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Indian Penal Code (45 of 1860) Chapter 17

Title: Of Offences Against Property

State: Central

Year: 1860

.....a reasonable time to enable the owner to claim it. What are reasonable means or what is a reasonable time in such a case, is a question of fact. It is not necessary that the finder should know who is the owner of the property, or that any particular person is the owner of it; it is sufficient if, al the time of appropriating it, he does not believe it to be his own properly, or in good faith believe that the real owner cannot be found. Illustrations (a) A finds a rupee on the high road, not knowing to whom the rupee belongs. A picks up the rupee. Here A has not committed the offence defined in this section. (b) A finds a letter on the road, containing a bank note. From the direction and contents of the letter he learns to whom the note belongs. He appropriates the note. He is guilty of an offence under this section. (c) A finds a cheque payable to bearer. He can form no conjecture as to the person who has lost the cheque. But the name of the person, who has drawn the cheque, appears. A knows that this person can direct him to the person in whose favour the cheque was drawn. A appropriates the cheque without attempting to discover the owner. He is guilty of an.....

The Indian Penal Code 1860 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1860

.....Court of Justice (including a liquidator, receiver or Commissioner) whose duty is, as such officer, to investigate or report on any matter of law or fact, or to make, authenticate, or keep any document, or to take charge or dispose of any property or to execute any judicial process, or to a administrator any oath, or to interpret, or to preserve order in the Court, and every person specially authorized by a Court of Justice to perform any of such duties; Fifth--Every juryman, assessor, or member of a Panchayat assisting a Court of Justice or public servant; Sixth--Every arbitrator or other person to whom any cause or matter has been referred for decision or report by any Court of Justice, or by any other competent public authority; Seventh--Every person who holds any office by virtue of which he is empowered to place or keep any person in confinement; Eighth--Every officer of the Government, whose duty it is, as such officer, to prevent offences, to give information of offences, to being offenders to justice, or to protect the public health, safety or convenience; Ninth--Every officer whose duty it is, as such officer, to take, receive, keep or expend any property on behalf of.....

Indian Penal Code (45 of 1860) Section 391

Title: Dacoity

State: Central

Year: 1860

When five or more persons conjointly commit or attempt to commit a robbery, or where the whole number of persons conjointly committing or attempting to commit a robbery, and persons present and aiding such commission or attempt, amount to five or more, every person so committing, attempting or aiding, is said to commit "dacoity".

Drugs and Cosmetics Act, 1940 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1940

.....Committee appointed by the Legislative Assembly was of the opinion that a more comprehensive measure, providing for the uniform control of manufacture and distribution of drugs as well as of import, was desirable. The Government of India accordingly asked Provincial Governments to invite the Provincial Legislatures to pass resolutions under section 103 of the Government of India Act, 1935, empowering the Central Legislature to pass an Act for regulating such matters relating to the control of drugs as fall within the Provincial Legislative list. Such resolutions have now been passed by all Provincial Legislatures. Chapter II of the Bill establishes a Board of Technical Experts to advise the Central and the Provincial Governments on technical matters. Chapter III provides for the control of the import of drugs into British India. The executive power under this Chapter will accordingly be exercised by the Central Government. Chapter IV relates to control of the manufacture, sale and distribution of drugs and contains the provisions which it is proposed should be enacted in exercise of the power conferred by the resolutions under section 103 of the Government of India Act,.....

Works of Defence Act, 1903 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1903

.....could have acted: Provided that" (i) no person shall be deemed "entitled to act" whose interest in the subject-matter is shown to the satisfaction of the Collector or Court to be adverse to the interest of the person interested for whom he would otherwise be entitled to act; (ii) in every case the person interested may appear by a next friend or, In default of his appearance by a next friend, the Collector or Court, as the case may be, shall appoint a guardian for the case to act on his behalf in the conduct thereof; (iii) the provisions of Chapter XXXI of the Code of Civil Procedure shall, mutatis mutandis, apply in the case of persons interested appearing before a Collector or Court by a next friend, or by a guardian, for the case, in proceedings under this Act; and (iv) no person "entitled to act" shall be .competent to receive the compensation money payable to the. person for whom he is entitled to act, unless he would have been competent to alienate the land upon the use and enjoyment of which restrictions are to be imposed and receive and give a good discharge for the purchase-money on a voluntary sale. SECTION 02A: CONSTRUCTION OF REFERENCES TO LAWS NOT IN.....

Merchant Shipping Act, 1958 Part VII

Title: Seamen and Apprentices

State: Central

Year: 1958

..... (4) Every such contract made in India and every assignment, alteration or cancellation thereof, and where the apprentice bound dies or deserts the fact of the death or desertion shall be recorded in the manner specified in section 93. Section 93 - Manner in which contract is to be recorded For the purpose of the record (a) the master or owner of the ship to whom an apprentice to the sea service is bound shall transmit the contract executed in duplicate within seven days of the execution thereof, to the shipping master, who shall record one copy and endorse on the other the fact that it has been recorded and redeliver it to the master or owner; (b) the master or owner shall notify any assignment or cancellation of the contract and the death or desertion of the apprentice to the shipping master, within seven days of the occurrence, if it occurs within India, or as soon as circumstances permit, if it occurs elsewhere. Section 94 - Production of contracts to authorised person before voyage in ship (1) The master of a ship shall, before carrying an apprentice to sea from a port in India, cause the apprentice to appear before the shipping master before whom the crew are.....

