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The Bombay Opium Smoking Act, 1936 Complete Act

State: Maharashtra

Year: 1936

THE BOMBAY OPIUM SMOKING ACT, 1936 THE BOMBAY OPIUM SMOKING ACT, 1936 BOMBAY ACT No. XX OF 1936 [ December,1936] Adapted and modified by the Adaptation of Indian Laws Order in Council. An Act 4[to prohibit the smoking of opium] and to prevent the assembling of person for the purpose of such smoking in the [State of Bombay.] WHEREAS it is expedient 6 prohibit the smoking of opium] and to prevent the assembling of persons for such smoking in 7[the State of Bombay] in the manner hereinafter appearing 8[* * * * *]; It is hereby enacted as follows: 2. This Act has been repealed and re-enacted and the Amendments made by section 9 and Schedule E of the said Act were continued in force by Born. 52 of 1947, S.2. 3. This indicates the date of commencement of Act. 4. These words were substituted for the words, "to provide for the control of the practice of opium smoking" by Born. XIX of 1959, S.3. 5. These words were substituted for the words "Presidency of Bombay", ibid. 6. These words were substituted for the words, "To control the practice of opium smoking" ibid., S. 4. 7. These words were substituted for the words "Presidency of Bombay," ibid. 8. The portion beginning with.....

Bombay Opium Smoking Act, 1936, (Maharashtra) Section 4

Title: Opium Smoking Assembly

State: Maharashtra

Year: 1936

An assembly of two or more persons is designated an opium smoking assembly, when the common object of the persons composing that assembly is to smoke opium or to prepare opium for smoking purposes. Explanation 1.--An assembly which was not an opium smoking assembly when it 1[assembled] may subsequently become such assembly. Explanation 2.--A man and his. wife 2[shall be deemed not to be an opium smoking assembly] within the meaning of this section even if their common object be to smoke opium or to prepare opium for smoking purposes. _____________ 1 This word was substituted for the words "was assembled", ibid., section 9. 2 These words were substituted for the words "shall not be deemed to be an opium smoking assembly", ibid.

The Payment of Wages Act, 1936 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1936

....."employer" includes the legal representative- of a deceased employer; (ib) "factory" means a factory as defined in clause (m) of Section 2 of the Factories Act, 1948 (63 of 1948), and includes any place to which the provisions of that Act have been applied under sub-section (1) of Section 85 thereof] 2 [(ii) (industrial or other establishments) means any 3 [(a) tramway service, or motor transport service engaged in carrying passengers or goods or both by road for hire or reward; (aa) air transport service other than such service belonging to or exclusively employed in the military, naval or air forces of the Union or the Civil Aviation Department of the Government of India]; (b) dock, wharf or jetty; 4 [(C) inland vessel, mechanically propelled] (d) mine, quarry or oil-field; (e) plantation; (f) workshop or other establishment in which articles are produced, adapted or manufactured, with a view to their use, transport or sale; 5 [(g) establishment in which any work relating to the construction, development. or maintenance of buildings, roads, bridges or canals, or relating to operations connected with navigation, irrigation or to the supply of water, or relating to the.....

Bengal Agricultural Debtors Act, 1936 Complete Act

State: West Bengal

Year: 1936

.....of Schedule I to the Bengal Public Demands Recovery Act, 1913, or any sum 1010. Words subst. by the Adaptation of Laws Order. 1950. [any provincial Act or Act of the State Legislature], for the time being in force, relating to co-operative societies to be recovered as a contribution to the assets of a co-operative society or as the cost of liquidation thereof; (v) any amount a suit or application for the recovery of which is barred 1111. Subst. by Ben Act 8 of 1940 [by limitation, or which is otherwise irrecoverable under the law;] (vi) any debt due to any bank included in the Second Schedule to the Reserve Bank of India Act, 1934; (vii) any tax or rate due to a Municipality or Union Board or Union Committee; (9) "debtor" means a debtor whose primary means of livelihood is agriculture and who (a) is a raiyat or an under-raiyat, or (b) cultivates land himself or by members of his family or by hired labourers or by adhiars, bargadars or bhagdars; and includes a group of persons who join in making an application under the provisions of sub-section (1) of section 9 1212. Inst. by Ben. Act 2 of 1942. [and any person who, by virtue of provisions of sub-section (7) of section 37A.....

Payment of Wages Act, 1936 Section 8

Title: Fines

State: Central

Year: 1936

.....in the prescribed manner on the premises in which the employment is carried on or in the case of person employed upon a railway (otherwise than in a factory), at the prescribed place or places. (3) No fine shall be imposed on any employed person until he has been given an opportunity of showing cause against the fine, or otherwise, than in accordance with such procedure as may be prescribed for the imposition of fines. (4) The total amount of fine which may be imposed in any one wage period on any employed person shall not exceed an amount equal to1[three per cent.] of the wages payable to himin respect of that wage-period. (5) No fine shall be imposed on any employed person who is under the age of fifteen years. (6) No fine imposed on any employed person shall be recovered from him by installments or after the expiry of2[ninety days] from the day on which it was imposed. (7) Every fine shall be deemed to have been imposed on the day of the act or omission in respect of which it was imposed. (8) All fines and allrealisations thereof shall be recorded in a register to be kept by the person responsible for the payment of wages under section 3 in such form as may be.....

