It is a concept wherein various Law, Regulation, Act, Bill, Enactment, Rule etc. will be connected Intra Act and Inter Act as per reference as given in particular document.
Object of Connect the Statute is to ensure required document are available in shortest possible time with all other document together which are referred in that required document.
Each and every document of all Act is given a unique code as its file name and based on this file name it is very easy to get exact relevant document in shortest possible time.
Following type of Documents are covered:
Yes, as there is field provided for Description where you can type the heading details you know and based on some word reference given by you, system will revert all such relevant document.
Various Acts are planned to be covered on this site in phase manner. All acts which are required to be study are covered under single platform. Intra and Inter Statute references are linked in order to have overall understanding of any section or amendment. List of Act are as follow:
| Sr. No. | Name of Act |
| 1 | Central Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017 |
| 2 | Income Tax Act, 1961 |
| 3 | Integrated Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017 |
| 4 | UTGST,2017 |
| 5 | GST (Compensation to States) Act,2017 |
| 6 | State wise SGST Act |
| 7 | State wise RERA Act |
| 8 | Companies Act, 2013 |
| 9 | The Reserve Bank of India Act, 1934 |
| 10 | Insolvency & Bankruptcy code Act,2018 |
| 11 | Foreign Exchange Management Act( FEMA ) |
| 12 | Information Technology Act'2000 |
| 13 | Customs Act, 1962 & Custom Tarrif Act, 1975 |
| 14 | Chartered Accountants Act, 1949 |
| 15 | Company Secretaries Act,1982 |
| 16 | Cost and Works Accountants Act, 1959 |
| 17 | Securities and Exchange board of India Act, 1992 |
| 18 | SEBI Regulation, 2015 |
| 19 | The Banking Regulation Act, 1949 |
| 20 | Indian Contract Act 1872 |
| 21 | Micro, Small & Medium Enterprise Development (MSMED) Act,2006 |
| 22 | Multistate Cooperative Societies Act, 2002 |
| 23 | The Arbitration and counciliation Act 1996 |
| 24 | The Copyright Act, 1957 and The Copyright Rules, 1958 |
| 25 | The Patents Act, 1970 and The Patents Rules, 2003 |
| 26 | The Trade Marks Act, 1999 and Trade Mark Rules, 2002 |
| 27 | The Negotiable Instrument Act, 1881 |
When you view any particular Notification, Circular etc. and there are reference of any other Notification, Circular, Bare Act section etc. than all such referred document will be displayed together with opened document of Same Act or of Other Act. For Eg. In Notification of Income Tax Act, if any Notification of FEMA Act is referred than such FEMA document will also be easily available at the single platform while reading Income tax Notification.
As regards to Number of documents, there is no technical upper limit i.e. if there are 50 or more document referred in any particular document than also such document will be listed with opened document.
Concept of CTST is to get overall knowledge available without interruption of non-availability of any referred document and hence there no limit on going from 1st document to 2nd and from 2nd to 3rd and so on till “n” number as required by you to study.
You can register by simply filling form under Register tab.
Date of Document is the date on which it is Notified and mentioned in Document.
It is very important to understand as to how this code is prepared as once you understand the mechanism of coding, it will be just around 9-15letters (not words) which you need to type and your exact required document will be on your screen. Each and every act is given 3 letter Abbreviation and for each type of document i.e. Bare Acts, Notification, Circular etc. 2 letter abbreviation is given. Following table will help you to understand how coding is given
| Act List | Abbreviation | Bare Act (As Amended for AY 2019-20) | Circular | Notification | Press Release | Rules(As Amended for AY 2019-20) | Order |
| INCOME-TAX ACT, 1961 | ITA | ITABAS.N | ITACIYYYY.N | ITANNYYYY.N | ITAPRYYYY.N | ITARU.N | ITAORYYYY.N |
| Central Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017 | CGS | CGSBAS.N | CGSCIYYYY.N | CGSNNYYYY.N | CGSPRYYYY.N | CGSRU.N | CGSORYYYY.N |
| Integrated Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017 | IGS | IGSBAS.N | IGSCIYYYY.N | IGSNNYYYY.N | IGSPRYYYY.N | IGSRU.N | IGSORYYYY.N |
| UTGST,2017 | UGS | UGSBAS.N | UGSCIYYYY.N | UGSNNYYYY.N | UGSPRYYYY.N | UGSRU.N | UGSORYYYY.N |
| Companies Act, 2013 | COA | COABAS.N | COACIYYYY.N | COANNYYYY.N | COAPRYYYY.N | COARU.N | COAORYYYY.N |
If document no is not given than please write month and date after decimal i.e. COANNYYYY.MMDD, ITAPRYYYY.MMDD etc. If there are more than one document on any particular date than the same will be available together in single file only for easy availability.
Yes, you can open multiple documents together.
If file name is given based on date of document and there are more than 1 document on same date that all such file of particular date is merged together and link on 1st page is given to go directly to various document in single pdf file.
Corrigendum will be given as reference to original document and alphabet “C” will be added at last after document code For eg. Corrigendum is issued to Circular no 4/2020 of Income tax than corrigendum code would be ITACI2020.4C
If year is mention like this, than starting year period is given in file name i.e. if Circular no is RBI/2019-2020/167 than file name will be RBICI2019.167.
In case of RBI, they are starting document no 1 from July and ending there series in June next year. In such case and other different period, we have taken base as year and chronological no of that year only to make it simple and not to get confused due to different financial year for various department i.e. for RBI/2020-2021/10 code will be RBICI2020.10.
Further GST department is giving 2 document no i.e. one is cumulative serial no since act is implemented i.e. July’2017 and another is serial no for that particular year. For eg. Circular No.131/1/2020-GST means that this circular is 1st of 2020 and 131st circular since July’17. As a matter of uniformity we have given file name as document no of relevant year only.
Yes, while reading document if you want to mark it as important than you can simply click on star mark on right side top of document tab and add it to wishlist. Such document will be available under “My Document” tab.
While reading the document if you want to add any notes/remarks, than you can simply add notes on right side of document under Remarks tab and save it by clicking on Comment tab. You can also edit such comment or delete such comment. All document which contains any notes will be available under tab of “Comment in doc”.