Merchant Shipping Act, 1958 Section 180

Title: Notice to Be Given in Case of Unrepresented Seaman

State: Central

Year: 1958

.....proceeding and that his interests are likely to be prejudiced by his inability to attend, the Court may suspend the proceeding and shall give notice thereof to the shipping master. (3) If on receipt of a notice under sub-section (I) or sub-section (2), the shipping master certifies to the Court, that the seaman is a serving seaman, the Court shall thereupon postpone the proceeding in respect of the seaman for such period as it thinks fit: Provided that if by reason of the continued absence of the seaman the question of any further postponement of the proceeding in respect of the seaman arises, the court shall in deciding the question have regard to the purposes of the provisions of this Act conferring special protection on seaman in respect of litigation. (4) If the shipping master either certifies that the seaman is not for the time being a serving seaman or fails within two months from the date of the receipt of the notice under subsection (1) or sub-section (2) as the case may be, to certify that the seaman is a serving seaman, the Court may, if it thinks fit, continue the proceeding.

Army Act, 1950 Chapter VII

Title: Punishments

State: Central

Year: 1950

.....of a position of the nature of an appointment or of corps orworking pay, and in the case of non-commissioned officers, also deprivation ofacting rank or reduction to a lower grade of pay; (f)forfeiture of good service and good conduct pay; (g)severe reprimand or reprimand; (h) fine up to fourteen days'pay in any one month; (i)penal deductions under clause (g) of section 91; 2 [***] _____________________ 1.Substituted by Act 19 of 1955,sec. 2 and Sch., for "theCommander-in-Chief". 2. Clause(j) omitted by Act 37 of 1992, sec. 4 (w.e.f. 6-9-1992). Section 81 - Limit of punishments under section 80 1 [***] (2) In thecase of an award of two or more of the punishments specified in clauses (a),(b), (c) and (d) of the said section, the punishment specified in clause (c) orclause (d) shall take effect only at the end of the punishmentspecified in clause (a) or clause (b). (3) When twoor more of the punishments specified in the said clauses (a), (b) and (c) areawarded to a person conjointly, or when already undergoing one or more of thesaid punishments, the whole extent of the punishments shall notexceed in the aggregate forty-two days. (4).....

Army Act, 1950 Section 81

Title: Limit of Punishments Under Section 80

State: Central

Year: 1950

1 [***] (2) In thecase of an award of two or more of the punishments specified in clauses (a),(b), (c) and (d) of the said section, the punishment specified in clause (c) orclause (d) shall take effect only at the end of the punishmentspecified in clause (a) or clause (b). (3) When twoor more of the punishments specified in the said clauses (a), (b) and (c) areawarded to a person conjointly, or when already undergoing one or more of thesaid punishments, the whole extent of the punishments shall notexceed in the aggregate forty-two days. (4) Thepunishments specified in clauses 2 [(a), (b) and (c)] of section80 shallnot be awarded to any person who is of the rank of non-commissioned officer orwas, at the time of committing the offence for which he is punished, of suchrank. (5) Thepunishment specified in clause (g) of the said section shall notbe awarded to any person below the rank of a non-commissioned officer. ______________________ 1. Sub-section (1)omitted by Act 37 of 1992, sec. 5 (w.e.f. 6-9-1992). 2.Substituted by Act 37 of 1992,sec. 5, for "(a), (b), (c)and (j)" (vv.e.f. 6-9-1992).

Air Force Act, 1950 Chapter VII

Title: Punishements

State: Central

Year: 1950

.....the punishment specified in clause (e) or clause (f) of section 73 and any one or more of the punishments specified in clauses (g) to (m) of that section. Section 76 - Cashiering of officers An officer shall be sentenced to be cashiered before he is awarded any of the punishments specified in clauses (a) to (c) of section 73. Section 77 - Field punishment (1) Where any person subject to this Act and under the rank of warrant officer commits any offence on active service, shall be lawful, for a Court-martial to award for that offence any such punishment as is prescribed as a field punishment. (2) Field punishment shall be of the character of personal restraint or of hard labour but shall not be of a nature to cause injury to life or limb and shall not include flogging. Section 78 - Position of field punishment in scale of punishments Field punishment shall for the purpose of commutation be deemed to stand next below dismissal in the scale of punishments specified in section 73. Section 79 - Result of certain punishments in the case of a warrant officer or non-commissioned officer A warrant officer or a non-commissioned officer sentenced by a court-martial to.....