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Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1898

.....(2) of Section 5, for the words 'but subject to any enactment', substitute the words 'but, save as otherwise provided by this Code, subject to any enactment'. [W.B. Act 8 of 1970, Section 3 and Sch., item 2]. (1) All offences under the Indian Penal Code shall be investigated, inquired into, tried and otherwise dealt with according to the provisions hereinafter contained. Trial of offences against other laws (2) All offences under any other law shall be investigated, inquired into, tried, and otherwise dealt with according to the same provisions, but subject to any enactment for the time being in force regulating the manner or place of investigating, inquiring into, trying or otherwise dealing with such offences. PART 2 CONSTITUTION AND POWERS OF CRIMINAL COURTS AND OFFICES: CHAPTER 2: OF THE CONSTITUTION OF CRIMINAL COURTS AND OFFICES: SECTION 6: Glasses of Criminal Courts: Besides the High Courts and the Courts constituted under any law other than this Code for the time being in force, there shall be five classes of Criminal Courts in [India], namely,- : State Amendments GUJARAT.-In its application to the State of Gujarat the amendment made in Section 6 is the.....

Post Office Act, 1898 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1898

POST OFFICE ACT, 1898 POST OFFICE ACT, 1898 6 OF 1898 STATEMENT OF OBJECTS AND REASONS "The present Post Office Act was enacted in 1866, and has been amended since that date by the addition of three sections only. In 1882 section 60-A was added by Act III of 1882 authorising any officer of the Post Office, empowered in this behalf by the Governor-General in Council, to search for newspapers regarding which a notification has been published under the Sea Customs Act. In 1895, section 66 was added by Act III of that year, providing powers, in accordance with the general policy of the Postal Union for dealing with fictitious or previously used postage stamps of other countries found on letters or other articles received from abroad', and last year a further section was added by Act XVI of 1896 authorising the recovery of customs duty, when paid in advance by the Post Office, in the same manner as postage under the Act. During the last thirty years certain defects and omissions in the Act of 1866 have been brought to light, an experience has shown that express provisions of law, as contained in the Act, in respect of various matters are not suited to the present.....

Indian Post Office Act, 1898 Chapter X

Title: Penalties and Procedure

State: Central

Year: 1898

.....shall, on every such subsequent conviction, be punishable with fine which may extend to five hundred rupees. Section 60 - Penalty for breach of rules under section 16 Whoever, being appointed to sell postage stamps,-- (a) takes from any purchaser for any postage stamp or quantity of postage stamps a price higher than that fixed by any rule made under section 16, sub-section (3), clause (a), shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to six months, or with fine which may extend to two hundred rupees, or with both; or (b) commits a breach of any other rule made under section 16, shall be punishable with fine which may extend to two hundred rupees. Section 61 - Penalty for contravention of section 19, 19A or 20 (1) Whoever, in contravention of the provisions of section 191[orsection 19A] or section 20, sends or tenders or makes over in order to be sent by post any postal article or anything, shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to one year, or with fine, or with bolh. (2) The detention in the Post Office of any postal article on the ground of its having been sent in contravention of the provisions of section 192[or.....

Indian Post Office Act, 1898 Chapter II

Title: Privilege and Protection of the Government

State: Central

Year: 1898

.....person to make a collection of letters expected as aforesaid for the purpose of sending them otherwise than by post. (2) For the purposes of this section and section 5, the expression "letters" includes postcards. ___________________________ 1. Substituted by Act 25 of 1950, section. 11 and Schedule. IV; for "the States". Section 5 - Certain persons expressly forbidden to convey letters Wherever within1[India] posts or postal communications are established by the Central Government, the following persons are expressly forbidden to collect, carry, tenderer deliver letters, or to receive letters for the purpose of carrying or delivering them, although they obtain no hire, reward or other profit or advantage for so doing, that is to say:-- (a) common carriers of passengers or goods, and their servants or agents, except as regards letters solely concerning goods in their carts or carriages; and (b) owners and masters of vessels sailing orpassing on any river or canal in1[India], or between any ports or places in1[India], and their servants or agents, except as regards letters solely concerning goods on board, and except as regards postal articles received for.....

