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Major Port Trusts Act, 1963 Section 56

Title: Notice of Payment of Charges Short-levied or Erroneously Refunded

State: Central

Year: 1963

(1) When any, Board is satisfied that any charge leviable under this Chapter has been short-levied or erroneously refunded, it may issue a notice to the person who is liable to pay such charge or to whom the refund has erroneously been made, requiring him to show cause why he should not pay the amount specified in the notice : Provided that no such notice shall be issued after the expiry of two years,-- (a) when the charge is short-levied, from the date of the payment of the charge; (b) where a charge has been erroneously refunded, from the date of the refund. (2) The Board may, after considering the representation, if any, made by the person to whom notice is issued under sub-section (1), determine the amount due from such person and thereupon such person shall pay the amount so determined.

The Major Port Trusts Act, 1963 Complete Act

State: Kerala

Year: 1963

THE MAJOR PORT TRUSTS ACT, 1963 THE MAJOR PORT TRUSTS ACT, 1963 [Act No. 38 of 1963 dated 16th. October, 1963] CHAPTER I: PRELIMINARY 1. Short title commencement and application 2. Definitions CHAPTER II : BOARD OF TRUSTEES AND COMMITTEES THEREOF 3. Constitution of Board of Trustees 4. First Board of Trustees 5. Board to be body corporate 6. Disqualification for office of Trustee 7. Term of office of Trustees 8. Vacation of office of Trustees 9. Eligibility of Trustee for re-appointment or re-election 10. Filling of vacancies in office of Trustee 11. Saying provision for appointment of Trustee by Central Government after prescribed period 12. Power of Central Government to extend time for election or appoint Trustees in default of election 13. Term of office In case of certain trustees 14. Absence of Chairman and Deputy Chairman 16[14 A. Acting Chairman or Deputy Chairman 15. Conditions of service of Chairman and Deputy Chairman 16. Meetings of Board 2 of 59 17. Committees of Board 18. Fees and allowances payment Trustees 19. Restriction of power of Trustees to vote in certain cases 20. Defects In appointments or.....

Major Port Trusts Act, 1963 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1963

.....property" includes wharfage-rights and all other rights exercisable on, over, or in respect of, any land, wharf, dock or pier;] (j) "Indian Ports Act" means the Indian Ports Act, 1908; (k) "land" includes the bed of the sea or river below high-water mark, and also things attached to the earth or permanently fastened to anything attached to the earth; (l) "low-water mark", in relation to a port, means a line drawn through the lowest points reached by ordinary springtides at any season of the year at that port; (m) "major port" has the same meaning as in the Indian Ports Act; (n) "master", in relation to any vessel or any aircraft making use of any port, means any person having for the time being the charge or control of such vessel or such aircraft, as the case may be, except a pilot, harbour master, assistant harbour master, dock master or berthing master of the port; - (o) "owner", (i) in relation to goods, includes any consignor, consignee, shipper or agent for the sale, custody, loading or unloading of such goods; and (ii) in relation to any vessel or any aircraft making use of any port, includes any part-owner, character, consignee or mortgagee in possession thereof; (p).....

Major Port Trusts Act, 1963 Chapter VI

Title: Imposition and Recovery of Rates at Ports

State: Central

Year: 1963

.....occupation at a rate higher than that provided under sub-section (1).] ________________________ 1. Inserted by the Major Port Trusts (Amendment) Act (17 of 1982), Section 13 (31-5-1982). Section 49A - Fees for pilotage and certain other services 1["49A. Fees for pilotage and certain other services. (1) Within any port, fees may be charged for pilotage, hauling, mooring, re-mooring, hooking, measuring and other services rendered to vessles, at such rates as the Authority may fix. (2) The fees now chargeable for such services shall continue to be chargeable unless and until they are altered in exercise of the power conferred by sub-section (1). (3) the Central Government may, in special cases, remit the whole or any portion of the fees chargeable under sub-section (1) or sub-section (2). ________________________ 1. Inserted by Port laws (Amendment) Act, 1997 w.e.f. 09-01-1997. Section 49B - Fixation of port-dues (1) The Authority shall from time to time, by notification in the Official Gazette, fix port-dues on vessles entering the port. (2) An order increasing or altering the fees for pilotage and certain other services or port-dues at every port shall not.....

Forest Act, 1963 Chapter 2

Title: Reserved Forests

State: Karnataka

Year: 1963

.....Act (1) Any forest which has been notified as a State Forest under the Mysore Forest Act, 1900, or as a reserved forest under the Indian Forest Act, 1927, the Madras Forest Act, 1882, or the Hyderabad Forest Act, 1355F, prior to the date on which this Act comes into force, shall be a reserved forest under this Act: Provided that if the rights of private persons to or over any land or forest produce in such forest shall not have been inquired into, settled and recorded in a manner which the State Government deems sufficient, the same shall be inquired into, settled and recorded in the manner provided by this Act; and until such inquiry, settlement and record have been completed, the operation of this section shall not abridge, or affect such rights. (2) All questions decided, orders issued and records prepared in connection with the constitution of such forest as a State Forest or reserved forest shall be deemed to have been decided, issued and prepared under this Act, and the provisions of this Act relating to reserved forests shall apply to forests to which the provisions of sub-section (1) are applicable. Section 24 - Acts prohibited in reserved forests Any person.....

