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The Kerala Conservation of Paddy Land and Wetland Act, 2008 Complete Act

State: Kerala

Year: 2008

THE KERALA CONSERVATION OF PADDY LAND AND WETLAND ACT, 2008 ACT 28 OF 2008 THE KERALA CONSERVATION OF PADDY LAND AND WETLAND ACT, 2008 An Act to conserve the paddy land and wetland and to restrict the conversion or reclamation thereof, in order to promote growth in the agricultural sector and to sustain the ecological system, in the State of Kerala. Preamble .- WHEREAS it has come to the notice of the Government that indiscriminate and uncontrolled reclamation and massive conversion of paddy land and wetland is taking place in the State; AND WHEREAS there is no existing law to restrict effectively, the conversion or reclamation of paddy land; AND WHEREAS the Government are satisfied that it is expedient, in public interest to provide for the conservation of paddy land and wetland and to restrict the conservation or reclamation thereof, in order to promote agricultural growth, to ensure food security and to sustain the ecological system in the State of Kerala; BE it enacted in the Fifty-ninth Year of the Republic of India as follows:- 1. Short title and commencement. - (1) This Act may be called the Kerala Conservation of Paddy Land and Wetland Act, 2008. (2) It.....

Indian Ports Act, 1908 Chapter IV

Title: Rules for the Safety of Shipping and the Conservation of Ports

State: Central

Year: 1908

.....or land-floods a [and no oil or water mixed with oil shall be discharged in or into any such port, to which any rules made under Clause (ce) of Sub-section (1) of Section 6 apply, otherwise than in accordance with such rules]. (2) Any person who by himself or another so casts or throws any ballast or rubbish or any such other thing1[or so discharges any oil or water mixed with oil], and the master of any vessel from which the same is so cast,2[thrown or discharge], shall be punishable with fine which may extend to3[five lakh rupees] and shall pay any reasonable expenses which may be incurred in removing the same. (3) If, after receiving notice from the Conservator of the Port to desist from so casting or throwing any ballast or rubbish or such other thing1[or from so discharging any oil or water mixed with oil, any master continues so to cast4[throw or discharge the same], he shall also be liable to simple imprisonment for a term which may extend to5[one year and to fine which may extend to five lakh rupees]. (4) Nothing in this section applies to any case in which the ballast or rubbish or such other thing is cast or thrown into,1[or the oil or water mixed with oil is.....

Indian Ports Act, 1908 Section 30

Title: Removing Stones or Injuring Shores of Port Prohibited

State: Central

Year: 1908

(1) No person without the permission of the conservator shall in any port subject to this Act remove or carry away any rock, stones, shingle, gravel, sand or soil or any artificial protection from any part of the bank or shore of the port; and no person shall sink or bury in any part of such bank or shore, whether the same is public or private property, any mooring-post, anchor or any other thing or do any other thing which is likely to injure or to be used so as to injure suck bank or shore, except with the permission of the conservator, and with the aid or under the inspection of such person, if any, as the conservator may appoint to take part in or overlook the performance of such work. (2) If any person offends against Sub-section (1), he shall for every such offence be punishable with fine which may extend to one hundred rupees and shall pay any reasonable expenses which may be incurred in repairing any injury done by him to the bank or shore.

Britannnia Engineering Company Limited (Mokameh Unit) and the Arthur Butler and Company (Muzaffarpore) Limited (Acquisition and Transfer of Undertakings Act, 1978 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1978

.....Commissioner of Payments appointed under lection 15; (e) "Government company" means a company within the meaning of section 617 of the Companies Act, 1956-and referred to in section 5-of this Act; (f) "Mokameh unit" means the wagon and other undertakings owned by Britannia Engineering Company at Mokameh, in the State of Bihar; (g) "notification" means a notification published in the Official Gazette; (h) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this Act; (i) "specified date" in relation to any provision of this Act, means such date as the Central Government may, by notification, specify for the purpose of that provision and different dates may be specified for different provisions of this Act; (j) "wagon and other undertaking" means the undertaking which is engaged in the manufacture of railway wagons and other goods; (k) words and expressions used herein and not defined but defined in the Companies Act, 1956-, have the meanings, respectively, assigned to them in that Act. CHAPTER 02: ACQUISITION AND TRANSFER OF MOKAMEH UNIT AND UNDERTAKINGS OF ARTHUR BUTLER AND COMPANY SECTION 04: GENERAL EFFECT OF VESTING (1) The Mokameh unit, and the undertakings of.....

Calcutta Pilots Act, 1859 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1859

.....by the said c[Port Officer], or such other person as the c[Central Government] shall direct, before a Court constituted under the provisions of this Act. SECTION 03: APPOINTMENT OF JUDGE - The6[Central Government] shall appoint a fit penon to be Judge of the laid Court SECTION 04: APPOINTMENT OF PROSECUTOR - The8[Central Government] shall appoint such penon as8[it] may think proper to conduct the proceedings before the Court at prosecutor on the part of Government. SECTION 05: TRIAL TO BE HELD BEFORE JUDGE ARID JURY. - Every trial under this Act shall be held before the said Judge and a jury composed of two merchants of Calcutta, a master of a merchantship lying in the Port of Calcutta, and a pilot of not less than twenty years' service. SECTION 06: LISTS OF MERCHANTS AND PILOTS LIABLE TO SERVE ON JURY - The Judge shall cause to be prepared and shall keep two separate lists, one containing the names of merchants, the other containing the names of pilots, liable to serve on such jury. The names in each list shall be arranged in alphabetical order, and the place of abode and quality or business of each pennon named shall be stated. SECTION 07: NOTICE TO.....

