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Merchant Shipping Act, 1958 Part XII

Title: Investigation and Inquiries

State: Central

Year: 1958

.....the Central Government. Section 359 - Report of shipping casualties to Central Government (1) Whenever any such officer as is referred to in sub-section (2) of section 358 receives credible information that a shipping casualty has. occurred, he shall forthwith report in writing the information to the Central Government; and may proceed to make a preliminary inquiry into the casualty. (2) An officer making a preliminary inquiry under sub-section (1) shall send a report thereof to the Central Government or such other authority as may be appointed by it in this behalf. Section 360 - Application to court for formal investigation The officer appointed under sub-section (2) of section 358, whether he has made a preliminary inquiry or not, may, and, where the Central Government so directs, shall make an application to a court empowered under section 361, requesting it to make a formal investigation into any shipping casualty, and the court shall thereupon make such investigation. Section 361 - Court empowered to make formal investigation 1[A Judicial Magistrate of the first class] specially empowered in this behalf by the Central Government and a2[Metropolitan Magistrate].....

Merchant Shipping Act, 1958 Section 379

Title: Effect of Cancellation or Suspension of Certificate

State: Central

Year: 1958

The cancellation or suspension of a certificate by the Central Government or by a court or the suspension of a certificate by a Marine Board shall-- (a) if the certificate was issued under this Act, be effective everywhere and in respect of all ships; and (b) if the certificate was issued outside India be effective-- (i) within India and the territorial waters of India, in respect of all ships; and (ii) outside India, in respect of Indian ships only.

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 6

Title: Of the Construction of Wills

State: Central

Year: 1925

.....of determining questions as to what person or what property is denoted by any words used in a Will, a Court shall inquire into every material fact relating to the persons who claim to be interested under such Will, the property which is claimed as the subject of disposition, the circumstances of the testator and of his family, and into every fact a knowledge of which may conduct to the right application of the words which the testator has used. Illustrations (i) A, by his Will, bequeaths 1,000 rupees to his eldest son or to his youngest grand-child, or to his cousin, Mary; a Court may make inquiry in order to ascertain to what person the description in the Will applies. (ii) A, by his Will, leaves to B "my estate called Black Acre." It may be necessary to take evidence in order to ascertain what is the subject-matter of the bequest; that is to say, what estate of the testator's is called Black Acre. (iii) A, by his Will, leaves to B "the estate which I purchased of C". It may be necessary to take evidence in order to ascertain what estate the testator purchased of C. Section 76 - Misnomer or misdescription of object (1) Where the words used in a Will to.....

Indian Succession Act, 1925 Section 86

Title: Interpretation of Words Repeated in Different Parts of Will

State: Central

Year: 1925

If the same words occur in different parts of the same Will, they shall be taken to have been used everywhere in the same sense, unless a contrary intention appears.

Bombay Motor Vehicles Tax Act, 1958, (Maharashtra) Section 13

Title: Exemptions

State: Maharashtra

Year: 1958

.....or in connection with any commercial enterprise; (b) used exclusively as ambulances or as hearses; (vi) Motor vehicles belonging to persons acting under contract with any local authority in the State of Maharashtra and used solely for the maintenance and service of street lighting or for road cleaning, road watering or conservancy purposes; (vii) Motor vehicles belonging to a society for the prevention of cruelty to animal and used exclusively for the conveyance of sick animals or as mobile veterinary dispensary; (viii) Motor vehicles belonging to Consular and Diplomatic Officers; (ix) Tractors belonging to the Bombay Electric Supply and Transport undertaking, which are kept solely as spares, but which are moved on road when movement is exclusively between the workshop and the place where the tractor would be hitched to the trailer vehicles and vice versa and for the purpose of periodical checking, overhaul, repairs, painting or for purpose of road testing and where in all such cases, movement is not for hire or reward; (x) Motor vehicles, belonging to any Government and not used for any commercial enterprise or purpose; provided similar exemption to the vehicles.....

