(1) Any assessee, entitled or required to attend before any income-tax authority or the Appellate Tribunal in matters relating to the valuation of any asset, may attend through a registered valuer.
(2) The provisions of sub-section (1) shall not apply, where the assessee is required to attend personally for examination on oath or affirmation under section 246.
(3) In this section, “registered valuer” means a person registered as a valuer under section 514.