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Companies Act, 1956 Section 539

Title: Penalty for Falsification of Books

State: Central

Year: 1956

If with intent to defraud or deceive any person, any officer or contributory of a company which is being wound up (a) destroys mutilates, alters, falsifies or secretes, or is privy to the destruction, mutilation, alteration, falsification or secreting of, any books, papers or securities; or (b) makes, or is privy to the making of, any false or fraudulent entry in any register, book of account or document belonging to the company; he shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to seven years, and shall also be liable to fine.

Indian Penal Code (45 of 1860) Section 477A

Title: Falsification of Accounts

State: Central

Year: 1860

.....any material particular from or in, any such 2 [book,electronic record, paper, writing], valuable security or account, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to seven years, or with fine, or with both. Explanation.--It shall be sufficient in any charge under this section to allege a general intent to defraud without naming any particular person intended to be defrauded or specifying any particular sum of money intended to be the subject of the fraud, or any particular day on which the offence was committed.] ________________________ 1. Added by Act 3 of 1895, section 4. 2. Substituted by Act 21 of 2000, section 91 for Sch. I, for "book, paper, writing" (w.e.f. 17-10-2000).

Companies Act, 1956 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1956

.....as in the (Depositories Act, 1996) (22 of 1996); (12B) "derivative" has the same meaning as in clause (aa) of (S.2 of the Securities Contracts (Regulation) Act, 1956) (42 of 1956);] (13) "director" includes any person occupying the position of director, by whatever name called; (14) "District Court" means the principal Civil Court of original jurisdiction in a district, but does not include a High Court in the exercise of its ordinary original civil jurisdiction ; [(14A) "dividend" includes any interim dividend;] (15) "document" includes summons, notice, requisition, order, other legal process, and registers, whether issued, sent or kept in pursuance of this or any other Act or otherwise ; [(15A) "employees stock option" means the option given to the whole-time directors, officers or employees of a company, which gives such directors, officers or employees the benefit or right to purchase or subscribe at a future date, the securities offered by the company at a pre-determined price;] (16) "existing company" means an existing company as defined in (section 3); (17) "financial year" means, in relation to any body corporate, the period in respect of which.....

Companies Act, 1956 Part 7

Title: Winding Up

State: Central

Year: 1956

.....given as the1[Tribunal] thinks reasonable. _____________________ 1. Substituted Act 11 of 2003, Section 54, for "Court". 2. Substituted by Act 11 of 2003, Section 54. 3. Substituted by Act 65 of 1960, Section 162, for "clauses (b), (c) and (e)" (w.e.f. 28-12-1960). 4. Substituted by Act 11 of 2003, Section 54, for "and (f)". 5. Substituted by Act 65 of 1960, Section 162, for "an inspector" (w.e.f. 28-12-1960). Section 439A - Statement of affairs to be filed on winding up of a company 1[ 439A. Statement of affairs to be filed on winding up of a company ( 1 ) Every company shall file with the Tribunal a statement of its affairs alongwith the petition for winding up. ( 2 ) Where a company oppose a petition for its winding up, it sh all file with the Tribunal a statement of its affairs. ( 3 ) The statement of affairs referred to in sub-section ( 1 ) or sub-section ( 2 ) shall be accompanied by-- (a) the last known addresses of all directors and company, secretary of such company; (b) the details of location of assets of the company and their value; (c) the details of all debtors and creditors with their complete addresses; (d) the details of workmen.....

Companies Act, 1956 Chapter 5

Title: Provisions Applicable to Every Mode of Winding Up

State: Central

Year: 1956

.....that period; (b) the expression "accrued holiday remuneration" includes, in relation to any person, all sums which, by virtue either of his contract of employment or of any enactment (including any order made or direction given under any enactment), are payable on account of the remuneration which would, in the ordinary course, have become payable to him in respect of a period of holiday, had his employment with the company continued until he became entitled to be allowed the holiday; 5[***] 6[(bb) the expression "employees" does not include a workman; and] (c) the expression "the relevant date" means- (i) in the case of a company ordered to be wound up compulsorily, the date of the appointment (or first appointment) of a provisional liquidator, or if no such appointment was made, the date of the winding up order, unless in either case the company had commenced to be wound up voluntarily before that date; and (ii) in any case where sub-clause (i) does not apply, the date of the passing of the resolution for the voluntary winding up of the company. (9) This section shall not apply in the case of a winding up where the date referred to in sub-section (5) of section.....

