After
section 25(1) insert:
(2A) The Commissioner
may register an employer, although the employer has not applied for
registration under section 24, if it appears to the Commissioner that the
employer is, or is likely to become, liable to pay pay-roll tax.
(2B) If the
Commissioner registers an employer under subsection (2A), the
Commissioner must give the employer notice of the registration.
(2C) The Commissioner
is taken always to have been entitled to register an employer on his or her
own initiative under this Act or the Pay-roll Tax Assessment Act 1971 ,
and any such registration before the coming into operation of the Revenue Laws
Amendment Act 2012 section 27 is, and is taken always to have been,
a valid and effective registration.