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54. Hearings
(1) Unless the person making the objection has expressly waived the personal hearing, the Commissioner or the Value Added Tax Authority (together referred to in this rule as authority) deciding the objection shall pass the order on the objection after affording a reasonable opportunity of being heard to such person or his authorised representative.
(2) The authority deciding the objection may before deciding the objection, cause such further and other enquiry or direct such enquiry to be held by the authority against whose decision the objection has been preferred, as the authority deciding the objection may consider necessary. The authority against whose order or decision or assessment the objection has been preferred may be represented by a person authorised by him.
(3) The authority deciding the objection shall not at any hearing, allow the objector to argue or present any ground of objection not specified in the objection unless the authority is satisfied that omission of that ground there from was not willful or unreasonable. |
