THE EAST PUNJAB DISTRESSED PERSONS (FACILITIES FOR LOANS) ACT, 1958 THE EAST PUNJAB DISTRESSED PERSONS (FACILITIES FOR LOANS) ACT, 1958 [Act No. 11 of 1958] PREAMBLE Received the assent of the Governor of Punjab on the 21st April, 1958, and was first published in the Punjab Government Gazette Extraordinary, dated the 24th April, 1958. An Act to provide for extension of loan facilities to distressed persons in certain cases. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Punjab in the Ninth Year of the Republic of India as follows: Section 1 - Short title, extent and commencement (1) This Act may be called the Punjab Distressed Persons (Facilities for Loans) Act, 1958. (2) It extends to the whole of the State of [Haryana] ( Adaptation of Laws Order, 1968). (3) It shall come into force on such date as the State Government may by notification in the official Gazette, appoint. Section 2 - Power of the State Government of make rules The State Government or the Financial Commissioner, subject to the control of the State Government, may, from time to time, by notification in the official Gazette, make rules as to loans and their recovery to be made to.....
List Judgments citing this section.....officers shall perform such duties and exercise such powers as may be prescribed for the purpose of carrying into effect the provisions of this Act and the rules made thereunder. (3) Every inspecting officer appointed under this section shall be deemed to be a public servant, within the meaning of section 21 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860. Penal duty to be paid in certain cases. 8. (1) If in the opinion of an authority prescribed in this behalf, the Board, the license or the person generating energy for his own use or consumption evades or attempts to evade the payment of duty, whether by maintaining false records, submitting false returns, concealing the energy supplied or by any other means, the Board, the licensee or such person, as the case may be, shall pay by way of penalty, in addition to the duty payable under this Act, as sum not exceeding four times the amount of the duty to be determined by the prescribed authority: Provided that no action under this sub-section shall be taken without affording a reasonable opportunity of being heard to the Board, the licensee or such person. (2) An appeal shall lie against an order passed under sub-section (1) to such.....
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