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Coast Guard Act, 1978 Complete Act

Title: Coast Guard Act, 1978

State: Central

Year: 1978

.....service outside India Section8 - Oath of allegiance Section9 - Resignation and withdrawal from the post Section10 - Tenure of service under the Act Section11 - Dismissal or removal by Central Government and by other officers Section12 - Certificate of termination of service Section13 - Restrictions respecting right to form association, freedom of speech, etc. Chapter III Section14 - Duties and functions of Coast Guard Chapter IV Section15 - Correspondence, etc., with offenders Section16 - Deserting post and neglect of duty Section17 - Mutiny Section18 - Persons on board ship or aircraft seducing Coast Guard personnel from allegiance Section19 - Striking or threatening superior officers Section20 - Disobedience to superior officer Section21 - Ill-treating subordinates Section22 - Quarrelling, fighting and disorderly behaviour Section23 - Certain forms of disgraceful conduct Section24 - Drunkenness Section25 - Desertion and aiding desertion Section26 - Breaking out of ship and absence without leave Section27 - Losing ship or aircraft Section28 - Dangerous unauthorised flying Section29 - Inaccurate certificate Section30 - Low flying and annoyance by flying .....

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Geneva Conventions Act, 1960 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1960

.....(d) procedural matters relating to legal representation, appeals, etc. 3. The existing law on the subject is to be found in the Geneva Convention Act, 1911 (an Act of the United Kingdom) as applied to India by the Gevena Convention Act, 1911 (British India) Order-in-Council dated the 24th October, 1916, and the Geneva Convention Implementing Act, 1936 (14 of 1936). The provisions of these Acts, however, are confined to extending protection to the two emblems, namely, the Red Cross and the Geneva Cross. 4. The Bill seeks to implement the Conventions in so far as it is necessary so to do and, at the same time, consolidates the law on the subject by repealing the United Kingdom Act of 1911andthe Central Act 14 of 1936and incorporating their provisions in the Bill." - Gaz. of Ind., 1959, Extra. Pt. II, S. 2, p. 1098. An Act to enable effect to be given to certain International Conventions done at Geneva on the twelfth day of August, 1949, to which India is a party, and for purposes connected therewith. Be it enacted by Parliament in the Eleventh Year of the Republic of India as follows :- -Geneva Conventions of 12th August, 1949, were ratified by the President on the 16th October,.....

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Registration of Births and Deaths Act, 1969 Complete Act

Title: Registration of Births and Deaths Act, 1969

State: Central

Year: 1969

.....send periodical returns to the Chief Registrar for compilation Chapter V Section20 - Special provision as to registration of births and deaths of citizens outside India Section21 - Power of Registrar to obtain information regarding birth or death Section22 - Power to give directions Section23 - Penalties Section24 - Power to compound offences Section25 - Sanction for prosecution Section26 - Registrars and Sub-Registrars to be deemed public servants Section27 - Delegation of powers Section28 - Protection of action taken in good faith Section29 - Act not to be in derogation of Act 6 of 1886 Section30 - Power to make rules Section31 - Repeal and saving Section32 - Power to remove difficulty

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Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Act, 1886 Complete Act

Title: Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Act, 1886

State: Central

Year: 1886

.....deaths Section27 - Penalty for wilfully giving false information Section28 - Correction of entry in register of births or deaths Chapter IV Section29 - Repealed Section30 - Repealed Section31 - Repealed Chapter V Section32 - Permission to persons having custody of certain records to send them within one year to Registrar General Section33 - Appointment of Commissioners to examine registers Section34 - Duties of Commissioners Section35 - Searches of lists prepared by Commissioners and grant of certified copies of entries Section35A - Constitution of additional Commissions for purposes of this Chapter Chapter VI Section36 - Rules Section37 - Procedure for making and publication of rules

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Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 Complete Act

Title: Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973

State: Central

Year: 1973

.....interested Section480 - Practising pleader not to sit as Magistrate in certain Courts Section481 - Public servant concerned in sale not to purchase or bid for property Section482 - Saving of inherent power of High Court Section483 - Duty of High Court to exercise continuous superintendence over Courts of Judicial Magistrates Section484 - Repeal and savings Schedule1 - THE FIRST SCHEDULE Schedule1 - THE FIRST SCHEDULE (Chapter XI to XIX) Schedule1 - THE FIRST SCHEDULE (Chapter XX to XXIII) Schedule2 - THE SECOND SCHEDULE Amending Act1 - CODE OF CRIMINAL PROCEDURE (AMENDMENT) ACT, 2001 Amending Act2 - CODE OF CRIMINAL PROCEDURE (AMENDMENT) Act, 2005 Amending Act3 - CRIMINAL LAW (AMENDMENT) ACT, 2005 Amending Act4 - CODE OF CRIMINAL PROCEDURE (AMENDMENT) AMENDING ACT, 2006

