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Bombay Highways Act, 1955 Complete Act

State: Maharashtra

Year: 1955

.....wheeled conveyance of any description capable of being used on a highway ; (s) the expressions "land", "persons interested" and "persons entitled to act" used in this Act shall have the same meaning as the said expressions have in the Land Requisition Act, 1894. CHAPTER 02: DECLARATION OF HIGHWAYS, HIGHWAY AUTHORITIES AND THEIR POWERS AND FUNCTIONS SECTION 03: DECLARATION OF ROADS, WAYS OR LANDS AS HIGHWAYS The State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, declare any road, way or land to be a highway and classify it as " (i) a State highway (Special), (ii) a State highway, (iii) a major district road, (iv) other district road, or (v) a village road. SECTION 04: APPOINTMENT OF HIGHWAY AUTHORITIES The State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint for the purpose of this Act or any of its provisions, any person or any authority to be a Highway Authority for all the highways5[in the State] or, in parts 6[thereof] or for any particular highway or highways7[therein], specified in the notification. SECTION 05: DUTIES OF HIGHWAY AUTHORITIES Subject to such conditions as may be specified in the notification appointing a Highway Authority and.....

The Punjab Entertainment Duty Act, 1955 Complete Act

State: Punjab

Year: 1955

THE PUNJAB ENTERTAINMENT DUTY ACT, 1955 THE PUNJAB ENTERTAINMENT DUTY ACT, 1955 Act 16 of 1955 Contents S.No. Sections 1. Short Title and commencement. 2. Definitions. 3. Duty on payments for admission to entertainment. 4. Payment made in the consolidated sum 5. Deposit of security by the proprietor. 6. Entertainment Tax Officer and other Taxing Authorities. 7. Posting of tables of rates of payment for admission at conspicuous places. 8. Penalty for non-payment of duty. 9. Admission of persons without payment. 10. Method of levy. 11. Entertainment exempted from payment of duty. 11-A Appeal 12. Power of revision. 13. Production and inspection of accounts and documents. 14. Entry into and inspection of places of entertainment. 15. Cognizance of offences. 16. Power to compound offices. 17. Recoveries. 18. Delegation of powers by the Government. 19. Bar of certain proceedings. 20. Power to make rules. 21. Repeal and saving Schedule (Omitted) For Statement of Object and reasons, see Punjab Government Gazette Extraordinary,.....

The Travancorecochin Public Health Act, 1955 Complete Act

State: Kerala

Year: 1955

.....does not include an honorary Magistrate; (24) "Medical practitioner" means a practitioner registered under the Travancore-Cochin Medical Practitioners Act, 1953 or who has got any medical qualification recognized by the Government; (25) "Milk" means the milk of a cow, buffalo, goat, ass or other animal and includes cream, skimmed milk, separated milk, and condensed, sterilized or desiccated milk or any other product of milk; (26) "Notification" means a notification in the Gazette; (27) "Nuisance" includes any act, omission, place or thing which causes or is likely to cause injury, danger, annoyance or offence to the sense of sight, smell or hearing or disturbance to rest or sleep or which is or may be dangerous to life or injurious to the health or property of the public or the people in general who dwell or occupy property in the vicinity or persons who may have occasion to use any public right; (28) "Occupier" includes " (a) any person for the time being paying or liable to pay to the owner the rent or any portion of the rent of the land or building or part of the same in respect of which the word is used or damages on account of the occupation of such land,.....

Bombay Highways Act, 1955, (Maharashtra) Section 14

Title: Powers of Highways Authority and Officers and Servants Appointed Under Section 6 in Respect of Surveys

State: Maharashtra

Year: 1955

For the purpose of carrying out any of the provisions of this Act, the Highway Authority and the officers and servants appointed under section 6 may - (a) enter upon, survey and take measurements and levels of any land; (b) mark such levels, dig or bore into the subsoil of any land; (c) demarcate the boundaries of the highway by planting stones or other suitable marks in different colours of a durable nature at intervals all along the highway in such a manner that the imaginary line joining such stones or marks shows the road boundary correctly; (d) where there are bends or kinks on the road boundary, locate the stones or marks in different colours so as to give the correct configuration of the boundary if they are joined by straight lines; (e) give consecutive numbers to such boundary stones or marks and maintain them on the ground as if they constituted part of the highway; (f) lay out the building and control lines by placing marks in different colours and cutting trenches; (g) if the survey cannot otherwise be made, or measurements or levels taken or boundaries marked and lines laid out, cut down and clear away any standing crop, tree, fence or jungle or any.....

