Section 23 - Persons not liable for registration of CGST ACT, 2017

23. (1) The following persons shall not be liable to registration, namely:––
(a) any person engaged exclusively in the business of supplying goods or
services or both that are not liable to tax or wholly exempt from tax under this Act or
under the Integrated Goods and Services Tax Act;
(b) an agriculturist, to the extent of supply of produce out of cultivation of land.
(2) The Government may, on the recommendations of the Council, by notification,
specify the category of persons who may be exempted from obtaining registration under this
Act.

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Section 1 - Short title, extent and commencement
Section 2 - Definitions
Section 3 - Officers under this Act
Section 4 - Appointment of officers
Section 5 - Powers of officers
Section 6 - Authorisation of officers of State tax or Union territory tax as proper officer in certain circumstances
Section 7 - Scope of supply
Section 8 - Tax liability on composite and mixed supplies
Section 9 - Levy and collection
Section 10 - Composition levy
Section 11 - Power to grant exemption from tax
Section 12 - Time of supply of goods
Section 13 - Time of supply of services
Section 14 - Change in rate of tax in respect of supply of goods or services
Section 15 - Value of taxable supply
Section 16 - Eligibility and conditions for taking input tax credit
Section 17 - Apportionment of credit and blocked credits
Section 18 - Availability of credit in special circumstances
Section 19 - Taking input tax credit in respect of inputs and capital goods sent for job work
Section 20 - Manner of distribution of credit by Input Service Distributor
Section 21 - Manner of recovery of credit distributed in excess
Section 22 - Persons liable for registration
Section 23 - Persons not liable for registration
Section 24 - Compulsory registration in certain cases
Section 25 - Procedure for registration
Section 26 - Deemed registration
Section 27 - Special provisions relating to casual taxable person and non-resident taxable person
Section 28 - Amendment of registration
Section 29 - Cancellation of registration
Section 30 - Revocation of cancellation of registration
Section 31 - Tax invoice
Section 32 - Prohibition of unauthorised collection of tax
Section 33 - Amount of tax to be indicated in tax invoice and other documents
Section 34 - Credit and debit notes
Section 35 - Accounts and other records
Section 36 - Period of retention of accounts
Section 37 - Furnishing details of outward supplies
Section 38 - Furnishing details of inward supplies
Section 39 - Furnishing of returns
Section 40 - First return
Section 41 - Claim of input tax credit and provisional acceptance thereof
Section 42 - Matching, reversal and reclaim of input tax credit
Section 43 - Matching, reversal and reclaim of reduction in output tax liability
Section 44 - Annual return
Section 45 - Final return
Section 46 - Notice to return defaulters
Section 47 - Levy of late fee
Section 48 - Goods and services tax practitioners
Section 49 - Payment of tax, interest, penalty and other amounts
Section 50 - Interest on delayed payment of tax
Section 51 - Tax deduction at source
Section 52 - Collection of tax at source
Section 53 - Transfer of input tax credit
Section 54 - Refund of tax
Section 55 - Refund in certain cases
Section 56 - Interest on delayed refunds
Section 57 - Consumer Welfare Fund
Section 58 - Utilisation of Fund
Section 59 - Selfassessment.
Section 60 - Provisional assessment
Section 61 - Scrutiny of returns
Section 62 - Assessment of non-filers of returns
Section 63 - Assessment of unregistered persons
Section 64 - Summary assessment in certain special cases
Section 65 - Audit by tax authorities
Section 66- Special audit
Section 67 - Power of inspection, search and seizure
Section 68 - Inspection of goods in movement
Section 69 - Power to arrest
Section 70 - Power to summon persons to give evidence and produce documents
Section 71 - Access to business premises
Section 72 - Officers to assist proper officers
Section 73 - Determination of tax not paid or short paid or erroneously refunded or input tax credit wrongly availed or utilised for any reason other than fraud or any wilfulmisstatement or suppression of facts
Section 74 - Determination of tax not paid or short paid or erroneously refunded or input tax credit wrongly availed or utilised by reason of fraud or any wilfulmisstatement or suppression of facts
Section 75 - General provisions relating to determination of tax
Section 76 - Tax collected but not paid to Government
Section 77 - Tax wrongfully collected and paid to Central Government or State Government
Section 78 - Initiation of recovery proceedings
Section 79 - Recovery of tax
Section 80 - Payment of tax and other amount in instalments
Section 81 - Transfer of property to be void in certain cases
Section 82 - Tax to be first charge on property
Section 83 - Provisional attachment to protect revenue in certain cases
Section 84 - Continuation and validation of certain recovery proceedings
Section 85 - Liability in case of transfer of business
