Cantonments Act, I924
87.Conditions of rights to appeal:-
No appeal shall be heard or determined under
this Chapter unless-
(a) the appeal is, in the case of a tax
assessed on the annual value of buildings or lands or both, brought within
thirty days next after the date of the authentication of the assessment list
under section 69 (exclusive of the time requisite for obtaining a copy of the
relevant entries therein), or, as the case may be, within thirty days of the
date on which an amendment is finally made under section 71, and, in the case
of any other tax, within thirty days next after the date of the receipt of the
notice of assessment or of alteration of assessment or, if no notice has been
given, within thirty days next after the date of the presentation of the first
bill in respect thereof:
Provided that an appeal may be admitted after the expiration of the
period prescribed therefor by this section if the appellant satisfies the court
before whom the appeal is preferred that he had sufficient cause for not
preferring it within that period;
(b) the amount, if any, in dispute in the appeal has been deposited by the
appellant in the office of the {Subs by Act.24 of 1936, s.69, for "
Cantonment Authority ".} [Board].