Title : Competent Authority to Have Certain Powers of Civil Court
State : Central
Year : 1978
The competent authority shall have, for the purposes of this Act, all the powers of a civil court while trying a suit under the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908, in respect of the following matters, namely:-- (a) summoning and enforcing the attendance of any person and examining him on oath; (b) requiring the discovery and production of any document; (c) reception of evidence on affidavits; (d) reguisitioning any public record from any court or office; (e) issuing commission for examination of witnesses. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Powers of the Appellate Authority
State : Central
Year : 1978
1[16A. Powers Of The Appellate Authority.-- (1) The appellate authority may admit an appeal filed after the expiry of the period referred to in section 13 or section 22 or section 25, as the case may be, if he is satisfied that there. was sufficient cause for not presenting it within that period. (2) For the disposal of an appeal under this Act, the appellate authority shall have the same powers (including the powers under sections 15 and 15A), and shall, subject to the provisions of this section, perform as nearly as may be the Same duties as are conferred or imposed by this Act on the competent authority in respect of the matters under Chapter III and Chapter IV. (3) The appellate authority may, if he thinks it expedient so to do, call in his aid one of more assessors and hear..... View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : The Schedule
State : Central
Year : 1985
THE SCHEDULE [See sections 6 (8) and 8 (3) ] DECLARATION OF FIDELITY AND SECRECY I, ......................... do hereby declare that I will faithfully, truly and to the best of my skill and ability, execute and perform the duties required of me as the Chairman/ Member/Secretary/Other officer or employee of the Board for the Industrial and Financial Reconstruction/the Appellate Authority for Industrial and Financial Reconstruction and which properly relate to the office or position held by me in or in relation to the said Board/Appellate Authority. 1 further declare that I will not communicate or allow to be communicated to any person not legally entitled thereto any information relating to the affairs of the Board/ Appellate Authority, nor will I allow any such person to inspect..... View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Short Title and Commencement
State : Central
Year : 1985
(1) This Act may be called the Railway Protection Force (Amendment) Act, 1985. 2.It shall come into force on such date {20-9-85; Vide Notification No.S.O.676 (E), dated 18-9-1985 Gazette of India Extra-ordinary, 1985, Part II, section 3 (ii).} as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Amendment of Long Title
State : Central
Year : 1985
In the Railway Force Act, 1957 (23 of 1957) (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act), for long title, the following long title shall be substituted, namely:- "An Act to provide for the constitution and regulation of an armed force of the Union for the better protection and security of railway property and for matters connected therewith". View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Enforcement of the Orders of the Competent Authority and Appellate Authority
State : Central
Year : 1978
(1) Any order made by the competent authority or the appellate authority determining any amount payable under this Act may be enforced in the same manner as if such order were a decree made by a civil court in a suit pending therein, and it shall be lawful for such authority to send, in the case of his inability to execute, such order, to the principal civil court of original jurisdiction within the local limits of whose jurisdiction the order was made. (2) Where any order under sub-section (1) is required to be enforced by the principal civil court of original jurisdiction, a certified copy of the order shall be produced to the proper officer of the court required to enforce the order. (3) The production of such certified copy shall be sufficient evidence of the order. (4) Upon..... View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : General Provision for Punishment of Offences
State : Central
Year : 1978
Whoever contravenes any provision of this Act or of any rule made there under shall, if no other penalty is provided for such contravention elsewhere in this Act, or the rules, be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to three month of with fine which may extend to five hundred rupees, or with both. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances, Etc., Not Liable to Distress or Attachment
State : Central
Year : 1985
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in any law or contract, no narcotic drug, psychotropic substance, coca plant, the opium poppy or cannabis plant shall be liable to be distrained or attached by any person for the recovery of any money under any order or decree of any court or authority or otherwise. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : The Pro-vice-chancellors
State : Central
Year : 1985
Every Pro-Vice-Chancellor shall be appointed in such manner, on such emoluments and other conditions of service, and shall exercise such powers and perform such functions, as may be prescribed by the Statutes. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Power of Railway Administrations to Execute All Necessary Works
State : Central
Year : 1989
Not withstanding any thing contained in anyother law for the time being in force, but subject to the provisions of thisAct and the provisions of any law for the acquisition of land for a publicpurpose or for companies, and subject also, in the case of a non-Governmentrailway, to the provisions of any contract between the non-Government railwayand the Central Government, a railway administration may, for the purposes ofconstructing or maintaining a railway-- (a) make or construct in or upon, across,under or over any lands, or any streets, hills, valleys, roads, railway,tramways, or any rivers, canals, brooks, streams or other waters, or anydrains, water-pipes, gas-pipes, oil-pipes, sewers, electric supply lines, ortelegraph lines, such temporary or permanent inclined-planes, bridges,..... View Complete Act List Judgments citing this section