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The Mumbai Municipal Corporation Act 1888 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1888

THE MUMBAI MUNICIPAL CORPORATION ACT 1888 THE MUMBAI MUNICIPAL CORPORATION ACT 1888 An Act to consolidate and amend the law relating to the Municipal Government of '[Brihan Mumbai]. Preamble. WHEREAS it is expedient to consolidate and amend the law relating to the Municipal Government of '[Brihan Mumbai]; It is enacted as follows: CHAPTER I PRELIMINARY SECTION 01: SHORT TITLE AND EXTENT This Act may be cited as 2 [the Mumbai Municipal Corporation Act, 1888] 3 [It] extends only to 1 [Brihan Mumbai]. SECTION 02: REPEAL OF ENACTMENTS The enactments mentioned in Schedule A are repealed to the extent specified in the third column of the said Schedule: Provided that- (a) all rules and by-laws made, all notifications published, all orders issued and all I licenses and permissions granted under any of the said enactments and still in force shall, so far as they are consistent with this Act, be deemed to have been respectively made, published, issued and granted hereunder; and (b) all debts and obligations incurred, all contracts entered into and all matters and things engaged to be done, by, with or for the municipal corporation before this Act comes into force shall be.....

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The Bombay Lotteries (Control and Tax) and Prize Competitions (Tax) Act, 1958 Complete Act

State: Maharashtra

Year: 1958

.....this Act in accordance with such orders as the State Government may from time to time make. SECTION 27: OFFICERS TO BE PUBLIC SERVANTS All officers acting under this Act shall be deemed to be public, servants within the meaning of Section 21 of the Indian Penal Code. SECTION 28: PROTECTION OF PERSONS ACTING IN GOOD FAITH AND LIMITATION OF SUITS AND PROSECUTIONS (1) No suit, prosecution or other legal proceedings shall be instituted against any officer of the Government for anything which is in good faith done or intended to be done under this Act or the rules made thereunder. (2) No suit shall be instituted against the State and no prosecution or suit shall be instituted against any officer of the Government in respect of anything done or intended to be done under this Act, unless the suit or prosecution has been instituted within six months from the date of the act complained of. SECTION 29: APPEAL AND REVISION (1) Any person aggrieved by any order passed under this Act by the Collector or any officer authorised under Section 24 may appeal against such order to the Commissioner or to such officer as the State Government may appoint on this behalf. (2) Every order passed in.....

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Bombay Entertainments Duty Act, 1923, (Maharashtra) Section 6

Title: Entertainments for Charitable or Educational Purposes Exempted; Exemption by State Government

State: Maharashtra

Year: 1923

.....or special order, exempt any entertainment or class of entertainments from liability to entertainments duty 7 [subject to such terms and conditions, if any, as may be specified in the order.] 8 Explanation.-In this section, the takings or net proceeds of an entertainment shall be deemed to be devoted to philanthropic or charitable purposes if such takings or net proceeds are devoted to the benefit of Scheduled Castes or Schedule Tribes or for the advancement of any class of citizens declared by the State Government as socially and educationally backward classes but not to benefit of any other class, sect or community or to any religious purposes.] ___________________ 1. Substituted by the Adaptation of Indian Laws Order in Council. 2. Substituted by the Adaptation of Laws Order, 1950. 3. Substituted by Mah. 5 of 2001, s. 4(1). 4. Substituted by Mah. 5 of 2001, s. 4(2). 5. Substituted by the Adaptation of Indian Laws Order in Council 6. Substituted for the word "Provincial" by the Adaptation of Laws Order, 1950. 7. These words were added by Mah. 17 of 1967, s. 4. 8.This Explanation was added by Bom. 25 of 1954, s. 4.

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Air Corporations Act, 1953 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1953

.....with either of the Corporations. SECTION 09: CORPORATIONS TO ACT ON BUSINESS PRINCIPLES - In carrying out any of duties vested in it by this Act, each of the Corporations shall act so far as may be on business principles. CHAPTER 03: FINANCE, ACCOUNTS AND AUDIT SECTION 10: CAPITAL OF THE CORPORATIONS - (1) All non-recurring expenditure incurred by the Central Government for, or in connection with, each of the Corporations up to the date of establishment of that Corporation and declared to be capital expenditure by that Government, shall be treated as capital provided by the Central Government to that Corporation. (2) The Central Government may provide any further capital that may be required by either of the Corporations for the carrying on of the business of the Corporation or for any purpose connected therewith on such terms and conditions as the Central Government may determine. (3) Each of the Corporations may, with the consent of the Central Government, or in accordance with the terms of any general authority given to it by the Central Government- (a) borrow money for all or any of the purposes of the Corporation, and (b) secure the payment of any money.....

