Notification: 32 Date of Issue: 18/4/2013

Section 138 of the Income-tax Act, 1961 - Disclosure of Information Respecting Assessees to Specified Officer, Authority or Body Performing Functions under ANY Other LAW - Notified Authority

What this is

Notification: 32 Date of Issue: 18/4/2013 was published on 18 April 2013. Its subject is Section 138 of the Income-tax Act, 1961 - Disclosure of Information Respecting Assessees to Specified Officer, Authority or Body Performing Functions under ANY Other LAW - Notified Authority.

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.138	s.258

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.

SECTION 138 OF THE INCOME-TAX ACT, 1961 - DISCLOSURE OF INFORMATION RESPECTING ASSESSEES TO SPECIFIED OFFICER, AUTHORITY OR BODY PERFORMING FUNCTIONS UNDER ANY OTHER LAW - NOTIFIED AUTHORITY
NOTIFICATION NO. 32/2013 [F.NO.225/62/2013-ITAT.II], DATED 18-4-2013
Whereas the Central Government is of the opinion that it is necessary to do so in the public interest; and, therefore, in pursuance of sub-clause (ii) of clause (a) of sub-section(1) of section 138 of the Income-tax Act, 1961, the Central Government hereby specifies officers of the rank of Joint Director and above serving in Directorate of Enforcement, Department of Revenue, Ministry of Finance, Government of India, who are performing functions under the Foreign Exchange Management Act, 1999 and the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002, for the purpose of the said clause.

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. 54/2025 [F. No. 225/213/2024/ITA-II] / SO 2479(E) — Secretary to the Government of Maharashtra specified under section 138 3 June 2025
Notification No. 20/2025 [F.No. 225/33/2025/ITA-II] / SO 1241(E) — 2 the Gazette of INDIA : Extraordinary [Part Ii—sec. 3(ii)] 18 March 2025
Notification No. 12/2025 [F. No. 225/235/2024/ITA-II] / SO 524(E) — 2 the Gazette of INDIA : Extraordinary [Part Ii—sec. 3(ii)] 30 January 2025
Notification No. 106/2024 [F. No. 225/181/2024/ITA-II] / SO 4276(E) — Principal Secretary to Government & Chairman specified under section 138 1 October 2024
Notification No. 52/2024 [F. No. 225/106/2024/ITA-II] / SO 2661(E) — [To BE Published in the Gazette of INDIA, Extraordinary, Part II, section 3, Sub-section (ii)] 9 July 2024
Notification No. 35/2024 [F. No. 225/196/2023/ITA-II] / SO 1538(E) — 2 the Gazette of INDIA : Extraordinary [Part Ii—sec. 3(ii)] 22 March 2024

← Notification: 33 Date of Issue: 29/4/2013 · Notification: 31 Date of Issue: 18/4/2013 →

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.