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Public Servants (Inquiries) Act, 1850 Section 6

Title: Security for Accuser Left by Government to Prosecute

State: Central

Year: 1850

Where the imputations shall have been made by an accuser, and the Government shall think fit to leave to him the conduct of the prosecution, the Government before appointing the commission shall require him to furnish reasonable security that he will attend and prosecute the charge thoroughly and effectually, and also will be forthcoming to answer any counter-charge or action which may be afterwards brought against him for malicious prosecution or perjury or subornation of perjury, as the case may be.

Public Servants (Inquiries) Act, 1850 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1850

.....uniform throughout India." Bih. Act 34 of 1951, S. 2 (28-11-1951). SECTION 01: SHORT TITLE 5This Act may be called the Public Servants (Inquiries) Act, 1850. SECTION 02: ARTICLES OF CHARGE TO BE DRAWN OUT FOR PUBLIC INQUIRY INTO CONDUCT OF CERTAIN PUBLIC SERVANTS Whenever the Government shall be of opinion that there are good grounds for making a formal and public inquiry into the truth of any imputation of misbehaviour by any person in the service of6[the Government, not removable from his appointment without the sanction of the Government,] it7[may] cause the substance of the imputations to be drawn into distinct articles of charge, and7[may] order a formal and public inquiry to be made into the truth thereof. SECTION 03: AUTHORITIES TO WHOM INQUIRY MAY BE COMMITTED NOTICE TO ACCUSED The inquiry may be committed either to the Court, Board or other authority to which the person accused is subordinate, or to any other person or persons, to be specially appointed by the Government, commissioners for the purpose notice of which commission shall be given to the person accused ten days at least before the beginning of the inquiry. SECTION 04: CONDUCT OF GOVERNMENT PROSECUTION.....

Government of India Act, 1858 [Repealed] Section 18

Title: As to Superannuation to Officers

State: Central

Year: 1858

.....a Continuance of his previous Appointment or Employment, and shall not prejudice any Claims which he might have had in respect of Length of Service if his Service under the said Company or Commissioners had continued; and it shall be lawful for Her Majesty, by Warrant countersigned as aforesaid, to grant to any Secretary, Officer, or Servant appointed on the said Establishment after the First Formation thereof such Compensation, Superannuation, or Retiring Allowance as, under the Act of the Session holden in the Fourth and Fifth Years of King William the Fourth, Chapter Twenty-four, or any other Act for the Time being in force concerning Superannuations and other Allowances to Persons having held Civil Offices in the Public Service, may be granted to Persons appointed on the Establishment of One of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State.

Government of India Act, 1858 [Repealed] Section 47

Title: Power to Grant Letter of Attorney for Sale Etc. of Stock and Receipt of Dividends

State: Central

Year: 1858

The Secretary of State in Council, by Letter of Attorney, executed by Three Members of the Council, and countersigned by the Secretary of State or One of his Under Secretaries, may authorise all or any of the Cashiers of the Bank of England to sell and transfer all or any part of the Stock or Stocks standing or that may thereafter stand in trite Books of the said Bank to the several Accounts of the Secretary of State in Council, and to purchase and accept Stock on; the said Accounts and to receive the Dividends due and to become due on the several Stocks standing or that may thereafter stand on the said Accounts, and by any Writing signed by Three Members of the Council, and counter-signed as aforesaid, may direct the Application of the Monies to be received in respect of such Sales and Dividends, but no Stock shall be purchased or sold and transferred by any of the said Cashiers under the Authority of such General Letter of Attorney, except upon an order in Writing directed to the said Chief Cashier and Chief Accountant from Time to Time, and duly signed and countersigned as aforesaid.

Government of India Act, 1858 [Repealed] Section 51

Title: Present System of Issuing Warrants for Payments to Be Continued

State: Central

Year: 1858

The Regulations and Practice now acted on by the Court of Directors on the Issue of Warrants or Authorities for the Payment of Money shall be maintained and acted on by the Secretary of State in Council of India under this Act until the same be altered by the Authority of Her Majesty in Council: Provided, that where a Warrant or Authority for the Payment of Money passes through the Audit Department at the East India House before Payment, it shall be counter-signed by such Officer or Officers of that Audit Department as the Secretary of State in Council may direct before Payment shall be made; and that Warrants or Authorities which have heretofore been signed by Two Directors of the East India Company shall, after the Commencement of this Act, be signed by Three Members of the Council of India.