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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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Delhi Police Act, 1978 Complete Act

State: Delhi

Year: 1978

.....Act, 1955, or under section 12 of that Act in so far as it relates to satta gambling or on two or more occasions under any other provisions of that Act (including section 12 of that Act in so far as it does not relate to satta gambling); or (c) of any offence under the Suppression of Immoral Traffic in Women and Girls Act, 1956; or (d) of any offence under section 25, section 26, section 27, section 28 or section 29 of the Arms Act, 1959; or (e) of any offence under section 135 of the Customs Act, 1962; or (f) of any offence under section 61, section 63 or section 66, of the Punjab Excise Act, 1955, as in Delhi; or (g) on two or more occasions of an offence under (i) the Opium Act, 1878; or (ii) the Dangerous Drugs Act, 1930; or (iii) the Drugs and Cosmetics Act, 1940; or (iv) section 11 of the Bombay Prevention of Begging Act, 1959, as in force in Delhi; or (h) on three or more occasions of an offence under section 105 or section 107 of this Act, the Commissioner of Police may, if he has reason to believe that such person is likely again to engage himself in the commission of any of the offences referred to in this section, by order in writing, direct such.....

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The Haryana Municipal Act, 1973 Complete Act

State: Haryana

Year: 1973

.....words in the Indian Explosives Act, 1884, and the Petroleum Act, 1934, respectively; (12) "Factory" shall have the meaning assigned to it in the Factories Act, 1948; (Inserted by Haryana Act 3 of 1994) [(12A) "Finance Commission" means the Finance Commission constituted by the Slate Government under articles 2431 and 243Y of the Constitution of India; (Inserted by Haryana Act 5 of 2002) [(12AA) "Fund" means the Haryana Urban Infrastructural Development Fund constituted under section 203L;] (12B) "Slate Government" means the Government of the State of Haryana;] (13) "Infections disease" means cholera, plague, small pox. tuberculosis or such other dangerous disease as the State Government may notify in this behalf; (14) "inhabitant" includes any person ordinarily residing or carrying on business, or owning or occupying immovable property, in any municipality; or in any local area which the State Government has, by notification under this Act, proposed to declare to be a municipality; and in case of any dispute, means any person or persons declared by the Deputy Commissioner to be inhabitant or inhabitants; (Substituted by Haryana Act 3 of 1994) [(15) "municipal.....

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Bombay Provincial Municipal Corporation Act, 1949 Complete Act

State: Maharashtra

Year: 1949

.....Corporation is inserted. (iv) any joint stock company or any society, registered or deemed to be registered under the Bombay Co-operative Societies Act, 19251[which shall contract with or be employed by the Commissioner or the Transport Manager on behalf of the Corporation ; (v) the occasional sale to the Commissioner or Transport manager on behalf of the Corporation of any article in which he regularly trades to a value not exceeding in the aggregate in any one official year two thousand rupees; or (vi) the occasional letting out on hire to the Corporation or in the hiring from the Corporation of any article for an amount not exceeding in the aggregate in any one official year five hundred rupees ; (c) occupying as a tenant for the purpose of residence any premises belonging to the Corporation ; or (d) receiving conveyance charges as a member of the Transport Committee. SECTION 11: DISABILITIES FROM CONTINUING AS COUNCILLOR A Councillor shall cease to hold office as such if at any time during his term of office he, (a) becomes disqualified for being a Councillor by reason of the provisions of section 10 ; (b) absents himself during three successive months from the meetings of.....

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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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Bombay Lotteries (Control and Tax) and Prize Competitions (Tax) Act, 1958, (Maharashtra) Section 6

Title: Licensed Private Lotteries Not Unlawful

State: Maharashtra

Year: 1958

.....which may extend to three months or with fine which may extend to five thousand rupees or with both: Provided that in any proceeding under this section, it shall be a defence for a person charged only by reason of his being a promoter of the lottery to prove that the offence was committed without his knowledge. Explanation.--For the purposes of this section-- (a) the expression "private lottery" means a lottery in the State which is promoted for, and in which the sale of tickets for chances by the promoters is confined to, either-- (i) members of one society established and conducted for purposes not connected with gaming, wagering or lotteries or, (ii) persons all of whom work on the same premises, or (iii) persons all of whom reside on the same premises, and which is promoted by persons each of whom is a person to whom under the foregoing provisions tickets or chances may be sold by the promoters and, in the case of a lottery promoted for the members of a society, is a person autherised in writing by the governing body of the society to promote the lottery; and " (b) the expression "society" includes a club, institution, organisation or other association of.....

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