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Oriental Gas Company 1857 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1857

.....19564, and in any town or place not within the jurisdiction of any of Her Majesty's Courts, in the same manner as damages are recoverable under this Act. SECTION 08: POWER TO ENTER BUILDINGS FOR ASCERTAINING QUANTITY OF GAS CONSUMED The Clerk, Engineer, or other officer duly appointed for the purpose by the said Company may, at all reasonable times, enter any buildings or place lighted with Gas supplied by the said Company, in order to inspect the meters, fittings, and works for regulating the supply of Gas, and for the purpose of ascertaining the quantity of Gas consumed or supplied; and if any person hinder such officer as aforesaid from entering and making such inspection as aforesaid at any reasonable time; he shall, for every such offence, forfeit to the said Company a sum not exceeding fifty rupees. SECTION 09: RECOVERY OF RENT DUE FOR GAS If any person supplied with Gas, or any person to whom any meter or fitting shall have been let for hire by the said Company neglect to pay the rent due for the same to the said Company, the said Company may stop the Gas from entering the premises of such person, by cutting off the service-pipes, or by such means as the said Company shall.....

Oriental Gas Company Act ,1857 Section 4

Title: Streets or Drains Not to Be Broken Up Except Under Superintendent of Persons Having Control of the Same

State: Central

Year: 1857

No such street, bridge, sewer, drain, or tunnel shall except in the cases of emergency aforesaid, be opened or broken up, except under the superintendence of the persons having the control or management thereof, or of their officer or in case of any difference respecting such persons or their officers or in case of any difference respecting such plan then according to such plan as shall be determined by a Magistrate ; and such Magistrate may, or the application of the person having the control or management of any such sewer or drain or their officer require the said Company to make such temporary or other works as they think necessary execution of any interruption of the drainage during the execution of any works which interfere with any such sewer or drain: Provided always that, if the persons having such control or management as aforesaid, and their officer fail to attend at the time fixed for the opening of any such street, bridge, sewer, drain, or tunnel, after having had such notice of the said Company's intention as aforesaid or shall not propose any plan for breaking up or opening the same or shall refuse or neglect to superintend the operation the said Company may perfor

Oriental Gas Company Act ,1857 Section 3

Title: Notice to Be Served on Persons Having Control, Etc., Before Breaking Up Streets or Opening Drains

State: Central

Year: 1857

Before the said Company proceed to open or break up any street, bridges, sewer, drain.or tunnel shall given to the municipal Commissioners for the Town of Calcutta, or Other persons under whose control or management the same may be or to other persons under whose control to management the same may be or to their Clerk, Surveyor, or other officer notice in writing of their intention or open or break up the clear days before beginning such work ; except in cases of emergency arising from defects in any of the pipes or other works, and then so soon as is possible after the beginning of the work or the necessity for the same shall have arisen.

Opium Act, 1857 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1857

OPIUM ACT, 1857 OPIUM ACT, 1857 An Act to consolidate and amend the law relating to the cultivation of the poppy and the manufacture of opium 2 [* *]. Preamble.-Whereas the existing law relating to the cultivation of the poppy and the manufacture of opium on account of Government is in some respects inconsistent with the practice which now obtains under agreement between the Opium Agents and the cultivators, and it is expedient that such in- consistency should be removed; And whereas it is also expedient3[* * *] that the laws for preventing the illicit cultivation of the poppy, and for regulating the cultivation of the poppy and the manufacture of opium on account of Government, should be consolidated and amended; It is enacted as follows:- This Act has been declared to be in force throughout the former Province of Bengal and the former North-Western Provinces except the Scheduled Districts by the Laws Local Extent Act, 1874 (15 of 1874),Sections 6and7. It has also been declared to be in force in the Santhal Parganaa (now in Bihar) by Regn. III of 1872, Section 3 (1) and Schedule; and in Oudh (now in Uttar Pradesh), subject to certain modifications by Section 3 (e) of.....

Oriental Gas Company Act ,1857 Section 2

Title: Not to Enter on Private Land Without Consent

State: Central

Year: 1857

Provided always that nothing herein shall authorize or empower the said company to lay down or place any pipe or other works into through or against any building or in any land not dedicated to public use without the consent of the owners and occupiers thereof except that the said company may at any time enter upon and lay or place any new pipe in the place of an existing pipe in any land wherein any pipe has been already lawfully laid down or placed in pursuance of this Act and may repair or later any pipe so laid down.

Oriental Gas Company Act ,1857 Section 6

Title: Penalty for Delay in Reinstating Streets

State: Central

Year: 1857

If the said Company open or break up any street or bridge, or any sewer, drain, or tunnel, without giving such notice as aforesaid, or in a manner different from that which shall have been approved of or determined as aforesaid, or without making such temporary or other works as aforesaid, when so required, except in the cases in which the said Company are hereby authorized to perform such works without any superintendence or notice; or if the said Company make any delay in completing any such work, or in filling in or the sewer, drain, or tunnel so opened or broken up, or in carrying away the rubbish occasioned thereby; or if they neglect to cause the place where such road or pavement has been broken up to be fenced, guarded, and lighted, or neglect to keep the road or pavement in repair for the space of three months next after the same shall have been made good, or such further time as aforesaid, they shall forfeit to the persons having the control or management of the street, bridge, sewer, drain, or tunnel, in respect of which such offence, and they shall forfeit an additional sum not exceeding fifty rupees for each day during which any such delay as aforesaid shall continue

Oriental Gas Company Act ,1857 Complete Act

Title: Oriental Gas Company Act ,1857

State: Central

Year: 1857

.....Power to take away pipes when supply of gas discontinued Section11 - Meters notable to distress for rent, etc Section12 - Penalty for fraudulently using gas Section13 - Penalty for wilfully damaging pipes Section14 - Satisfaction for accidentally damaging pipes Section15 - Penalty for causing water to be corrupted Section16 - Daily penalty during escape of Gas after notice Section17 - Penalty if water be fouled by Gas Section18 - Power to examine Gas-pipes to ascertain cause of water being fouled Section19 - Expenses to abide result of examination Section20 - How expenses to be ascertained Section21 - Liability to indictments for nuisance Section22 - Copies of the original Deed of Association and of all rules, etc., to be kept for inspection at the office of the Company in Calcutta and in the office of the Registrar of Joint Stock Companies, or the Keeper of the Records of the Supreme Court at Fort William Section23 - Service of process Section24 - Recovery of penalties, etc Section25 - Levy by distress Section26 - No distress unlawful for want of form, etc Section27 - Interpretation