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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.

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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).

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Indian Succession Act, 1925 Part 6

Title: Testamentary Succession

State: Central

Year: 1925

.....of ministers of religion; for the formation or support of a public garden; All these bequests are void. _____________________ 1. Added by Act 51 of 1991, section 6. INDIAN SUCCESSION ACT, 1925Chapter 8 - OF THE VESTING OF LEGACIES Section 119 - Date of vesting of legacy when payment or possession postponed Where by the terms of a bequest the legatee is not entitled to immediate possession of the thing bequeathed, a right to receive it at the proper time shall, unless a contrary intention appears by the will, become vested in the legatee on the testator's death, and shall pass to the legatee's representatives if he dies before that time and without having received the legacy, and in such cases the legacy is from the testator's death said to be vested in interest. Explanation.An intention that a legacy to any person shall not become vested in interest in him is not to be inferred merely from a provision whereby the payment or possession of the thing bequeathed is postponed, or whereby a prior interest therein is bequeathed to some other person, or whereby the income arising from the fund bequeathed is directed to be accumulated until the time of payment arrives,.....

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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.....

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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.

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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.....

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All India Services Act, 1951 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1951

.....Service, and (3) the Indian Medical and Health Service. The present Bill seeks to create the aforesaid services by amending the All India Services Act, 1951. Under section 3of the Act, the Central Government would be empowered to make rules for the regulation of recruitment, and conditions of service of persons appointed, to these services. - S.O.R. -Gaz. of Ind., 19-11-1962, Pt. II, S. 2, Ext., p. 1012. Act 23 of 1975.- In service matters occasions arise when it becomes an inescapable necessity to amend or make rules with retrospective effect. An instance in point is the implementation of the decisions of the Government on the recommendations of the Third Central Pay Commission. 2.Section 3of the All India Services Act, 1951 which empowers the Central Government to make rules for the regulation of recruitment and the conditions of service of persons appointed to an All India Service does not in terms permit the making of the rules with retrospective effect. In view of the opinion tendered by the Attorney-General in 1969 in connection with a po,int raised by the Public Accounts Committee regarding an exemption notification issued with retrospective effect under the Central.....

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

State: Central

Year: 1972

.....SECTION 05: PAY OF I.C.S. MEMBERS OF INDIAN ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICE AND I.P. MEMBERS OF INDIAN POLICE SERVICE - Notwithstanding anything contained in section 3-orsection 4-, an I.C.S. member of the Indian Administrative Service or an I.P. member of the Indian Police Service as the case may be, holding a post specified in the Schedule or a post declared by the Central Government lo be equivalent lo such post shall, for so long as he holds that post, be entitled to draw pay as indicated against the post in the Schedule. SECTION 06: RETIREMENT OF I.C.S. MEMBERS OF INDIAN ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICE AND I.P. MEMBERS OF INDIAN POLICE SERVICE Notwithstanding anything contained in section 3-orsection 4-,- (a)an I.C.S. member of the Indian Administrative Service, unless his service has been extended before the appointed day in accordance with the rules and regulations then applicable or is extended on or after that day in accordance with the rules and regulations applicable to the other members of the Indian Administrative Service, shall retire compulsorily,- (i) where he attains the age of fifty-eight years before the expiry of six months from the appointed day, on the date of expiry of the.....

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The Assam Reorganisation (Meghalaya) Act, 1969 Complete Act

State: Assam

Year: 1969

.....of the matters enumerated in the Concurrent list in the Seventh Schedule to the Constitution, which the Legislature of Meghalaya is competent to enact under this Act contained any provision repugnant to the respect too that matter, then, the law so made by the Legislature of Meghalaya shall, if it has been reserved for the consideration of the President and has received his absent, prevail in Meghalaya : Provided that nothing in this sub -- section shall prevent Parliament from enacting at any tie any law with respect to the same matter, including a law adding to, amending, carrying or repealing the law so made byte Legislature of Meghalaya . 36. Inconsistency between laws made by the Legislature of the state of Assam and laws made by the Legislature of Meghalaya .- Where a law made by the Legislature of Meghalaya with respect to one of the matters enumerated in Part C of the Second Schedule contains any provision repugnant to the provisions of an earlier law made by the Legislature of the State of Assam which that Legislature is competent to enact, or to any provision of any existing law with respect to that matter, then, the law so made by the Legislature of Meghalaya.....

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The Haryana Municipal Act, 1973 Complete Act

State: Haryana

Year: 1973

.....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; (Substituted by Haryana Act 3 of 1994) [(15) "municipal.....

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