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Prevention of Food Adulteration Act,1954 Section 16A

Title: Power of Court to Try Cases Summarily

State: Central

Year: 1954

.....of court to try cases summarily Notwithstanding anything contained in the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 ( 2 of 1974), all offences under sub-section ( 1) of section 16 shall be tried in a summary way by a Judicial Magistrate of the first class specially empowered in this behalf by the State Government or by a Metropolitan Magistrate and the provisions of sections 262 to 265 (both inclusive) of the said Code shall, as far as may be, apply to such trial: Provided that in the case of any conviction in a summary trial under this section, it shall be lawful for the Magistrate to pass a sentence of imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year: Provided further that when at the commencement of, or in the course of, a summary trial under this section, it appears to the Magistrate that the nature of the case is such that a sentence of imprisonment for a term exceeding one year may have to be passed or that it is, for any other reason, undesirable to try the case summarily, the Magistrate shall after hearing the parties, record an order to that effect and thereafter recall any witness who may have been examined and proceed to hear or rehear the case in the manner provided by.....

Special Marriage Act, 1954 Section 40A

Title: Power to Transfer Petitions in Certain Cases

State: Central

Year: 1954

.....was presented and both the petitions shall be heard and disposed of together by the district court in which the earlier petition was presented. (3) In a case where clause (b) of sub-section (2) applies, the court or the Government, as the case may be, competent under the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 (5 of 1908), to transfer any suit or proceeding from the district court in which the later petition has been presented to the district court in which the earlier petition is pending, shall exercise its powers to transfer such later petition as if it had been empowered so to do under the said Code. ________________________ 1. Inserted by Act 68 of 1976, Section 38 (w.e.f. 27-5-1976).

Displaced Persons (Claims) Supplementary Act, 1954 [Repealed] Section 5

Title: Special Power of Revision in Respect of Cases Decided Under Act 44 of 1950

State: Central

Year: 1954

(1) Not withstanding anything contained in the principal Act, the Chief Settlement Commissioner- (a) may, on an application for revision made to him within time by any person aggrieved by the decision of the Claims Officer, call for the record of the case and make such order in the case of he thinks fit. (i) such application was not barred by limitation on the appointed day under the rules made under the principal Act and is filed within one month from the commencement of this Act; or (ii) such application had been filed before the appointed day and was not on the date on which it was filed, barred by limitation under the rules made under the principal Act; (b) may, on his own motion, but subject to any rules that may be made in this behalf, revise any verified claim and make such order in relation thereto as he thinks fit. (2) No order varying the decision of the Claims Officer or revising any verified claim which prejudicially affects any person shall be made without giving him an opportunity of being heard.

Displaced Persons (Claims) Supplementary Act, 1954 [Repealed] Section 7

Title: Power to Transfer Cases

State: Central

Year: 1954

The Central Government or the Chief Settlement Commissioner may, by order in writing at any stage transfer any case pending before a Settlement Officer to another Settlement Officer and the Settlement Officer to whom the case is so transferred, may, subject to any special directions in the order of transfer, proceed from the stage at which it was transferred.

Displaced Persons Compensation and Rehabilitation Act 1954 [Repealed] Section 8A

Title: Payment Compensation in Cases of Mortgaged Properties

State: Central

Year: 1954

.....displaced person may, within the aforesaid period of three months or, as the case may be, within the aforesaid prescribed period,-- (a) either retain the property on his paying in cash the aforesaid amount, or (b) surrender a portion of that property of a value equivalent to the amount of such deduction, such value being determined by the Settlement Commissioner in the prescribed manner. (2) If any displaced person fails to pay any amount which is liable to be deducted from his compensation under sub- section (1), or fails to surrender the property of the value equivalent to such amount, such amount may be recovered in the same manner as an arrear of land revenue] ___________________________ 1. Inserted by the Displaced Persons (Compensation and Rehabilitation) (Amendment) Act, 1968, w.e.f 03-04-1968.

