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Bombay Hindu Places of Public Worship (Entry Authorization) Act, 1956, (Maharashtra) Complete Act

Title: the Bombay Hindu Places of Public Worship (Entry Authorization) Act, 1956

State: Maharashtra

Year: 1956

Preamble - THE ACT FOR AVOIDING WAGERS (AMENDMENT) ACT, 1865 Section 1 - Contracts declared null and void. No suit allowed on such contracts Section 2 - Nor for commission or brokerage, etc., in respect of agreements by way of gaming or wagering Section 3 - Payments for which guardian and personal representative not to be allowed credit Section 4 - Repeal and savings Section 5 - Number and gender

The Orissa Town Planning & Improvement Trust Act, 1956 Complete Act

State: Orissa

Year: 1956

.....The Trust may enter into and perform all such contracts as it may consider necessary or expedient for carrying out any of the purposes of this Act. Section 21 - Execution of contracts and approval of Committee (1) Every contract shall be made on behalf of the Trust by, the Chairman: Provided that: (a) a contract involving an expenditure exceeding three thousand rupees but not exceeding one lakh rupees shall not be made by the Chairman without the previous sanction of the Trust; and (b) a contract involving an expenditure exceeding one lakh rupees shall not be made by the Chairman without the previous sanction of the trust and the State Government. (2) Every estimate for expenditure of any sum for carrying out any of the purposes of this Act shall be subject to the approval of the authority or authorities empowered under Sub-section (1) to make or as the case may be to sanction the making of a contract involving the expenditure of a like sum. (3) Sub-sections (1) and (2) shall apply to every variation or abandonment of a contract or estimate as well as to an original contract or estimate. Section 22 - Further provisions as to execution of contract (1) Every contract made by.....

Life Insurance Corporation Act, 1956 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1956

.....done before the appointed day. SECTION 09: GENERAL EFFECT OF VESTING OF CONTROLLED BUSINESS (1) Unless otherwise expressly provided by or under this Act, all contracts, agreements and other instruments of whatever nature subsisting or having effect immediately before the appointed day and to which an insurer whose controlled business has been transferred to and vested in the Corporation is a party or which are in favour of such insurer shall in so far as they relate to the controlled business of the insurer be of as full force and effect against or in favour of the Corporation, as the case may be, and may be enforced or acted upon as fully and effectually as if instead of the insurer, the Corporation had been a party thereto or as if they had been entered into or issued in favour of the Corporation. (2) If on the appointed day any suit, appeal or other legal proceeding of whatever nature is pending by or against an insurer, then, in so far as it relates to his controlled business it shall not abate, be discontinued or be in any way prejudicially affected by reason of the transfer to the Corporation of the business of the insurer or of anything done under this Act, but the suit,.....

The University Grants Commission Act, 1956 Complete Act

State: Uttarakhand

Year: 1956

.....17-6-1972). -------------------- (f) "University" means a University established or incorporated by or under a Central Act, a Provincial Act or a State Act, and includes any such institution as may, in consultation with the University concerned, be recoginsed by the Commission in accordance with the regulations made in this behalf under this Act. Application of Act to institutions for higher studies other than Universities 3. The Central Government may, on the advice of the Commission, declare by notification in the Official Gazette, that any institution for higher education, other than a University, shall be deemed to be a University for the purposes of this Act, and on such a declaration being made, all the provisions of this Act shall apply to such institution as if it were a University within the meaning of clause (f) of section 2. 4. (1) With effect from such date as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint, there shall be established a Commission by the name of the University Grants Commission. (2) The said Commission shall be a body corporate having perpetual succession and a common seal, and shall by the said name.....

Companies Act, 1956 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1956

.....as in the (Depositories Act, 1996) (22 of 1996); (12B) "derivative" has the same meaning as in clause (aa) of (S.2 of the Securities Contracts (Regulation) Act, 1956) (42 of 1956);] (13) "director" includes any person occupying the position of director, by whatever name called; (14) "District Court" means the principal Civil Court of original jurisdiction in a district, but does not include a High Court in the exercise of its ordinary original civil jurisdiction ; [(14A) "dividend" includes any interim dividend;] (15) "document" includes summons, notice, requisition, order, other legal process, and registers, whether issued, sent or kept in pursuance of this or any other Act or otherwise ; [(15A) "employees stock option" means the option given to the whole-time directors, officers or employees of a company, which gives such directors, officers or employees the benefit or right to purchase or subscribe at a future date, the securities offered by the company at a pre-determined price;] (16) "existing company" means an existing company as defined in (section 3); (17) "financial year" means, in relation to any body corporate, the period in respect of which.....

