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Home Bare Acts Phrase: adjournmentCode of Civil Procedure, 1908 Rule 1 to 3
Title: Adjournments
State: Central
Year: 1908
..... (b) no adjournment shall be granted at the request of a party, except where the circumstances are beyond the control of that party, (c) the fact that the pleader of a party is engaged in another Court, shall not be a ground for adjournment, (d) where the illness of a pleader or his inability to conduct the case for any reason, other than his being engaged in another Court, is put forward as a ground for adjournment, the Court shall not grant the adjournment unless it is satisfied that the party applying for adjournment could not have engaged another pleader in time, (e) where a witness is present in Court but a party or his pleader is not present or the party or his pleader, though present in Court, is not ready to examine or cross-examine the witness, the Court may, if it thinks fit, record the statement of the witness and pass such orders as it thinks fit dispensing with the examination-in-chief or cross-examination of the witness, as the case may be, by the party or his pleader not present or not ready as aforesaid.] 2. Procedure if parties fail to appear on day fixed Where, on any day to which the hearing of the suit is adjourned, the parties or any of them.....
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionCode of Criminal Procedure, 1973 Section 309
Title: Power to Postpone or Adjourn Proceedings
State: Central
Year: 1973
..... (a) no adjournment shall be granted at the request of a party, except where the circumstances are beyond the control of that party; (b) the fact that the pleader of a party is engaged in another Court, shall not be a ground for adjournment; (c) where a witness is present in Court but a party or his pleader is not present or the party or his pleader though present in Court, is not ready to examine or cross-examine the witness, the Court may, if thinks fit, record the statement of the witness and pass such orders as it thinks fit dispensing with the examination-in-chief or cross-examination of the witness, as the case may be.] Explanation 1 .-If sufficient evidence has been obtained to raise a suspicion that the accused may have committed an offence, and it appears likely that further evidence may be obtained by a remand, this is a reasonable cause for a remand. Explanation 2.-The terms on which an adjournment or postponement may be granted in include, in appropriate cases, the payment of costs by the prosecution or the accused. _____________________ 1. Inserted by Act 45 of 1978, section 24 (w.e.f. 18-12-1978). 2. Inserted vide Code of Criminal Procedure.....
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionManipur Municipalities Act, 1994 Section 52
Title: Adjournment of Meeting in the Absence of Quorum
State: Central
Year: 1994
(1) No business shall be transacted at a meeting unless a quorum of one-third of the total number of Councillors of a Nagar Panchayat or a Council be present: Provided that in cases where the total number of Councillors of a Nagar Panchayat or a Council is not divisible by three, the total number shall be increase by such minimum number as to make the total number divisible by three. (2) If there be no quorum present at a meeting the Chairperson or in his absence the Vice-Chairperson shall adjourn the meeting to such hour of any future day as be may reasonably fix. A notice of such adjournment shall be fixed upon a notice board in the municipal office, and the business which would have been brought before the original meeting, has there been a quorum thereat, shall be brought before the adjourned meeting and may be disposed of at such meeting or at my subsequent adjournments thereof whether there be a quorum present or not. (3) A notice of adjournment exhibited in the notice board of the municipal office on the day on which the meeting is adjourned, shall be sufficient notice of the subsequent meeting.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionKarnataka Municipalities Act, 1964 Section 56
Title: Adjournment of Meetings
State: Karnataka
Year: 1964
Subject to such rules as may be prescribed, any general meeting may, with the consent of a majority of the councillors present, be adjourned from time to time to a later hour on the same day or to any other day; but no business shall be transacted at any adjourned meeting other than that left undisposed of at the meeting from which the adjournment took place. A notice of such adjournment posted in the municipal office shall be deemed sufficient notice of the adjourned meeting.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionRepresentation of the People Act, 1951 Section 57
Title: Adjournment of Poll in Emergencies
State: Central
Year: 1951
(1) If at an election the proceedings at any polling station provided under section 25 or at the place fixed under sub-section (1) of section 29 for the poll are interrupted or obstructed by any riot or open violence, or if at an election it is not possible to take the poll at any polling station or such place on account of any natural calamity, or any other sufficient cause the presiding officer for such polling station or the returning officer presiding over such place, as the case may be, shall announce an adjournment of the poll to a date to be notified later, and where the poll is so adjourned by a presiding officer, he shall forthwith inform the returning officer concerned. (2) Whenever a poll is adjourned under sub-section (1), the returning officer shall immediately report the circumstances to the appropriate authority and the Election Commission and shall, as soon as may be, with the previous approval of the Election Commission appoint the day on which the poll shall recommence, and fix the polling station or place at which, and the hours during which, the poll will be taken, and shall not count the votes cast at such election until such adjourned poll shall have been.....