Section 86 - Liability of agent and principal
Section 87 - Liability in case of amalgamation or merger of companies
Section 88 - Liability in case of company in liquidation
Section 89 - Liability of directors of private company
Section 90 - Liability of partners of firm to pay tax
Section 91 - Liability of guardians, trustees, etc
Section 92 - Liability of Court of Wards, etc
Section 93 - Special provisions regarding liability to pay tax, interest or penalty in certain cases
Section 94 -Liability in other cases
Section 95 - Definitions
Section 96 - Authority for advance ruling
Section 97 - Application for advance ruling
Section 98 - Procedure on receipt of application
Section 99 - Appellate Authority for Advance Ruling
Section 100 - Appeal to Appellate Authority
Section 101 - Orders of Appellate Authorit
Section 102 - Rectification of advance ruling
Section 103 - Applicability of advance ruling
Section 104 - Advance ruling to be void in certain circumstances
Section 105 - Powers of Authority and Appellate Authority
Section 106 - Procedure of Authority and Appellate Authority
Section 107 - Appeals to Appellate Authority
Section 108 - Powers of Revisional Authority
Section 109 - Constitution of Appellate Tribunal and Benches thereof
Section 110 - President and Members of Appellate Tribunal, their qualification, appointment, conditions of service, etc
Section 111 - Procedure before Appellate Tribunal
Section 112 - Appeals to Appellate Tribunal
Section 113 - Orders of Appellate Tribunal
Section 114 -Financial and administrative powers of President
Section 115 - Interest on refund of amount paid for admission of appeal
Section 116 - Appearance by authorised representative
Section 117 - Appeal to High Court
Section 118 - Appeal to Supreme Court
Section 119 - Sums due to be paid notwithstanding appeal, etc
Section 120 - Appeal not to be filed in certain cases
Section 121 - Nonappealable decisions and orders
Section 122 - Penalty for certain offences
Section 123 - Penalty for failure to furnish information return
Section 124 - Fine for failure to furnish statistics
Section 125 - General penalty
Section 126 - General disciplines related to penalty
Section 127 - Power to impose penalty in certain cases
Section 128 - Power to waive penalty or fee or both
Section 129 - Detention, seizure and release of goods and conveyances in transit
Section 130 - Confiscation of goods or conveyances and levy of penalty
Section 131 - Confiscation or penalty not to interfere with other punishments
Section 132 - Punishment for certain offences
Section 133 - Liability of officers and certain other persons
Section 134 - Cognizance of offences
Section 135 - Presumption of culpable mental state
Section 136 - Relevancy of statements under certain circumstances
Section 137 - Offences by companies
Section 138 - Compounding of offences
Section 139 - Migration of existing taxpayers
Section 140 - Transitional arrangements for input tax credit
Section 141 - Transitional provisions relating to job work
Section 142 - Miscellaneous transitional provisions
Section 143 - Job work procedure
Section 144 - Presumption as to documents in certain cases
Section 145 - Admissibility of micro films, facsimile copies of documents and computer printouts as documents and as evidence
Section 146 - Common Portal
Section 147 - Deemed exports
Section 148 - Special procedure for certain processes
Section 149 - Goods and services tax compliance rating
Section 150 - Obligation to furnish information return
Section 151 - Power to collect statistics
Section 152 - Bar on disclosure of information
Section 153 - Taking assistance from an expert
Section 154 - Power to take samples
Section 155 - Burden of proof
Section 156 - Persons deemed to be public servants
Section 157 - Protection of action taken under this Act
Section 158 - Disclosure of information by a public servant
Section 159 - Publication of information in respect of persons in certain cases
Section 160 - Assessment proceedings, etc., not to be invalid on certain grounds
Section 161 - Rectification of errors apparent on the face of record
Section 162 - Bar on jurisdiction of civil courts
Section 163 - Levy of fee
Section 164 - Power of Government to make rules
Section 165 - Power to make regulations
Section 166 - Laying of rules, regulations and notifications
Section 167 - Delegation of powers
Section 168 - Power to issue instructions or directions
Section 169 - Service of notice in certain circumstances
Section 170 - Rounding off of tax, etc
Section 171 - Antiprofiteering measure
Section 172 - Removal of difficulties
Section 173 - Amendment of Act 32 of 1994
Section 174 - Repeal and saving
Section SCHEDULE I - ACTIVITIES TO BE TREATED AS SUPPLY EVEN IF MADE WITHOUT CONSIDERATION
Section SCHEDULE II-ACTIVITIES TO BE TREATED AS SUPPLY OF GOODS OR SUPPLY OF SERVICES
Section SCHEDULE III-ACTIVITIES OR TRANSACTIONS WHICH SHALL BE TREATED NEITHER AS A SUPPLY OF GOODS NOR A SUPPLY OF SERVICES

Section 23 - Persons not liable for registration of CGST ACT, 2017

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