Extradition Act, 1962 Schedule I

Title: Extradition Treaty Between India and Switzerland

State: Central

Year: 1962

.....1904, are considered to be in forcebetween India and Switzerland: Andwhereas the Central Government in exercise of the powers conferred bysub-section (1) of Section 3 of the Extradition Act, 1962 (34 of 1962), haddirected by an order number G.S.R. 56, dated the 5th January, 1963 that theprovisions of the said Act, other than Chapter III shall apply to Switzerland; Now,therefore, in exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (3) of Section 3of the said Act, the Central Government hereby sets out the aforesaid Treaty asunder:-- "ARTICLEI HerMajesty, the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland engages todeliver up, under the circumstances and on the conditions stipulated in thepresent Treaty, all persons, and the Swiss Federal Council engages to deliverup, under the like circumstances and conditions, all persons, excepting Swisscitizens, who, having been charged with, or convicted by the Tribunals of one ofthe two High Contracting Parties of the crimes or offences enumerated in Art.II, committed in the territory of the one party, shall be found within theterritory of the other. Inthe event of the Federal Council being unable, by reason of his.....

Companies Act, 1956 Schedule 11

Title: Schedule 11

State: Central

Year: 1956

.....being at the time of the commission of the alleged offence, an officer of a company in respect of which the 1 [Tribunal] subsequently makes an order under section 397 or 398, - (a) has, by false pretences or by means of any other fraud, induced any person to give credit to the company; (b) with intent to defraud creditors of the company, has made or caused to be made any gift or transfer of or charge on, or has caused or connived at the levying of any execution against, the property of the company; or (c) with intent to defraud creditors of the company, has concealed or removed any part of the properly of the company since the date of any unsatisfied judgment or order for payment of money obtained against the company, or within two months before that date; he shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to two years and shall also be liable to fine. 541. Liability where proper accounts not kept (1) Where an application has been made to the 1 [Tribunal] under section 397 or 398 in respect of a company, if it is shown that proper books of account were not kept by the company throughout the period of two years immediately preceding the making.....

Companies Act, 1913 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1913

.....its ordinary original civil jurisdiction; (7) "existing company "means a company formed and registered under the (Companies Act, 1866), or under any Act or Acts repealed thereby, or under (Companies Act, 1882): (8) " Insurance company " means a company that carries on the business of insurance either solely or in common with any other business or businesses: (9) "manager " means a person who, subject to the control and direction of the directors has the management of the whole affairs of a company, and includes a director or any other person occupying the position of a manager by whatever name called and whether under a contract of service or not: (9A) " managing agent " means a person, firm or company entitled to the management of the whole affairs of a company by virtue of an agreement with the company, and under the control and direction of the directors except to the extent, if any, otherwise provided for in the agreement and includes any person, firm or company occupying such position by whatever name called : Explanation.-If a person occupying the position of a managing agent calls himself a manager he shall nevertheless be regarded as managing agent and not as manager for.....

The Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 Complete Act

State: Assam

Year: 1973

.....believing that an examination of his person will afford evidence as to the commission of an offence, it shall be lawful for a registered medical practitioner, acting at the request of a police officer not below the rank of sub-inspector,and for any person acting in good faith in his aid and under his direction, to make such an examination of the person arrested as is reasonably necessary in order to ascertain the facts which may afford such evidence, and to use such force as is reasonably for that purpose. (2) Whenever the person of a female is to be examined under this section, the examination shall be made only by, or under the supervision of, a female registered medical practitioner. Explanation.-In this section and in section 54, "registered medical practitioner" means a medical practitioner who possesses any recognized medical qualification as defined in clause (h) of section 2 of the Indian Medical Council Act, 1956 ( 102 of 1956) and whose name has been entered in a State Medical Register. 54. Examination of arrested person by medical practitioner at the request of the arrested person. When a person who is arrested, whether on a charge or otherwise alleges, at.....

The Kerala Chitties Act, 1975 [1] Complete Act

State: Kerala

Year: 1975

THE KERALA CHITTIES ACT, 1975 [1] THE KERALA CHITTIES ACT, 1975 [1] (Act 23 of 1975) An Act to define, amend and consolidate the law relating to chitties in the State of Kerala; Preamble. "WHEREAS it is expedient to define, amend and consolidate the law relating to chitties in the State of Kerala; BE it enacted in the Twenty-sixth Year of the Republic of India as follows: " PART I Preliminary 1. Short title, extent and commencement . "(1) This Act may be called the Kerala Chitties Act, 1975. (2) It extends to the whole of the State of Kerala. (3) It shall come into force on such date as the Government may, by notification in the Gazette, appoint. 2. Definitions. "In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires," (1) "approved bank" means a bank approved by the Government, from time to time, for the purposes of this Act; (2) "chitty" means a transaction, whether called chitty or kuri, by which one or more persons, hereinafter called the "foreman" or "foremen", enter into an agreement with a number of persons that every one of the contracting party shall subscribe a certain amount of money or quantity of grain or other.....