Indian Post Office Act, 1898 Section 5

Title: Certain Persons Expressly Forbidden to Convey Letters

State: Central

Year: 1898

Wherever within1[India] posts or postal communications are established by the Central Government, the following persons are expressly forbidden to collect, carry, tenderer deliver letters, or to receive letters for the purpose of carrying or delivering them, although they obtain no hire, reward or other profit or advantage for so doing, that is to say:-- (a) common carriers of passengers or goods, and their servants or agents, except as regards letters solely concerning goods in their carts or carriages; and (b) owners and masters of vessels sailing orpassing on any river or canal in1[India], or between any ports or places in1[India], and their servants or agents, except as regards letters solely concerning goods on board, and except as regards postal articles received for conveyance under Chapter VIII. ___________________________ 1. Substituted by Act 25 of 1950, section. 11 and Schedule. IV; for "the States".

Indian Post Office Act, 1898 Section 51

Title: Penalty for Making False Entry in Register Kept by Person Employed to Carry or Deliver Any Postal Articles

State: Central

Year: 1898

Whoever, being employed to carry or deliver any postal article in course of transmission by post and required while so employed to keep any register, makes, or causes or suffers to be made, any false entry in the register with intent to induce the belief that he has visited a place, or delivered a postal article, which he has not visited or delivered, shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to six months or with fine which may extend to one hundred rupees, or with both.

Indian Post Office Act, 1898 Section 69

Title: Penalty for Unlawfully Diverting Letters

State: Central

Year: 1898

Whoever, not being an officer of the Post Office, wilfully and maliciously, with intent to injure any person, either opens or causes to be opened any letter which ought to have been delivered, or does any act whereby the due delivery of a letter to any person is prevented or impeded, shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to six months, or with fine which may extend to five hundred rupees, or with both: Provided that nothing in this section shall apply to a person who does any act to which the section applies, if he is a parent, or in the position of a parent or guardian, of the addressee, and the addressee is a minor or a ward.

Lepers Act, 1898 Section 2

Title: Definitions

State: Central

Year: 1898

In this Act, unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or context,-- (1) ''leper'' means any person suffering from any variety of leprosy {The words '' in whom the process of ulceration has commended'' omitted by section 3, ibid.} (2) ''Pauper leper'' means a leper-- (a) who publicly solicits alms or exposes or exhibits any sores, wounds, bodily ailment or deformity with the object of exciting charity or of obtaining alms, or (b) who is at large without any ostensible means of subsistence ; (3) ''leper asylum'' means a leper asylum appointed under section 3; (4) ''Board'' means a Board constituted under section 5; and (5) District Magistrate'' includes a Chief Presidency Magistrate. {Subs. by Act 22 of 1920, section 4, for the original section.}

Indian Post Office Act, 1898 Chapter XI

Title: Supplemental

State: Central

Year: 1898

.....five hundred grams Rs. 12.00 For every five hundred grams, or fraction thereof, exceeding five hundred grams Rs. 15.00" Section 75 - Delegation of powers, other than rule-making powers to Director General The Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette authorize, cither absolutely or subject to conditions, the Director General to exercise any of the powers conferred upon the Central Government by this Act, oilier than a power to make rules. Section 76 - [Repeal] [Rep. by the Repealing and Amending Act, 1914 (10 of 1914), section. 3 and Schedule. II.] Section 77 - Saving [Repealed] [Rep. by the Repealing and Amending Act, 1952 (48 of 1952), section. 2 and Schedule. I.]

Indian Post Office Act, 1898 Section 74

Title: General Power to Make Rules and Provisions as to Rules Under Act

State: Central

Year: 1898

.....rules made by the Central Government under this Act shall be published in the Official Gazelle and, on such publication, shall have effect as if enacted by this Act. 1[(4) Every rule made by the Central Government under this Act shall be laid, as soon as may be after it is made, before each House of Parliament, while it is in session, for a total period of thirty days which may be comprised in one session or in two or more successive sessions, and if, before the expiry of the session immediately following the session or the successive sessions aforesaid, both Houses agree in making any modification in the rule or both Houses agree that the rule should not be made, the rule shall thereafter have effect only in such modified form or be of no effect, as the case may be; so, however, that any such modification or annulment shall be without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done under that rule.".] ________________________ 1. Inserted by The Delegated Legislation Provisions (Amendment) Act, 2004 "THE FIRST SCHEDULE (See section 7) INLAND POSTAGE RATES Letters For a weight not exceeding twenty grams Rs. 3.00 For every Twenty.....