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The Indian Penal Code 1860 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1860

.....Court of Justice (including a liquidator, receiver or Commissioner) whose duty is, as such officer, to investigate or report on any matter of law or fact, or to make, authenticate, or keep any document, or to take charge or dispose of any property or to execute any judicial process, or to a administrator any oath, or to interpret, or to preserve order in the Court, and every person specially authorized by a Court of Justice to perform any of such duties; Fifth--Every juryman, assessor, or member of a Panchayat assisting a Court of Justice or public servant; Sixth--Every arbitrator or other person to whom any cause or matter has been referred for decision or report by any Court of Justice, or by any other competent public authority; Seventh--Every person who holds any office by virtue of which he is empowered to place or keep any person in confinement; Eighth--Every officer of the Government, whose duty it is, as such officer, to prevent offences, to give information of offences, to being offenders to justice, or to protect the public health, safety or convenience; Ninth--Every officer whose duty it is, as such officer, to take, receive, keep or expend any property on behalf of.....

Admiralty Offences (Colonial) Act, 1849 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1849

.....committed in respect of any such case, whether the same shall amount to the offence of murder or of man slaughter, or of being accessory before the fact to murder, or after the fact to murder or manslaughter, may be dealt with, inquired of, tried, determined, and punished in such colony, in the same manner and in all respects as if such offence had been wholly committed in that colony: and if any person in any colony shall be charged with any such offence as aforesaid in respect of the death of any person who, having been feloniously stricken, poisoned or otherwise hurt, shall have died of such stroke, poisoning, or hurt, upon the sea, or in any haven, river, creek or place where the admiral or admirals have power, authority or jurisdiction, such offence shall be held for the purpose of this Act to have been wholly committed upon the sea. SECTION 04: OMITTED [Omitted as being inapplicable to India.] SECTION 05: INTERPRETATION OF "COLONY" 3[* * *] For the purposes of this Act the word "colony" shall mean any island, plantation, colony, dominion, fort or factory of Her Majesty, except any island within the United Kingdom and the Islands of Man, Guernsey, Jersey, Alderney.....

Admiralty Offences (Colonial) Act, 1849 Section 3

Title: Provision, Etc., Where Death in the Colony, or at Sea, Etc., Follows from Injuries Inflicted on the Sea, Etc

State: Central

Year: 1849

Where any person shall die in any colony of any stroke, poisoning, or hurt, such person having been feloniously stricken, poisoned, or hurt upon the sea or in any haven, creek, or place where the admiral or admirals have power, authority, or jurisdiction, or at any place out of such colony, every offence committed in respect of any such case, whether the same shall amount to the offence of murder or of man slaughter, or of being accessory before the fact to murder, or after the fact to murder or manslaughter, may be dealt with, inquired of, tried, determined, and punished in such colony, in the same manner and in all respects as if such offence had been wholly committed in that colony: and if any person in any colony shall be charged with any such offence as aforesaid in respect of the death of any person who, having been feloniously stricken, poisoned or otherwise hurt, shall have died of such stroke, poisoning, or hurt, upon the sea, or in any haven, river, creek or place where the admiral or admirals have power, authority or jurisdiction, such offence shall be held for the purpose of this Act to have been wholly committed upon the sea.

Coroners Act, 1871 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1871

.....act (the last mentioned offence is about to be added to the Penal Code) the Coroner will bind by recognizance any person acquainted with the facts to appear at the next sessions, and prosecute or give evidence. The Coroner will also certify the recognizances and deliver them with the inquisition and evidence to the Court in which the trial is to be. He may also issue his warrant for the apprehension of the accused. The amended Bill expressly abolishes the Coroner's jurisdiction as to treasure-trove and wreacks, and declares that he shall not be liable to execute process. The Coroner of Calcutta will, under the amended Bill, be appointed by the Lieutenant Governor of Bengal and not by the Governor-General in Council. As to Coroner's juries, we have provided (S. 31) that when an inquest is held on the body of a prisoner, no officer of the prison and no prisoner confined therein shall be ajuror. There is a similar provision in the Schedule to theEnglish Prisons Act (28 and 29 Vic., c. 126) , clause 48. As to a Coroner's rights, we have added three clauses, one providing for repaying his disbursements for fees to medical witnesses, hire of rooms for the jury, and the like;.....

Government of India Act, 1858 [Repealed] Repealing Act 1

Title: Government of India Act, 1915-1919

State: Central

Year: 1858

.....for commencing hostilities When any order is sent to Indiadirecting the actual commencement of hostilities byHis Majesty's forces inIndia, the fact of the order having been sentshall, unless the order has in themeantime been revoked or suspended, be communicated to both Houses ofParliament within three months after the sending of theorder or, if Parliament is not sitting at the expiration of those threemonths, then within one month after the next meetingof Parliament. 16. [Omitted] [Correspondence by Governor-General with Secretary of State.] Omitted by Part III of Schedule. II of 9 & 10 Geo, 5, Chapter. 101. 17 to 18. Establishment of Secretary of State 17. Establishment of Secretary of State (1) No addition may bemade to establishment of the Secretary of State in Council, nor to the salariesof the persons on that establishment, except by anOrder of HisMajesty in Council, to be laid before both Houses of Par1iamentwithin fourteen days after the making thereof, or, if Parliament is not thensitting, then within fourteen days after the next meetingof Parliament. (2) The rules made byHis Majesty for examinations,certificates, pro bation or other tests.....

