Section 13(3) in The Maharashtra Tax on Entry of Motor Vehicles into Local Areas Act, 1987
(3)[ (a) No appeal against an order of assessment, with or without penalty or interest, or against an order imposing a penalty or interest, shall ordinarily be entertained by an Appellate Authority or the Appellate Tribunal, unless such appeal is accompanied by satisfactory proof of the payment of the tax with penalty or interest, or, as the case may be, of the payment of penalty or interest, in respect of which appeal has been preferred:Provided that, an Appellate Authority or Appellate Tribunal may, if it thinks fit, and for reasons to be recorded in writing, entertain an appeal against such order, on payment of not less than twenty-five per cent, of the amount of tax, penalty or interest, in respect of which appeal has been preferred, as the Appellate Authority or Appellate Tribunal may direct.(b)No appeal shall be entertained by the Appellate Authority or by the Appellate Tribunal unless it is filed within sixty days from the date of communication of the order appealed against:Provided that the Appellate Authority or the Appellate Tribunal may, admit an appeal after the period of limitation, if it is proved by the appellant to the satisfaction of the Appellate Authority or, as the case may be the Appellate Tribunal that he had sufficient cause for not preferring the appeal within such period.] [Sub-section (3) was substituted by Maharashtra 12 of 1995, Section 12.]