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionGoa, Daman and Diu (Opinion Poll) Act, 1966 [Repealed] Section 18
Title: Adjournment of Opinion Poll in Emergencies
State: Central
Year: 1966
.....the presiding officer for such polling station shall announce an adjournment of the opinion poll to a date to be notified later, and where the opinion poll is so adjourned by a presiding officer, he shall forthwith inform the opinion poll commissioner concerned. (2) Whenever an opinion poll is adjourned under sub-section (1), the opinion poll commissioner shall immediately report the circumstances to the Chief Election Commissioner and shall, as soon as may be, with the previous approval of the Chief Election Commissioner, appoint the day on which the opinion poll shall recommence and fix the polling station at which, and the hours during which, the opinion poll will be taken, and shall not count the votes cast at such opinion poll until such adjourned opinion poll shall have been completed. (3) In every such case as aforesaid, the opinion poll commissioner shall notify, in such manner as the Chief Election Commissioner may direct, the date, place and hours of polling fixed under sub-section (2).
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionPUBLIC SERVANTS (INQUIRIES) ACT, 1850 Section 14
Title: Power to admit or call for new evidence for prosecution. Accused's right to adjournment
State: Central
Year: 1850
If it shall appear necessary before the close of the case for the prosecution, the commissioners may in their discretion allow the prosecutor to exhibit evidence not included in the list given to the person accused, or may themselves call for new evidence; and in such case the person accused shall be entitled to have, if he demands it, an adjournment of the proceedings for three clear days, before the exhibition of such new evidence exclusive of the day of adjournment and of the day to which the proceedings are adjourned.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionPublic Servants (Inquiries) Act, 1850 Section 20
Title: Power to Require Amendment of Charge and to Adjourn. Reason for Refusing Adjournment to Be Recorded
State: Central
Year: 1850
When the commissioners shall be of opinion that the articles of charge or any of them are not drawn with sufficient clearness and precision, the commissioners may, in their discretion, require the same to be amended, and may thereupon, on the application of the person accused, adjourn the inquiry for a reasonable time. The commissioners may also, if they think fit, adjourn the inquiry from time to time, on the application of either the prosecutor or the person accused on the ground of sickness or unavoidable, absence of any witness or other reasonable cause. When such application is made and refused, the commissioners shall record the application, and their reasons for refusing to comply with it.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionPatents Act, 1970 (39 of 1970) Section 86
Title: Power of Controller to Adjourn Applications for Compulsory Licences, Etc., in Certain Cases
State: Central
Year: 1970
.....made thereunder or any order of the Government imposed otherwise than by way of a condition for the working of the invention in the territory of India or for the disposal of the patented articles or of the articles made by the process or by the use of the patented plant, machinery, or apparatus, then, the period of adjournment ordered under this sub-section shall be reckoned from the date on which the period during which the working of the invention was prevented by such Act, rule or regulation or order of Government as computed from the date of the application, expires. (2) No adjournment under sub-section (1) shall be ordered unless the Controller is satisfied that the patentee has taken with promptitude adequate or reasonable steps to start the working of the invention in the territory of India on a commercial scale and to an adequate extent.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionCoroners Act, 1871 Section 21
Title: Adjournment of Inquest
State: Central
Year: 1871
The Coroner may adjourn the inquest from time to time, and from place to place. Juror's recognizances.- Whenever the inquest is adjourned the Coroner shall take the recognizances of the jurors to attend at the time and place appointed, and notify to the witnesses when and where the inquest will be proceeded with. The amount of such recognizances shall in each case be fixed by the Coroner {Ins.by Act 4 of 1908, s.7}[and the whole, or such part thereof as to the Coroner seems fit, shall, in default of attendance by the jurors, be recoverable in the same manner as a fine imposed under section 31].
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