Government of India Act, 1858 [Repealed] Section 72

Title: As to Payment of Expenses of the Company in Respect of their Capital Stock and Dividend

State: Central

Year: 1858

It shall be lawful for the Secretary of State in Council to pay to the said Company out of the Revenues of India such annual Sum as Her Majesty, by Warrant under Her Royal Sign Manual, counter-signed by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, may direct for defraying the Expenses of and incident to the Payment to the Proprietors of the Capital Stock of the said Company of their respective Shares of the Dividend on such Stock, and of keeping the Books of the said Company for Transfers, and otherwise in relation to such Stock.

Government of India Act, 1858 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1858

.....were continued under such Government, in trust for Her Majesty, until Parliament should otherwise 'provide, subject to the Provisions of that Act and of other Acts of Parliament, and the Property and Rights in the said Act referred to are held by the said Company in trust for Her Majesty for the purposes of the said Government: And whereas it is expedient that the said Territories should be governed by and in the Name of Her Majesty: Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, as follows; that is to 'say, Transfer of the Government of India to Her Majesty. SECTION 01: TERRITORIES UNDER THE GOVERNMENT OF THE EAST INDIA COMPANY TO BE VESTED IN HER MAJESTY AND POWERS TO BE EXERCISED IN HER NAME -The Government of the Territories now in the Possession or under the Government of the East India Company, and all Powers in relation to Government vested in or exercised by the said Company in trust for Her Majesty, shall cease to be vested in or exercised by the said Company; and all territories in the.....

Public Gambling Act 1867 Section 4

Title: Penalty for Being Found in Gaming-house

State: Central

Year: 1867

Whoever is found in any such house, walled enclosure, room or place, playing or gaming with cards, dice, counters, money or other instruments of gaming, or is found there present for the purpose of gaming, whether playing for any money, wager, stake or otherwise, shall be liable to a fine not exceeding one hundred rupees, or to imprisonment of either description, as defined in the Indian Penal Code, for any term not exceeding one month, and any person found in any common gaming-house during any gaming or playing therein shall be presumed, until the contrary be proved, to have been there for the purpose of gaming.

Public Gambling Act 1867 Section 13

Title: Gaming and Setting Birds and Animals to Fight in Public Streets

State: Central

Year: 1867

A police officer may apprehend without warrant any person found playing for money or other valuable thing with cards, dice, counters or other instruments of gaming, used in playing any game not being a game of mere skill in any public street, place or thoroughfare situated within the limits aforesaid or any person setting any birds or animals to fight in any public street, place or thoroughfare situated within the limits aforesaid or any person there present aiding and abetting such public fighting of birds and animals. Such person when apprehended shall be brought without delay before a Magistrate, and shall be liable to a fine not exceeding fifty rupees, or to imprisonment, either simple or rigorous, for any term not exceeding one calendar month; Distraction of instruments of gaming found in public street. and such police officer may seize all instruments of gaming found to such public place or on the person of those whom he shall so arrest, and the Magistrate may on conviction of the offender order such instruments to be forthwith destroyed.

Public Gambling Act, 1867 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1867

.....in force in Oudh the Central Provinces and the Punjab, and they have been found to work satisfactorily. It is obviously desirable to convert these rules into express legislative enactment, and this Bill, if it becomes law, will effect that object. A similar Act has recently been passed by the Governor of Bombay in Council. Under the present Bill, house will only be searched by an Officer of Police not below the rank of Inspector, and under the authority of a warrant from a Magistrate with full powers."-Gaz. of India, 1866, p. 978. An Act to provide for the punishment of public gambling and the keeping of common gaming- house in the 2United Provinces, East Punjab, Delhi]3[and the Central Provinces]. Preamble WHEREAS it is expedient to make provision for the punishment of public gambling and the keeping of common gaming-houses [in the United Provinces, East Punjab, Delhi and the Central Provinces]; It is hereby enacted as follows :- STATE AMENDMENT Himachal Pradesh: In the Preamble, after the words 'Central Provinces' insert the words 'and Himachal Pradesh'. H. P. A.L.O., 1948, C1.3and Sch., Item 2 (25-12-1948). SECTION 01: INTERPRETATION CLAUSE In this Act - 5[* * * *] "Common.....