Section 95. Automation

(1) The State Government may, by notification in Official Gazette, provide that the provisions contained in the Information Technology Act, 2000 and the rules made and directions given there under, including the provisions relating to digital signatures, electronic governance, attribution, acknowledgement and dispatch of electronic records, secure electronic records and secure digital signatures and digital signature certificates as are specified in the said notification, shall, in so far as they may, as far as feasible, apply to the procedures under this Act. (2) 1[Where any return, application, communication or intimation is submitted by a dealer or his business manager or by a person, electronically through the official website of the Commercial Taxes Department, such return, application, communication or intimation shall be deemed to be submitted by him, if the dealer or business manager or person has given his consent to use the website for e-filing in the prescribed manner: Provided that dealer or business manager or person, who has consented to use the official website of the Department shall not retract from or repudiate such e-documents submitted by him through the website. (3) Where any notice, communication or intimation is served on a dealer or his business manger or any person electronically through the official website of the Commercial Taxes Department, then, said notice, communication or intimation shall not be deemed to be invalid only on the ground that it is not personally signed or digitally signed or is not served properly.]