Section 501 — Service of notice, generally
(1) The service of a notice, or summon, or requisition, or order, or any other
communication, under this Act (herein referred to as communication) may
be made by delivering or transmitting a copy thereof, to the person therein named—
( a) by post or by such courier services as may be approved by the Board;
( b) in such manner as provided under the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 (5
of 1908) for the purposes of service of summons;
( c) in the form of any electronic record as provided in Chapter IV of the
Information Technology Act, 2000 (21 of 2000); or
( d) by any other means of transmission of documents, as may be prescribed.
(2) The Board may make rules providing for the addresses (including the address for
electronic mail or electronic mail message) to which the communication referred
to in sub-section (1) may be delivered or transmitted to the person therein named.
(3) For the purposes of this section, “electronic mail” and “electronic mail message”
means a message or information created or transmitted or received on a computer,
computer system, computer resource or communication device including attach -
ments in text, image, audio, video and any other electronic record, which may be
transmitted with the message.
Related sections
- Section 499 — Certain transfers to be void
- Section 500 — Provisional attachment to protect revenue in certain cases
- Section 502 — Authentication of notices and other documents
- Section 503 — Service of notice when family is disrupted or firm etc., is dissolved
- Section 504 — Service of notice in case of discontinued business
- Section 505 — Submission of statement by a non-resident having liaison office
- Section 506 — Furnishing of information or documents by an Indian concern in certain cases
- Section 507 — Submission of statements by producers of cinematograph films or persons engaged in specified activity
- Section 508 — Obligation to furnish statement of financial transaction or reportable account
- Section 509 — Obligation to furnish information on transaction of crypto-asset
- Section 510 — Annual information statement
- Section 511 — Furnishing of report in respect of international group
- Section 512 — Publication of information respecting assessees in certain cases
- Section 513 — Appearance by registered valuer in certain matters
- Section 514 — Registration of valuers
- Section 515 — Appearance by authorised representative
- Section 516 — Rounding off of amount of total income, or amount payable or refundable
- Section 517 — Receipt to be given
- Section 518 — Indemnity
- Section 519 — Power to tender immunity from prosecution
- Section 520 — Cognizance of offences
- Section 521 — Probation of Offenders Act, 1958 and section 401 of Bharatiya Nagarik Sura-ksha Sanhita, 2023, not to apply
- Section 522 — Circumstances in which return of income, assessment, approvals, etc., not to be invalid
- Section 523 — Notice deemed to be valid in certain circumstances
- Section 524 — Presumption as to assets, books of account, etc
- Section 525 — Authorisation and assessment in case of search or requisition
- Section 526 — Bar of suits in civil courts
- Section 527 — Power to make exemption, etc., in relation to participation in business of prospecting for, extraction, etc., of mineral oils
- Section 528 — Power of Central Government or Board to condone delays in obtaining approval
- Section 529 — Power to withdraw approval
- Section 530 — Act to have effect pending legislative provision for charge of tax
- Section 531 — Power to rescind exemption in relation to certain Union territories already granted under section 294A of the Income-tax Act, 1961
- Section 532 — Power to frame schemes
- Section 533 — Power to make rules
- Section 534 — Laying before Parliament
- Section 535 — Removal of difficulties
- Section 536 — Repeal and savings