Finance (No. 2) Act, 1998 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1998

FINANCE (NO. 2) ACT, 1998 FINANCE (NO. 2) ACT, 1998 21 of 1998 An Act to give effect to the financial proposals of the Central Government for the financial year 1998-99 BE it enacted by Parliament in the Forty-ninth Year of the Republic of India as follows :- SECTION 01: SHORT TITLE AND COMMENCEMENT (1) This Act may be called the Finance (No. 2) Act, 1998. (2) Save as otherwise provided in this Act, sections 2 to 98 (except section 51) shall be deemed to have come into force on the 1st day of April, 1998. SECTION 02: INCOME -TAX (1) Subject to the provisions of sub-sections (2) and (3), for the assessment year commencing on the 1st day of April, 1998, income-tax shall be charged at the rates specified in Part I of the First Schedule. (2) In the cases to which Paragraph A of Part I of the First Schedule applies, where the assessee has, in the previous year, any net agricultural income exceeding six hundred rupees, in addition to total income, and the total income exceeds forty thousand rupees, then,- (a) the net agricultural income shall be taken into account, in the manner provided in clause (b) [that is to say, as if the net agricultural income were comprised in.....

Merchant Shipping Act, 1958 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1958

.....To meet the immediate requirements of the country soon after independence the Merchant Shipping Laws. (Extension to Acceding States and Amendment) Act, 1949 was enacted, by which the British Merchant Shipping Acts 1894 to 1938 were extended to the Acceding States (later known as Part B States) and Indian Consular Officers were empowered to perform functions in relation to Indian ships outside India and provision was made to enable Government to prescribe the proper national colours for ships registered in India, The Control of Shipping Act, 1947, was another short-term measure which continued the war-time control over Indian shipping and controlled the coastal trade by a system of licensing. This Act, which has been renewed from time to time, is due to expire on the 31st March, 1958. 3. The present Bill revises and consolidates all laws in force in India relating to merchant shipping, whether passed by the British Parliament or the Indian Legislature, and makes provision for the matters discussed in the succeedihg paragraphs, which also indicate the principal changes made in the law ........... -Gaz. of Ind., 1958, Extra., Pt. II, S. 2, p. 203.Act 21 of 1966.- The minimum.....

Succession Act, 1925 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1925

.....under this section or exempted from the operation of any of the provisions of the Indian Succession Act, 1865(10 of 1865), under section 332 of that Act are in this Act referred to as "exempted persons". PART 02 OF DOMICILE SECTION 04: APPLICATION OF PART This Part shall not apply if the deceased was a Hindu, Muhammadan, Buddhist, Sikh or Jaina. SECTION 05: LAW REGULATING SUCCESSION TO DECEASED PERSON'S IMMOVABLE AND MOVABLE PROPERTY, RESPECTIVELY (1) Succession to the immovable property in India of a person deceased shall be regulated by the law of India, wherever such person may have had his domicile at the time of his death. (2) Succession to the movable property of a person deceased is regulated by the law of the country in which such person had his domicile at the time of his death. SECTION 06: ONE DOMICILE ONLY AFFECTS SUCCESSION TO MOVABLES A person can have only one domicile for the purpose of the succession to his movable property. SECTION 07: DOMICILE OF ORIGIN OF PERSON OF LEGITIMATE BIRTH The domicile of origin of every person of legitimate birth is in the country in which at the time of his birth his father was domiciled; or, if he is a posthumous.....

Treasture Trove Act, 1878 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1878

.....India except 2[the territories which, immediately before the 1st November 1956, were comprised in Part B States].3[* * * * * * *].State Amendments SECTION 02: REPEAL OF ENACTMENTS [Repealed by the Repealing and Amending Act, 1891 (12 of 1891), S. 2 and Sch. I.] SECTION 03: INTERPRETATION-CLAUSE In this Act- "Treasure" "treasure" means anything of any value hidden in the soil, or in anything affixed thereto; "Collector". "Collector" means (1) any Revenue-officer in independent charge of a district, and (2) any officer appointed by the4[State Government] to perform the functions of a Collector under this Act. "Owner." When any person is entitled, under any reservation in an instrument of transfer of any land or thing affixed thereto, to treasure in such land or thing, he shall, for the purposes of this Act, be deemed to be the owner of such land or thing. CHAPTER 02 PROCEDURE ON FINDING TREASURE SECTION 04: NOTICE BY FINDER OF TREASURE Whenever any treasure exceeding in amount or value ten rupees is found, the finder shall, as soon as practicable, give to the Collector notice in writing- (a) of the nature and amount or approximate value of such treasure,' (b) of the place in.....