THE INFLAMMABLE SUBSTANCES ACT, 1952 [Act, No. 20 of 1952] [6th March, 1952] PREAMBLE An Act to declare certain substances to be dangerously inflammable and to provide for the regulation of their import, transport, storage and production by applying thereto the Petroleum Act, 1934, and the rules thereunder, and for certain matters connected with such regulation. BE it enacted by Parliament as follows :-
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionThis Act may be called the Inflammable Substances Act, 1952.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionIn this Act,-- (a) "dangerously inflammable substance" means any liquid or other substance declared to be dangerously inflammable by this Act; (b) "Petroleum Act" means the Petroleum Act, 1934 (XXX of 1934).
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionThe liquids and other substances hereinafter mentioned, namely:- (1) acetone, (2) calcium phosphide, (3) carbide of calcium, (4) cinematograph films having a nitro-cellulose base, (5) ethyl alcohol, (6) methyl alcohol, (7) wood naphtha, are hereby declared to be dangerously inflammable.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionNotifications or rules issued or purporting to have been issued under section 30 of the Petroleum Act between the 1st day of April, 1937, and the date of commencement of this Act shall be deemed to have been issued or made under this Act, and continue in force accordingly.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionAll acts of executive authority, proceedings and sentences which have been done, taken or passed with respect to, or on account of, any inflammable substance since the 1st day of April, 1937, and before the commencement of this Act by any officer of Government or by any person acting under his authority or otherwise in pursuance of an order of the Government in the belief or purported belief that the acts, proceedings or sentences were being done, taken or passed under the Petroleum Act shall be as valid and operative as if they had been done, taken or passed in accordance with law; and no suit or other legal proceeding shall be maintained or continued against any person whatever on the ground that any such acts, proceedings or sentences were not done, taken or passed in accordance with law.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionSection 30 of the Petroleum Act is hereby repealed.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionINDIAN INDEPENDENCE PAKISTAN COURTS (PENDING PROCEEDINGS) ACT, 1952 [Act, No. 9 of 1952] [23rd February, 1952] PREAMBLE An Act to render ineffective certain decrees and orders passed by Courts in Pakistan against a Government in India and to provide an alternative remedy to persons who have secured such decrees or orders. BE it enacted by Parliament as follows:--
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionThis Act may be called the Indian Independence Pakistan Courts (Pending Proceedings) Act, 1952.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionIn this Act, the expression "decree to which this Act applies "means any such judgment, decree or order as referred to in-- (i) Clause (3) of Article 4 of the Indian Independence (Legal Proceedings) Order, 1947, or (ii) Paragraph (5) or paragraph (6) of Article 13 of the High Courts (Bengal) Order, 1947,or (iii) Paragraph (4) or paragraph (6) 1 [of Article 13] of the High Courts (Punjab) Order, 1947, which has been or may hereafter be passed by a Court in Pakistan and which imposes any liability or obligation on a Government in India. _____________________________ 1. Inserted by the Repealing and Amending Act 1952 (Act 48 of 1952) w.e.f 02.08.1952.
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