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Konkan Passenger Ships (Acquisition) Act, 1973 Preamble 1

Title: Konkan Passenger Ships (Acquisition) Act, 1973

State: Central

Year: 1973

THE KONKAN PASSENGER SHIPS (ACQUISITION) ACT, 1973 [Act, No. 62 of 1973] [22nd December, 1973] PREAMBLE An Act to provide for the acquisition and transfer of the Konkan passenger ships in order to serve better the needs of the mari-time passengers of the Konkan coastal region and for matters connected therewith incidental thereto. WHEREAS Messrs.Chowgule Steamships Limited, a company, was running the Konkan coastal passenger shipping service; AND WHEREAS the Konkan coastal passenger shipping service, which was suspended owing to the monsoons, was to be resumed by the said company by the first week of September, 1973, but has not yet been resumed, and the non-resumption of such passenger service is causing undue hardship to the maritime passengers of the Konkan coastal region; AND WHEREAS complaints have been received by the Central Government to the effect that the Konkan coastal passenger shipping service was not being run by the said company according to schedule and that the said service was irregular, unpunctual and undependable; AND WHEREAS in the interests of the maritime passengers of the Konkan coastal region it is urgently necessary to resume the Konkan.....

Konkan Passenger Ships (Acquisition) Act, 1973 Complete Act

Title: Konkan Passenger Ships (Acquisition) Act, 1973

State: Central

Year: 1973

..... Section8 - Duty to deliver possession of Konkan passenger ships Section9 - Duty to furnish inventory of articles on the ships Chapter III Section10 - Payment of amount Section11 - Amount due to the Shipping Development Fund Committee to be deducted in the first instance Chapter IV Section12 - Effect of Act on other laws Section13 - Contracts, etc., cease to have effect unless ratified by the Central Government or Government company Section14 - Penalties Section15 - Offences by companies Section16 - Protection of action taken in good faith Section17 - Cognizance of offences Section18 - Delegation of powers Section19 - Power to make rules Section20 - Repeal and saving

Bombay Motor Vehicles [Taxation of Passengers] Act, 1958, (Maharashtra) Preamble

Title: the Bombay Motor Vehicles (Taxation of Passengers) Act, 1958

State: Maharashtra

Year: 1958

THE BOMBAY MOTOR VEHICLES (TAXATION OF PASSENGERS) ACT, 1958 [Act No. 67 of 1958]1 [3rd September, 1958] PREAMBLE 2[An Act to provide for levy of a tax on passengers carried by road in stage carriages in the State]. WHEREAS it is expedient to provide for the levy of a tax on passengers, carried 3[in stage carriages]; It is hereby enacted in the Ninth Year of the Republic of India as follows : NOTES Statement of Objects and Reasons : In order to have a new source of revenue the State Government proposed to levy a tax on passengers carried by stage carriages at a rate specified in the Act as would yield an amount equal to ten per cent of the inclusive amount of fares payable to the operator of a stage carriage except where such stage carriage plies exclusively within a Municipal area and other adjacent areas. Act 27 of 1958. The proposed Fourth Five-Year Plan required a large outlay for which the internal resources of the State and the Central assistance would not have been sufficient. Hence, it was necessary to mobilise additional resources by way of increase in taxation.- M.G.G., Pt. IV, dated. 11.9.1968, p. 277.- [Mah. 42 of 1969.] _____________________________.....

