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Indian Penal Code (45 of 1860) Section 268

Title: Public Nuisance

State: Central

Year: 1860

A person is guilty of a public nuisance who does any act or is guilty of an illegal omission which causes any common injury, danger or annoyance to the public or to the people in general who dwell or occupy property in the vicinity, or which must necessarily cause injury, obstruction, danger or annoyance to persons who may have occasion to use any public right. A common nuisance is not excused on the ground that it causes some convenience or advantage.

Shore Nuisances (Bombay and Kolaba) Act, 1853 Complete Act

Title: Shore Nuisances (Bombay and Kolaba) Act, 1853

State: Central

Year: 1853

Preamble1 - SHORE NUISANCES (BOMBAY AND KOLABA) ACT, 1853 Section1 - Power to give notice to remove nuisance Section2 - Petition by person denying right to remove nuisance Section3 - Onus of proving right Section4 - Limitation of time for petition Section5 - When Collector may cause removal of nuisance Section6 - Power to sell materials of encroachment Section7 - Saving of rights of Government Section8 - High-water mark defined ScheduleI - SCHEDULE

Shore Nuisances (Bombay and Kolaba) Act, 1853 Preamble 1

Title: Shore Nuisances (Bombay and Kolaba) Act, 1853

State: Central

Year: 1853

THE SHORE NUISANCES (BOMBAY AND KOLABA) ACT, 1853 [Act, No. 11 of 1853] [l5th July, 1853] PREAMBLE An Act to facilitate the removal of nuisances and encroachments below high-water mark in the Islands of Bombay and Kolaba. WHEREAS there is a large sea-shore in the islands of Bombay and Kolaba, and it is expedient, with a view to the safe navigation of the harbour of Bombay, and to the public interests generally, to facilitate the removal of nuisances, obstructions and encroachments below high-water mark in the said harbour; or upon or about the, shores of the said islands; It is enacted as follows:

Shore Nuisances (Bombay and Kolaba) Act, 1853 Section 1

Title: Power to Give Notice to Remove Nuisance

State: Central

Year: 1853

It shall be lawful for the Collector of Land-revenue at Bombay to give notice requiring the removal of any nuisance, obstruction or encroachment anywhere below high-water mark in the said harbour of Bombay, or upon or about the shores of the said islands; Mode of giving notice such notice shall be given by affixing the same in some conspicuous place on or near to the encroachment, obstruction or nuisance complained of, and by publication thereof in the [Substitute by the A.O.1937 for " Bombay Govt. Gazette".] [Official Gazette], and shall Contents state that, unless the nuisance, obstruction or encroachment be removed or abated within one Form month the same will be removed or abated by the said Collector; such notice may be in the Form No.1, in the Schedule to this Act annexed, or to the like effect.

Shore Nuisances (Bombay and Kolaba) Act, 1853 Section 2

Title: Petition by Person Denying Right to Remove Nuisance

State: Central

Year: 1853

If any person shall deny the right of the said Collector to effect such abatement or removal, he shall, within one month after such notice shall have been given as aforesaid, apply to the Supreme Court of Judicature at Bombay by petition, setting forth the grounds of his alleged right and praying that the said Collector may be restrained from causing such abatement or removal; and the said Procedure thereupon Court may thereupon (on the petitioner's giving sufficient security for costs), fix a time for hearing and adjudicating upon such petition, and give such directions, and make such orders as the said Court may think just, and the said Court may also make an order for restraining the alleged nuisance, obstruction or encroachment from being extended, or from being abated or removed by the said Collector, until after adjudication upon the said petition, or the dismissal thereof for want of prosecution.

