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Start Free TrialGENERAL CLAUSES ACT 1897 Section 5A
Title: Coming into operation of Governor-General's Act [Repealed]
State: Central
Year: 1897
1[5A. Coming into operation of Governor-General's Act [Rep. by the A.O. 1947.]] ________________________ 1. Inserted by the A.O. 1937.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionGeneral Clauses Act 1897 Section 30A
Title: Application of Act to Acts Made by the Governor-general [Repealed]
State: Central
Year: 1897
1 [30A. Application of Act to Acts made by the Governor-General [Rep. by the A.O. 1937.]] ________________________ 1.Inserted by Act 11 of 1923, Section 2 and Schedule I.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionGovernment of India Act, 1915-19 [Repealed] Part IV
Title: The Governor-general in Council
State: Central
Year: 1915
..... (3) In every such case any two members of the dissentient majority may require that the adoption, suspension or rejection of the measure, and the" fact of their dissent, be reported to the Secretary of State, and the report shall be accompanied by copies of any minutes which the members of the council have recorded on the subject. (4) Nothing in this section shall empower the Governor-General to do anything which he could not lawfully have done with the concurrence of his council. Section 42 - Provision far absence of Governor-General from meetings of Council If the Governor-General is obliged to absent himself from any meeting of the council, by indisposition or any other cause,1[ ***** ] the vice-president, or, if he is absent, the senior2[member (other than the Commander-in-Chief) ] present at the meeting, shall preside thereat, with the like powers as the Governor-General would have had if present. Provided that if the Governor-General is at the time resident at the place where the meeting is assembled, and is not prevented by indisposition from signing any Act of council made at the meeting, the Act shall require his signature; but, if he declines or refuses to.....
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionGovernment of India Act, 1935 [Repealed] Chapter IV
Title: Legislative Powers of Governor-general
State: Central
Year: 1935
.....is satisfied that circumstances exist which render it necessary for him to take immediate action for the purpose of enabling him satisfactorily to discharge his functions in so far as he is by or under this Act required in the exercise thereof to act in his discretion or toexercise his, individual judgment, he may promulgate such ordinance as in hisopinion the circumstances of the case require. (2) An ordinance promulgated under this section shall continue in operation for such period not exceeding six months as may be specified therein, but may be a subsequent ordinance be extended for a further period not exceeding six months. (3) An ordinance promulgated under this section shall have the same force and effect as an Act of the Federal Legislature assented to by the Governor-General, but every such ordinance-- (a) shall be subject to the provisions of this Act relating to the power of His Majesty to disallow Acts as if it were an Act of the Federal Legislature assented to by the Governor-General; (b) may be withdrawn at any time by the Governor-General; and (c) if it is an ordinance extending a previous ordinance for a further period, shall be.....
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionGovernment of India Act, 1935 [Repealed] Section 108
Title: Sanction of Governor-general or Governor Required for Certain Legislative Proposals
State: Central
Year: 1935
.....in his discretion by theGovernor-General or a Governor; or (c) affects matters as respects which the Governor-General is, by orunder this Act, required to act in his discretion; or (d) repeals, amends or affects any Act relating to any police force; or (e) affects the procedure for criminal proceedings in which European British subjects are concerned; or (f) subjects persons not resident in British India to greater taxationthan persons resident in British India or subjects companies wholly controlled and managed therein; or (g) affects the grant of relief from any Federal tax on income in respectof income taxed or taxable in the United Kingdom. (2) Unless the Governor-General in his discretion thinks fit to give his previous sanction, there shall not be introduced into, or moved in, a Chamberof a Provincial Legislature any Bill or amendment which-- (a) repeals, amends, or is repugnant to any provisions of any Actof Parliament extending to British India; or (b) repeals, amends or is repugnant to any Governor-General's Act, of any ordinance promulgated in his discretion by the. Governor-General; or (c) affects matters as respects which the.....
