(1) Any dealer may, notwithstanding that he is not liable to pay tax under any provision of this Act, apply in the prescribed manner to the prescribed authority for registration under this Act.

(2) The provisions of sub-section (2), sub-section (5), sub-section (8), clause (a) of sub-section (10), sub-section (11), and sub-section (12), of section 26 shall apply in respect of any application for registration, or any certificate of registration granted on application made, as the case may be, under sub-section (1) of this section.

(3) Every dealer who has been registered on application made under this section shall, for so long as his registration remains in force, be liable to pay tax under this Act.

(4) The registration of a dealer on application made under this section shall be in force for a period of not less than three complete years and shall remain in force thereafter unless cancelled under the provisions of this Act.

(5) Subject to the provisions of sub-section (4), a dealer registered on application made under this section may apply in the prescribed manner not less than six months before the end of the year, to the authority which granted him his certificate of registration for the cancellation of such registration to take effect at the end of the year in which the application for such cancellation is made ; and the said authority shall, unless the dealer is liable to pay tax under the provisions of section 9, section 10, section 12, section 15, or section 18B cancel the registration accordingly.

(6) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (3) or sub-section (5), when the gross turnover of sales of any dealer registered on application made under this section has, for three successive years after the period of three years referred to in sub-section (4), has failed to exceed the taxable quantum, the prescribed authority may, unless the dealer is liable to pay tax under the provisions of section 10, section 12, section 15, or section 18B, after giving the dealer a reasonable opportunity of being heard, cancel registration of such dealer.