THE DESTRUCTION OF RECORDS ACT, 1917 [Act, No. 5 of 1917] [AS ON 1956] [28th February, 1917] PREAMBLE An Act to consolidate and amend the law providing for the destruction or other disposal of certain documents in the possession or custody of Courts and Revenue and other public officers. WHEREAS it is expedient to consolidate and amend the law providing for the destruction or other disposal of certain documents in the possession or custody of Courts and Revenue and other public officers; It is hereby enacted as follows:--
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionThis Act may be called the Destruction of Records Act, 1917. {Ins. by the A.O.1950} [It extends to the whoIe of India except1[the territories which immediately before the 1st November, 1956, were comprised in Part B States.] ________________________ 1. Substituted for "Part B States" by 3.A.L.O., 1956.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this section[Definitions.] Rep. by the A.O.1937. {Section 3 has been amended in its application to the U.P by the U.P.board of Revenue Act, 1922 (U.P.12 of 1922), section 2 and Schedule.}
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionAll rules and orders directing or authorizing the destruction or other disposal of documents in the possession or custody of any public officer, heretofore made by a State Government, or with the approval of the State Government by any authority not empowered to make such rules under the Destruction of Records Act, 1879 (3 of 1879), shall be deemed to have had the force of law from the date on which they were made, and all such rules and orders now in force shall continue to have the force of law until they are superseded by rules made under this Act.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionNothing in this Act shall be deemed to authorize the destruction of any document which, under the provisions of any law for the time being in force, is to be kept and maintained.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionRep. by the Repealing Act, 1927 (12 of 1927).
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTHE SCHEDULE.-- [Repeal of Enactments.] Rep. by,' section 2 and Schedule by the Repealing Act, 1927 of 1927).
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTHE POST OFFICE CASH CERTIFICATES ACT, 1917 [Act, 18 of 1917] [19th September, 1917] PREAMBLE An Act to restrict the transfer of Post Office 5-Year Cash Certificates and to provide for the payment of Certificates standing in the name of deceased persons. WHEREAS it is expedient to restrict the transfer of Post Office 5-year cash certificates and to provide for the payment of certificates standing in the name of deceased persons ; It is hereby enacted as follows :
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionThis Act may be called The Post Office Cash Certificates Act, 1917.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this section(1) Notwithstanding any provision in any enactment or any rule of law for the time being in force to the contrary, no transfer (whether made before or after commencement of this Act) of a Post Office 5-year Cash Certificate shall be valid without the previous consent in writing of1[an officer of the Post Office authorised by general or special order of the2[CentraI Governmentl in that behalf). (2) In this section "transfer" means a transfer inter vivos and does not include a transfer by operation of law. ________________________ 1. Substituted for the words "the Post Master General for the area in which the Post Office of issue is situate", by the Post Office Cash Certificates (Amendment) Act, 1920 (32 of 1920), Section 2. 2. Substituted for the words "Governor-General in Council" hy A.O., 1937.
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