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionGovernment of India Act, 1915-19 [Repealed] Section 90
Title: Temporary Vacancy in Office of Governor-general
State: Central
Year: 1915
.....he may make known by notification his appointment,and his intention to assume the office of Governor-General, and thereupon theprovisions of 3 [section eighty-nine of this Act] 4 [***] shall apply. (4) Until such a governor has assumedthe office of Governor-General if no 5 [***] successor is on thespot to supply such vacancy, the vice-president, or, if he is absent the senior 6 [*] member of the executive council [(other than theCommander-in-Chief)] shall holdand execute the office of Governor-General until the vacancy is filled inaccordance with the provisions of this Act. (5)Every vice-president or other memberof council so acting as Governor-General, while so acting, shall have and may exercise all therights and powers of the office of Governor-General and shall be entitled to receive the emoluments and advantagesappertaining to the office, foregoing his salary and allowances as member ofcouncil for that period. _________________________ 1. These words conditional or other" were omitted by Part III of Sch.II of the Government of India Act. 191919&10 Geo. 5, Ch. 101). 2. These words were inserted by Part II ofPart III of Sch. II of the Government of India.....
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionKarnataka] General Clauses Act, 1899 Part II
Title: General Definitions
State: Karnataka
Year: 1899
....."8 [revenue year]" shall mean the year commencing on the first day of July; (15) a thing shall be deemed to be done in "good faith" where it is in fact done honestly, whether it is done negligently or not; 2 [(16) "Government or "the Government" shall,- (a) in relation to anything done before the commencement of the Constitution, means the authority or person authorised at the relevant date to administer executive Government in Mysore; (b) in relation to anything done or to be done after the commencement of the Constitution, include both the Central Government and the State Government;] 9 [(16a) "Government securities" shall means securities of the Central Government or of any State Government, but in any Mysore Act made before the commencement of the Constitution shall not include securities of the Government of any State other than the State of Mysore; (16b) "High Court" used with references to civil proceeding shall mean the highest civil court of appeal (not including the Supreme Court) in the 1 [State of Karnataka];] (17) "Immovable property" shall include land, benefits to arise out of land, and things attached to the earth or permanently fastened to anything.....
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionGovernment of India Act, 1858 [Repealed] Section 63
Title: A Person Succeeding to the Office of Governor General May Exercise His Powers Before He Takes His Seat in Council
State: Central
Year: 1858
.....that all Acts done in the said Council after the Date of such Proclamation, but before the Communication thereof to such Council, shall be valid, subject nevertheless to Revocation or Alteration by the Person who shall have so assumed the said Office of Governor General; and when the Office of Governor General is assumed under the foregoing Provision, if there be at any Time before the Governor General takes his Seat in Council no Vice-president of the Council authorized to preside at Meetings for making Laws and Regulations (as provided by Section Twenty-two of the Act of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Years of Her Majesty), the senior ordinary Member of Council then present shall preside therein, with the same Powers as if a Vice-President had been appointed and were absent.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionGovernment of India Act, 1935 [Repealed] Section 15
Title: Financial Adviser to Governor-general
State: Central
Year: 1935
.....their conditions of service shall be such as the Governor-General may determine. (4) The powers of the Governor-General with respect to the appointment and dismissal of a financial adviser, and with respect to the determination of his salary and allowances and the numbers of his staff and their conditions of service, shall be exercised by him in his discretion: Provided that, if the Governor-General has determined to appoint a financial adviser he shall, before making any appointment other than the first appointment, consult his ministers as to the person to be selected. ___________________________ 1. Subsection. 11-15 were omitted by the India (Provisional Constitution) Order, 1947.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionGovernment of India Act, 1935 [Repealed] Section 44
Title: Power of Governor-general in Certain Circumstances to Enact Acts
State: Central
Year: 1935
.....in Certain Circumstances to Enact Acts (1)If at any time it appears to the Governor-General that, for the purpose ofenabling him satisfactorily to discharge his functions in so far as he is byor under this Act required in the exercise thereof to act in his discretion orto exercise his individual judgment, it is essential that provision should bemade by legislation, he may by message to both of the Legislature explain thecircumstances which in his opinion render legislation essential, and either-- (a)enact forthwith, as a Governor-General's Act, a Bill containing suchprovisions as he considers necessary; or (b)attach to his message a draft of the Bill which he considers necessary. (2)Where the Governor-General takes such action as is mentioned in: paragraph (6)of the preceding sub-section, he may at any time after the expiration of onemonth enact, as a Governor-General's Act, the Bill proposed by him to theChambers either in the form of the draft communicated to them or with suchamendments as he deems necessary, but before so doing he shall consider anyaddress which may have been presented to him within the said period by eitherChamber with reference to the.....
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