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Information Technology Act, 2000 Chapter XI

Title: Offences

State: Central

Year: 2000

.....- Punishment for disclosure of information in breach of lawful contract 1[72A. Punishment for disclosure of information in breach of lawful contract.-- Save as otherwise provided in this Act or any other law for the time being in force, any person including an intermediary who, while providing services under the terms of lawful contract, has secured access to any material containing personal information about another person, with the intent to cause or knowing that he is likely to cause wrongful loss or wrongful gain discloses, without the consent of the person concerned, or in breach of a lawful contract, such material to any other person, shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to three years, or with fine which may extend to five lakh rupees, or with both.] _________________ 1. Inserted vide Information Technology (Amendment) Act, 2008. Section 73 - Penalty for publishing Electronic Signature Certificate false in certain particulars (1) No person shall publish a 1[Electronic] Signature Certificate or otherwise make it available to any other person with the knowledge that (a) the Certifying Authority listed in the certificate has not.....

Information Technology Act, 2000 Section 70

Title: Protected System

State: Central

Year: 2000

.....system. Explanation.-- For the purposes of this section, "Critical Information Infrastructure" means the computer resource, the incapacitation or destruction of which, shall have debilitating impact on national security, economy, public health or safety.] (2) The appropriate Government may, by order in writing, authorise the persons who are authorised to access protected systems notified under sub-section (1). (3) Any person who secures access or attempts to secure access to a protected system in contravention of the provisions of this section shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to ten years and shall also be liable to fine. 1[(4) The Central Government shall prescribe the information security practices and procedures for such protected system.] _____________________ 1. Substituted vide Information Technology (Amendment) Act, 2008 Prior to substitution text read as under :- (1) The appropriate Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, declare that any computer, computer system or computer network to be a protected system.

Information Technology Act, 2000 Amending Act 1

Title: Information Technology (Amendment) Act, 2008

State: Central

Year: 2000

.....TECHNOLOGY (AMENDMENT) ACT, 2008 [Act No. 10 of 2009] [5th February 2009] PREAMBLE An Act further to amend the Information Technology Act, 2000. Be it enacted by Parliament in the Fifty-ninth Year of the Republic of India as follows:-- PART I Preliminary 1. Short title and commencement (1) This Act may be called the Information Technology (Amendment) Act, 2008. (2) It shall come into force on such date as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint: Provided that different dates may be appointed for different provisions of this Act and any reference in any such provision to the commencement of this Act shall be construed as a reference to the coming into force of that provision. PART II Amendments to the Information Technology Act, 2000 2. Substitution of words "digital signature" by words "electronic signature". In the Information Technology Act, 2000 (hereinafter in this Part referred to as the 21 of 2000. principal Act), for the words "digital signature" occurring in the Chapter, section, subsection and clause referred to in the Table below, the words "electronic signature" shall be substituted. .....

Information Technology (Amendment) Act 2008 Part 2 50

Title: Amendments to the Information Technology Act, 2000

State: Central

Year: 2008

.....that in prescribing such security procedures and practices, the Central Government shall have regard to the commercial circumstances, nature of transactions and such other related factors as it may consider appropriate.'. Section 12 - Amendment of section 17 In section 17 of the principal Act,-- (a) in sub-section (1), for the words "and Assistant Controllers", the words ", Assistant Controllers, other officers and employees" shall be substituted; and (b) in sub-section (4), for the words "and Assistant Controllers", the words ", Assistant Controllers, other officers and employees" shall be substituted.". Section 13 - Omission of section 20 Section 20 of the principal Act shall be omitted. Section 14 - Amendment of section 29 In section 29 of the principal Act, in sub-section (1), for the words "any contravention of the provisions of this Act, rules or regulations made thereunder", the words "any contravention of the provisions of this Chapter" shall be substituted. Section 15 - Amendment of section 30 In section 30 of the principal Act,-- (i) in clause (c), after the word "assured", the word "and" shall be omitted; (ii) after clause (c), the following.....

Information Technology (Amendment) Act 2008 Section 35

Title: Amendment of Section 70

State: Central

Year: 2008

In section 70 of the principal Act,-- (a) for sub-section (1), the following sub-section shall be substituted, namely:-- '(1) The appropriate Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, declare any computer resource which directly or indirectly affects the facility of Critical Information Infrastructure, to be a protected system. Explanation.--For the purposes of this section, "Critical Information Infrastructure" means the computer resource, the incapacitation or destruction of which, shall have debilitating impact on national security, economy, public health or safety.'; (b) after sub-section (3), the following sub-section shall be inserted, namely:-- "(4) The Central Government shall prescribe the information security practices and procedures for such protected system.".