Companies Act, 1956 Part 6

Title: Management and Administration

State: Central

Year: 1956

.....Act, 1996, shall be deemed to be an index of members and register and index of debenture-holders, as the case may be, for the purposes of this Act.] ____________________ 1. Inserted by Act 22 of 1996, Section 30 and Schedule (w.r.e.f. 20-9-1995). Section 153 - Trusts not to be entered on register No notice of any trust, express, implied or constructive, shall be entered on the register of members or of debenture-holders1[***] ____________________ 1. The words "or be receivable by the Registrar" omitted by Act 53 of 1963, Section 6 (w.e.f. 1-1-1964). Section 153A - Appointment of public trustee 1[153A. Appointment of public trustee 2[(1)] The Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint a person as public trustee to discharge the functions and to exercise the rights and powers conferred on him by or under this Act.] 3[(2) The provision of this section shall not apply on and after the commencement of the Companies (Amendment) Act, 2000.] ____________________ 1. Inserted by Act 53 of 1963, Section 7 (w.e.f. 1-1-1964). 2. Section 153A renumbered as sub-section (1) thereof by Act 53 of 2000, Section 63 (w.e.f. 13-12-2000)......

Bihar and West Bengal (Transfer of Territories) Act, 1956 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1956

.....under existing" appear to have been inadvertently omitted.- Ed.] SECTION 20: APPROPRIATION OF MONEYS FOR EXPENDITURE IN TRANSFERRED APPROPRIATION ACTS (1) As -from the appointed day any Act passed by the Legislature of West Bengal before that day for the appropriation of any money out of the Consolidated Fund of the State to meet any expenditure in respect of any part of the financial year 1956-57 shall have effect also in relation to the transferred territories, and it shall be lawful for the State Government to spend any amount in those territories out of the amount authorised by such Act to be expended for any service in that State. (2) The Governor of West Bengal may, after the appointed day. authorise such expenditure from the Consolidated Fund of the State as he deems necessary for any purpose or service in the transferred territories for any period not extending beyond the 31st day of March, 1957. SECTION 21: DISTRIBUTION OF REVENUES -Section 3 of the Union Duties of Excise (Distribution) Act, 1953,and paragraphs 3,4 and 5 of the Constitution (Distribution of Revenues) Order, 1953 shall, in respect of the financial year 1956-57 have effect subject to such.....

Bihar and West Bengal (Transfer of Territories) Act, 1956 Complete Act

State: West Bengal

Year: 1956

.....excluding the transferred territories and the population as so ascertained of the transferred territories: (h) "prescribed" means prescribed by the rules made under this Act: (i) "sitting member" in relation to either House of Parliament or of the Legislature of a State means a person who. immediately before the appointed day. is a member of that House: (j) "transferred territories" means the territories tranferred from the State of Bihar to the State of West bengal by section 3: (k) "treasury" includes a sub-treasury. PART 2 TRANSFER OF TERRITORIES Section 3 Transfer of territories from Bihar to West Bengal OBJECTS AND REASONS "Clause 3 (now S. 3).- The Committee are-of the opinion that the State of West Bengal should be a geographically compact area and that there should be a link between the district of Darjeeling, Jalpaiguri and Cooch Bihar and the rest of the State. The areas of Purnea district which are sought to be transferred by original sub-clauses (a) and (b) of clause 3(1) do not provide the necessary link between Darjeeling in the north and West Dinajpur in the south. After talcing into account all the relevant factors, the Committee have come to the conclusion.....

Howrah Improvement Act, 1956 Complete Act

State: West Bengal

Year: 1956

.....AND WHEREAS it is expedient that a Board of Trustees should be constituted and invested with special powers for carrying out the objects of this Act; It is hereby enacted as follows: CHAPTER 1 Preliminary Section 1 Short title, commencement and extent (1) This Act may be called the Howrah Improvement Act, 1956. (2) It shall come into force on such day as the State Government may, by notification, appoint. (3) It extends to the whole of Howrah. Section 2 Definitions In this Act, unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or context, (a) "betterment fee" means the fee prescribed by section 80 in respect of an increase in value of land resulting from the execution of an improvement scheme; (b) "the Board" means the Board of Trustees for the improvement of Howrah constituted under this Act; (c) "building" includes a house, out-house, stable, privy, urinal, shed, hut, wall (other than a boundary wall not exceeding ten feet in (d) "building line" means a line (in rear of the street alignment) up to which the main wall of a building abutting on a projected public street may lawfully extend; (e) "Chairman" means the Chairman of the Board; 22. Clause (ee) ins. by W......

The Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act, 1956 Complete Act

State: Delhi

Year: 1956

THE IMMORAL TRAFFIC (PREVENTION) ACT, 1956 THE IMMORAL TRAFFIC (PREVENTION) ACT, 1956 An Act to provide in pursuance of the International Convention signed at New York on the 9th day of May, 1950, for the prevention of immoral traffic. Be it enacted by Parliament in the Seventh Year of the Republic of India as follows: 1. Short title, extent and commencement." (1) This Act may be called The Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act, 1956. (2) It extends to the whole of India. (3) This section shall come into force at once; and the remaining provisions of this come into force on such date as the Central Government may, by notification in the official Gazette, appoint. 2. Definitions."In this Act. unless the context otherwise requires" (a) "brothel" includes any house, room, conveyance or place, or any portion of any house, room, conveyance or place, which is used for purposes of sexual exploitation or abuse for the gain of another person or for the mutual gain of two or more prostitutes; (aa) "child" means a person who has not completed the age of eighteen years; (b) "corrective institution" means an institution, by whatever name called (being an institution.....