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(1) When any building or land is let to two or more persons holding in severalty, the Commissioner may, for the purpose of assessing such building or land to the property taxes, either treat the whole thereof as one property, or, with the written consent of the owner of such building or land, treat each several holding therein or any two or more of such several holdings together, or each floor or flat, as a separate property. (2) When the Commissioner has determined to treat all the several holdings comprised within any one building or land under this section as one property, he may subject to any general conditions which may, from time to time, be specified by the Standing Committee in this behalf, at any time not later than seven days before the first day on any half-year or quarter-year, as the case may be, for which an instalment of general tax shall be leviable in respect of the said property, sanction a draw-back of one-fifth part of the general tax so leviable. (3) Every person who applies for a draw back under sub-section (2) shall furnish to the Commissioner full and correct information regarding the property in respect of which the claim for drawback is made and the several Treatment of property which is let to two or more persons in separate occupancies. The assessment book to be made separately for each ward and in parts, if necessary. 196 [Act No. II of 1956] holdings comprised therein in such form and in such particulars as may be required by the Commissioner in accordance with general conditions specified in this behalf by the Standing Committee.