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 * (b) holds money for or on account of the defaulter; or
 * (c) holds money on account of some other person for payment to the defaulter; or
 * (d) has authority from some other person to pay money to the defaulter,

the Commissioner may give to such person notice in writing (a copy of which shall be sent by post to the defaulter) requiring him to pay any such moneys not exceeding the amount of the tax in default to the officer named in such notice. The notice shall apply to all such moneys which are in his hands or due from him or about to be paid by him at the date of receipt of such notice, or come into his hands or become due from him or about to be paid by him at any time within a period of thirty days thereafter.

(2) Any person who has made any payment in pursuance of this section shall be deemed to have acted under the authority of the person by whom the tax was payable and of all other persons concerned, and is hereby indemnified in respect of such payment against all proceedings, civil or criminal, notwithstanding the provisions of any written law, contract or agreement.

(3) Any person to whom a notice has been given under sub-section (1) who is unable to comply therewith owing to the fact that the moneys in question do not come into his hands or become due from him within the period referred to in sub-section (1) shall within fourteen days of the expiration thereof give notice in writing to the Commissioner acquainting him with the facts.

(4) Where any person to whom a notice has been given under sub-section (1) is unable to comply therewith and has failed to give notice to the Commissioner as provided in sub-section (3), or where he has deducted or could have deducted the tax to which the notice relates or any part thereof and has not paid over as directed by the Commissioner the amount of such tax or part thereof within fourteen days after the expiration of the period referred to in sub-section (1), he shall be personally liable for the whole of the tax which he has been required to deduct, which may be recovered from him by all means provided in this Ordinance for the recovery of tax from a person who has made default in payment.