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Indian Boilers Act, 1923 (5 of 1923) Section 2

Title: Definitions

State: Central

Year: 1923

.....a person recognised in such manner as may be prescribed by regulations for inspection and certification of boilers and boiler components during manufacture, erection and use. All Inspectors shall be ipso facto competent persons;] 6[(cc) "economiser" means any part of a feed-pipe that is wholly or partially exposed to the action of flue gases for the purpose of recovery of waste heat; (ccc) "feed-pipe" means any pipe or connected fitting wholly or partly under pressure through which feed water passes directly to a boiler and 7[which] does not form an integral part thereof;] 10[(ccd) "Inspecting Authority" means an institution recognised in such manner as may be prescribed by regulations for the inspection and certification of boilers and boiler components during manufacture. All Chief Inspectors of Boilers shall be ipso facto Inspecting Authorities; (cce) "manufacture" means manufacture, construction and fabrication of boiler or boiler component, or both; (ccf) "manufacturer" means a person engaged in the manufacture;] (d) "owner" 11[includes any person possessing or] using a boiler as agent of the owner thereof and any person using a boiler which he has hired or.....

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Bombay Entertainments Duty Act, 1923, (Maharashtra) Section 4B

Title: Assessment of Entertainments Duty

State: Maharashtra

Year: 1923

.....him 2 [after considering the amount of duty paid by the proprietor during the period of one year immediately before the submission of the unsatisfactory return, the monthly expenses for running the place of entertainment and any other relevant factors required to be considered for arriving at the amount of such duty.] (4) If a proprietor does not furnish returns in respect of any entertainment referred to in sub-section (1) within the time prescribed in that behalf, the State Government shall, after giving the proprietor a reasonable opportunity of being heard3 [and after considering the amount of duty paid by the proprietor during the period ofone year immediately before the non-submission of the returns, the monthly expenses for running the place of entertainment and any other relevant factors required to be considered in that behalf,] assess to the best of its judgement, the entertainments duty due from him, and may also direct that the proprietor shall pay, by way of penalty, in addition to the amount of duty so assessed a sum not exceeding one and a half times that amount. (5) Any assessment made under this section shall be without prejudice to any prosecution for an.....

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Cantonments (House-accommodation) Act, 1923 Section 36

Title: Further Provisions Respecting Rules

State: Central

Year: 1923

.....until they have been published in the 1 [Official Gazette] and in such other manner (if any) as the 1 [Central Government] may direct. (2) Any rule under section 35 may be general for all cantonments or parts of cantonments 2 [* * ] in which this Act is for the time being operative, or may be special for any of such cantonments or parts as the 1 [Central Government] may direct. (3) A copy of the rules under section 35 for the time being in force in a cantonment shall be kept open to inspection free of charge at all reasonable times in the office of the Cantonment 3 [Board]. (4) In making any rule under clause (b) of sub-section (2) of section 35, the 1 [Central Government] may direct that whoever obstructs any person, not being a public servant within the meaning of section 21 of the Indian Penal Code, in making any entry, inspection, measurement or survey, shall be punishable with fine which may extend to fifty rupees, and, in the case of a continuing offence, with fine which, in addition to such fine as aforesaid, may extend to five rupees for every day after the first during which such offence continues. ________________________ 1. Substituted for "G.G. in C" by.....

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Official Secrets Act, 1923 Section 3

Title: Penalties for Spying

State: Central

Year: 1923

.....where the offence is committed in relation to any work of defence, arsenal, naval, military or air force establishment or station, mine, minefield, factory, dockyard, camp, ship or aircraft or otherwise in relation to the naval, military or air force affairs of Government or in relation to any secret official code, to fourteen years and in other cases to three years. (2) On a prosecution for an offence punishable under this section2[***] it shall not be necessary to show that the accused person was guilty of any particular act tending to show a purpose prejudicial to the safety or interests of the State, and, notwithstanding that no such act is proved against him, he may be convicted if, from the circumstances of the case or his conduct or his known character as proved, it appears that his purpose was a purpose prejudicial to the safety or interests of the State; and if any sketch, plan, model, article, note, document or information relating to or used in any prohibited place, or relating to anything in such a place, or any secret official code or pass word is made, obtained, collected, recorded, published or communicated by any person other than a person acting under lawful.....

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Official Secrets Act, 1923 Section 4

Title: Communications with Foreign Agents to Be Evidence of Commission of Certain Offences

State: Central

Year: 1923

(1) In any proceedings against a person for an offence under section 3, the fact that he has been in communication with, or attempted to communicate with, a foreign agent, whether within or without1[India] shall be relevant for the purpose of proving that he has, for a purpose prejudicial to the safety or interests of the State, obtained or attempted to obtain information which is calculated to be or might be, or is intended to be, directly or indirectly, useful to an enemy. (2) For the purpose of this section, but without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing provisions,-- (a) a person may be presumed to have been in communication with a foreign agent if-- (i) he has, either within or without1[India] visited the address of a foreign agent or consorted or associated with a foreign agent, or (ii) either within or without1[India], the name or address of, or any other information regarding, a foreign agent has been found in his possession, or has been obtained by him from any other person; (b) the expression "foreign agent" includes any person who is or has been or in respect of whom it appears that there are reasonable grounds for suspecting him of being or having.....

