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EMPLOYEE'S COMPENSATION ACT, 1923 Chapter 2

Title: EMPLOYEES'S COMPENSATION

State: Central

Year: 1923

.....(2)" (w.e.f. 1-6-1959). 13. The words "solely and" omitted by Act 15 of 1933, sec. 3. 14. Substituted by the Workmen's Compensation (Amendment) Act, 2009 [Act No. 45 of 2009] to be effective from 23rd December, 2009 previous text was:- "workman" 15. Substituted by the Workmen's Compensation (Amendment) Act, 2009 [Act No. 45 of 2009] to be effective from 23rd December, 2009 previous text was:- "Workmen" Section 4 - Amount of compensation 1[(1) Subject to the provisions of this Act, the amount of compensation shall be as follows, namely:-- (a) where death results an from the injury amount equal to 2[fifty per cent.] of the monthly wages of the deceased 14[employee] multiplied by the relevant factor; or an amount of 9[one lakh and twenty thousand rupees], whichever is more; (b) where permanent total disablement results from the injury an amount equal to 4[sixty per cent.] of the monthly wages of the injured 14[employee] multiplied by the relevant factor; or an amount of 10[one lakh and forty thousand rupees], whichever is more; .....

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The Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage Act, 2010no. 38 of 2010[21st September, 2010.] Complete Act

Title: The Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage Act, 2010no. 38 of 2010[21st September, 2010.]

Year: 2010

.....liable for any nuclear damage where such damage is caused by a nuclear incident directly due to- (i) a grave natural disaster of an exceptional character; or (ii) an act of armed conflict, hostility, civil war, insurrection or terrorism. (2) An operator shall not be liable for any nuclear damage caused to-(i) the nuclear installation itself and any other nuclear installation including a nuclear installation under construction, on the site where such installation is located; and (ii) to any property on the same site which is used or to be used in connection with any such installation; or(iii) to the means of transport upon which the nuclear material involved was carried at the time of nuclear incident: Provided that any compensation liable to be paid by an operator for a nuclear damage shall not have the effect of reducing the amount of his liability in respect of any other claim for damage under any other law for the time being in force.(3) Where any nuclear damage is suffered by a person on account of his own negligence or from his own acts of commission or omission, the operator shall not be liable to such person. 6. Limits of liability. - (1) The maximum amount of liability.....

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Displaced Persons Compensation and Rehabilitation Act 1954 [Repealed] Chapter II

Title: Payment of Compensation and Rehabilitation Grants to Displaced Persons

State: Central

Year: 1954

.....to the displaced person is payable in the form of transfer of any property from the compensation pool, then subject to a prior charge under sub-section (3) of section 20, to a second charge on such property for the amount which would have been payable to the banking company under clause (a) if the displaced person had been paid compensation in cash; (c) if the compensation to the displaced person is payable in any other form, to such relief as the Settlement Officer, having regard to the principle specified in clause (a) or clause (b), may determine. (3) For the purposes of this section,-- (a) the expression 'banking company' means any of the displaced banks specified in the Schedule and includes any other banking company which, before the fifteenth day of August, 1947 carried on the business of banking, whether wholly or partially in any area now forming part of West Pakistan, and which the Central Government may, having regard to the dislocation of such business on account of the partition of the country, by notification in the Official Gazette, specify in this behalf; (b) the expression 'total debt' means,-- (i) where the banking company has preferred a claim.....

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Displaced Persons Compensation and Rehabilitation Act 1954 [Repealed] Chapter III

Title: Compensation Pool for Purposes of Payment of Compensation and Rehabilitation Grants to Displaced Persons

State: Central

Year: 1954

.....property or part thereof being in occupation of a displaced person or otherwise, then, notwithstanding anything contained in the Evacuee Property Act and this Act, it shall be lawful for the Central Government-- (a) to transfer to the applicant in lieu of the evacuee property or any part thereof, any immovable property in the compensation pool or any part thereof, being in the opinion of the Central Government as nearly as may be of the same value as the evacuee property or, as the case may be, any part thereof, or (b) to pay to the applicant such amount in cash from the compensation pool in lieu of the evacuee property or part thereof, as the Central Government having regard to the value of the evacuee property or part thereof, may in the circumstances deem fit. Explanation. -The provisions of this sub- section shall apply, whether or not, a certificate for the restoration of the evacuee property has been issued to the applicant under sub- section (1) of section 16 of the Evacuee Property Act, as in force immediately before the commencement of the Administration of Evacuee Property (Amendment) Act, 1956, if the evacuee property has not in fact been restored to the.....

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Personal Injuries (Compensation Insurance) Act, 1963 Chapter II

Title: Compensation Payable Under the Act

State: Central

Year: 1963

.....Scheme. (3) This Section shall be binding on the Government. Section 5 - Limitation on right to receive compensation otherwise than under this Act and Act 59 of 1962 Where any person has a right apart from the provisions of this Act and of the Personal Injuries (Emergency Provision) Act, 1962 (59 of 1962), to receive compensation (whether in the form of gratuity, pension, compassionate payment or otherwise) or damages from an employer in respect of a personal injury in respect of which compensation is payable under this Act, the right shall extend only to so much of such compensation or damages as exceeds the amount of compensation payable under this Act. Section 6 - Special provisions in relation to employees of Government Where any person in the employ of Government has under the rules regulating the conditions of his service a right apart from the provisions of this Act or of the Personal Injuries (Emergency Provisions) Act, 1962 (59 of 1962), to receive any sum, whether as extraordinary pension, gratuity, compassionate payment or damages, from the Government in respect of a personal injury in respect of which compensation is payable under this Act, then,.....

