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Merchant Shipping (Distress Messages and Navigational Warnings) Rules, 1964 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1964

..... (3) The Distress Signal shall precede the Distress Call and Message. (4) The use of the distress signal in any one of the ways specified in sub-rule (2) except for the purpose mentioned in sub-rule (1), or the use of any signal which is likely to be confused with the distress signal in one of the ways referred to in sub-rule (2) is prohibited. Note. Vessels in distress may use the radiotelegraph alarm signal or the radiotelephone alarm signal to secure attention to distress calls and messages. The radiotelegraph alarm signal, which is designed to actuate the radiotelegraph auto alarms or vessels so fitted, consists of a series of twelve dashes, sent in one minute, the duration of each dash being 4 seconds, and the duration of the interval between 2 consecutive dashes being one second. The radiotelephone alarm signal consists of 2 tones transmitted alternately over periods of from 30 seconds to one minute. Rule 5 Revocation of Distress Signal If, after sending out any distress signal by means of radio, the Master of the vessel which controlled the distress traffic subsequently finds that assistance is no longer required, he shall immediately send out a message notifying.....

Presidency Small Cause Courts Act, 1882 Chapter VIII

Title: Distresses

State: Central

Year: 1882

.....to the Registrar of the Small Cause Court; and such amount shall be applied first in payment of the costs of the said distress and then in satisfaction of the debt; and the surplus, if any, shall be returned to the debtor: Provided that the debtor may direct that the sale shall take place in any other manner, first giving security for any extra costs thereby occasioned. Section 66 - Costs of distresses No costs of any distress under this Chapter shall be taken or demanded except those mentioned in the part (marked E) of the third schedule hereto annexed. {The second paragraph,, relating to the application of sums raised as costs towards payment of contingent charges and remuneration of bailiff, was repealed by the A.O.1937.} Section 67 - Account of costs and proceeds The Registrar of the Small Cause Court shall keep a book in which all sums received as costs upon distresses made under this Chapter, and all sums paid as remuneration to the said bailiffs, and all contingent charges incurred in respect of such distresses, shall be duly entered. He shall also enter in the said book all sums realised by sale of the property distrained and paid over to landlords.....

Merchant Shipping Act, 1958 Section 355

Title: Obligation to Render Assistance on Receiving Signal of Distress

State: Central

Year: 1958

.....to proceed with all speed to the assistance of the persons in distress unless he is released from the obligation under the provisions of sub-section (4). (3) The master shall be released from the obligation imposed by sub-section (1) as soon as he is informed of the requisition of one or more ships other than his own and that the requisition is being complied with by the ship or ships requisitioned. (4) The master shall be released from the obligation imposed by sub-section (1), and if his ship has been requisitioned, from the obligation imposed by sub-section (2), if he is informed by the persons in distress or by the master of any ship that has reached the persons in distress that assistance is no longer required. (5) If the master of an Indian ship on receiving at sea a signal of distress or information from any source that a vessel or aircraft is in distress is unable or in the special circumstances of the case considers it unreasonable or unnecessary to go to the assistance of the persons in distress; he shall forth with cause a statement to be entered in the official log book or, if there is no official log book, cause other record to be kept of his reasons.....

Merchant Shipping Act, 1958 Section 161

Title: Relief and Maintenance of Distressed Seamen

State: Central

Year: 1958

.....to recover from the seaman any amount paid by him to the Central Government in settlement or part settlement of such debt, and may apply to the satisfaction of his claim so much as may be necessary of any wages due to the seaman. (5) All excepted expenses incurred in accordance with the provisions of this Act in respect of any distressed seaman by the owner or agent of the ship to which he belonged at the time of his discharge or other event which resulted in his becoming a distressed seaman shall constitute a debt due to the owner or agent for which the seaman shall be liable; and the owner or agent may apply to the satisfaction of his claim so much as may be necessary of any wages due to the seaman; but he shall not be entitled to recover from the seaman any repatriation expenses other than excepted expenses. (6) In any proceedings for the recovery of any expenses which in terms of sub-section (3) or sub-section (4) are a debt due to the Central Government, the production of an account of the expenses and proof of payment thereof by or on behalf of or under the direction of the Central Government shall be prima facie evidence that the expenses were incurred in accordance.....