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Karnataka Prisons Act, 1963 Chapter V

Title: Discipline of Prisoners

State: Karnataka

Year: 1963

.....for solitary confinement unless it is furnished with the means of enabling the prisoner to communicate at any time with an officer of the Prison and every prisoner so confined in a cell for more than twenty--four hours, whether as a punishment or otherwise, shall be visited at least once a day by the Medical Officer or Medical Subordinate. Section 29 - Prisoners under sentence of death (1) Every person under sentence of death shall immediately on his arrival in the prison after sentence, be searched by, or by order of, the Jailer, and all articles shall be taken from him, which the Jailer deems it to be dangerous or inexpedient to leave in his possession. (2) Every such prisoner shall be confined in a cell apart from all other prisoners and shall be placed by day and by night under the charge of a guard.

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Prisons Act, 1894 Chapter V

Title: Discipline of Prisoners

State: Central

Year: 1894

.....convicted criminal prisoners; and (4) civil prisoners shall be kept apart from criminal prisoners. _______________________ 1. Substituted by Act 6 of 1930, section 2, for "eighteen". Section 28 - Association and segregation of prisoners Subject to the requirements of the last foregoing section, convicted criminal prisoners may be confined either in association or individually in cells or partly in one way and partly in the other. Section 29 - Solitary confinement No cell shall be used for solitary confinement unless it is furnished with the means of enabling the prisoner to communicate at any time with an officer of the prison, and every prisoner so confined in a cell for more than twenty-four hours, whether as a punishment or otherwise, shall be visited at least once a day by the Medical Officer or Medical Subordinate. Section 30 - Prisoners under sentence of death (1) Every prisoner under sentence of death shall, immediately on his arrival in the prison after sentence, be searched by, or by order of, the Jailer and all articles shall be taken from him which the Jailer deems it dangerous or inexpedient to leave in his possession. (2) Every such prisoner.....

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Geneva Convention Act 1960 Schedule IV

Title: Fourth Schedule

State: Central

Year: 1960

.....to in this Article. In no case shall requisition of labour lead to a mobilization of workers in an organization of a military or semi-military character. Article 52 No contract, agreement or regulation shall impair the right of any worker, whether voluntary or not and wherever he may be, to apply to the representatives of the Protecting Power in order to request the said Power's intervention. (Protection of workers) All measures aiming at creating unemployment or at restricting the opportunities offered to workers in an occupied territory, in order to induce them to work for the Occupying Power, are prohibited. Article 53 Any destruction by the Occupying Power of real or personal property belonging individually or collectively to private persons, or to the State, or to other public authorities, or to social or co-operative organizations, is prohibited, except where such destruction is rendered absolutely necessary by military operations. (Prohibited destruction) Article 54 The Occupying Power may not alter the status of public officials or judges in the occupied territories, or in any way apply sanctions to or take any measures of coercion or discrimination.....

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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.....

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Indian Penal Code (45 of 1860) Chapter 3

Title: Of Punishments

State: Central

Year: 1860

.....ten years but not for life [Repealed] Rep. by the Criminal Law (Removal of Racial Discriminations) Act, 1949 (17 of 1949) (w.e.f. 6-4-1949). Section 57 - Fractions of terms of punishment In calculating fractions of terms of punishment, 1 [imprisonment] for life shall be reckoned as equivalent to 1 [imprisonment] for twenty years. _____________________ 1. Substituted by Act 26 of 1955, section 117 and Schedule, for "transportation" (w.e.f. 1-1-1956). Section 58 - Offenders sentenced to transportation how dealt with until transported [Repealed] Rep. by the Code of Criminal Procedure (Amendment) Ad, 1955 (26 of 1955), section 117 and Schedule (w.e.f. 1-1-1956). Section 59 - Transportation instead of imprisonment [Repealed] Rep. by the Code of Criminal Procedure (Amendment) Act, 1955 (26 of 1955). section 117 and Schedule, (w.e.f. 1-1-1956). Section 60 - Sentence may be (in certain cases of imprisonment) wholly or partly rigorous or simple In every ease in which an offender is punishable with imprisonment which may be of either description, it shall be competent to the Court which sentences such offender to direct in the sentence that such imprisonment shall.....

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