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Persons by whom appearances may be made before revenue- officers as such and not as revenue courts.- (1) Appearances before a Revenue Officer as such, and applications to and acts to be done before him, under this Act may be made or done- (a) by the parties themselves, or (b) by their recognized agents or a legal practitioner. Provided that the employment of a recognized agent or legal practitioner shall not excuse the personal attendance of a party to any proceeding in any case in which personal attendance is specially required by an order of the officer. (2) For the purposes of sub-section (1), recognised agents shall be such persons as the [State] (Subs. for the word "Provincial" by the Adap- tation of taws Order, 1950) Government may by notification declare in this behalf. (3) The fees of legal practitioner shall not be allowed as cost in any proceedings before a Revenue Officer under this Act, unless that officer considers, for reasons to be recorded by him in writing that the fees should be allowed.