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Companies Act, 1956 Section 277

Title: Choice by Person Becoming Director of More Than Fifteen Companies After Commencement of Act

State: Central

Year: 1956

.....shall choose the directorships which he wishes to continue to hold or to accept, so however that the total number of the directorships, old and new, held by him shall not exceed4[fifteen]. None of the new appointments of director shall take effect until such choice is made; and all the new appointments shall become void if the choice is not made within fifteen days of the day on which the last of them was made. ______________________ 1. Substituted by Act 53 of 2000, sec. 135, for "twenty companies" (w.e.f. 13-12-2000). 2. Substituted by Act 53 of 2000, sec. 135, for "this Act" (w.e.f. 13-12-2000). 3. Substituted by Act 53 of 2000, sec. 135, for "nineteen companies" (w.e.f. 13-12-2000). 4. Substituted by Act 53 of 2000, sec. 135, for "twenty" (w.e.f. 13-12-2000).

Companies Act, 1956 Section 276

Title: Choice to Be Made by Director of More Than Fifteen Companies at Commencement of Act

State: Central

Year: 1956

.....the Central Government. ( 2 ) Any resignation made in pursuance of clause (b) of sub-section ( 1 ) shall become effective immediately on the dispatch thereof to the company concerned. ( 3 ) No such person shall act as director - (a) in more than1[fifteen] companies, after the expiry of two months from the commencement of2[the Companies (Amendment) Act, 2000 ]; or (b) of any company after dispatching the resignation of hi s office as director thereof, in pursuance of clause (b) of sub-section ( 1 ). ______________________ 1. Substituted by Act 53 of 2000, sec. 134, for "twenty" (w.e.f. 13-12-2000). 2. Substituted by Act 53 of 2000, sec. 134, for "this Act" (w.e.f. 13-12-2000).

Companies Act, 1956 Section 275

Title: No Person to Be a Director of More Than Fifteen Companies

State: Central

Year: 1956

275. No person to be a director of more than1[fifteen companies] After the commencement of this Act, no person shall, save as otherwise provided in section 276 , hold office at the same time as director in more than1[fifteen companies]. ______________________ 1. Substituted by Act 53 of 2000, sec. 133, for "twenty companies" (w.e.f. 13-12-2000).

Reformatory Schools Act, 1897 Section 10

Title: Power of Magistrates to Direct Boys Under Fifteen Sentenced to Imprisonment to Be Sent to Reformatory Schools

State: Central

Year: 1897

The officer in charge of a prison in which a youthful offender is confined, in execution of a sentence of imprisonment, may bring him, if he has not then attained the age of fifteen years, before the District Magistrate may, if such youthful offender appears to be proper person to be an inmate of a Reformatory School, direct that, instead of undergoing the residue of his sentence, he shall be sent to a Reformatory School, and there detained for a period which shall be subject to the same limitations as are prescribed by or under section 8, with reference to the period of detention thereby authorized.

Income Tax Act, 1961 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1961

INCOME TAX ACT, 1961 INCOME TAX ACT, 1961 43 of 1961 [AS AMENDED BY FINANCE ACT, 2003] An Act to consolidate and amend the law relating to income-tax and super-tax BE it enacted by Parliament in the Twelfth Year of the Republic of India as follows : CHAPTER 1 PRELIMINARY Section 1 Short title, extent and commencement (1) This Act may be called the Income-tax Act, 1961. (2) It extends to the whole of India. (3) Save as otherwise provided in this Act, it shall come into force on the 1st day of April, 1962. Section 2 Definitions 1 Inserted by the Direct Tax Laws (Amendment) Act, 1987, w.e.f. 1-4-1989.[(1) "advance tax" means the advance tax payable in accordance with the provisions of Chapter XVII-C;] 2 Renumbered as clause (1A) by the Direct Tax Laws (Amendment) Act, 1987, w.e.f. 1-4-1989.[(1A)] 3 For manner of computation of income which is partially agricultural and partially frombusiness, see rules 7, 7A, 7B and 8. For analysis, see Mashbra's Income-tax Rules."agricultural income" means - 4 Substituted by the Taxation Laws (Amendment) Act, 1970, w.r.e.f. 1-4-1962.[(a) any rent or revenue derived from land which is situated in India and is used for.....

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.....

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).....

The Assam Panchayat Act, 1994 Complete Act

State: Assam

Year: 1994

.....present Bill to replace the Assam Panchayat Ordinance, 1994 with the above modifications. STATEMENT OF OBJECTS AND REASONS OF THE BILL (Amending Act--Assam Act No. X of 1997) For removal of difficulties in implementing some of the provisions of the Assam Panchayat Act, 1994 and to make the functioning of the Panchayats more effective in Assam, it was felt expedient to constitute a High Power Committee to examine the provisions of the existing State Panchayat Act and Rules made thereunder and to recommend amendment including interim recommendations in respect of provisions relating to delimitation of Zilla Parishad constituencies. Accordingly, a High Power Committee was constituted vide this Department's Notification No. PDA. 208/96/4, dated 6th September 1996. The High Power Committee deliberated on the matter in its meetings held on 20th September 1996, 18th October 1996 and 24th December 1996 and recommended the amendments as proposed in the Assam Panchayat (Amendment) Bill, 1997. (Published in the Assam Gazette Extraordinary No. 74 dated the 20th March, 1997.) STATEMENT OF OBJECTS AND REASONS (Amendment Act--Assam Act No. XVI of 2001) In the Assam Panchayat Act,.....

Kolkata Municipal Corporation Act, 1980 Complete Act

State: West Bengal

Year: 1980

..... (7) "building of the warehouse class" means a building, the whole or a substantial part of which is used, or intended to be used, as a warehouse, factory, manufactory, brewery, or distillery, or for any similar purpose, which is neither a "domestic building" nor a "public building" as defined in this section, and includes a hut used or intended to be used for any of the purposes mentioned in this clause; (8) "bustee" means an area containing land not less than seven hundred square metres in area occupied by or for the purposes of any collection of huts or other structures used or intended to be used for human habitation. Explanation.-If any question arises as to whether any particular area is or is not a bustee, the Corporation shall decide the question and its decision shall be final; (9) "Kolkata" means the area described in Schedule I; 3 Clause (10) omitted by s. 2 of the Calcutta Municipal Corporation (Amendment) Act, 1996 (West Ben. Act VI of 1996) (with retrospective effect from 4.12.1995), which was earlier as under: '(10) "candidate" in section 75 and in Schedule III means a person who has been nominated as a candidate at any election of a Councillor or who claims.....

Maharashtra Municipal Councils, Nagar Panchayats and Insustrial Townships Act, 1965 Complete Act

State: Maharashtra

Year: 1965

.....such premises; (12) "election" means an election to a Council, and includes any by-election; (13) "factory means a factory as defined in the Factories Act, 1948; (14) "filth" includes sewage, night-soil and all offensive matter; (14A) "Finance Commission" means the Finance Commission constituted in accordance with the provision of article 243-1 of the Constitution of India; (15) "food" includes every article used for food or drink for human consumption other than drugs or water, and any article which ordinarily enters into or is used in the composition or preparation of human food, and also includes confectionery, flavouring and colouring matters and spices and condiments; (16) "goods" includes animals; (17) "house-drain" means any drain of, and used for the drainage of, one or more buildings or premises and made merely for the purpose of communicating therefrom with a municipal drain; (18) "house-gully" or "service passage" means a passage or strip of lands constructed, set apart or utilized for the purpose of serving as a drain or of affording access to a privy, urinal, cesspool or other receptacle for filthy or polluted matter, to servants of the Council or to.....