Section 67 - Amendment of section 2. - Finance (No. 2) Act, 1998

67. Amendment of section 2. In-section 2 of the Wealth-tax Act,- (a) for clause (ca), the following clause shall be substituted with effect from the 1st day of October, 1998, namely:- (ca) Assessing Officer means the Deputy Commissioner of Income-tax or the Assistant Commissioner or the Income-tax Officer who is vested with the relevant jurisdiction by virtue of directions or orders issued under sub-section (1) or sub-section (2) of section 120 or any other provision of the Income-tax Act which apply for the purposes of wealth-tax under section 8 of this Act and also the Joint Commissioner who is directed under clause (b) of sub-section (4) of the said section 120 to exercise or perform all or any of the powers and functions conferred on or assigned to the Assessing Officer under that Act; ; (b) in clause (ea) with effect from the 1st day of April, 1999, (i) for sub-clause (i), the following sub-clause shall be substituted, namely:- (i) any building or land appurtenant thereto (hereinafter referred to as house ), whether used for residential or commercial purposes or for the purpose of maintaining a guest house or otherwise including a farm house situated within twenty-five kilometres from local limits of any municipality (whether known as Municipality, Municipal Corporation or by any other name) or a Cantonment Board, but does not include- (1) a house meant exclusively for residential purposes and which is allotted by a company to an employee or an officer or a director who is in whole-time employment, having a gross annual salary of less than five lakh rupees; (2) any house for residential or commercial purposes which forms part of stock-in-trade; (3) any house which the assessee may occupy for the purposes of any business or profession carried on by him; (4) any residential property that has been let-out for a minimum period of three hundred days in the previous year; (5) any property in the nature of commercial establishments or complexes; ; (ii) after clause (v), in the Explanation, in clause (b), in sub-clause (ii), for the words or any land held by the assessee as stock-In-trade for a period of five years from the date of its acquisition by him , the words or any land held by the assessee as stock-in-trade for a period of ten years from the date of its acquisition by him shall be substituted; (c) for clause (s), the following clause shall be substituted with effect from the 1st day of October, 1998, namely:- (s) the expressions Chief Commissioner, Director-General, Commissioner, Commissioner (Appeals), Director, Additional Director of Income-tax, Additional Commissioner of Income-tax, Joint Director, Joint Commissioner of Income-tax, Deputy Director, Deputy Commissioner, Assistant Commissioner, Assistant-Director, Income-tax Officer, Inspector of Income-tax and Tax Recovery Officer shall have the meanings respectively assigned to them under section 2 of the Income-tax Act. .