Forest Act, 1963 Section 19

Title: Power to Revise Arrangements Made Under Section 14 and to Redefine the Limitsof Reserved Forests in Certain Cases

State: Karnataka

Year: 1963

.....15. (2) Where the description of the limits of any reserved forest notified under section 17 is defective or is not clear in reference to existing facts, the State Government may, by notification, declare its intention to redefine the limits of such reserved forest so as to remove the defect or to make the description clear in reference to existing facts. Such notification shall specify as nearly as possible the corrections which it is proposed to effect to the limits of the reserved forest. (3) On the issue of a notification under sub-section (2), the1[Deputy Conservator of Forest] shall publish at the headquarters of each taluk, in which any portion of the land comprised in such notification is situate and in every town and village in the neighbourhood of such land, a notice,-- (a) specifying the corrections proposed by the notification under sub-section (2); and (b) stating that any objections which may be made in person or in writing to the1[Deputy Conservator of Forest], within a period of thirty days from the date of publication of the notice will be considered by him. (4) After the expiry of the period referred to in clause (b) of sub-section (3) and after.....

Forest Act, 1963 Section 24

Title: Acts Prohibited in Reserved Forests

State: Karnataka

Year: 1963

.....lops, taps or burns any tree or strips off the bark or leaves from, or otherwise damages the same; (f) quarries stone, burns lime or charcoal, or collects, subjects to any manufacturing process, or removes, any forest produce; (g) clears or breaks up any land for cultivation or any other purpose; 1[(gg) unauthorisedly occupies land for any purpose;] (h) damages, alters or removes any cairn, wall, ditch, embankment, fence, hedge, or railing; (i) poisons or dynamites water; (j) in contravention2[of any law or rules, enters any reserved forest with fire arms or any other weapon meant for hunting], hunts, shoots, fishes or sets traps or snares, or who abets committing of any of the above prohibited acts shall, on conviction, be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to2[one year or with fine which may extend to two thousand rupees], or with both, and in addition be liable to pay such compensation for the damage done to the forests as the convicting court may direct to be paid. ______________________ 1. Inserted by Act 10 of 1989 w.e.f. 16.3.1989. 2. Substituted by Act 1 of 1981 w.e.f. 23.2.1981.

Forest Act, 1963 Chapter 5

Title: Control over Forests and Lands Not Being the Property of the Government

State: Karnataka

Year: 1963

.....(2), construct at its own expense, in any forest, such work as it thinks fit. Section 40 - Appeals Any person aggrieved by an order under sub-section (1) of section 37, in regard to the sanction or the permission referred to in that sub-section may, within thirty days from the date of the receipt of the order, prefer an appeal in writing to the Deputy Commissioner and the Deputy Commissioner after following the prescribed procedure may pass such orders thereon as he deems fit. Section 41 - Penalties (1) Whoever contravenes the provisions of sub-section (1) of section 37 or of the rules framed under section 38 or any of the terms of a notification under section 39, shall, without prejudice to any other action under this Act, on conviction, be punishable with imprisonment which may extend to six months or with fine or with both. 1[(2) x x x] ______________________ 1. Omitted by Act 12 of 1998 w.e.f. 11.5.1998. Section 42 - Bar of suits No order of the State Government or a Forest Officer not below the rank of a1[Deputy Conservator of Forest] under this Chapter and no notification issued by the State Government under section 39, shall be liable to be questioned.....

Forest Act, 1963 Section 39

Title: Protection of Forests for Special Purposes

State: Karnataka

Year: 1963

..... (vii) the quarrying of stones or the burning of lime or charcoal or the collection or removal of any forest produce or its subjection to any manufacturing process; (b) regulate in any forest the regeneration of forests and their protection from fire; (c) regulate the exercise of customary and prescriptive rights in such forest or forests. (2) When such regulation or prohibition appears necessary, the State Government may, by notification, provide,- (a) for the conservation of trees and forests; (b) for the preservation of and improvement of soil or the reclamation of saline or water logged land, the prevention of land slips or the formation of ravines and torrents or the protection of land against erosion, or the deposit thereon of sand, stones or gravel; (c) for the improvement of grazing; (d) for the maintenance of water supply in springs, rivers and tanks; (e) for the maintenance, increase and distribution of the supply of fodder, leaf manure, timber or fuel; (f) for the maintenance of reservoirs, or irrigation works and hydro-electric works; (g) for protection against storms, wind, rolling stones, floods and drought; (h) for the protection of roads,.....

Haj Committee Rules, 1963 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1963

.....Government; (ii) the contributions to provident funds, pensions, gratuities, leave and compassionate allowances payable under the provisions of the Act or the rules made there under; (iii) any other sum which may be legally payable by the Committee; (iv) payment of travelling allowance and daily allowance to members of the Committee not resident in Bombay at rates admissible to Grade I officers of the Government of India; and (v) payment of subsidy to any Haj Committee established in any State of India which shall not be more than one-third of the amount collected as registration fee of pilgrim passes of the pilgrims belonging to the State concerned. RULE 21: CONTRACTS AND EXPENDITURE WHICH MAY BE ENTERED INTO OR INCURRED BY THE COMMITTEE (1) The Committee shall be competent to enter into or perform any contract or incur any expenditure necessary for the performance of its duties under the Act and these rules. (2) Every contract or expenditure" (i) of a value or amount exceeding Rs.'5[ 100] but not exceeding Rs.5[200] shall require the previous sanction of the Chairman on behalf of the Committee; (ii) of a value or amount exceeding Rs. '5[200] but not exceeding Rs.5[1000] shall.....