Merchant Shipping Act, 1958 Section 164

Title: Provisions as to Taking Distressed Seamen on Ships

State: Central

Year: 1958

(1) Where a distressed seaman is for the purpose of his return to a proper return port placed on board an Indian ship, the Indian consular officer by whom the seaman is so placed shall endorse on the agreement with the crew of the ship particulars of the seaman so placed on board. (2) On the production of a certificate signed by the Indian consular officer by whose directions any such distressed seamen were received on board, specifying the number and names of the distressed seamen and the time when each of them was received on board, and on a declaration made by the master stating the number of days during which each distressed seaman has received subsistence and stating the full complement of his crew and the actual number of seamen employed on board his ship and every variation in that number, whilst the distressed seamen received maintenance, the master shall be entitled to be paid in respect of the subsistence and passage of every seaman so conveyed and provided for by him, exceeding the number, if any, wanted to make up the complement of his crew, such sum for each day as the Central Government may by rules made in this behalf allow.

The East Punjab Distressed Persons (Facilities for Loans) Act, 1958 Complete Act

State: Haryana

Year: 1958

THE EAST PUNJAB DISTRESSED PERSONS (FACILITIES FOR LOANS) ACT, 1958 THE EAST PUNJAB DISTRESSED PERSONS (FACILITIES FOR LOANS) ACT, 1958 [Act No. 11 of 1958] PREAMBLE Received the assent of the Governor of Punjab on the 21st April, 1958, and was first published in the Punjab Government Gazette Extraordinary, dated the 24th April, 1958. An Act to provide for extension of loan facilities to distressed persons in certain cases. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Punjab in the Ninth Year of the Republic of India as follows: Section 1 - Short title, extent and commencement (1) This Act may be called the Punjab Distressed Persons (Facilities for Loans) Act, 1958. (2) It extends to the whole of the State of [Haryana] ( Adaptation of Laws Order, 1968). (3) It shall come into force on such date as the State Government may by notification in the official Gazette, appoint. Section 2 - Power of the State Government of make rules The State Government or the Financial Commissioner, subject to the control of the State Government, may, from time to time, by notification in the official Gazette, make rules as to loans and their recovery to be made to.....

Merchant Shipping Act, 1958 Section 163

Title: Receiving Distressed Seamen on Ships

State: Central

Year: 1958

(1) The master of an Indian ship shall receive on board his ship and afford passage and maintenance to all distressed seamen whom he is required by the Indian consular officer to take on board his ship, and shall during the passage provide every such distressed seaman with accommodation equal to that normally provided for the crew of the ship and subsistence, proper to the rank or rating of the said distressed seaman. (2) The master of a ship shall not be required to receive on board his ship a distressed seaman in terms of this section, if the Indian consular officer is satisfied that accommodation is not and cannot be made available for such seaman.

Oriental Gas Company Act ,1857 Section 25

Title: Levy by Distress

State: Central

Year: 1857

All penalties, forfeitures damages and expenses adjudged due under this Act, if the amount be not otherwise paid, may be levied by distress and sale of the goods and chattels of the party liable to pay the same and the overplus arising from such goods and chattels after satisfying such amount and the expenses of the distress and sale shall be returned on demand to the party whose goods shall have been distrained or instead of proceeding by distress and sale, or in case of failure to realise by distress the whole or any part of any penalties forfeitures, damage, or expenses, may sue the person liable to pay the same in any Court of competent jurisdiction.

Presidency Small Cause Courts Act, 1882 Section 68

Title: Bar of Distresses Except Under This Chapter

State: Central

Year: 1882

No distress shall be levied for arrears of rent except under the provisions of this Chapter; Penalty for making illegal distresses and any person, except a bailiff appointed under section 51, levying or attempting to levy any such distress, shall, on conviction before a Presidency Magistrate, be liable to be punished with fine which may extend to five hundred rupees and with imprisonment for a term which may extend to three months, in addition to any other liability he may have incurred by his proceedings.

Karnataka Municipalities Act, 1964 Section 143

Title: Distress

State: Karnataka

Year: 1964

.....within thirty days from the service of such notice of demand, either, -- (a) pay the sum demanded in the notice, or (b) show cause to the satisfaction of the municipal council, or of such officer as the municipal council by rule may appoint in this behalf, or of the Municipal Commissioner or Chief Officer, if any, why he should not pay the same, or (c) prefer an appeal in accordance with the provisions of section 150 against the demand, he shall be deemed to be in default, and thereupon such sum not exceeding twenty per cent of the amount of the tax as may be determined by the Municipal Commissioner or the Chief Officer, may be recovered from him by way of penalty, in addition to the amount of tax as an arrear of tax; and the tax and penalty with all costs of the recovery may be levied under a warrant caused to be issued by the municipal council in the form set forth in Schedule XI or to the like effect, by distress and sale of the movable property or attachment and sale of the immovable property of the defaulter: Provided that where any measures precautionary or otherwise have been taken in respect of any such property for the recovery of any sum claimed by the.....