INDIAN COUNCILS ACT, 1909 [Act, No. 4 of 1909] [25th May, 1909] PREAMBLE An Act to amend the Indian Councils Acts, 1861 and Indian Councils Acts, 1892 , and the Government of India Act, 1833 . BE it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty by, and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows: --
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this section.....or Lieutenant-Governor in manner provided by the Indian Councils Acts, 1861 and Indian Councils Acts, 1862 , shall include members so nominated and also members elected in accordance with regulations made under this Act, and references in those Acts to the members so nominated and their nomination shall be construed as including references to the members so elected and their election. (2) The number of additional members or members so nominated and elected, the number of such members required to constitute a quorum, the term of office of such members and the number of filling up casual vacancies occurring by reason of absence from India, inability to attend to duty, death, acceptance of office, or resignation duly accepted, or otherwise, shall, in the case of each such council, be such as may be prescribed by regulations made under this Act. Provided that the aggregate number of members so nominated and elected shall not, in the case of any Legislative Council mentioned in the first column of the First Schedule to this Act, exceed the number specified in the second column of that schedule.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this section(1) The number of ordinary members of the Councils of the Governors of Fort Saint George and Bombay shall be such number not exceeding four as the Secretary of State in Council may from time to time direct, of whom two at least shall be persons who at the time of their appointment have been in the service of the Crown in India for at least twelve years. (2) If at any meeting of either of such councils there is an equality of votes on any question, the Governor or other person presiding shall have two votes or the casting vote.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this section(1) It shall be lawful for the Governor-General in Council with the approval of the Secretary of Statue in Council, by proclamation, to create a Council in the Bengal Division of the Presidency of Fort William for the purpose of assisting the Lieutenant-Governor in the executive government of the province, and by such proclamation- (a) to make provision for determining what shall be the number (not exceeding four) and qualifications of the members of the council; and (b) to make provision for the appointment of temporary or acting members of the council during the absence of any member from illness or otherwise, and for the procedure to be adopted in case of a difference, of opinion between a Lieutenant-Governor and his council, and in the case of equality of votes, and in the case of a Lieutenant-Governor being obliged to absent himself from his council for indisposition or any other cause.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this section.....be, and of any matter of general public interest, and the asking of questions, under such conditions and restrictions as maybe prescribed .in the rules applicable to the several councils. (2) Such rules as aforesaid may provide for the appointment of a member of any such council to preside at any such discussion in the place of the Governor-General, Governor, or Lieutenant-Governor, as the case may be, and of any Vice-President. (3) Rules under this section, where made by a Governor in Council, or by a Lieutenant-Governor, or a Lieutenant-Governor in Council, shall be subject to the sanction of the Governor-General in Council, and where made by the Governor-General in Council shall be subject to the sanction of the Secretary of State in Council, and shall not be subject to alteration or amendment by the Legislative Council, of the Governor-General, Governor, or Lieutenant-Governor.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionThe Governor-General in Council shall, subject to the approval of the Secretary of State in Council, make regulations as to the conditions under which and manner in which persons resident in India may be nominated or elected as members of the Legislative Councils of the Governor-General, Governors, and Lieutenant-Governors, and as to the qualifications for being, and for being, nominated or elected, a member of any such council, and as to any other matter for which regulations are authorised to be made under this Act, and also as to the manner in which those regulations are to be carried into effect. Regulations under this section shall not be subject to alteration or amendment by the Legislative Council of the Governor-General.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionAll proclamations, regulations, and rules made under this Act, other than rules made by a Lieutenant-Governor for the more convenient transaction of business in his council, shall be laid before both Houses of Parliament as soon as maybe after they are made.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this section.....such date or dates as the Governor-General in Council, with the approval of the Secretary of State in Council, may appoint, and different dates may be appointed for different purposes and provisions of this Act and for different Councils. On the date appointed for the coming into operation of this Act as respects any Legislative Council, all the nominated members of the council then in office shall go out of office, but may, if otherwise qualified, be renominated or be elected in accordance with the provisions of this Act. (3) The enactment mentioned in the Second Schedule to this Act are hereby repealed to the extent mentioned in the third column of that schedule. _____________________________ 1. The Act came into operation for all purposes and for all Councils on the 15th November, 1909.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTHE ANAND MARRIAGE ACT, 1909 [Act, No.7 of 1909] [AS ON 1957] PREAMBLE [22nd October, 1909] An Act to remove doubts as to the validity of the marriage ceremony common among the Sikhs called Anand. WHEREAS it is expedient to remove any doubts as to the validity of the marriage ceremony acidity of the marriage ceremony common among the Sikhs called Anand; It is hereby enacted as follows:--
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this section(1) This Act may be called the Anand Marriage Act, 1909; and (2) It extends to the of India except {Subs.By the Adaptation of Laws ( No.2 ) Order, 1956, for "Part B States".} [the territories which , immediately before the 1st November , 1956, were comprised in Part B States].
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