Bombay Highways Act, 1955, (Maharashtra) Schedule

Title: Schedule

State: Maharashtra

Year: 1955

..... dated 24th December, 1976 (M. G., 1977, Pt. Vl-B, p. 3) In exercise of the powers conferred by sections 4 and 6 of the Bombay Highways Act, 1955 (Bom. LV of 1955) (hereinafter referred to as the "said Act"), and in supersession of Government Notifications, Buildings and Communications Department No. BHA. 3760-C-(III), dated the 7th July, 1960, No. BHA. 3761-C-(II), dated the 8th December, 1961, No. BHA. 3761/ 534-C-UV), dated the 3rd May, 1962, No. BHA. 4061-C-(II), dated the 7th December, 1962, No. BHA. 4060-C-II, dated the 12th July, 1960 and of all other notifications issued in this behalf, the Government of Maharashtra hereby - (a) appoints the Executive Engineer, Road Development Division No. IV, Andheri, Bombay, to be the Highway Authority for the purposes of the said Act or that portion of the State Highway (Special) known as the Western Express Highway starting from Mahim Causeway and ending at Dahisar and for that portion of the State Highway (Special) known as the Eastern Express Highway starting from Sion Police Check Naka and ending at Junction with Bombay-Agra Road, Thana, and (b) appoints the following officers and servants to work under the.....

The Pepsu Tenancy and Agricultural Lands Act, 1955 Complete Act

State: Punjab

Year: 1955

THE PEPSU TENANCY AND AGRICULTURAL LANDS ACT, 1955 THE PEPSU TENANCY AND AGRICULTURAL LANDS ACT, 1955 ( ACT NO. 13 OF 1955 ) Contents SN Subject 1. PRELIMINARY 2. RESERVATION OE LAND FOR PERSONAL CULLTIVATION 3. GENERAL RIGHTS OF TENANCY 4. ACQUISITION OF PROPIETARY RIGHTS BY TENANTS 5. CEILING ON LAND AND AQUISITION AND DISPOSAL OF SURPLUS AREA 6. CONSTITUTION OF LAND COMMISSION 7. MISCELLANEOUS [ Received the assent of the President on the 4th March, 1955, and was first published in the PATIALA AND EAST PUNJAB STATES UNION GAZETTE, Extraordinary, of the 4th March, 1955]. 1 2 3 4 Year No. Short title Whether affected by later legislation 1955 1955 13 13 The Pepsu Tenancy and Agricultural Lands Act, 1955 Amended by- Pepsu Act No. 27 of 1955. Pepsu Act No. 9 of 1956. Pepsu Act No. 15 of 1956. Punjab Act No. 43 of 1957. Punjab Act No. 3 of 1959. Punjab Act No. 16 of 1962. Punjab Act No. 27 of 1962. Punjab Act No 11 of 1968. Punjab Adoption of Laws (State and Concurrent subjects).....

The Tamil Nadu Court Fees and Suits Valuation Act, 1955 Complete Act

State: Tamil Nadu

Year: 1955

.....1973 1 SCWR 1 : 1972 Tax LR 581 Followed by Madras High Court in Sriramulu V. Registrar, High Court , 1974 1 MLJ 390 : 88 LW 181 (DB) Court fees Act is a fiscal Act where an adjudication given by a Tribunal could fall within two provisions of the court fees Act, one of which was for the litigant and other more liberal, the court would apply that provision which was beneficial to the litigant " Diwan Brothers V. Central Bank of India and Others AIR 1976 SC 1503 : 1976 3 SCC 800. When plaintiff dexterously couch pleadings with a view to defeat the provisions of the Court fees Act, it is incumbent on the court look into the allegations in the plaint and see what is the substantive relief asked for .- Shamsher Singh V. Rajinder Prasad and Others, AIR 1973 SC 2284 : 1974 1 SCJ 270 : 1973 SCD 844 2. Application of Act " (1) The provisions of this Act shall not apply to " (a) (Proceedings in the Presidency Court of Small Causes, Madras ( omitted ) by Act XLIII of 1979. (b) documents presented or to be presented before an officer serving under the Central Government. (2) Where any other law contains provisions relating to the levy of fee in respect of proceedings under.....

