9, The following new section is hereby inserted immediately after section 7. and shall have effect as section 7A of the principal enactment:
| 7A. The Director-General or any excise officer not below the rank Superintendent call for authorized in that behalf by the Director- general may, for the purpose of ascertaining the value or verifying .any matter relative to the recovery of excise duty or with regard to any matter into which it is his duty to inquire under this Act, by order in writing require any person to give information or produce for examination any book of account, register, record or other document relating to any excisable article or samples of any excisable article which are in such persons power to give or produce, at such place and within such period as may be specified in such order and to allow such excise officer to examine and take copies of or make extracts from any such book of account, register, record or other document.. |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts