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Karnataka Preservation of Trees Act 1976 Section 17

Title: Power to Arrest Without Warrant

State: Karnataka

Year: 1976

(1) Any Tree Officer may arrest with a warrant any person reasonably suspected of having been concerned in any offence under this Act, if such person refuses to give his name and residence or gives a name of residence which the Tree Officer has reason to believe is false or if he has reason to believe that the person will abscond. (2) Any person arrested under this section shall be informed, as soon as may be, o: the grounds for such arrest and shall be produced before the nearest Magistrate having jurisdiction in the case within a period of twenty-four hours of such arrest, excluding the time necessary for the journey from the place of arrest to the Court of the Magisterial and no such person shall be detained in custody beyond the said period without the authority of a Magistrate.

Preservation of Trees Act,1976 Section 17

Title: Power to Arrest Without Warrant

State: Karnataka

Year: 1976

(1) Any Tree Officer may arrest without warrant any person reasonably suspected of having been concerned in any offence under this Act, if such person refuses to give his name and residence or gives a name or residence which the Tree Officer has reason to believe is false or if he has reason to believe that the person will abscond. (2) Any person arrested under this section shall be informed, as soon as may be, of the grounds for such arrest and shall be produced before the nearest Magistrate having Jurisdiction in the case within a period of twenty-four hours of such arrest, excluding the time necessary for the journey from the place of arrest to the court of the Magistrate and no such person shall be detained in custody beyond the said period without the authority of a Magistrate.

Karnataka Municipal Corporations Act, 1976 Section 490

Title: Power of Police Officer to Arrest Persons

State: Karnataka

Year: 1976

(1) If any police officer sees any person committing an offence against any of the provisions of this Act or of any rule, bye-law or regulation made under it, he shall, if the name and address of such person are unknown to him and if the said person on demand declines to give his name and address or gives a name and address which such officer has reason to believe to be false, arrest such person. (2) No person arrested under sub-section (1) shall be detained in custody,- (a) after his true name and address are ascertained, or (b) without the order of a magistrate for any longer time, not exceeding twenty four hours from the hour of arrest than is necessary for bringing him before a magistrate.

Karnataka Preservation of Trees Act 1976 Chapter VI

Title: Penalties and Procedure

State: Karnataka

Year: 1976

.....or any forest, revenue or Police Officer shall prevent and may interfere for the purpose of preventing, the commission of any offence under this Act. Section 20 - Operation of other laws not barred Nothing in the Act shall be deemed to prevent any person from being prosecuted under any other law for any act or omission which constitutes an offence under this Act or from being liable under such other law in any higher punishment or penalty than that provided by this Act or the rules made thereunder Provided that no person shall be punished twice for the same offence. Section 21 - Power to compound offences (1) The State Government may, by order empower a Tree Officer, (a) to compound on payment of a sum not exceeding five thousand rupees for any offence under this Act; (b) to release any property seized or liable to confiscation, on payment of the value thereof, as estimated by such offence. (2) On the payment of such sum or such value or both as the case may be to such officer, the offender, if in custody, shall be released. The property, if any, seized shall be released and no further proceedings shall be taken against such offender or property. Section 22 -.....

Preservation of Trees Act,1976 Chapter 6

Title: Penalties and Procedure

State: Karnataka

Year: 1976

.....or any forest, revenue or police officer shall prevent and may interfere for the purpose of preventing, the commission of any offence under this Act. Section 20 - Operation of other laws not barred Nothing in this Act shall be deemed to prevent any person from being prosecuted under any other law for any act or commission which constitutes an offence under this Act or from being liable under such other law to any higher punishment or penalty than that provided by this Act or the rules made thereunder: Provided that no person shall be punished twice for the same offence. Section 21 - Power to compound offences (1) The State Government may, by order, empower a Tree Officer,- (a) to compound on payment of a sum1[equivalent to twenty-five per cent of the value of the property involved in the offence,] any offence under this Act; (b) to release any property seized or liable to confiscation, on payment of the value thereof, as estimated by such officer. (2) On the payment of such sum or such value or both, as the case may be, to such officer, the offender, if in custody, shall be released. The property, if any, seized shall be released and no further proceedings.....

Karnataka Municipal Corporations Act, 1976 Chapter IV

Title: Election

State: Karnataka

Year: 1976

.....been reversed or quashed or the offence not pardoned; or (b) if he is convicted of an offence under the provisions of the Untouchability offences Act, 1955 (Central Act 22 of 1955) or the Prevention of Food Adulteration Act, 1954 (Central Act 37 of 1954); (c) if he holds any office of profit under the Government of India or the Government of any State specified in the First Schedule to the Constitution of India, or under any local or other authority subject to the control of any of the said Governments other than such offices as are declared by rules made under this Act not to disqualify the holder; or (d) if he has been dismissed from service under a local authority or from Government service; or (e) if, having been a legal practitioner, he has been dismissed or suspended from practice by order of a competent authority, the disqualification in the latter case being operative during the period of such suspension; or (f) if he is a deaf, mute; or (g) is he is of unsound mind and stands so declared by a competent court; or (h) if he is an undischarged insolvent; or (i) if he is not a citizen of India or has voluntarily acquired the citizenship of a foreign State,.....