Estate Duty Act, 1953 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1953

.....in the Wealth-tax Act and the rules made thereunder. 4. Another amendment seeks to make a provision similar to that contained in Income-tax Act, 1961 and Wealth-tax Act, 1957, to secure that where the deceased was a member of a co-operative housing Society the value of one house or part thereof allotted or leased to him under a house-building scheme of the society would be treated as a house owned by the deceased, thus qualifying for the concessional treatment accorded to residential house property. 5. The other amendments proposed in the Bill are of a consequential nature. 6. The amendments are being made with retrospective effect from the 1st day of March, 1981 and accordingly the proposed concessions will also be available in relation to estate duty in the case of persons who have died after the 28th February, 1981. 7. The Bill seeks to achieve the above objects. -Gaz. of Ind., 13-7-82, Pt. II, S. 2,Ext" p. 8 (No. 28) Act 53 of 1984 This Bill seeks to amend the Estate Duty Act, 1953, mainly with a view to excluding agricultural lands from the levy of estate duty. 2. One of the amendments proposed accordingly seeks to provide that the Act shall cease to apply to the.....

Jawaharlal Nehru University Act, 1966 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1966

.....to take or has been taken upon the result of such inspection or inquiry. (7) Where the Executive Council does not, within a reasonable time, take action to the satisfaction of the Visitor, the Visitor may, after considering any explanation furnished or representation made by the Executive Council, issue such directions as he may think fit and the Executive Council shall be bound to comply with such directions. (8) The Visitor may by order in writing annual any proceeding of the University which is not in conformity with this Act, the Statutes or the Ordinances. (9) The Visitor shall also have such other powers as may be prescribed by the Statutes. SECTION 09: OFFICERS OF THE UNIVERSITY (1) There shall be a Chancellor appointed in the manner prescribed by the Statutes who shall be the Head of the University. (2) The Chancellor shall, if present, preside at convocation of the University for conferring degrees and all meetings of the Court. (3) There shall be a Vice-Chancellor appointed in the manner prescribed by the Statutes who shall be the principal executive and Academic Officer of the University and ex officio Chairman of the Executive Council, Academic Council and Finance.....

Motor Vehicles Act, 1939 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1939

.....that Chapter so takes effect in that State, Chapter VII of the Travancore-Cochin Motor Vehicles Act, 1125, shall have effect in that State as if enacted in this Act.] SECTION 02: DEFINITIONS - In this Act unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or context- 6(1) "Area", in relation to any provision of this Act, means such area as the State Government may, having regard to the requirements of that provision specify by Notification in the official Gazette. (1A) "articulated vehicle" means a tractor to which a trailer is attached in such a manner that a part of the trailer is super-imposed on, and a part of the weight of the trailer is borne by, the tractor;] "The 'Committee are of the opinion that the explanation In Form E of the First dule terms "area" and "route", which occur dule; should be brought to the section by to the various sections of the principal Act which the various expressions have been and In the clauses of the Bill, should be de defined. The Committee have accordingly fined. The Committee also feel that the de- Inserted suitable definitions of these terms In finition of 'articulated vehicle' as given in the clause."-J.C. R.-Gaz of India. 25-11- 1968,.....

The Haryana Municipal Act, 1973 Complete Act

State: Haryana

Year: 1973

.....words in the Indian Explosives Act, 1884, and the Petroleum Act, 1934, respectively; (12) "Factory" shall have the meaning assigned to it in the Factories Act, 1948; (Inserted by Haryana Act 3 of 1994) [(12A) "Finance Commission" means the Finance Commission constituted by the Slate Government under articles 2431 and 243Y of the Constitution of India; (Inserted by Haryana Act 5 of 2002) [(12AA) "Fund" means the Haryana Urban Infrastructural Development Fund constituted under section 203L;] (12B) "Slate Government" means the Government of the State of Haryana;] (13) "Infections disease" means cholera, plague, small pox. tuberculosis or such other dangerous disease as the State Government may notify in this behalf; (14) "inhabitant" includes any person ordinarily residing or carrying on business, or owning or occupying immovable property, in any municipality; or in any local area which the State Government has, by notification under this Act, proposed to declare to be a municipality; and in case of any dispute, means any person or persons declared by the Deputy Commissioner to be inhabitant or inhabitants; (Substituted by Haryana Act 3 of 1994) [(15) "municipal.....

Bombay Abkari Act, 1878 Complete Act

State: Maharashtra

Year: 1878

BOMBAY ABKARI ACT, 1878 BOMBAY ABKARI ACT, 1878 (Act V of 1878) [Passed on the 19th September, 1878] INTRODUCTION In India, orthodox religious opinions or rules have many a times influenced various political or social mass movements. The case of consumption of liquor is one of them. The issue of consumption of intoxicating drinks was condemned by the major oriental religions particularly Hindu and Muslim, in the subcontinent. But the advent of the Britishers in India changed the existing system, to a certain extent. The colonial Government secured income out of the production, sale and consumption of wine and other intoxicants. The main section of the independence movement led by the Indian National Congress was vigorously propagating against the consumption of intoxicating drinks and had launched a action programme of picketing against "liquor shops" to mobilise the people. The "liquor shop" was selected as a symbol of British Imperialism, so that a common man can fight against this identifiable imperialist object. Apart from this political object, other objectives were to make people conscious about health hazards of boozing and compell the Government treasury to.....