Parsi Marriage and Divorce Act, 1936 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1936

.....certificate was defective, irregular or incorrect. "Clause 17.- This new clause lays down general principles on which most discreet Judges would act and have acted." CHAPTER III- PARSI MATRIMONIAL COURTS SECTION 18: CONSTITUTION OF SPECIAL COURTS UNDER THE ACT For the purpose of hearing suits under this Act, a special Court shall be constituted in each of the Presidency-towns of Calcutta, Madras and Bombay, and in such other places in the territories of the several[State Governments] as such Governments respectively shall think fit. SECTION 19: PARSI CHIEF MATRIMONIAL COURTS The Court so constituted in each of the Presidency towns shall be entitled the Parsi Chief Matrimonial Court of Calcutta, Madras or Bombay, as the case may be. The local limits of the jurisdiction of a Parsi Chief Matrimonial Court shall be conterminous with the local limits of the ordinary original civil jurisdiction of the High Court. The Chief Justice of the High Court or such other Judge of the same Court, as the Chief Justice shall from time to time appoint, shall be the Judge of such Matrimonial Court, and, in the trial of cases under this Act, he shall be aided14[by five delegates, except in.....

Payment of Wages Act, 1936 Section 1

Title: Short Title, Extent, Commencement and Application

State: Central

Year: 1936

.....may by notificationin the Official Gazette, appoint. (4) It applies in thefirst instance to the payment of wages to persons employed inany 4 [factory,to persons] employed (otherwise than in a factory) upon any railway by a railwayadministration or, either directly or through a sub-contractor, by a person fulfillinga contract with a railway administration, 5 [andto persons employed in an industrial or other establishment specified insub-clauses (a) to (g) of clause (ii) of section2]. (5) The [stateGovernment] may, after giving three months' notice of its intention ofso doing, by notification in the Official Gazette, extend the provisions of 6 [thisAct] or any of them to the payment of wages to any class of personsemployed in 7 [any establishmentor class of establishments specified by 8 [appropriategovernment] under sub-clause (h) of clause (ii) of section 2]: 9 [Providedthat in relation to any such establishment owned by the Central Governmentno such notification shall be issued except with the concurrence of that Government.] 10 (6) This Act applies to wages payable to an employed person in respect of awage period if such wages for that wage period do not exceed six.....

Bombay Opium Smoking Act, 1936, (Maharashtra) Section 5

Title: Member of Opium Smoking Assembly

State: Maharashtra

Year: 1936

Whoever, being aware of facts which render an assembly an opium smoking assembly intentionally joins that assembly, or continues therein, is said to be a member of that assembly.

Bombay Opium Smoking Act, 1936, (Maharashtra) Section 21

Title: Officers and Persons Required to Assist in Detection of Offences Under the Act

State: Maharashtra

Year: 1936

.....Department of the Central Government as the State Government with the like consent notifies in the Official Gazette] and all persons in the employment of the Bombay Port Trust shall be Bound-- (a) to give immediate information to any of the officers mentioned in section 12 or section 13 or section 18 of the commission of any offence and of the intention or preparation to commit any offence under this Act which may come to their knowledge; (b) to take all reasonable measures in their power to prevent the commission of any such offence which they may know or have reason to believe is about to be committed; and (c) assist such officer in carrying out the provisions of this Act. _______________ 1 This portion was substituted for the portion beginning with the words "All village officers" and ending with the words "Sail Revenue", ibid., section 27. - 2 These words were substituted for the words "State of Bombay" by the Maharashtra Adaptation of Laws (State and Concurrent Subjects) Order, 1960. + Now read the Bombay Village Panchayats Act, 1958 (3 of 1954).

Madras Debt Conciliation Act, 1936 Complete Act

State: Tamil Nadu

Year: 1936

.....the chairman shall have 3 (2) 2. These words were inserted by section 3 (i) of, and the Second Schedule to, the Madras Repealing and Amending Act, 1951 (Madras Act XIV of 1951).[and exercise] a casting vote. (5) When a board is dissolved or otherwise ceases to exist the 3 (1) 1. The words "Provincial Government" were substituted for the words "Local Government" by the Adaptation Order of 1937 and the word "State" was substituted for the word "Provincial" by the Adaptation Order of 1950.[State Government] may, at any time establish another board for the area for which the former board was established and may declare the board newly established to be the successor in office of the board which has ceased to exist and such board shall exercise all the powers under the Act. SECTION 4: Application for settlement between debtor and creditors (1) A debtor may make an application for the settlement of his debts to the board established for the local area within which he ordinarily resides, or if no board has been established for that local area, to the board established for any local area in which he holds immovable property, if any, but he shall not apply to more than one board......