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Railway Companies (Emergency Provisions) Act, 1951 Section 5

Title: Powers and Duties of Directors

State: Central

Year: 1951

..... (d) to do all acts necessary for making, maintaining, altering or repairing and using the railway of the railway company; (e) to employ such persons as may be necessary for enabling them to efficiently discharge their duties, and define the conditions of service of such employees. (2) The directors may, with the previous sanction of the Central Government, cancel or vary, either unconditionally or subject to such conditions as they think fit to impose, any contract or agreement entered into between the railway company and any other person at any time before the issue of the notify order under section 3, if such contract or agreement had been entered into in bad faith and is detrimental to the interests of the railway company.

Companies Act, 1956 Section 386

Title: Number of Companies of Which a Personmay Be Appointed Manager

State: Central

Year: 1956

.....be; and the provisions of clauses (b) and (c) of sub-section (1) and of sub-sections (2) and (3) of section 276 shall apply mutatis mutandis in relation to this case, as those provisions apply in relation to the case of a director. (4) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-sections (1) to (3), the Central Government may, by order, permit any person to be appointed as a manager of more than two companies, if the Central Government is satisfied that it is necessary that the companies should, for their proper working, function as a single unit and have a common manager. 1 [***] ___________________ 1. Sub-section (5) omitted by Act 65 of 1960, Section 146 (w.e.f. 28-12-1960).

Indian Succession Act, 1925 Part 6

Title: Testamentary Succession

State: Central

Year: 1925

.....of determining questions as to what person or what property is denoted by any words used in a Will, a Court shall inquire into every material fact relating to the persons who claim to be interested under such Will, the property which is claimed as the subject of disposition, the circumstances of the testator and of his family, and into every fact a knowledge of which may conduct to the right application of the words which the testator has used. Illustrations (i) A, by his Will, bequeaths 1,000 rupees to his eldest son or to his youngest grand-child, or to his cousin, Mary; a Court may make inquiry in order to ascertain to what person the description in the Will applies. (ii) A, by his Will, leaves to B "my estate called Black Acre." It may be necessary to take evidence in order to ascertain what is the subject-matter of the bequest; that is to say, what estate of the testator's is called Black Acre. (iii) A, by his Will, leaves to B "the estate which I purchased of C". It may be necessary to take evidence in order to ascertain what estate the testator purchased of C. Section 76 - Misnomer or misdescription of object (1) Where the words used in a Will to.....

Indian Succession Act, 1925 Chapter 12

Title: Of Bequests with Directions as to Application or Enjoyment

State: Central

Year: 1925

.....residence for A, or to purchase an annuity for A or to place A in any business. A choses to receive the legacy in money. He is entitled to do so. Section 139 - Direction that mode of enjoyment of absolute bequest is to be restricted, to secure specified benefit for legatee Where a testator absolutely bequeaths a fund, so as to sever it from his own estate, but directs that the mode of enjoyment of it by the legatee shall be restricted so as to secure a specified benefit for the legatee; if that benefit cannot be obtained for the legatee, the fund belongs to him as if the will had contained no such direction. Illustrations (i) A bequeaths the residue of his property to be divided equally among his daughters, and directs that the shares of the daughters shall be settled upon themselves respectively for life and be paid to their children after their death. All the daughters die unmarried. The representatives of each daughter are entitled to her share of the residue. (ii) A directs his trustees to raise a sum of money for his daughter, and he then directs that they shall invest the fund and pay the income arising from it to her during her life, and divide the principal.....

Indian Succession Act, 1925 Section 138

Title: Direction That Fund Be Employed in Particular Manner Following Absolute Bequest of Same to or for Benefit of Any Person

State: Central

Year: 1925

Where a fund is bequeathed absolutely to or for the benefit of any person, but the will contains a direction that it shall be applied or enjoyed in a particular manner, the legatee shall be entitled to receive the fund as if the will had contained no such direction. Illustration A sum of money is bequeathed towards purchasing a country residence for A, or to purchase an annuity for A or to place A in any business. A choses to receive the legacy in money. He is entitled to do so.

Karnataka Municipalities Act, 1964 Section 42

Title: President and Vice-president

State: Karnataka

Year: 1964

.....not disqualified for being aCouncillor] in the case of other 6 [municipal councils] shall, notwithstanding anything contained in this Act or in the rules or orders issuedthereunder, perform the functions of the president. (6) Every president who, for a period exceeding two months and everyvice-president who for a period exceeding one month, absents himself from the 6 [municipal area] in such manner as to be unable to perform his duties as such president or vice-president, shall cease to be president or vice-president, unless leave so to absent himself has been granted by the municipal council. The question whether a vacancy has arisen under this sub-section shall be decided by the Deputy Commissioner. (7) Leave under sub-section (6) shall not be granted for a periodexceeding six months. Whenever leave is granted to a president and the office of the vice-president is vacant, the vacancy in the office of the president shall be filled up by election by the municipal council from among the 6 [elected councillors] within such period and in such manner as may be prescribed. 5 [x x x] When leave is granted to a vice-president or when the vice-president is acting for the.....