Bombay Motor Vehicles Tax, the Motor Vehicles (Taxation of Passengers), the Maharashtra Education and Employment Guarantee (Cess); the Tax on Sale of Electricity, the State Tax on Professions, Trades,, (Maharashtra) Preamble

Title: the Bombay Motor Vehicles Tax, the Motor Vehicles (Taxation of Passengers), the Maharashtra Education and Employment Guarantee (Cess); the Tax on Sale of Electricity, the State Tax on Professions, Trades, Callings and Employments, the Tax Acts (Amendment) and the Employment Guarantee (Amendment) and the Bombay State Scarcity Relief Fund (Repeal) Act, 2008

State: Maharashtra

Year: 1865

.....CALLINGS AND EMPLOYMENTS, THE TAX ACTS (AMENDMENT) AND THE EMPLOYMENT GUARANTEE (AMENDMENT) AND THE BOMBAY STATE SCARCITY RELIEF FUND (REPEAL) ACT, 2008 [Act No. 05 of 2008] [19th March, 2008] PREAMBLE An Act further to amend the Bombay Motor Vehicles Tax Act, 1958; the Bombay Motor Vehicles (Taxation of Passengers) Act, 1958; the Maharashtra Education and Employment Guarantee (Cess) Act, 1962; the Maharashtra Tax on Sale of Electricity Act, 1963; the Maharashtra State Tax on Professions, Trades, Callings and Employments Act, 1975; the Maharashtra Tax Acts (Amendment) Act, 1975 and the Maharashtra Employment. Guarantee Act, 1977; and to repeal the Bombay State Scarcity Relief Fund Act, 1958. WHEREAS both Houses of the State Legislature were not in session; AND WHEREAS the Governor of Maharashtra was satisfied that circumstances existed which rendered it necessary for him to take immediate action further to amend the Bombay Motor Vehicles Tax Act, 1958(Bom. LXVII of 1958); the Bombay Motor Vehicles (Taxation of Passengers) Act, 1958(Bom. LXXXIII of 1958); the Maharashtra Education and Employment Guarantee (Cess) Act, 1962(Mah. XXVII of 1962); the Maharashtra Tax.....

Merchant Shipping Act, 1958 Part VIII

Title: Passenger Ships

State: Central

Year: 1958

.....under sub-section (3).] _______________________ 1. Substituted for the words "an unberthed passenger ship" by the Merchant Shipping (Amdt.) Act, 1976 (69 of 1976), Section 2. 2. Inserted by Amendment Act, 1976 (69 of 1976), Section 9 (1-12-1976). Section 256 - Ship taking additional passengers at intermediate place 1 [(1) If any 2 [special trade passenger ship] performing a voyage between ports or places in India takes additional 2 [special trade passengers] on board at an intermediate port or place, the master shall obtain from the certifying officer 4 [or such other officer as the Central Government may appoint in this behalf] at the port or place a supplementary certificate stating- (a) the number of 2 [special trade passengers] so taken on board; and (b) that food, fuel and pure water over and above what is necessary for the crew, and the other things, if any, prescribed for the ship, have been placed on board, of the quality prescribed, properly packed and sufficient to supply the 3 [special trade passengers] on board during the voyage which the ship is to make (including such detention in quarantine as may be probable) according to the scale for the time.....

Bombay Motor Vehicles [Taxation of Passengers] Act, 1958, (Maharashtra) Section 3A

Title: Levy of Further Tax on Passengers Carried by Stage Carriages

State: Maharashtra

Year: 1958

.....execution of the said programmes has been progressively increasing the rate of this surcharge has not been increased so far. It is therefore, decided to increase that rate to meet the ever increasing expenditure on the said programmes.- M.G.G., Pt. V, 1993, p. 142. ________________________ 1. Section 3A was inserted by Mah. 2 of 1975, section 2. 2. These words, brackets and figures were substituted for the words, brackets and figures “Bombay Motor Vehicles (Taxation of Passengers) (Amendment) Act, 1977” by Mah. 5 of 1993, section 2(d). 3. These words were substituted by Mah. 5 of 1993, section 2(2). 4. Clause (b) was deleted by Mah. 15 of 1975, section 4. 5. The words “or other omnibus and “or passengers carried In a private service vehicle” were deleted by Mah. 9 of 1989, section 10.

