Section 5- - Appointment of officers under the State Goods and Services Tax Act - MODEL GST LAW - Draft The Central / State Goods and Services Tax Act, 2016 - [November 2016]

5 Appointment of officers under the State Goods and Services Tax Act (1) The Government may appoint such persons as it may think fit to be officers under the State Goods and Services Tax Act: PROVIDED that the persons appointed as officers under the Central Goods and Services Tax Act shall be deemed to be appointed as officers under this Act for the purposes of section 7 of this Act. (2) The Commissioner shall have jurisdiction over the whole of the State, the Special Commissioner and an Additional Commissioner shall have jurisdiction over the whole of the State or where the State Government so directs, over any local area thereof, and all other officers shall, subject to such conditions as may be specified, have jurisdiction over the whole of the State or over such local areas as the State Government may specify. [SGST]