Title : Priority of Claims
State : Central
Year : 1980
The claims made under section 17 shall have priorities in accordance with the following principles, namely :-- (a) Category I shall have precedence over all other categories and Category II shall have precedence over Category III, and so on; (b) the claims specified in each of the categories shall rank equally and be paid in full, but, if the amount paid to the Commissioner under the Act is insufficient to meet such claims in full, they shall abate in equal proportions and be paid accordingly; and (c) the question of discharging any liability with regard to a matter specified in a lower category shall arise only if a surplus is left after meeting all the liabilities specified in the immediately higher category. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Assumption of Liability
State : Central
Year : 1980
(1) Where any liability of a jute company arising out of any item in any category specified in Part I of the Second Schedule is not discharged fully by the Commissioner out of the amounts paid to him under this Act, the Commissioner shall intimate in writing to the Central Government the extent of the liability which remains undischarged and that liability shall be assumed by the Central Government. (2) The Central Government may, by order, direct the Jute Manufactures Corporation to take over the liability assumed by the Central Government under sub-section (1), and on receipt of such direction, it shall be the duty of the Jute Manufactures Corporation to discharge such liability. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Protection of Action Taken in Good Faith
State : Central
Year : 1980
(1) No suit, prosecution or other legal proceeding shall lie against the Central Government or any officer of that Government or the Jute Manufactures Corporation or any person authorised by that Government or Corporation for anything which is in good faith done or intended to be done under this Act. (2) No suit, or other legal proceeding, shall lie against the Central Government or any of its officer or other employee or the Jute Manufactures Corporation or any officer or other person authorised by that Government Corporation for any damage caused or likely to be caused by anything which is in good faith done or intended to be done under this Act. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Power to Remove Difficulties
State : Central
Year : 1980
If any difficulty arises in giving effect to the provisions of this Act the Central Government may by order, not inconsistent with the provisions of this Act, remove the difficulty: Provided that no such order shall be made after the expiry of a period of two years from the appointed day. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Guidelines for Minimum Standard of Relief by State Authority
State : Central
Year : 2005
The State Authority shall lay down detailed guidelines for providing standards of relief to persons affected by disaster in the State: Provided that such standards shall in no case be less than the minimum standards in the guidelines laid down by the National Authority in this regard. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Withdrawal of Recognition
State : Central
Year : 1973
(1) When upon report by the inspector or the visitor, it appears to the Central Council (a) that the courses of study and examination to be undergone in, or the proficiency required from candidates at any examination held by, any University, Board or medical institution, or (b) that the staff, equipment, accommodation, training and other facilities for instruction and training provided in such University, Board or medical institution or in any college or other institution affiliated to the University, do not conform to the standard prescribed by the Central Council, the Central Council shall make a representation to that effect to the Central Government. (2) After considering such representation, the Central Government may send it to the Government of the State in which the..... View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Short Title, Extent and Commencement
State : Central
Year : 1972
(1) This Act may be called the Hire-purchase Act. 1972. (2) It extends to the whole of India except the State of Jammu and Kashmir.1 (3) It shall come into force on such date2as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint. _______________________________ 1. The Act has not been extended to the State of Sikkim. 2. This Act was to come into force on 1st June, 1973, vide GSR 222 (E), dated 30th April, 1973, but this notification was rescinded by GSR 288 (E) dated 31st May, 1973 and the Act was made effective from 1-9-1973 but this notification was also rescinded by GSR 402 (E) dated 30th August 1973. This Act has not come into force as yet. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Limitation on Hire-purchase Charges
State : Central
Year : 1972
(1) In this section, -- (a) "cash price instalment", in relation to a hire-purchase instalment, means an amount which bears to the net cash price the same proportion as the amount of the hire-purchase instalment bears to the total amount of hire-purchase price; (b) "deposit'" means any sum payable by the hirer under the hire-purchase agreement by way of deposit or other initial payment or credited or to be credited to him under the agreement on account of any such deposit or payment. whether that sum is to be or has been discharged by payment of money or by transfer or delivery of goods or by any other means; (c) "net cash price", in relation to goods comprised in a hire-purchase agreement, means the cash price of such goods as required to be specified in the hire-purchase..... View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Assignment and transmission of hirer's right or interest under hire-purchase agreement
State : Central
Year : 1972
(1) The hirer may assign his right, title and interest under the hire-purchase agreement with the consent of the owner, or, if his consent is unreasonably withheld, without his consent. (2) Except as otherwise provided in this section, no payment or other consideration shall be required by an owner for his consent to an assignment under sub-section (1), and where an owner requires any such payment or other consideration for his consent, that consent shall be deemed to be unreasonably withheld. (3) Where on a request being made by a hirer in this behalf the owner fails or refuses to give his consent to an assignment under sub-section (1) the hirer may apply to the court for an order declaring that the consent of the owner to the assignment has been unreasonably withheld, and where..... View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Insolvency of Hirer, Etc.
State : Central
Year : 1972
(1) Where, during the continuance of the hire-purchase agreement, the hirer is adjudged insolvent under any law with respect to insolvency for the time being in force, the Official Receiver or where the hirer is a company, then in the event of the company being wound up, the liquidator, shall have, in respect of the goods which are in the possession of the hirer under the agreement, the same rights and obligations as the hirer had in relation thereto. (2) The Official Receiver or the liquidator, as the case may be, may, with the permission of the Insolvency Court or the court in which the winding up proceedings are pending, assign the rights of the hirer under the agreement, to any other person, and the assignee shall have all the rights and be subject to all the obligations of the..... View Complete Act List Judgments citing this section