Notification No. 249

Any income received by any person on behalf of "National Highways Authority of India (Ministry of Surface Transport) notified under section 10

What this is

Notification No. 249 was published on 12 September 2006. Its subject is Any income received by any person on behalf of "National Highways Authority of India (Ministry of Surface Transport) notified under section 10.

This notifies a named person, body, fund or instrument for the purpose of a provision. Nothing in it changes the provision itself.

The provisions it speaks to

Left, the provision of the Income-tax Act, 1961 as the instrument itself names it. Right, the section of the Income-tax Act, 2025 that the department’s own concordance maps it to — which is where the same ground is now covered.

Under the 1961 Act	Now
s.10	s.11, s.19
s.11	s.332, s.333, s.334, s.335, s.337, s.338, s.339, s.340, s.341, s.342, s.344, s.345, s.350, s.355

The instrument, as the Board published it

The words below are the department’s own, reproduced from its published text. Where the department’s copy carried a publisher’s notes after the instrument, those are not reproduced.

NOTIFICATION NO. 249/2006, DATED 12-9-2006

In exercise of powers conferred by the sub-clause (iv) of the Clause' (23C) of Section 10 of the Income-tax Act, 1961 (43 of 1961), the Central Government hereby notifies that any income received by any person on behalf of "National Highways Authority of India (Ministry of Surface Transport), G-5 & 6, Sector-10, Dwarka, New Delhi" (hereinafter the "Institution") shall not be included in the total income of such person as assessable for the Assessment Years 2002-2003 to 2004 2005 subject to the following conditions:–

the Institution will apply its income, or accumulate for application, wholly and exclusively to the objects for which it is established and in a case where more than fifteen per cent of its income is accumulated on or after the 1st day of April, 2002, the period of the accumulation of the amount exceeding fifteen per cent of its income shall in no case exceed five years;

the Institution will not invest or deposit its fund (other than voluntary contribution received and maintained in the form of jewellery, furniture, etc.) for any period during the previous years relevant to the assessment years mentioned above otherwise than in any one or more of the forms or modes specified in sub-section (5) of the section 11;

this notification will not apply in relation to any income being profits and gains of business, unless the business is incidental to the attainment of the objectives of the Institution and separate books of account are maintained in respect of such business;

the Institution will regularly file its return of income before the Income-tax authority in accordance with the provisions of the Income-tax Act, 1961;

that in the event of dissolution of the Institution, its surplus and the assets will be given to an organization with similar objectives.

This notification is applicable only to the recipients of income on behalf of the Institution and not to any other recept or income of such recipients. Taxability or, otherwise of the income of the Institution would be separately considered as per the provisions of the Income-tax Act, 1961.
[F. No. 197/46/2006-ITA.I]

On the same provision

Other instruments in this library that name the same provision of the 1961 Act. They are not necessarily still operative, and a later one may have replaced an earlier one without saying so.

Notification No. 116/2026 [F. No.195/13/2025-ITA-I] / SO 4706(E) : Notification in the case of Maharashtra Electricity Regulatory Commission — [भाग II—खण् ड 3(ii)] भारत का रािपत्र : असाधारण 3 25 August 2026
Notification No. 112/2026 [F. No. 300196/6/2026-ITA-I] / SO 4458(E) : Notification in the case of District Legal Service Authority, Panchkula — Ministry of Finance 11 August 2026
Notification No. 109/2026 [F. No. 300196/39/2025-ITA-I] / SO 4321(E) : Notification section 536 (1) of the Income Tax Act, 2025 (30 of 2025) in the case of Odisha Joint Entrance Examination Committee — [भाग II—खण् ड 3(ii)] भारत का रािपत्र : असाधारण 3 4 August 2026
Notification No. 107/2026 [F. No. 300196/65/2018-ITA-I] / SO 4319(E) : Notification section 536 (1) of the Income Tax Act, 2025 (30 of 2025) in the case of Noida Special Economic Zone Authority — [भाग II—खण् ड 3(ii)] भारत का रािपत्र : असाधारण 3 4 August 2026
Notification No. 106/2026 [F. No. 300196/65/2018-ITA-I] / SO 4318(E) : Notification section 536 (1) of the Income Tax Act, 2025 (30 of 2025) in the case of Noida Special Economic Zone Authority — [भाग II—खण् ड 3(ii)] भारत का रािपत्र : असाधारण 3 4 August 2026
Notification No. 104/2026 [F.No.300196/1/2026-ITA-I] / SO 4308(E) : Notification section 536 (1) of the Income Tax Act, 2025 (30 of 2025) in the case of District Legal Service Authority, Charkhi Dadri — Ministry of Finance 3 August 2026

What a notification is. A notification is made under a power the Act itself gives, and within that power it is law — unlike a circular, which only binds the department. Its reach is the reach of the enabling provision and no wider, and the date it carries decides from when it works.

Source: the Income Tax Department’s own published text — its page for this instrument.