Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
Inserted by Act 5 of 2001 w.e.f. 1.4.2001 1[(3) Where the payment for admission to an entertainment is made wholly or partly by means of a lumpsum paid as a subscription or contribution or sponsorship fee or advertisement charges or by whatever name called to any institution or any other person, for a season ticket or for the right of admission to a series of entertainments or to any entertainment during a certain period of time, the entertainments tax shall be paid on the amount of the lumpsum, but where the 2[such authority as may be prescribed]2 is of opinion that the payment of a lumpsum or any payment for a ticket represents payment for other privileges, rights or purposes besides the admission to an entertainment, or covers admission to an entertainment during any period during which tax has not been in operation, the tax shall be levied on such an amount as appears to the 2[such authority as may be prescribed]2 to represent the right of admission to entertainments in respect of which the entertainments tax is payable.]1 3[Proviso x x x]3