Displaced Persons Compensation and Rehabilitation Act 1954 [Repealed] Section 20A

Title: Utilisation of Compensation Pool in Connection with Restoration of Evacuee Property in Certain Cases

State: Central

Year: 1954

.....restoration of the evacuee property has been issued to the applicant under sub- section (1) of section 16 of the Evacuee Property Act, as in force immediately before the commencement of the Administration of Evacuee Property (Amendment) Act, 1956, if the evacuee property has not in fact been restored to the applicant. (2) Where in pursuance of sub- section (1) any evacuee or his heir has been granted any immovable property from the compensation pool or has been paid any amount in cash from the compensation pool, his application under section 16 of the Evacuee Property Act for the restoration of the evacuee property shall be deemed to have been disposed of, and his right, titled and interest in such evacuee property shall be deemed to have been extinguished but such extinguishment shall not affect the power of the Central Government to acquire the evacuee property under section 12 of this Act.] ___________________________ 1. Inserted by the Displaced Persons (Compensation and Rehabilitation) (Amendment) Act, 1956, w.e.f 22-10-1956.

Displaced Persons Compensation and Rehabilitation Act 1954 [Repealed] Section 28

Title: Power to Transfer Cases

State: Central

Year: 1954

The Central Government or the Chief Settlement Commissioner may, by order in writing at any time, transfer any case pending before an officer appointed under this Act to another officer and the officer to whom the case is so transferred may, subject to any special direction in the order of transfer, proceed from the stage at which it was so transferred.

Displaced Persons Compensation and Rehabilitation Act 1954 [Repealed] Section 9

Title: Payment of Compensation in Cases of Disputes

State: Central

Year: 1954

Where there is any dispute as to the person or persons who are entitled to the compensation (including any dispute as to who are the successors-in-interest of any deceased claimant to compensation) or as to the apportionment of compensation among persons entitled thereto, such dispute shall, after such enquiry as may be prescribed be decided- (a) where the value of the verified claim does not exceed twenty thousand rupees, by the Settlement Officer; (b) where the value of the verified claim exceeds twenty thousand rupees, by the Settlement Commissioner : Provided that the Settlement Officer or the Settlement Commissioner, as the case may be, may refer any such dispute to the District Judge nominated in this behalf by the State Government, whose decision thereon shall be final.

Special Marriage Act, 1954 Section 21A

Title: Special Provision in Certain Cases

State: Central

Year: 1954

1[21A. Special provision in certain cases Where the marriage is solemnized under this Act of any person who professes the Hindu, Buddhist, Sikh or Jaina religion with a person who professes the Hindu, Buddhist, Sikh or Jaina religion, section 19 and section 21 shall not apply and so much of section 20 as creates a disability shall also not apply.] ________________________ 1. Inserted by Act 68 of 1976, Section 22 (w.e.f. 27-5-1976).

Delhi Panchayat Raj Act, 1954 Complete Act

State: Delhi

Year: 1954

.....utility and declared as such under Section 1 of the Delhi Land Reforms Act, 1954, by the Chief Commissioner, or acquired under the Land Acquisition Act, 1894, or any other enactment relating to acquisition of land for a public purpose. Explanation - In this sub-section the expression "rural areas" has the meaning assigned to it in the Delhi Municipal Corporation Act, 1957]. 11. Came into force on 12-5-1956 vide Notification No. F. 17(10)/(56)-GAIR Dated 5-5-1956. [3] It shall come into force on such date as the Chief Commissioner may, by notification in the official Gazette, appoint. Section2 Definitions In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, - (1) "Adult" means a person who has completed his twenty-first year; (2) "Bhumidhar" and "Asami" shall hear the same meaning respectively assigned to them in the Delhi Land Reforms Act, 1954; (3) "building" means any shop, house, hut, out-house, estate or stable whether used for the purpose of human habitation or otherwise or whether of masonry, bricks, wood, mud, thatch, metal or any other material whatever and includes a wall and a well: (4) "bye-laws" means bye-laws made by the Gaon Panchayat under this.....