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Substituted by Act 5 of 2006 w.e.f. 1.4.2006. Provided that if the application for review is preferred within ninety days from the date on which the order to which the application relates is Entertainments Tax [1958: KAR. ACT 30 800 communicated to the applicant, the application shall be accompanied by half the fees which has been paid in respect of the appeal. (8) With a view to rectifying any mistake apparent from the record, the Appellate Tribunal may, at any time within five years from the date of any order passed by it under sub-section (5) or sub-section (7) amend such order: Provided that no order under this sub-section shall be made without giving both parties affected by the order a reasonable opportunity of being heard. (9) Except as provided in the rules made under this Act, the Appellate Tribunal shall not have power to award costs to either of the parties to the appeal or review. (10) Every order passed by the Appellate Tribunal under sub-section (5) or sub-section (7) or sub-section (8) shall be communicated to the appellant, the respondent, the authority on whose order the appeal was preferred and the Commissioner.]1 1[8-F. Revision by High Court in certain cases.- (1) Within one hundred and eighty days from the date on which an order under sub-section (5) or (7) or (8) of Section 8-E was communicated to him, the appellant or the respondent may prefer a petition to the High Court against the order on the ground that the Appellate Tribunal has either failed to decide or decided erroneously any question of law. (2) The High Court may admit a petition preferred after the period of one hundred and eighty days aforesaid if it is satisfied that the petitioner has sufficient cause for not preferring the petition within that period. (3) The petition shall be in the prescribed form, shall be verified in the prescribed manner, and shall, when it is preferred by any person other than an officer empowered by the Government under sub-section (1) of Section 8-E, be accompanied by a fee of one hundred rupees. (4) If the High Court, on perusing the petition, considers that there is no sufficient ground for interfering, it may dismiss the petition summarily: 1958: KAR. ACT 30] Entertainments Tax 801 (5) The High Court shall not dismiss any petition unless the petitioner has had a reasonable opportunity of being heard in support thereof. (6) (a) If the High Court does not dismiss the petition summarily, it shall, after giving both the parties to the petition a reasonable opportunity of being heard, determine the question or questions of law raised and either reverse, affirm or amend the order against which the petition was preferred or remit the matter to the Appellate Tribunal with the opinion of the High Court on the question or questions of law raised or pass such other order in relation to the matter as the High Court thinks fit. (b) Where the High Court remits the matter to the Appellate Tribunal under clause (a) with its opinion on questions of law raised, the latter shall amend the order passed by it in conformity with such opinion. (7) Before passing an order under sub-section (6) the High Court may, if it considers necessary so to do remit the petition to the Appellate Tribunal and direct it to return the petition with its finding on any specific question or issue. (8) Notwithstanding that a petition has been preferred under sub-section (1), the tax shall be paid in accordance with the assessment made in the case. (9) If as a result of the petition, any change becomes necessary in such assessment, the High Court may authorize the prescribed authority to amend the assessment and the prescribed authority shall amend the assessment accordingly and thereupon the amount overpaid by the person concerned shall be refunded to him without interest or the additional amount of tax due from him shall be collected in accordance with provisions of this Act, as the case may be. (10) (a) The High Court may, on the application of either party to the petition, review any order passed by it under sub-section (6) on the basis of facts which were not before it when it passed the order. Entertainments Tax [1958: KAR. ACT 30 802 (b) The application for review shall be preferred within such time and in such manner as may be prescribed, and shall where it is preferred by any person other than an officer empowered by the Government under sub- section (1) of Section 8-E be accompanied by a fee of one hundred rupees. (11) (a) With a view to rectifying any mistake apparent from the record, the High Court may, at any time within five years from the date of the order passed by it under sub-section (6), amend such order. (b) The High Court shall not pass an order under this sub-section without giving both parties affected by the order a reasonable opportunity of being heard. (12) In respect of every petition preferred under sub-section (1) or (10), the costs shall be in the discretion of the High Court.]1