This is a REDUNDANT SECTION. Not applicable after 1-Oct-2004. Penalty for failure to comply with the provisions of section 206CA (of Income Tax Act, 1961).
(1) If a person fails to comply before the 1st day of October, 2004 with the provisions of section 206CA (of Income Tax Act, 1961), he shall, on an order passed by the Assessing Officer, pay, by way of penalty, a sum of ten thousand rupees.
(2) No order under sub-section (1) shall be passed unless the person on whom the penalty is proposed to be imposed, is given an opportunity of being heard in the matter.