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Section 9, Act, 1964, and shall come into force on the first day of Aprl: ment and
Status not yet checkedAct, 1964, and shall come into force on the first day of Aprl: ment and, Sierra Leone
(2) Section 67 of the principal Act as replaced by subsection (1) of this section shall apply to cases in which notice
of objection was given prior to the commencement of this Act
with the modification that the taxpayer shall become liable to
nay one-half of the disputed assessment on the commencement of this Act and the remaining one-half, subject to the proviso
to subsection (2) of the said section 67, at the expiration of threemonths after the commencement of this Act.".
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Section 72 of the principal Act is hereby amended(a) by the repcal and replacement of the marginal notethereto and subscctions (), (2) and (3) thereof by
the following new marginal note and subsections
72. (1) Thirty days after the date upon whichnotice of assessment has been served or posted in
accordance with the provisions of subsection (1) of
section 62 the Commissioner or a public officer
authorised by him in writing in that behalf may issuea warrant in the Form set out in the Fourth Schedule
under his hand to the Sherif, the Under-Sheriff or
any Deputy-Sheriff requiring him to levy the amountof any such assessment together with the amount of
any penalties payable under the terms of this Act on
the lands, goods and chattels of the taxpayer and the
aforesaid persons are hereby empowered and requiredto execute the said warrant and make a return there
to to a Magistrate's Court within thirty days after
the date thereof in all respects as if the said warrant
were a writ of fieri facias issued out of a Magistrate'sCourt:
Provided that the goods so seized shall neither
be remnoved from the premises of the taxpayer nor
sold for a period of ten days.
of Cap. 273.
of section 72
(2) Where the Commissioner has served a
notice under subsection (3) of section 67 specifying
the amount payable by the taxpayer under the pro
visions of that section he or any public officer autho
rised by him as aforesaid may, seven days after the
posting of such notice, in like manner issue a war
rant for the levying of that amount and such warrant
shall be executed in all respects in the same manner
as a warrant issued under subsection (1).
(3) Within the period of ten days referred to
in the proviso to subsection (1) the taxpayer may by
summons make an application to a Magistrate who
may grant a stay of execution for such time and on
such conditions as may appear to him to be reasonable if he is satisfied that the taxpayer
(a) has through no fault of his own failed to appeal
within the time allowed, and
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(c) has served a notice in writing of the date of
hearing of the summons on the Commissioner.
(4) A summons taken out under the provi
sions of subscction 3 of this section shall he heard by
a Magistrate within seven days of the application.".
(6) by renumbering the existing subsections (4) and (5)
thercof as subsections (5) and (6) respectively.
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