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Bombay General Clauses Act, 1904, (Maharashtra) Preamble

Title: the Bombay General Clauses Act, 1904

State: Maharashtra

Year: 1904

.....settle the form of and bring together in one Act, many detailed provisions which commonly appeared in special Acts authorising various kinds of public undertakings, such as the construction of railways. Thereafter the provisions of the Appropriate Clauses Act could be incorporated by reference in subsequent special Acts, thereby promoting uniformity and consistency and shortening and simplifying the special Acts. Some Clauses Acts are deemed incorporated in later special Acts unless varied on excluded thereby; others apply only in so far as expressly incorporated".-The Oxford Companion to Law, David M. Walker, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1980. __________________________ 1. For Statement of Objects and Reasons, see Bombay Government Gazette, 1903, Pt. VII, pp. 5, 6 ; for Report of Select Committee, see ibid., 1904, Pt. VII p. 1, and for Proceedings in Council, see ibid., 1903, Pt. VII, p. 130, ibid., 1904, Pt. VII, p. 42.

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General Clauses Act 1897 Preamble 1

Title: General Clauses Act, 1897

State: Central

Year: 1897

.....1936 (5 of 1936), Section 3 and Schedule The Act has been partially extended to Berar by the Berar Laws Act, 1941 (4 of 1941) and to the new Provinces and Merged States by the Merged States (Laws) Act, 1949 (59 of 1949). The Act has been extended to-- Goa, Daman and Diu with modifications by Regulation 12 of 1962, Section3 and Schedule; Dadra and Nagar Haveli by Regulation 6 of 1963, Section2 and ScheduleI; Pondicherry by Regulation 7 of 1963, Section3 and ScheduleI; and Laccadive, Minicoy and Amindivi Islands by Regulation 8 of 1965, Section3 and Schedule It has been amended in Assam by the Assam Commissioners' Powers Distribution Act, 1939 (Assam Act 1 of 1939).

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General Clauses Act 1897 Complete Act

Title: General Clauses Act 1897

State: Central

Year: 1897

..... Section21 - Power to issue, to include power to add to, amend, vary or rescind notifications, orders, rules or bye-laws Section22 - Making of rules or bye-laws and issuing of orders between passing and commencement of enactment Section23 - Provisions applicable to making of rules or bye-laws after previous publication Section24 - Continuation of orders, etc., issued under enactments repealed and re-enacted Section25 - Recovery of fines Section26 - Provision as to offences punishable under two or more enactments Section27 - Meaning of service by post Section28 - Citation of enactments Section29 - Saving for previous enactments, rules and bye-laws Section30 - Application of Act to Ordinances Section30A - Application of Act to Acts made by the Governor-General [Repealed] Section31 - Construction of references to Local Government of a Province [Repealed] ScheduleI - THE SCHEDULE [Enactments Repealed]

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Karnataka] General Clauses Act, 1899 Preamble 1

Title: Karnataka] General Clauses Act, 1899

State: Karnataka

Year: 1899

THE1[KARNATAKA] GENERAL CLAUSES ACT, 1899 [Act, No. 3 of 1899] [3rd July, 1899] PREAMBLE An Act for further shortening the language used in1[Mysore Acts and Karnataka Acts] and for other purposes. WHEREAS it is expedient further to shorten the language used in1[Mysore Acts and Karnataka Acts], and to make certain other provisions relating to those enactments, Her Highness the Maharani-Regent is pleased to enact as follows:- _______________________________ 1. Adapted by the Karnataka Adaptations of Laws Order, 1973 w.e.f. 1.11.1973

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Karnataka] General Clauses Act, 1899 Complete Act

Title: Karnataka] General Clauses Act, 1899

State: Karnataka

Year: 1899

..... Part III Section 5 - Coming into operation of enactment Section 6 - Effect of repeal Section 6A - Repeal of Act making textual amendment in an Act Section 7 - Revival of repealed enactments Section 8 - Construction of references to repealed enactments Section 9 - Commencement and termination of time Section 10 - Computation of time Section 11 - Measurement of distances Section 12 - Duty to be taken prorata in enactments Section 13 - Gender and number Part IV Section 14 - Powers conferred to be exercisable from time to time Section 15 - Power to appoint to include power to appoint ex-officio Section 16 - Power to appoint to include power to suspend or dismiss Section 17 - Substitution of functionaries Section 18 - Successors Section 19 - Official chief and sub-ordinates Part V Section 20 - Construction of orders, etc., issued under enactments Section 21 - Power to make to include power to add to, amend, vary or rescind notifications, order, rules or bye-laws Section 22 - Making of rules or bye-laws and issuing of orders between passing and commencement of enactment Section 23 - Provisions applicable to making of rules or bye-laws after previous publication .....