Government of India Act, 1800 [Repealed] Repealing Act 1

Title: Government of India Act, 1915-1919

State: Central

Year: 1800

.....for commencing hostilities When any order is sent to Indiadirecting the actual commencement of hostilities byHis Majesty's forces inIndia, the fact of the order having been sentshall, unless the order has in themeantime been revoked or suspended, be communicated to both Houses ofParliament within three months after the sending of theorder or, if Parliament is not sitting at the expiration of those threemonths, then within one month after the next meetingof Parliament. 16. [Omitted] [Correspondence by Governor-General with Secretary of State.] Omitted by Part III of Schedule. II of 9 & 10 Geo, 5, Chapter. 101. 17 to 18. Establishment of Secretary of State 17. Establishment of Secretary of State (1) No addition may bemade to establishment of the Secretary of State in Council, nor to the salariesof the persons on that establishment, except by anOrder of HisMajesty in Council, to be laid before both Houses of Par1iamentwithin fourteen days after the making thereof, or, if Parliament is not thensitting, then within fourteen days after the next meetingof Parliament. (2) The rules made byHis Majesty for examinations,certificates, pro bation or other tests.....

Admiralty Offences (Colonial) Act, 1849 Section 1

Title: Trial of Admiralty Offences in Colonies

State: Central

Year: 1849

If any person within any colony shall be charged with the commission of any treason, piracy, felony, robbery, murder, conspiracy, or other offence of what nature or kind so ever, committed upon the sea, or in any haven, river, creek, or place where the admiral or admirals have power, authority, or jurisdiction, or if any person charged with the commission of any such offence upon the sea on in any such haven, river, creek or place shall be brought for trial to any colony, then and in every such case all magistrates, justices of the peace, public prosecutors, juries, judges, courts, public officers, and other persons in such colony shall have and exercise, the same jurisdiction and authorities for inquiring of, trying, hearing, determining and adjudging such offences, and they are hereby respectively authorised, empowered, and required to institute and carry on all such proceedings for the bringing of such person so charged as aforesaid to trial, and for and auxiliary to and consequent upon, the trial of any such person for any such offence; wherewith he may be charged as aforesaid as by the law of such colony would and ought to have been had and exercised or instituted and carrie

Fatal Accidents Act, 1855 Section 1A

Title: Suit for Compensation to the Family of a Person for Loss Occasioned to It by His Death by Actionable Wrong

State: Central

Year: 1855

.....administrator or representative of the person deceased; and in every such action, the court may give such damages as it may think proportioned to the loss resulting from such death to the parties respectively, for whom and for whose benefit such action shall be brought, and the amount so recovered, after deducting all costs and expenses, including the costs not recovered from the defendant, shall be divided amongst the before-mentioned parties, or any of them, in such shares as the court by its judgment or decree shall direct. _______________________ 1. Original section 1 renumbered as section 1A by Act 3 of 1951, section 3 and Schedule 2. The words "And it is enacted further, that" repealed by Act 10 of 1914, Schedule II.

Government of India Act, 1915-19 [Repealed] Part IX

Title: The Indian High Courts

State: Central

Year: 1915

.....patent.] (2) The high courts have not and may not exercise any original jurisdiction in any matter concerning the revenue, or concerning any act ordered or done in the collection thereof according to the usage and practice of the country or the law for the time being in force. _________________________ 1. This sub-section was inserted by Sch. I of the Government of India (Amendment) Act, 19.16 (6 & 7 Geo. 5, Ch. 37). Section 107 - Powers of high court with respect to subordinate courts Each ofthe high courts has superintendence over all courts for the time being subject to its appellatejurisdiction, and may do any of the following things, that is to say:-- (a) call for returns; (b) direct the transfer of any suit or appeal from any such court any other court of equal or superiorjurisdiction; (c) make and issue general rules and prescribe forms for regulating thepractice and proceedings of such courts; (d) prescribe forms in which books, entries and accounts shall be kept by the officers of anysuch courts; and (e) settle tables of fees tobeallowed to the sheriff, attorneys and all clerks and officers of courts: Providedthat such rules, forms and.....

Government of India Act, 1915-19 [Repealed] Section 110

Title: Exemption from Jurisdiction of High Court

State: Central

Year: 1915

.....of its original jurisdiction; or (c) be subject to theoriginal criminal jurisdiction of any high court in respect of any offence notbeing treason or felony. (2) The exemption under this section from liability toarrest and imprisonment shallextend also to the chief justice andother judges of the several high courts. _________________________ 1. These wordswere inserted by Sch. I of the Government of India (Amendment) Act, (6&7 Geo. 5, Ch. 37). 2. These words were substituted for the words "their respective executive councils" bySch. I of the Government of India (Amendment) Act, (6&7 Geo. 5, Ch. 37). 3. These words were inserted by Part II of Sch.II of the Government of India Act, 1919 (9&10 Geo. 5, Ch. 101).