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Official Secrets Act, 1923 Section 5

Title: Wrongful Communication, Etc., of Information

State: Central

Year: 1923

.....section. (3) If any person having in his possession or control any sketch, plan, model, article, note, document or information, which relates to munitions of war, communicates it, directly or indirectly, to any foreign power or in any other manner prejudicial to the safety or interests of the State, he shall be guilty of an offence under this section. 2[(4) A person guilty of an offence under this section shall be punishable with" imprisonment for a term which may extend to three years, or with fine, or with both.] _____________________ 1. Substituted by Act 24 of 1967, section. 5, for "or which has been made or obtained in contravention of this Act". 2. Substituted by Act 24 of 1967, section. 5, for former sub-section (4) (w.e.f. 10-7-1968).

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Official Secrets Act, 1923 Section 6

Title: Unauthorised Use of Uniforms, Falsification of Reports, Forgery, Personation and False Documents

State: Central

Year: 1923

.....fails to restore it to the person or authority by whom or for whose use it was issued, or to a police officer; or (c) without lawful authority or excuse, manufactures or sells, or has in his possession for sale, any such die, seal or stamp as aforesaid, he shall be guilty of an offence under this section. (3) A person guilty of an offence under this section shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to1[three years], or with fine, or with both. (4) The provisions of sub-section (2) of section 3 shall apply, for the purpose of proving a purpose prejudicial to the safety of the State, to any prosecution for an offence under this section relating to the naval, military or air force affairs of Government, or to any secret official code in like manner as they apply, for the purpose of proving a purpose prejudicial to the safety or interests of the State, to prosecutions for offences punishable under that section2[***]. _____________________ 1. Substituted by Act 24 of 1967, section. 6, for "two years". 2. The words "with imprisonment for a term which may extend to fourteen years" omitted by Act 24 of 1967, section. 6.

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Indian Boilers Act, 1923 (5 of 1923) Complete Act

Title: Indian Boilers Act, 1923 (5 of 1923)

State: Central

Year: 1923

.....- Welders certificate Section4C - Conditions precedent for manufacture of boiler land boiler component Section4D - Inspection during manufacture Section4E - Inspection during erection Section4F - Conditions precedent for repairing boiler and boiler component Section5 - Chief Inspectors, Deputy Chief Inspector and Inspectors Section6 - Prohibition of use of unregistered or uncertificated boiler Section7 - Registration Section8 - Renewal of certificate Section9 - Provisional orders Section10 - Use of boiler pending grant of certificate Section11 - Revocation of certificate or provisional order Section12 - Alterations and renewals to boilers Section13 - Alteration or renewal of boiler component Section14 - Duty of owner at examination Section15 - Production of certificates, etc. Section16 - Transfer of certificate, etc. Section17 - Powers of entry Section18 - Report of accidents Section19 - Appeals to chief Inspector Section20 - Appeals to appellate authority Section20A - Power of Central Government to revise order of appellate authority Section21 - Finality of orders Section22 - Minor penalties Section23 - Penalties for illegal use of boiler .....

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Bombay Entertainments Duty Act, 1923, (Maharashtra) Section 2

Title: Definitions

State: Maharashtra

Year: 1923

.....games which are not provided on fairly permanent basis like in amusement park as defined in clause (a-1) of section 2 read with clause (b) of sub-section (5) of section 3.) 11 [(a-a1) "bowling-alley" means a building housing a hardwood lane or lanes or lane or lanes made of any other material for bowling or an enclosed ground or part of ground having hardwood lane or lanes or lane or lanes made of any other material for playing any of the several games in which balls are rolled down an alley at an object or ground of objects or pins;"] 12 [(a-a) "cable television" means a system organised on payment by a connection holder of any contribution or subscription or installation and connection charges or any other charges collected in any manner whatsoever, for exhibition of films or moving pictures or series of pictures by means of transmission of television signals by wire where subscriber's television set is linked by metallic coaxial cable or optic-fibre cable to a central system called the head-end by using a video cassette or disc or both, recorder or player or similar such apparatus on which pre-recorded video cassettes or discs or both are played or replayed and the.....

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Bombay Entertainments Duty Act, 1923, (Maharashtra) Section 3

Title: Duty on Payments for Admission to Entertainment

State: Maharashtra

Year: 1923

..... 500 1 and 2 above (2) Machine operated by two persons simultaneously 1,000 35[(1AA) In computing the duty and the surcharge under this Act, a fraction of a rupee less than 5 paise, or which is not a multiple of 5 paise, shall be rounded off to 5 paise, or to next higher multiple of 5 paise, as the case may be.] (2) Where the payment for admission to an entertainment is made by means of a lump sum paid as a subscription or contribution to any society, or for a season ticket or for the right of admission to a series of entertainments or to any entertainment during a certain period of time, or for any privilege, right, facility or thing combined with the right of admission to any entertainment or involving such right of admission without further payment or at a reduced charge, 36[the entertainment duty shall be levied and paid on 50 per cent; of such lump sum at the rates specified in clause (b) of sub-section (1).] 37[(3)(a) In lieu of the tax payable under clause (c) of sub-section (1) in the case of 38[***] video exhibition 39[but excluding exhibition by means of any type of antenna or cable television] held in the places of entertainment specified in column (2).....

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