Act Number: 74

Act Name: The Central Sales Tax Act, 1956

Year: 1956

Enactment Date: 1956-10-21

Long Title: An Act to formulate principles for determining when a sale or purchase of goods takes place in the course of inter-State trade or commerce or outside a State or in the course of import into or export from India, to provide for the levy, collection and distribution of taxes on sales of goods in the course of inter-State trade or commerce and to declare certain goods to be of special importance in inter-State trade or commerce and specify the restrictions and conditions to which State laws imposing taxes on the sale or purchase of such goods of special importance shall be subject.

Ministry: Ministry of Finance

Department: Department of Revenue

Section 11: Cognizance of offences.
    (1) No court shall take cognizance of any offence punishable under this Act or the rules made thereunder except with the previous sanction of the Government within the local limits of whose jurisdiction the offence has been committed or of such officer of that Government as it may, by general or special order, specify in this behalf; and no court inferior to that of a presidency magistrate or a magistrate of the first class shall try and such offence.
     (2) All offences punishable under this Act shall be cognizable and bailable.
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