Repeal and saving.

61. (1) The Haryana General Sales Tax Act, 1973 (20 of 1973), is hereby repealed:

(2) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (1), -

(a) any application, appeal, revision or other proceedings made or preferred to any authority under the said Act, and pending at the commencement of this Act, shall, after such commencement, be transferred to and disposed of by the officer or authority who would have had jurisdiction to entertain such application, appeal, revision or other proceedings under this Act as if it had been in force on the date on which such application, appeal, revision or other proceedings was made or preferred;

(b) any security in the form of cash deposit, bank guarantee, personal bond, surety bond or in any other form furnished on any day before the commencement of this Act for the payment of any tax or other dues under the said Act, shall remain in force and may be enforced after the commencement of this Act for the payment of any tax or other dues under this Act and for this purpose this Act shall be deemed to have come into force on the day such security was furnished;

(c) declaration in form S.T.38 in force under the said Act and the rules made thereunder shall remain in force after the appointed day and shall be used mutatis mutandis for the purpose for which it was being used before the appointed day until the State Government directs, by notification, the discontinuance of its use after such date as may be specified in the notification;

(d) the provisions of section 13B and section 25A of the said Act and the rules (hereinafter referred to as the ‘existing rules’), framed thereunder relating to tax concessions to industrial units shall remain in force subject to the following exceptions, restrictions and conditions, namely:–

(i) an industrial unit availing the benefit of exemption from payment of tax may, in the prescribed manner, change over to deferment of payment of tax for the remaining period and the remaining extent of benefit or for such period and such extent of benefit as may be prescribed but where an industrial unit does not choose to do so, exemption to it from payment of tax shall cease to take effect on and from the appointed day and further,-

(I) it shall be liable to maintain production at a level so that its annual turnover does not fall short of the average annual turnover during the period of exemption; and

(II) it shall not export out of State any goods produced by it, for a period of next five years or such shorter period for which it has availed of exemption from payment of tax and if it fails to do so, it shall be liable to pay to the State Government, in the prescribed manner the amount of tax in respect of which it has availed of exemption from payment after reducing therefrom the tax paid by it before such failure;

(ii) an industrial unit availing the benefit of capital subsidy may, in the prescribed manner, change over to deferment of payment of tax for the remaining period and the remaining extent of benefit but where an industrial unit does not choose to do so, the benefit of capital subsidy to it shall cease to take effect on and from the appointed day;

(iii) an industrial unit availing the benefit of deferment of payment of tax, whether by change over under the foregoing provisions or otherwise, may, in lieu of making payment of the deferred tax after five years, pay half of the amount of the deferred tax upfront along with the returns and on making payment in this manner, the tax due according to the returns shall be deemed to have been paid in full; and

(iv) the tax deferred in every other case shall be converted into interest free loan in the manner prescribed.

Explanation.– For the purpose of this clause, “tax” includes the tax under the Act of 1973 and the Central Act.