Terminal Tax on Railway Passengers Act, 1956 Complete Act

Title: Terminal Tax on Railway Passengers Act, 1956

State: Central

Year: 1956

Preamble1 - TERMINAL TAX ON RAILWAY PASSENGERS ACT, 1956 Section1 - Short title, extent and commencement Section2 - Definitions Section3 - Terminal tax on passengers carried by railway from or to notified places Section4 - Terminal tax not to be levied within certain limits Section5 - Power of Central Government to vary rates of tax Section6 - Power of Central Government to discontinue levy Section7 - Mode of recovery of tax Section8 - No other terminal tax on railway passengers when terminal tax under this Act is levied Section9 - Exemptions Schedule1 - SCHEDULE

Bombay Motor Vehicles [Taxation of Passengers] Act, 1958, (Maharashtra) Section 3

Title: Levy of Tax on Passengers Carried by Stage Carriages

State: Maharashtra

Year: 1958

.....changes cannot be made under the present scheme of the Act, without an amendment on such occasion to the Act itself, it has decided to amend sub-section (1) of section 3 of the Act, so as to lay down a ceiling of the rate of passenger tax at the existing level of 20 per cent of the inclusive fares, and simultaneously to take power to fix, by order in the Official Gazette, the rate of tax actually leviable from time to time.- M.G.G., Pt. IV, 24.12.75, p. 509.- [Mah. 65 of 1975.] Tax levied is on passenger and not on income of operators. Distinction made between rates in urban and rural areas is also based on reasonable classification. Akhil Bhartiya Grahak Panchayat (Bombay Branch) v. State of Maharashtra and others, AIR 1985 Bom. 14. Transport vehicle carrying employees of Company not a public vehicle – If a nominal charge is realised from the employees of the Company that would not make the transport a public vehicle as to attract the provision of section 3. It cannot by any process of reasoning or stretch of imagination be deemed to include employees of a Private Company who are given facilities not as members of the public, but as holding a special status,.....

Terminal Tax on Railway Passengers Act, 1956 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1956

.....declared to be a notified place for the purposes of this Act,: (d) "railway administration" has the meaning assigned to it in the Indian Railways Act, 1890. SECTION 03: TERMINAL TAX ON PASSENGERS CARRIED BY RAILWAY FROM OR TO NOTIFIED PLACES (1) Subject to the other provisions contained in this Act, there shall be levied on all passengers carried by railway from or to any notified place a terminal tax in respect of every railway ticket (whether single or return) at such rates not exceeding the maximum rates as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, fix; and such notification shall specify the date with effect from which, and may also specify the period for which, the terminal tax shall be leviable: Provided that where no such period is specified in the notification, the terminal tax shall be leviable for so long as this Act is in force. (2) Subject to the maximum rates, different rates of terminal tax may be fixed,- (a) in relation to different notified places; and (b) in respect of short distance passengers and long distance passengers; provided that the rate in respect, of short -distance passengers shall be always lower than that in respect of.....

Bombay Motor Vehicles (Taxation of Passengers) Act, 1958 Complete Act

State: Maharashtra

Year: 1958

.....proceedings shall be taken against the accused person in respect of the same offence. SECTION 18: OFFICERS TO BE PUBLIC SERVANTS. All officers acting under this Act shall be deemed to be public servants within the meaning of Section 21 of the Indian Penal Code. SECTION 19: BAR OF CERTAIN PROCEEDINGS. (1) No prosecution or other proceeding shall be instituted in a Criminal Court without the previous sanction of the State Government, against any officer or servant of the Government, for any act done or purporting to be done under this Act. (2) No officer or servant of the Government shall be liable in respect of any such act in any civil or criminal proceeding, if the act was done in good faith in the course of the execution of duties or the discharge of functions imposed by or under this Act. SECTION 20: LIMITATION FOR SUITS AND PROSECUTIONS. No suit or other proceeding shall be instituted against the State and no suit, prosecution or other proceeding shall be instituted against any officer or servant of the Government in respect of any act done or purporting to be done under this Act, unless the suit, Prosecution or other proceeding is instituted within one year from the.....