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Cantonments (House-accommodation) Act, 1923 Complete Act

Title: Cantonments (House-accommodation) Act, 1923

State: Central

Year: 1923

.....of the Court Section21 - Restriction of scope of inquiry Chapter V Section29 - Appeal to High Court Section30 - Appeal to Officer Commanding the District Section31 - Petition of appeal Section32 - Order in appeal final Section33 - Suspension of action pending appeal Chapter VI Section34 - Service of notice and requisitions Section34A - Computation of periods of limitations Section35 - Power for Central Government to make rules Section36 - Further provisions respecting rules Section37 - Inapplicability of section 556 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898 to trials of offences Section38 - Protection to persons acting under Act Section39 - Repealed Schedule1 - SCHEDULE I

Leaders and Chief Whips of Recognised Parties and Groups in Parliament (Facilities) Act, 1998 Complete Act

Title: Leaders and Chief Whips of Recognised Parties and Groups in Parliament (Facilities) Act, 1998

State: Central

Year: 1998

Preamble1 - LEADERS AND CHIEF WHIPS OF RECOGNISED PARTIES AND GROUPS IN PARLIAMENT (FACILITIES) ACT, 1998 Section1 - Short title and commencement Section2 - Definitions Section3 - Facilities to the Leaders and Chief Whips of recognised groups and parties Section4 - Power to make rules Section5 - Amendment of Section 3 of Act 10 of 1959

Railway Companies (Substitution of Parties in Civil Proceedings) Act, 1946 Complete Act

Title: Railway Companies (Substitution of Parties in Civil Proceedings) Act, 1946

State: Central

Year: 1946

Preamble1 - RAILWAY COMPANIES (SUBSTITUTION OF PARTIES IN CIVIL PROCEEDINGS) ACT, 1946 Section1 - Short title Section2 - Interpretation Section3 - Substitution of Governor-General in Council in certain civil proceedings

Village Defence Parties (Repeal) Act, 2004 Complete Act

Title: Village Defence Parties (Repeal) Act, 2004

State: Karnataka

Year: 2004

Preamble 1 - VILLAGE DEFENCE PARTIES (REPEAL) ACT, 2004 Section 1 - Short title and commencement Section 2 - Repeal of Karnataka Act 34 of 1964

Bills of Exchange Act, 1882 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1882

.....operates as notice that the agent has but a limited authority to sign, and the principal is only bound by such signature the agent in so signing was acting within the actual limit of his authority. SECTION 26: PERSON SIGNING AS AGENT OR IN REPRESENTATIVE CAPACITY (1) Where a person signs a bill as drawer, endorser or acceptor, and adds words to his signature, indicating that he signs for or on behalf of a principal, or in a representative character, he is not personally liable thereon ; but the mere addition to his signature of words describing him as an agent, or as filling a representative character, does not exempt him from personal liability. (2) In determining whether a signature on a bill is that of the principal or that of the agent by whose hand it is written, the construction most favourable to the validity of the instrument shall be adopted. SECTION 27: VALUE DEFINED (1) Valuable consideration for a bill may be constituted by- (a) any consideration sufficient to support a simple contract ; (b) an antecedent debt or liability. Such a debt or liability is deemed valuable consideration whether the bill is payable on demand or at a future time. (2) Where value.....

Finance Act, 2012, (Central) Section 40

Title: Insertion of New Chapter X

State: Central

Year: 2012

.....purpose of obtaining a tax benefit, if the main purpose of a step in, or a part of, the arrangement is to obtain a tax benefit, notwithstanding the fact that the main purpose of the whole arrangement is not to obtain a tax benefit. 97. Arrangement to lack commercial substance.-- (1) An arrangement shall be deemed to lack commercial substance if-- (a) the substance or effect of the arrangement as a whole, is inconsistent with, or differs significantly from, the form of its individual steps or a part; or (b) it involves or includes-- (i) round trip financing; (ii) an accommodating party; (iii) elements that have effect of offsetting or cancelling each other; or (iv) a transaction which is conducted through one or more persons and disguises the value, location, source, ownership or control of funds which is the subject matter of such transaction; or (c) it involves the location of an asset or of a transaction or of the place of residence of any party which is without any substantial commercial purpose other than obtaining a tax benefit (but for the provisions of this Chapter) for a party. (2) For the purposes of sub-section (1), round trip financing includes any.....

