives the assent of the President shall be deemed to be valid and always to have been valid for all pur­poses, as validly and effectively taken or done;</p><p>(<i>ii</i>) any service tax refunded in pursuance of any judgment, decree or order of any court striking down sub-clauses (<i>xii</i>) and (<i>xvii</i>) of clause (<i>d</i>) of sub-rule (1) of rule 2 of the Service Tax Rules, 1994 before the date on which the Finance Act, 2000 re­ceives the assent of the President shall be recoverable within a period of thirty days from the date on which the Finance Act, 2000 receives the assent of the President, and in the event of non-payment of such service tax refunded within this period, in addition to the amount of service tax recoverable, interest at the rate of twenty-four per cent per annum shall be payable, from the date immediately after the expiry of the said period of thirty days till the date of payment.</p><p><i>Explanation.</i>—For the removal of doubts, it is hereby declared that no act or omission on the part of any person shall be pun­ishable as an offence which would not have been so punishable if this section had not come into force.</p><p>** ** **</p><p>© Copyright. Taxmann Publications Pvt. Ltd.</p>","words":335,"text_source":"published"},"classification":[],"instruments":[],"judgments":[],"corresponds_to":[],"url":"https://indiacode.ecourtsindia.com/finance-act-2000/section/117/","note":null,"source_note":"Harvested from the Income Tax Department's own portal at incometaxindia.gov.in, which publishes the Finance Acts section by section. India Code carries none of them: its Central community holds the Acts that stand as general law, and a Finance Act is an amending and rate-fixing instrument.","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."}