Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
( 1 ) Any operator objecting to a notice of demand served on him under section 9 may, within thirty days of the service thereof, appeal to the prescribed authority : Provided that no appeal shall be entertained unless it is accompanied by satisfactory proof of the payment of the tax admitted by the appellant to be due. ( 2 ) The prescribed authority may, after giving the appellant an opportunity of being heard, pass such orders on the appeal as it thinks fit.