Geneva Conventions Act, 1960 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1960

.....(d) procedural matters relating to legal representation, appeals, etc. 3. The existing law on the subject is to be found in the Geneva Convention Act, 1911 (an Act of the United Kingdom) as applied to India by the Gevena Convention Act, 1911 (British India) Order-in-Council dated the 24th October, 1916, and the Geneva Convention Implementing Act, 1936 (14 of 1936). The provisions of these Acts, however, are confined to extending protection to the two emblems, namely, the Red Cross and the Geneva Cross. 4. The Bill seeks to implement the Conventions in so far as it is necessary so to do and, at the same time, consolidates the law on the subject by repealing the United Kingdom Act of 1911andthe Central Act 14 of 1936and incorporating their provisions in the Bill." - Gaz. of Ind., 1959, Extra. Pt. II, S. 2, p. 1098. An Act to enable effect to be given to certain International Conventions done at Geneva on the twelfth day of August, 1949, to which India is a party, and for purposes connected therewith. Be it enacted by Parliament in the Eleventh Year of the Republic of India as follows :- -Geneva Conventions of 12th August, 1949, were ratified by the President on the 16th October,.....

Geneva Convention Act 1960 Schedule III

Title: Third Schedule

State: Central

Year: 1960

.....Parties, each party to the conflict shall be bound to apply, as a minimum, the following provisions:- (Conflicts not of an international character.) (1) Persons taking no active part in the hostilities, including members of armed forces who have down their arms and those placed hors de combat by sickness, wounds, detention, or any other cause, shall in all circumstances be treated humanely without any adverse distinction founded on race, colour, religion or faith, sex, birth or wealth, or any other similar criteria. To this end, the following acts are and shall remain prohibited at any time and in any place whatsoever with respect to the above-mentioned persons:- (a) Violence to life and person, in particular murder of all kinds, mutilation, cruel treatment and torture; (b) taking of hostages; (c) outrages upon personal dignity, in particular, humiliating and degrading treatment; (d) the passing of sentences and the carrying out of executions without previous judgement pronounced by a regularly constituted court affording all the judicial guarantees which are recognised as indispensable by civilized peoples. (2) The wounded and sick shall be collected and.....

The Maharashtra Housing and Area Development Act, 1976 Complete Act

State: Maharashtra

Year: 1976

THE MAHARASHTRA HOUSING AND AREA DEVELOPMENT ACT, 1976 THE MAHARASHTRA HOUSING AND AREA DEVELOPMENT ACT, 1976 An Act to unify, consolidate and amend the laws relating to housing, repairing and reconstructing dangerous building and carrying out improvement works in slum areas. 1[WHEREAS, on account of the rapid growth of industries in the urban areas and the fast growth of population and commercial activities in such area, the need of housing accommodation could not be met by the limited house construction activities in the private sector; AND WHEREAS, in the urban areas and particularly in the 2[Brihan Mumbai] the old buildings which have outlived their lives and rendered themselves in a bad state of repairs and presented a dangerous possibility of collapse, necessity was increasingly felt to take up the programme of repairs and reconstructions of such buildings; AND WHEREAS, due to acute shortage of accommodation in the urban area such have come up which necessitated taking up improvement works in slum areas; AND WHEREAS, the magnitude of the housing programme for construction of new houses throughout the State and the task of repairs and reconstruction of old and.....

The Rajasthan Tax on Luxuries (in Hotels and Lodging Houses) Act, 1990 Complete Act

State: Rajasthan

Year: 1990

.....separately by the hotelier; (p) "registered hotelier" means a hotelier registered under this Act; (q) "rules" means the rules made under this Act; (r) "Sales Tax Act" means the Rajasthan Sales Tax Act, [1994]; (s) "State" means the State of Rajasthan; (t) "Tax" means the tax payable under this Act; (u) "turnover" means the aggregate of the amounts of the monetary consideration received or receivable by a hotelier or by his agent in respect of the luxuries provided in a hotel during a given period; (v) "year" means the financial year which shall also be known as the assessment year. (2) All words and expression which are used but are not defined in this Act and are defined in the Sales Tax Act shall have the meanings assigned to them in that Act. 3. Incidence of taxation.- (1) There shall be levied a tax on the turnover of a hotelier and such tax shall be payable by him in accordance with the provisions of this Act. (Substituted by Raj. Act No. 9of 1997, w.e.f. 30.3.1997.) [(2) If a person other than the owner (including part-owner) is for the time being incharge of a hotel, then such person (excluding the manager or incharge of the hotel who is merely.....