Karnataka Municipal Corporations Act, 1976 Chapter XXI

Title: Procedure and Miscellaneous

State: Karnataka

Year: 1976

.....of the Corporation, the standing committee or Commissioner or registration in the office of the Corporation is necessary for the doing of any act, and if such act is done without such licence or permission or registration then,- (a) the Commissioner may, by notice, require the person so doing such act to alter, remove, or as far as practicable restore to its original state the whole or any part of any property, movable or immovable, public or private, affected thereby within a time to be specified in the notice. (b) the Commissioner or any officer duly authorised by him may also enter into or on any building or land where such act is done and take all such steps as may be necessary to prevent the continuance of such act; and (c) if no penalty has been specially provided in this Act for so doing such act, the person so doing it shall be liable on conviction by a magistrate to a fine not exceeding fifty rupees for every such offence. (2) No claim shall lie against the Commissioner or any other person for any damage or inconvenience caused by the exercise of the power given under this section or by the use of the force necessary for the purpose of carrying out the.....

The Himachal Pradesh Fisheries Act, 1976 Complete Act

State: Himachal

Year: 1976

.....to compound certain offences. 11. Public servants indemnified for acts done under this Act. 12. Repeal and savings. THE HIMACHAL PRADESH FISHERIES ACT, 1976 (Act No. 16 of 1976)1 [For Statement of Objects and Reasons see R.H.P. Extra., dated 26-3-1975, p. 362 and for its authoritative Hindi text see R.H.P. Extra., dated the 24th October, 1987, p. 2117] (Received the assent of the Governor, Himachal Pradesh on the 26th April, 1976 and was published in R.H.P. Extra., dated the 30th April, 1976, at page 1180-1186). An Act to provide for certain matters relating to fisheries in Himachal Pradesh. Amended, Repealed or otherwise affected by,- (i) H. P. Ordinance No. 1 of 1989 replaced by H. P. Act No 17 of 1989 Passed in Hindi by Himachal Pradesh Vidhan Sabha. For Statement of Objects and Reasons see R.H.P. Extra., dated the 2nd August, 1989, p. 1940-1944 assented to by the President of India on 7-9-1989 and published in R.H.P. Extra, dated 6-2-1990, p. 1979, effective w.e.f. 6-7-1989 BE it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of Himachal Pradesh in the Twenty-seventh Year of the Republic of India as follows:- 1. Short title and commencement.-(1) This Act may be called the Himachal.....

The Punjab Water Supply and Sewerage Board Act, 1976 Complete Act

State: Punjab

Year: 1976

.....his position as to render his continuance as member detrimental to the interest of the Board or of the general public; or (iii) being a legal practitioner acts or appears on behalf of any person other than the Board in any civil, criminal or other legal proceedings in which the Board is interested either as a party or otherwise; or (iv) has become unsuitable or incapable of acting as a member; the Government may make an order removing such member from membership. (2) An Associate Member may be removed from the office by the Board, if in the opinion of the Board, he has been guilty of misconduct or neglect or has so abused his position as to render his continuance as an Associate Member detrimental to the interest of the Board or of the general public : Provided that no member or Associate Member shall be so removed under subsection (1) or sub-section (2), as the case may be, unless he has been given a reasonable opportunity of showing cause against his removal. (3) Any member or an Associate Member removed by the Government under subsection (1) or by the Board under sub-section (2), as the case may be, shall not be eligible for appointment or co-option, as the case.....

The Punjab Prevention of Antisocial and Hazardous Activities Act, 1976 Complete Act

State: Punjab

Year: 1976

THE PUNJAB PREVENTION OF ANTI-SOCIAL AND HAZARDOUS ACTIVITIES ACT, 1976 THE PUNJAB PREVENTION OF ANTI-SOCIAL AND HAZARDOUS ACTIVITIES ACT, 1976 [Act No. 39 of 1976] [17th October, 1976] PREAMBLE An Act to make special provisions in the State of Punjab for the prevention of anti social activities and other activities which are hazardous to the community. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Punjab in the Twenty-seventh Year of the Republic of India as follows :- Section 1 - Short title and commencement (1) This Act may be called the Punjab Prevention of Anti-Social and Hazardous Activities Act, 1976. (2) It shall be deemed to have come into force on the 4th day of June, 1976. Section 2 " Definitions In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires:- (a) "Commissioner" means the Commissioner of a Division, and includes" any of ficer specially empowered by the State Government to exercise all or any of the powers of Commissioner under this Act; (b) "District Magistrate" includes any Executive Magistrate specially empowered by the State Government in that behalf; (c) "Goonda" means a person " (i) who either by himself or as a member or leader of a gang.....