Shore Nuisances (Bombay and Kolaba) Act, 1853 Section 5

Title: When Collector May Cause Removal of Nuisance

State: Central

Year: 1853

If no such petition shall be presented within the said period of one month, or if the same be presented and determined against the right of the petitioner, or be dismissed for want of prosecution, it shall be lawful for the Collector to cause such abatement or removal as aforesaid by any person or persons to be authorized by Form of warrant warrant under his hand, and such warrant may be in the Form No.2 in the Schedule to this Act annexed, or to the like effect; and the said Collector, and any person acting under his warrant, shall Indemnity not be answerable for any damage unavoidably occasioned in the removal of any such nuisance, obstruction or encroachment.

Diplomatic Immunities Conferences with Common-wealth Countries and Republic of Ireland Act 1961 Preamble 1

Title: Diplomatic Immunities (Conferences with Common-wealth Countries and Republic of Ireland) Act, 1961

State: Central

Year: 1961

DIPLOMATIC IMMUNITIES (CONFERENCES WITH COMMON-WEALTH COUNTRIES AND REPUBLIC OF IRELAND) ACT, 1961 [Act, No. 9 of 1961] [2nd March, 1961] PREAMBLE An Act to provide for conferring certain immunities on representatives of Governments of Commonwealth Countries and of the Republic of Ireland attending conferences in the United Kingdom and on their staffs.

Diplomatic Immunities Conferences with Common-wealth Countries and Republic of Ireland Act 1961 Complete Act

Title: Diplomatic Immunities Conferences with Common-wealth Countries and Republic of Ireland Act 1961

State: Central

Year: 1961

Preamble1 - DIPLOMATIC IMMUNITIES (CONFERENCES WITH COMMON-WEALTH COUNTRIES AND REPUBLIC OF IRELAND) ACT, 1961 Section1 - Diplomatic immunities of Commonwealth representatives attending conferences Section2 - Power to extend section 1 to other Commonwealth countries Section3 - Short title and extend

The Indian Penal Code 1860 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1860

.....1908, `India', means the territory of India excluding the State of Jammu and Kashmir. Under s. 2(e) of the Monopolies and Restrictive Trade Practices Act, 1969, `India' means for the purposes of this Act the territories to which this Act extends (i.e., whole of India except the State of Jammu and Kashmir). According to s. 2(27) of Customs Act, 1962, `India' includes the territorial waters of India. SECTION 19: "JUDGE" The word "judge" denotes not only every person who is officially designated as a Judge, but also every person, who is empowered by law to give, in any legal proceeding, civil or criminal, a definitive judgement or a judgement which, if not appealed against, would be definitive, or a judgement which, if confirmed by some other authority, would be definitive, or who is one of a body of persons, which body of persons is empowered by law to give such a judgement. Illustrations (a) A Collector exercising jurisdiction in a suit under Act 10 of 1859, is a Judge. (b) A Magistrate exercising jurisdiction in respect of a charge on which he has power to sentence to fine or imprisonment, with or without appeal, is a Judge. (c) A member of a Panchayat which has power.....

Indian Penal Code (45 of 1860) Chapter 14

Title: Of Offences Affecting the Public Health, Safety, Convenience, Decency and Morals

State: Central

Year: 1860

.....in good faith anything whatever respecting the conduct of-- (i) a public servant in the discharge of his public functions or respecting his character so far as his character appears in that conduct and no further; or (ii) any person touching any public question, and respecting his character, so far as his character appears in that conduct and no further, Explanation.II-- In deciding whether any person has committed an offence under this section, the court shall have regard inter alia, to the following considerations-- (a) The general character of the person charged, and where relevant the nature of his business; (b) the general character and dominant effect of the matter alleged to be grossly indecent or scurrilous or intended for blackmail; (c) any evidence offered or called by or on behalf of the accused person as to his intention in committing any of the acts specified in this section. ______________________ 1. Substituted by Act 8 of 1925, section 2, for the original section. 2. Inserted by Act 36 of 1969, section 2 (w..e.f. 7-9-1969). 3. Section 292 renumbered as sub-section (2) of that section by Act 36 of 1969, section 2 (w.e.f. 7-9-1969). 4......