(1) The Deputy Commissioner of Taxes may forward to the Collector of District in which the office of the Deputy Commissioner of Taxes is situate or the District in which the assessee resides or owns property or carries on business, a certificate under his signature specifying the amount of arrears due from an assessee, and the Collector, on receipts of such certificate shall proceed to recover, from such assessee the amount specified therein as if it were an arrear of land revenue.

(2) Without prejudice to any other powers which the Collector of District may have in this behalf, he shall, for the purposes of recovery of the amount specified in the certificate for recovery forwarded to him under sub-section (1), have the powers which a Civil Court has under the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 (Act No. V of 1908), for the purposes of recovery of an amount due under a decree.

(3) The Deputy Commissioner of Taxes may, at any time, recall from the Collector of District a certificate forwarded to him under sub-section (1) and upon such recall, all proceedings commenced in pursuance of the certificate shall abate.

(4) That recall of a certificate shall not affect any recoveries made by the Collector before the recall as if the certificate had not, to the extent of such recovery, been recalled; or shall the recall of a certificate issued at any time prevent this recovery, by issue of a fresh certificate, of any amount which was recoverable at the time the certificate so recalled was issued.