All India Services Act, 1951 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1951

.....309, the Government of India is now compelled to deal with many of these matters by means of non-statutory executive orders. This is neither satisfactory nor quite justifiable. 2. Before the commencement of the Constitution, the Government of India issued the Indian Civil Administrative Cadre Rules and the Indian Police Service Cadre Rules. Although these Rules, in so far as they are not inconsistent with the Constitution, are continued in force by Article 313of the Constitution, they authorise the regulation of only such items relating to the conditions of service as had already been settled. Emergency recruitment to these services to fill the gaps left by the departure of the British element in the I.C.S. and the Indian Police was still in progress at that time. Many matters relating to the conditions of service of such officers were only decided after the Constitution had come into force. Other very important matters such as the fixation of retirement benefits have yet to be settled. Arrangements have also been completed recently to extend the Indian Administrative Service and the Indian Police Service schemes to the Part B States. 3. It is necessary that Parliament should.....

Former Secretary of State Service Officers (Conditions of Service) Act, 1972 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1972

.....such rule, regulation or order may construe it with such modifications as may be necessary to bring it into accord with the provisions of this Act. SECTION 10A: POWER OF CENTRAL GOVERNMENT TO MAKE ORDERS IN CERTAIN CASES TO ENSURE PARITY 5[ (1) If the Central Government is satisfied that the conditions of service as respects any matter applicable to, or in relation to any class or category of former Secretary of State Service officers under Ss. 6-,7-or8-or as respects any benefits by way of compensation for the increase in cost of living or any other reason, have become less favourable than those applicable to or in relation to any corresponding class or category of other officers of the Indian Administrative Service or the Indian Police Service or, as the case may be, any comparable service, it may, notwithstanding anything contained in those sections, by general or special order and subject to such conditions and restrictions (including conditions as to refund, adjustment or recovery), as may he specified therein, make such provisions as it may deem fit for securing, so far as may he, parity in such cases. (2) Any order under sub-section (1) may he made so as to have.....

The Assam Reorganisation (Meghalaya) Act, 1969 Complete Act

State: Assam

Year: 1969

.....which have been may received by it before the date so specified, determine by one or more orders the delimitation's of constituencies and cause such order or orders to be published in the Official Gazette; and upon such publication, the order or orders shall have the full force of law and shall not be called in question in any Court . (5) As soon as may be after such publications, every such order shall be laid before the Legislative Assembly . (6) Upon the completion of each census, the total number of seats in the Legislative Assembly and the division of Meghalaya into territorial Constituencies shall be readjusted by such authority and in such manner as Parliament may by law determine . Provided that such readjustment shall not affect representation in the Legislative Assembly until the dissolution of the then existing Assembly . Explanation : -- In this section "latest census figures" mean the census the figures with respect to Meghalaya ascertainable from the latest census of which the finally published figures are available . 13. Power of Election Commission to maintain delimitation orders upto date .- (1) The Election Commission may, from time to time, by.....

The Haryana Municipal Act, 1973 Complete Act

State: Haryana

Year: 1973

.....and "petroleum" have the meanings assigned to those words in the Indian Explosives Act, 1884, and the Petroleum Act, 1934, respectively; (12) "Factory" shall have the meaning assigned to it in the Factories Act, 1948; (Inserted by Haryana Act 3 of 1994) [(12A) "Finance Commission" means the Finance Commission constituted by the Slate Government under articles 2431 and 243Y of the Constitution of India; (Inserted by Haryana Act 5 of 2002) [(12AA) "Fund" means the Haryana Urban Infrastructural Development Fund constituted under section 203L;] (12B) "Slate Government" means the Government of the State of Haryana;] (13) "Infections disease" means cholera, plague, small pox. tuberculosis or such other dangerous disease as the State Government may notify in this behalf; (14) "inhabitant" includes any person ordinarily residing or carrying on business, or owning or occupying immovable property, in any municipality; or in any local area which the State Government has, by notification under this Act, proposed to declare to be a municipality; and in case of any dispute, means any person or persons declared by the Deputy Commissioner to be inhabitant or inhabitants; .....