F1SCHEDULE 3A Electronic lodgement of tax returns, etc.
Part V Status of information
Exercise of powers
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(1)
Sub-paragraphs (2) to (5) below apply where information transmitted in response to a requirement to deliver or make a return is accepted for electronic lodgement.
(2)
An officer of the Board shall have all the powers that he would have had if the information accepted had been contained in a return delivered by post.
(3)
The Board shall have all the powers that they would have had if the information accepted had been contained in a return delivered by post.
(4)
Where the information is transmitted in response to a notice given under any provision of Part II of this Act, any power which, if the information had been contained in a return delivered by post, a person would have had under this Act to amend the return—
(a)
by delivering a document, or
(b)
by notifying amendments,
to an officer of the Board, shall have effect as if the power enabled that person to deliver a statement of amended information to the officer.
(5)
Any right that a person would have had, if the information transmitted had been contained in a return delivered by post, to claim that tax charged under an assessment was excessive by reason of some mistake or error in the return shall have effect as far as the claimant is concerned as if the information transmitted had been contained in a return delivered by post.
(6)
Where information transmitted in response to a requirement to deliver a document other than a return is accepted for electronic lodgement, an officer of the Board shall have all the powers that he would have had if the information had been contained in a document delivered by post.
(7)
This paragraph is subject to paragraph 11 of this Schedule.