(1) Notwithstanding anything contained in this Act, the Government may, on the recommendations of the Council, by notification, extend the time limit specified in, or prescribed or notified under, this Act in respect of actions which cannot be completed or complied with due to force majeure.
(2) The power to issue notification under sub-section (1) shall include the power to give retrospective effect to such notification from the date not earlier than the date of commencement of this Act.
Explanation. — For the purposes of this section, the expression “force majeure“ means a case of war, epidemic, flood, drought, fire, cyclone, earthquake or any other calamity caused by nature or otherwise, affecting the implementation of any of the provisions of this Act.
1. Inserted by s.7 of The Taxation and Other and Laws (Relaxation and Amendment of Certain Provision) Act, 2020 (38 of 2020) published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, part II, Section 1, dated 29th September, 2020 – Brought into force w. e. f. 31st March, 2020.