Finance Act, 1958

Notices.

5.—(1) Any notice which under the Income Tax Acts is authorised or required to be given by the Revenue Commissioners or an inspector of taxes or other officer of the Revenue Commissioners may be served by post.

(2) Any notice which under the Income Tax Acts is authorised or required to be given by the Revenue Commissioners may be signed and given by an officer of the Revenue Commissioners authorised by them for the purpose of giving notices of the class to which the notice belongs and, if so signed and given, shall be as valid and effectual as if signed under the hands of the Revenue Commissioners and given by them.

(3) Prima facie evidence of any notice given under the Income Tax Acts by the Revenue Commissioners or an inspector of taxes or other officer of the Revenue Commissioners may be given in any proceedings by production of a document purporting to be a copy of the notice, and it shall not be necessary to prove the official positions or position of the persons or person by whom the notice purports to be given or, if it is signed, the signatures or signature or that the persons or person signing and giving it were or was authorised so to do.

(4) This section shall have effect notwithstanding any other provision of the Income Tax Acts.

(5) This section shall come into operation on the passing of this Act, but as well as applying to notices given after such passing, it shall also apply, and be deemed always to have applied, to notices given before such passing.