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Transfer of Property Act, 1882 Section 3

Title: Interpretation-clause

State: Central

Year: 1882

.....for relief, whether such debt or beneficial interest be existent, accruing, conditional or contingent;] 6 ["a person is said to have notice" of a fact when he actually knows that fact, or when, but for wilful abstention from an enquiry or search which he ought to have made, or gross negligence, he would have known it. Explanation I. -Where any transaction relating to immoveable property is required by law to be and has been effected by a registered instrument, any person acquiring such property or any part of, or share or interest in, such property shall be deemed to have notice of such instrument as from the date of registration or, where the property is not all situated in one sub-district, or where the registered instrument has been registered under sub-section (2) of section 30 of the Indian Registration Act, 1908 (16 of 1908), from the earliest date on which any memorandum of such registered instrument has been filed by any Sub-Registrar within whose sub-district any part of the property which is being acquired, or of the property wherein a share or interest is being acquired, is situated:] Provided that- (1) the instrument has been registered and its registration.....

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Indian Evidence Act 1872 Section 68

Title: Proof of Execution of Document Required by Law to Be Attested

State: Central

Year: 1872

If a document is required by law to be attested, it shall not be used as evidence until one attesting witness at least has been called for the purpose of proving its execution, if there be an attesting witness alive, and subject to the process of the Court and capable of giving evidence: 1 [Provided that it shall be necessary to call an attesting witness in proof of the execution of any document, not being a Will, which has been registered in accordance with the provisions of the Indian Registration Act, 1908 (16 of 1908), unless its execution by the person by whom it purports to have been executed is specifically denied.] ________________________ 1. Inserted by Act 31 of 1926, section 2.

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Indian Succession Act, 1925 Chapter 5

Title: Of the Attestation, Revocation, Alteration and Revival of Wills

State: Central

Year: 1925

.....validity to a privileged Will, or by the burning, tearing or otherwise destroying the same by the testator, or by some person in his presence and by his direction, with the intention of revoking the same. Explanation.In order to the revocation of a privileged Will or codicil by an act accompanied by such formalities as would be sufficient to give validity to a privileged Will, it is not necessary that the testator should at the time of doing that act be in a situation which entitles him to make a privileged Will. Section 73 - Revival of unprivileged Will (1) No unprivileged Will or codicil, nor any part thereof, which has been revoked in any manner, shall be revived otherwise than by the re-execution thereof, or by a codicil executed in manner hereinbefore required, and showing an intention to revive the same. (2) When any Will or codicil, which has been partly revoked and afterwards wholly revoked, is revived, such revival shall not extend to so much thereof as has been revoked before the revocation of the whole thereof, unless an intention to the contrary is shown by the Will or codicil.

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Indian Succession Act, 1925 Section 67

Title: Effect of Gift to Attesting Witness

State: Central

Year: 1925

A Will shall not be deemed to be insufficiently attested by reason of any benefit thereby given either by way of bequest or by way of appointment to any person attesting it, or to his or her wife or husband; but the bequest or appointment shall be void so far as concerns the person so attesting or the wife or husband of such person or any person claiming under either of them. Explanation. A legatee under a Will does not lose his legacy by attesting a codicil which confirms the Will.

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Indian Evidence Act 1872 Section 69

Title: Proof Where No Attesting Witness Found

State: Central

Year: 1872

If no such attesting witness can be found, or if the document purports to have been executed in the United Kingdom, it must be proved that the attestation of one attesting witness at least is in his handwriting, and that the signature of the person executing the documents is in the handwriting of that person.

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