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Central Excise Act, 1944 Section 32L

Title: Power of Settlement Commission to Send a Case Back to the Central Excise Officer

State: Central

Year: 1944

.....before it, send the case back to the Central Excise Officer having jurisdiction who shall thereupon dispose of the case in accordance with the provisions of this Act as if no application under section 32E had been made. (2) For the purpose of sub-section (1), the Central Excise Officer shall be entitled to use all the materials and other information produced by the assessee before the Settlement Commission or the results of the enquiry held or evidence recorded by the Settlement Commission in the course of the proceedings before it as if such materials, information, inquiry and evidence had been produced before such Central Excise Officer or held or recorded by him in the course of the proceedings before him. (3) For the purposes of the time limit under section 11A and for the purposes of interest under section 11BB, in a case referred to in sub-section (1), the period commencing on and from the date of the application to the Settlement Commission under section 32E and ending with the date of receipt by the Central Excise Officer of the order of the Settlement Commission sending the case back to the Central Excise Officer shall be excluded.

Public Debt Act, 1944 Section 16

Title: Power to Bank to Require Bonds

State: Central

Year: 1944

(1) Before making any order which it is empowered to make under this Act, the Bank may require the person in whose favour the order is to be made to execute a bond with one or more sureties in such form as may be prescribed or to furnish security not exceeding twice the value of the subject-matter of the order, to be held at the disposal of the Bank, to pay to the Bank or any person to whom the Bank may assign the bond or security in furtherance of sub-section (2) the amount thereof. (2) A Court before which a claim in respect of the subject-matter of any such order is established may order the bond or security to be assigned to the successful claimant who shall thereupon be entitled to enforce the bond or realise the security to the extent of such claim.

Public Debt Act, 1944 Section 23

Title: Discharge in Respect of Bearer Bonds

State: Central

Year: 1944

1[The Government] shall be discharged from all liability on a bearer bond or on any interest coupon of such a bond on payment to the holder of such bond or coupon on presentation on or after the date when it becomes due of the amount expressed therein, unless before such payment an order of a Court in2[India] has been served on1[the Government] restraining it from making payment. ________________________ 1 . Substituted for the words "the Central Government" by the Public Debt (Central Government) Amendment Act, 1949 (6 of 1949), section 6 (1-4-1949). 2. Substituted for the words "the States" by the Public Debt (Amendment) Act, 1956 (57 of 1956), section 11(15-10-1956).

Public Debt Act, 1944 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1944

.....only in so far as it deals with public debt of the Central Government. The present legislation, therefore, takes the form of a Bill to be enacted as a separate Act, applicable only to securities of the Central Government, which will reproduce the provisions of the 1920 Act with amendments designed to remedy the defects already referred to, and with certain other amendments the necessity or desirability of which is suggested by experience in the administration of the Act during last two decades. In this reproduction of the provisions of the 1920 Act, those provisions have been rearranged so as to group together sections dealing with the incidents common to the different forms in which loans of the Central Government are held and to relegate to separate sections the incidents peculiar to negotiable instruments."-Gaz. Of ind., 1943, Part V, page 162. Amendment Act 6 of 1949.- "Until 1946the Indian Securities Act, 1920, governed the securities issued by both the Central and the Provincial Governments. The working of this Act disclosed certain defects and it was considered necessary to amend it, particularly in the context of the very large increase of the public debt during.....

Central Excise Act, 1944 Chapter 3

Title: Powers and Duties of Officers and Landholders

State: Central

Year: 1944

.....etc (1) If the Commissioner of Central Excise has reason to believe that the credit of duty availed of or utilised under the rules made under this Act by a manufacturer of any excisable goods-- (a) is not within the normal limits having regard to the nature of the excisable goods produced or manufactured, the type of inputs used and other relevant factors, as he may deem appropriate; (b) has been availed of or utilised by reason of fraud, collusion or any wilful mis-statement or suppression of facts, he may direct such manufacturer to get the accounts of his factory, office, depot, distributor or any other place, as may be specified by him, audited by a 3[cost accountant or chartered accountant] nominated by him. (2) The 3[cost accountant or chartered accountant] so nominated shall, within the period specified by the Commissioner of Central Excise, submit a report of such audit duly signed and certified by him to the said Commissioner mentioning therein such other particulars as may be specified. (3) The provisions of sub-section (1) shall have effect notwithstanding that the accounts of the said manufacturer aforesaid have been audited under any other law for the time.....