West Bengal Land Reforms Act, 1955 Complete Act

State: West Bengal

Year: 1955

.....of his own interest therein, but does not include the right of the bargadar to cultivate the land of the holding; 1010. Clause (7) subs. by W.B. Act Act 50 of 1981, which was earlier as under: "(7) "land" means agricultural land other than land comprised in a tea- garden which is retained under sub-section (3) of section 6 of the West Bengal Estates Acquisition Act, 1953, and includes home-steads but does not include tank. Explanation: "Homestead" shall have the same meaning as in the West Bengal Estates Acquisition Act, 1953.'. (7) "land" means land of every description and includes tank, tank-fishery, fishery, homestead, or land used for the purpose of livestock breeding, poultry farming, dairy or land comprised in tea garden, mill, factory, workshop, orchard, hat, bazar, ferries, tolls or land having any other sairati interests and any other land together with all interests, and benefits arising out of land and things attached to the earth or permanently fastened to anything attached to earth; (8) "Personal cultivation" means cultivation by a person of his own land on his own account (a) by his own labour, or (b) by the labour of any member of his family, or (c) by.....

Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1955

.....and applies also to Hindus domiciled in the territories to which this Act extends who are outside the said territories. SECTION 02: APPLICATION OF ACT (1) This Act applies- (a) to any person who is a Hindu by religion in any of its forms or developments, including a Virashaiva, a Lingayat or a follower of the Brahmo, Prarthana or Arya Samaj, (b) to any person who is a Buddhist, Jaina or Sikh by religion, and (c) to any other person domiciled in the territories to which this Act extends who is not a Muslim, Christian, Parsi or Jew by religion, unless it is proved that any such person would not have been governed by the Hindu law or by any custom or usage as part of that law in respect of any of the matters dealt with herein if this Act had not been passed. Explanation: The following persons are Hindus, Buddhists, Jainas or Sikhs by religion, as the case may be:- (a) any child, legitimate or illegitimate, both of whose parents are Hindus, Buddhists, Jainas, or Sikhs by religion; (b) any child, legitimate or illegitimate, one of whose parents is a Hindu, Buddhist, Jaina or Sikh by religion and who is brought up as a member of the tribe, community, group or family to which such.....

The Essential Commodities Act, 1955 Complete Act

State: Punjab

Year: 1955

.....Section 12-B GRANT OF INJUNCTION, ETC., BY CIVIL COURTS. 13 PRESUMPTION AS TO ORDERS. 14 BURDEN OF PROOF IN CERTAIN CASES. 15 PROTECTION OF ACTION TAKEN UNDER ACT. Section 15-A. PROSECUTION OF PUBLIC SERVANT. 16. Repeals and savings." 1 SHORT TITLE AND EXTENT. (1) This Act may be called the Essential Commodities Act, 1955. (2) It extends to the whole of India 1[***]. 2 DEFINITIONS. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, - 2[***] 2[3[(ia) "Collector" includes an Additional Collector and such other officer, not below the rank of Sub-Divisional Officer, as may be authorised by the Collector to perform the functions and exercise the powers of the Collector under this Act;]] 4[***] (b) "food-crops" include crops of sugarcane; (c) "notified order" means an order notified in the Official Gazette; 5[(cc) "order" includes a direction issued thereunder;] 6[(d) "State Government," in relation to a Union territory, means the administrator thereof;] 7[(e) "sugar" means" (i) any form of sugar containing more than ninety per cent., of sucrose, including sugar candy; (ii) khandsari sugar or bura sugar or crushed sugar or any sugar in crystalline or powdered form; or (iii).....