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Indian Post Office Act, 1898 Section 24

Title: Power to Deal with Postal Articles Containing Goods Contraband or Liable to Duty

State: Central

Year: 1898

.....call in two respectable persons as witnesses before he opens a postal article in the absence of the addressee or his agent: Provided, secondly, that in all cases a postal article, after being opened under this section, shall be delivered to the addressee, unless it is required for the purpose of any further proceeding under this or any other law or enactment for the time being in force, and that the opening of the postal article and the circumstances connected therewith shall be immediately reported to the Post Master General. 2[* * *] __________________________ 1. Substituted by Act 3 of 1912, section. 4, for "Where a postal article, suspected to contain any contraband goods". 2. Omitted by Act 15 of 1912, section. 2.

Indian Post Office Act, 1898 Chapter V

Title: Conditions of Transmission of Postal Articles

State: Central

Year: 1898

.....as defined in the Press and Registration of Books Act, 1867 (25 of 1867), edited, printed or published otherwise than inconformity with the rules laid down in this Act; and shall deliver any postal article so detained to such officer as the State Government may appoint in this behalf. (2) Any officer detaining any postal article under the provisions of sub-section (1) shall forthwith send by post to the addressee of such article, notice of the fact of such detention. (3) The State Government shall cause the contents of any postal article detained under sub-section (1) to be examined, and, if it appears to the State Government that the article contained any newspaper, book or other document, of the nature described in clause (a) or clause (b) of sub-section (1), may pass such orders as to the disposal of the article and its contents as it may deem proper, and, if it does not so appear, shall release the article and it contents, unless the same be otherwise liable to seizure under any law for the time being in force: Provided that any person interested in any article detained under theprovisions of clause (a) of sub-section (1) may, within two months from the date.....

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.....

The Sikkim Prisons Act, 2007 Complete Act

State: Sikkim

Year: 2007

THE SIKKIM PRISONS ACT, 2007 THE SIKKIM PRISONS ACT, 2007 (Act No. 16 of 2007) AN ACT To provide for a law regulating the prisons in Sikkim. Be it enacted by the Legislature of Sikkim in the Fifty-eighth Year of the Republic of India as follows: - CHAPTER I Short title, extent and commencement. 1. (1) This Act may be called the Sikkim Prisons Act, 2007 (2) It extends to the whole of Sikkim; (3) It shall come into force on such date as the State Government may, by notification, in the official gazette appoint. Definitions. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires: - (a) "civil prisoner" means any prisoner who is not a criminal prisoner; 2 . (b) "Competent authority" means any officer having jurisdiction and legal authority to deal with a particular matter in question; (c) "convicted criminal prisoner" means any criminal prisoner under sentence of court or court-martial, and includes a person detained in prison under the provision of Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973; (d) "Court" includes any officer lawfully exercising civil, criminal or revenue jurisdiction; (e) "criminal prisoner" means any prisoner duly committed to custody.....

Medicinal and Toilet Preparations Excise Duties Act, 1955 Part III

Title: Powers and Duties of Officers and Landholders

State: Central

Year: 1955

.....and all officers engaged in the collection of land revenue are hereby empowered and required to assist excise officers in the execution of this Act. Section 12 - Owners or occupiers of land to report manufacture of contraband dutiable goods Every owner or occupier of land and the agent of any such owner or occupier in charge of the management of that land, if dutiable goods are manufactured thereon in contravention of the provisions of this Act or the rules made thereunder, shall, in the absence of reasonable excuse, be bound to give notice of such manufacture to a magistrate or to an officer of the Excise, Customs, Police or Land Revenue Department immediately the fact comes to his notice. Section 13 - Punishment for connivance at offences Any owner or occupier of land or any agent of such owner or occupier in charge of the management of that land, who wilfully connives at any offence against the provisions of this Act or any rules made thereunder shall, for every such offence, 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. Section 14 - Searches and arrests how to be.....

Medicinal and Toilet Preparations Excise Duties Act, 1955 Section 12

Title: Owners or Occupiers of Land to Report Manufacture of Contraband Dutiable Goods

State: Central

Year: 1955

Every owner or occupier of land and the agent of any such owner or occupier in charge of the management of that land, if dutiable goods are manufactured thereon in contravention of the provisions of this Act or the rules made thereunder, shall, in the absence of reasonable excuse, be bound to give notice of such manufacture to a magistrate or to an officer of the Excise, Customs, Police or Land Revenue Department immediately the fact comes to his notice.

Indian Penal Code (45 of 1860) Chapter 10

Title: Of Contempts of the Lawful Authority of Public Servants

State: Central

Year: 1860

.....may extend to six months, or with fine which may extend to onethousand rupees, or with both.] _______________________ 1.Addedby Act 22 of 1939, section 2. Section 177 - Furnishing false information Whoever, being legally bound to furnish information on any subject to any public servant, as such, furnishes, as true, information on the subject which he knows or has reason to believe to be false, shall be punished with simple imprisonment for a term which may extend to six months, or with fine which may extend to one thousand rupees, or with both; or, if the information which he is legally bound to give respects the commission of an offence, or is required for the purpose of preventing the commission of an offence, or in order to the apprehension of an offender, with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to two years, or with fine, or with both. Illustrations (a) A,a landholder, knowing of the commission of a murder within the limits of his estate, wilfully misinforms the magistrate of the district that the death has occurred by accident in consequence of the bite of a snake.Ais guilty of the offence defined in this section. (b) A,a village.....

Indian Penal Code (45 of 1860) Section 182

Title: False Information, with Intent to Cause Public Servant to Use His Lawful Power to the Injury of Another Person

State: Central

Year: 1860

.....that it is likely that the consequence of the information will be a search of Z's premises, attended with annoyance to Z. A has committed the offence defined in this section. (c) A falsely informs a policeman that he has been assaulted and robbed in the neighbourhood of a particular village. He does not mention the name of any person as one of his assistants, but knows it to be likely that in consequence of this information the police will make enquiries and institute searches in the village to the annoyance of the villages or some of them. A has committed an offence under this section.] _______________________ 1. Substituted by Act 3 of 1895, section 1, for the original section.

Central Excise Act, 1944 Chapter 3

Title: Powers and Duties of Officers and Landholders

State: Central

Year: 1944

.....etc (1) If the Commissioner of Central Excise has reason to believe that the credit of duty availed of or utilised under the rules made under this Act by a manufacturer of any excisable goods-- (a) is not within the normal limits having regard to the nature of the excisable goods produced or manufactured, the type of inputs used and other relevant factors, as he may deem appropriate; (b) has been availed of or utilised by reason of fraud, collusion or any wilful mis-statement or suppression of facts, he may direct such manufacturer to get the accounts of his factory, office, depot, distributor or any other place, as may be specified by him, audited by a 3[cost accountant or chartered accountant] nominated by him. (2) The 3[cost accountant or chartered accountant] so nominated shall, within the period specified by the Commissioner of Central Excise, submit a report of such audit duly signed and certified by him to the said Commissioner mentioning therein such other particulars as may be specified. (3) The provisions of sub-section (1) shall have effect notwithstanding that the accounts of the said manufacturer aforesaid have been audited under any other law for the time.....

Central Excise Act, 1944 Section 16

Title: Owners or Occupiers of Land to Report Manufacture of Contraband Excisable Goods [Repelaed]

State: Central

Year: 1944

[Rep. by the Finance Act, 2002, section 137].