Bengal Agricultural Income Tax Act, 1944 Complete Act

State: West Bengal

Year: 1944

.....(17)was subst. by W.B.Act 6 of 1975.(17)"total world income" means the sum offer) (a) the total income as defined in 1917.Words subst.by W.B.Act 18 of 1989.[the enactments relating to Indian income-tax,] and (b)the total agricultural income as defined in this Act, and (c)the agricultural income derived from land outside West Bengal and calculated in the manner referred to in clause (b) of subsection (5) of section 48; (18)"written down value" means in respect of any irrigation or protective work, or any machinery, plant or other capital asset, (a)in the case of assets acquired in the previous year, the actual cost to the assessee, (b)in the case of assets acquired before the previous year, the actual cost to the assessee less all depreciation allowable to him under this Act in respect of such work, machinery, plant or other asset as the case may be. CHAPTER 1 . Section 3 Definitions. 2018. Sec. 3 was renumbered as sub-sec. (1) and after such renumbering the previous proviso subst. by W.B. Act 6 of 1975. Finally, the existing provisos were subst. by W.B. Act 15 of 1983. (1) Agricultural income-tax shall be charged for each financial year in accordance with and subject.....

Public Debt Act, 1944 Complete Act

Title: Public Debt Act, 1944

State: Central

Year: 1944

.....securities Section14 - Recording of evidence Section15 - Postponement of payment and registration of transfers pending the making of a vesting order Section16 - Power to Bank to require bonds Section17 - Publication of notices in Official Gazette Section18 - Scope of vesting order Section19 - Legal effect of orders made by the Bank Section20 - Stay of proceedings on order of Court Section21 - Cancellation by the Bank of vesting proceedings Section22 - Discharge in respect of interest on Government securities Section23 - Discharge in respect of bearer bonds Section24 - Period of limitation of Central Government's liability in respect of interest Section25 - Inspection of documents Section26 - The bank and its officers to be deemed public officers Section27 - Penalty Section28 - Power to make rules Section29 - Certain Laws not to apply to Government Securities Section30 - Construction of reference to laws not in force before 1st April in Part B, States Section31 - Construction of references to laws not in force in Jammu and Kashmir Amending Act1 - AMENDMENT ACT 6 of 1949 Amending Act2 - AMENDMENT ACT 57 of 1956 Amending Act3 - AMENDMENT ACT 44 of 1959 .....

Central Excise Act, 1944 Section 37

Title: Power of Central Government to Make Rules

State: Central

Year: 1944

.....or containers thereof; (vi) provide for the employment of officers of the Government to supervise the carrying out of any rules made under this Act; (vii) require a manufacturer or the licensee of a warehouse to provide accommodation within the precincts of his factory or warehouse for officers employed to supervise the carrying out of regulations made under this Act and prescribe the scale of such accommodation; (viii) provide for the appointment, licensing, management and supervision of bonded warehouses and the procedure to be followed in entering goods into and clearing goods from such warehouses; (ix) provide for the distinguishing of goods which have been 9 [manufactured after registration], of materials which have been imported under licence, and of goods on which duty has been paid, or which are exempt from duty under this Act; (x) impose on persons engaged in the production or manufacture, storage or sale (whether on their own account or as brokers or commission agents) of salt, and, so far as such imposition is essential for the proper levy and collection of the duties imposed by this Act, of any other excisable goods, the duty of furnishing information,.....

Central Excise Act, 1944 Chapter 7

Title: Supplemental Provisions

State: Central

Year: 1944

.....or containers thereof; (vi) provide for the employment of officers of the Government to supervise the carrying out of any rules made under this Act; (vii) require a manufacturer or the licensee of a warehouse to provide accommodation within the precincts of his factory or warehouse for officers employed to supervise the carrying out of regulations made under this Act and prescribe the scale of such accommodation; (viii) provide for the appointment, licensing, management and supervision of bonded warehouses and the procedure to be followed in entering goods into and clearing goods from such warehouses; (ix) provide for the distinguishing of goods which have been 9 [manufactured after registration], of materials which have been imported under licence, and of goods on which duty has been paid, or which are exempt from duty under this Act; (x) impose on persons engaged in the production or manufacture, storage or sale (whether on their own account or as brokers or commission agents) of salt, and, so far as such imposition is essential for the proper levy and collection of the duties imposed by this Act, of any other excisable goods, the duty of furnishing information,.....

Central Excise Act, 1944 Section 21

Title: Inquiry How to Be Made by Central Excise Officers Against Arrested Persons Forwarded to Them Under Section 19

State: Central

Year: 1944

.....For this purpose the Central Excise Officer may exercise the same powers and shall be subject to the same provisions as the officer-in-charge of a police station may exercise and is subject to under the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898 (5 of 1898)1 , when investigating a cognizable case : Provided that-- (a) if the Central Excise Officer is of opinion that there is sufficient evidence or reasonable ground of suspicion against the accused person, he shall either admit him to bail to appear before a Magistrate having jurisdiction in the case, or forward him in custody to such Magistrate; (b) if it appears to the Central Excise Officer that there is no sufficient evidence or reasonable ground of suspicion against the accused person, he shall release the accused person on his executing a bond, with or without sureties as the Central Excise Officer may direct, to appear, if and when so required, before the Magistrate having jurisdiction, and shall make a full report of all the particulars of the case to his official superior. ________________________ 1. See now the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 ( 2 of 1974).