24. Liability for payment of tax and penalty in respect of firm, etc., discontinued or dissolved.

(1) When any business carried on by a firm, a Hindu Undivided Family or an Association has been discontinued or dissolved, every person who was at the time of such discontinuance or dissolution a partner of such firm or member of such Hindu Undivided Family or Association, shall be jointly and severally liable to assessment under Sections 12, 14 and 15 and payment of the tax assessed and/or penalty levied.

(2) Where any Hindu Undivided Family, firm or other association of persons is partitioned, dissolved or discontinued, notice, summons or orders issued under the Act or these rules may be served on any member of the Hindu Undivided Family or any person who was a partner, not being a minor, of the firm or member of Association, as the case may be, immediately before such partition, dissolution or discontinuance.