Title : False Statements
State : Maharashtra
Year : 1958
If any person - (i) when required by any order made or deemed to be made under section 4 to make any statement or furnish any information, makes any statement or furnishes any information, which is false in any material particular, and which he knows or has reasonable cause to believe to be false, or does not believe to be true, or (ii) makes any such statement as aforesaid in any book, account, record, declaration, return or other document which he is required by any such order to maintain or furnish, he shall, on conviction, be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to three years, or with fine, or with both. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Offences by Companies
State : Maharashtra
Year : 1958
(1) If the person contravening an order made or deemed to be made under section 4 isa company, every person who, at the time the contravention was committed, was in charge of, and was responsible to, the company for the conduct of the business of the company, as well as the company, shall be deemed to be guilty of the contravention and shall be liable to be proceeded against and punished accordingly : Provided that, nothing contained in this sub-section shall render any such person liable to any punishment if he proves that the contravention took place without his knowledge or that he exercised all due diligence to prevent such contravention. (2) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (1), where an offence under this Act has been committed by a company and it is proved..... View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Cognizance of Offences and Composition Thereof
State : Maharashtra
Year : 1958
(1) No Court shall take cognizance of any offence punishable under this Act, except on a report in writing of the facts constituting such offence made by the person aggrieved by such offence or by a person who is a public servant as defined in section 21 of the Indian Penal Code. (2) The public servant aforesaid may, either before or after the institution of any proceedings for any offence punishable under this Act, accept from any person charged with such offence by way of composition of the offence a sum of money not exceeding one thousand rupees, and direct the release of any property which has been seized as liable to forfeiture under this Act on payment of the value thereof as estimated by him. (3) On payment by such person of such sum of money, or such value or both, as the..... View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Special Provision Regarding Fine
State : Maharashtra
Year : 1958
Notwithstanding anything contained in section 32 of the *Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898, it shall be lawful for any Magistrate of the First Class specially empowered by the State Government in this behalf and for any Presidency Magistrate to pass a sentence of fine exceeding the pecuniary limit specified in that section as in force in any part of the State on any person convicted of contravening any order made or deemed to be made under section 4. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Presumption as to Orders
State : Maharashtra
Year : 1958
Where an order purports to have been made and signed by an authority in exercise of any power conferred by or under this Act, a Court shall presume that such order was so made by that authority within the meaning of the Indian Evidence Act, 1872. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Burden of Proof in Certain Cases
State : Maharashtra
Year : 1958
Where a person is prosecuted for contravening any order made or deemed to be made under section 4 which prohibits him from doing any act or being in possession of a thing without lawful authority or without a permit, licence or other document, the burden of proving that he has such authority, permit, licence or other document shall be on him. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Power to Try Offences Summarily
State : Maharashtra
Year : 1958
Any Magistrate or Bench of Magistrates empowered for the time being to try in a summary way the offences specified in sub-section (1) of section 260 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898, may, on application in this behalf being made by the prosecution, try in accordance with the provisions contained in sections 262 to 265 of the said Code any offence punishable under this Act. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Protection of Action Taken Under Act
State : Maharashtra
Year : 1958
(1) No suit, prosecution or other legal proceeding shall lie against any person for anything which is in good faith done or intended to be done in pursuance of any order made or deemed to be made under section 4. (2) No suit or other legal proceeding shall lie against the Government for any damage caused or likely to be caused by anything which is in good faith done or intended to be done in pursuance of any order made or deemed to be made under section 4. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Rules
State : Maharashtra
Year : 1958
The State Government may by notification in the Official Gazette, and subject to the condition of previous publication, make rules for carrying out the purposes of this Act. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Repeals and Savings
State : Maharashtra
Year : 1958
(1) The Central Provinces and Berar Specified Commodities (Control) Act, 1946, and the Saurashtra Essential Commodities and Cattle (Control) Ordinance, 1948, are hereby repealed. (2) Notwithstanding such repeal, if there be any orders made under any of the laws so repealed in relation to an essential commodity or cattle, or any proceedings pending under any of the laws so repealed, such orders or proceedings shall be deemed to be made and continue in force or, as the case may be, pending under the provisions of this Act; and accordingly such proceedings may be continued and disposed of under the provisions of this Act. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this section