Indian Succession Act, 1925 Part 6

Title: Testamentary Succession

State: Central

Year: 1925

.....of ministers of religion; for the formation or support of a public garden; All these bequests are void. _____________________ 1. Added by Act 51 of 1991, section 6. INDIAN SUCCESSION ACT, 1925Chapter 8 - OF THE VESTING OF LEGACIES Section 119 - Date of vesting of legacy when payment or possession postponed Where by the terms of a bequest the legatee is not entitled to immediate possession of the thing bequeathed, a right to receive it at the proper time shall, unless a contrary intention appears by the will, become vested in the legatee on the testator's death, and shall pass to the legatee's representatives if he dies before that time and without having received the legacy, and in such cases the legacy is from the testator's death said to be vested in interest. Explanation.An intention that a legacy to any person shall not become vested in interest in him is not to be inferred merely from a provision whereby the payment or possession of the thing bequeathed is postponed, or whereby a prior interest therein is bequeathed to some other person, or whereby the income arising from the fund bequeathed is directed to be accumulated until the time of payment arrives,.....

Indian Succession Act, 1925 Chapter 2

Title: Of Wills and Codicils

State: Central

Year: 1925

.....imprisonment. (iv) A threatens to shoot B, or to burn his house or to cause him to be arrested on a criminal charge, unless he makes a bequest in favour of C. B, in consequence, makes a bequest in favour of C. The bequest is void, the making of it having been caused by coercion. (v) A, being of sufficient intellect, if undisturbed by the influence of others, to make a will yet being so much under the control of B that he is not a free agent, makes a Will dictated by B. It appears that he would not have executed the will but for fear of B. The Will is invalid. (vi) A, being in so feeble a state of health as to be unable to resist importunity, is pressed by B to make a Will of a certain purport and does so merely to purchase peace and in submission to B. The Will is invalid. (vii) A being in such a state of health as to be capable of exercising his own judgment and volition, B uses urgent intercession and persuasion with him to induce him to make a Will of a certain purport. A, in consequence of the intercession and persuasion, but in the free exercise of his judgment and volition makes his Will in the manner recommended by B. The Will is not rendered invalid by the.....

Indian Succession Act, 1925 Section 59

Title: Person Capable of Making Wills

State: Central

Year: 1925

.....minor may dispose of his property by Will. Explanation 1. A married woman may dispose by Will of any property which she could alienate by her own act during her life. Explanation 2. Persons who are deaf or dumb or blind are not thereby incapacitated for making a Will if they are able to know what they do by it. Explanation 3. A person who is ordinarily insane may make a Will during an interval in which he is of sound mind. Explanation 4. No person can make a Will while he is in such a state of mind, whether arising from intoxication or from illness or from any other cause, that he does not know what he is doing. Illustrations (i) A can perceive what is going on in his immediate neighbourhood, and can answer familiar questions, but has not a competent understanding as to the nature of his property, or the persons who are of kindred to him, or in whose favour it would be proper that he should make his Will. A cannot make a valid Will. (ii) A executes an instrument purporting to be his Will, but he does not understand the nature of the instrument, nor the effect of its provisions. This instrument is not a valid Will. (iii) A, being very feeble and debilitated, but.....

The Kerala Agricultural Debtors (Temporary Relief)act, 2001 [1] Complete Act

State: Kerala

Year: 2001

.....before the commencement of this Act or filing thereafter, for the prosecution of such agriculturist under section 138 of the Negotiable Instrument Act, 1881 (Central Act 26 of 1881) if the agriculturist files an application in such court raising the contention that the debt is one coming under the purview of this Act. 4. Payment of debt in instalments.--(1) Notwithstanding anything contained in any law or contract or in any decree or order of any court or tribunal, an agriculturist may discharge his debts in the manner specified in sub-section (2) and in sub-section (3). (2) If any debt is repaid in thirty monthly instalments together with interest at the rate specified in section 5, on the principal amount outstanding at the time of each payment, the whole debt shall be deemed to be discharged. (3) The first instalment of any debt payable under sub-section (2) other than a debt payable to a co-operative society shall be paid before the expiry of a period of twelve months from the commencement of this Act and first instalment of any debt due to a co-operative society shall be paid before the expiry of six months from such commencement and each of the remaining instalments.....