27[Power to make exemption, etc., in relation to certain Union territories.
46A. If the
Central Government considers it necessary or expedient so to do for avoiding
any hardship or anomaly or removing any difficulty that may arise as a result
of the application of this Act to the Union territories of Dadra and Nagar
Haveli, Goa, Daman and Diu, and Pondicherry, or in the case of the Union
territory of Pondicherry, for implementing any provision of the Treaty of
Cession concluded between France and India on the 28th day of May, 1956, that Government may, by
general or special order, make an exemption, reduction in rate or other
modification in respect of wealth-tax in favour of any class of assets or in
regard to the whole or any part of the net wealth of any assessee or class of
assessees:
Provided that the power conferred by this section shall not
be exercisable after the 31st day of March, 1967, except for the purposes of
rescinding an exemption, reduction or modification already made.]