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EMPLOYEE'S COMPENSATION ACT, 1923 Section 4

Title: Amount of compensation

State: Central

Year: 1923

.....an from the injury amount equal to 2[fifty per cent.] of the monthly wages of the deceased 14[employee] multiplied by the relevant factor; or an amount of 9[one lakh and twenty thousand rupees], whichever is more; (b) where permanent total disablement results from the injury an amount equal to 4[sixty per cent.] of the monthly wages of the injured 14[employee] multiplied by the relevant factor; or an amount of 10[one lakh and forty thousand rupees], whichever is more; 11[Provided that the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, from time to time, enhance the amount of compensation mentioned in clauses (a) and (b).] Explanation I.--For the purposes of clause (a) and clause (b), "relevant factor", in relation to a 14[employee] means the factor specified in the second column of Schedule IV against the entry in the first column of that Schedule specifying the number of years which are the same as the completed years of the age of the 14[employee] on his last birthday immediately preceding the date on which the compensation fell.....

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EMPLOYEE'S COMPENSATION ACT, 1923 Section 8

Title: Distribution of compensation

State: Central

Year: 1923

.....in any case in which it would involve the repayment by a dependant of any sum already paid to him. 4[(9) Where the Commissioner varies any order under sub-section (8) by reason of the fact that payment of compensation to any person has been obtained by fraud, impersonation or other improper means, any amount so paid to or on behalf of such person may be recovered in the manner hereinafter provided in section 31.] _________________________ 1. Subs. by Act 5 of 1929, sec. 4, for sub-sections (1) to (3). 2. Subs. by Act 15 of 1933, sec. 6, for the proviso. 3. Subs. by Act 30 of 1995, sec. 6, for certain words (w.e.f. 15-9-1995). 4. Ins. by Act 5 of 1929, sec. 4. 5. Certain words omitted by Act 30 of 1995, sec. 6 (w.e.f. 15-9-1995). Earlier the said words were amended by Act 5 of 1959, sec. 7 (w.e.f. 1-6-1959). 6. Subs. by Act 5 of 1929, sec. 4, for sub-sections (5). 7. Sub-section (6) re-numbered as sub-section (8) by Act 5 of 1929, sec. 4. 8. Substituted by the Workmen's Compensation (Amendment) Act, 2009 [Act No. 45 of 2009] to be effective from 23rd December, 2009 previous text was:- "workman"

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War Injuries (Compensation Insurance) Act, 1943 Section 5

Title: Amount of Compensation

State: Central

Year: 1943

.....half-monthly payments payable in a like case under the Workmen's Compensation Act, 1923 (8 of 1923), reduced in each case for so long as he receives any payment under the Scheme made under the War Injuries Ordinance, 1941 (7 of 1941), by seven rupees, and (ii) in the case of a minorthe half-monthly payments payable in a like case under the Workmen's Compensation Act, 1923 (8 of 1923), for so long as he remains a minor, and thereafter as in the foregoing sub-clause. (2) Where the monthly wages of a workman are more than three hundred rupees, the compensation payable under this Act shall be the amount payable under the provisions of sub-section (1) in the case of a workman whose monthly wages are more than two hundred rupees.

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Displaced Persons Compensation and Rehabilitation Act 1954 [Repealed] Amending Act 4

Title: Displaced Persons (Compensation Andrehabilitation) Amendment Act, 1968

State: Central

Year: 1954

.....ACT, 1968 [Act, No. 17 of 1968] [3rd April, 1968] PREAMBLE An Act to further amend the Displaced Persons (Compensation and Rehabilitation) Act, 1954. BE it enacted by Parliament in the Nineteenth Year of the Republic of India as follows : - 1. Short title This Act may be called the Displaced Persons (Compensation and Rehabilitation) Amendment Act, 1968. 2. Insertion of new section 8A In the Displaced Persons (Compensation and Rehabilitation) Act, 1954 (44 of 1954) , after section 8, the following section shall be, and shall be deemed always to have been, inserted, namely :-- "8A.Payment compensation in cases of mortgaged properties.- (1) Where any compensation is payable to any displaced persons in lieu of property abandoned by him in West Pakistan which on the date of his migration from West Pakistan was subject to a mortgage in favour of a person who is not resident in India, the Settlement Commissioner shall, after giving a reasonable notice to the displaced person, determine the principal sum for which the property was so mortgaged and such portion of the principal sum so determined as bears the same proportion as the compensation payable to the.....

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Displaced Persons Compensation and Rehabilitation Act 1954 [Repealed] Amending Act 3

Title: Displaced Persons (Compensation and Rehabilitation) Amendment Act, 1960

State: Central

Year: 1954

.....reason of the property or part thereof being in occupation of a displaced person or otherwise, then, notwithstanding anything contained in the said Acts or this Act, it shall be lawful for the Central Government-- (a) to transfer to that person in lieu of the property to be restored or any part thereof, any immovable property in the compensation pool or any part thereof, being in the opinion of the Central Government as nearly as may be of the same value as the property to be restored or, as the case may be, any part thereof, or (b) to pay to that person such amount in cash from the compensation pool in lieu of the property to be restored or part thereof, as the Central Government having regard to the value of the property to be restored or part thereof, may in the circumstances deem fit. (2) Where in pursuance of sub-section (1) any person has been granted any immovable property from the compensation pool or has been paid any amount in cash from the compensation pool, his right, title and interest in the property to be restored shall be deemed to have been extinguished.". 7. Amendment of section 26 In section 26 of the principal Act, after sub-section (1), the.....

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