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West Bengal Municipal Act, 1993 Complete Act

State: West Bengal

Year: 1993

.....epidemic, endemic, or infectious disease which the State Government may, by notification, declare to be a dangerous disease for the purposes of this Act; 44. Clause (15A) ins, by W.B. Act 45 of 1994. (15A) "District Magistrate" means the District Magistrate referred to in sub-section (1) of S.20 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973; 55. Clauses (15B) and (15C) ins. by W.B. Act 32 of 1997. (15B) "District Planning Committee" means the District Planning Committee constituted under sub-section (1) of S.3 of the West Bengal District Planning Committee Act, 1994, and includes the Siliguri Sub-Division Planning Committee; 55. Clauses (15B) and (15C) ins. by W.B. Act 32 of 1997. (15C) "Draft Development Plan" means the Draft Development Plan prepared under section 297; (16) "drain" includes a sewer, a house-drain, a drain of any other description, a tunnel, a culvert, a ditch, a channel and any other device for carrying of sullage, sewage, offensive matter, polluted water, rain-water or subsoil water; (17) "drug" means any substance used as medicine or in the composition or preparation of medicines, whether for internal or external use, but does not include a drug within the.....

Karnataka Prohibition Act, 1961 Chapter I

Title: Preliminary

State: Karnataka

Year: 1961

.....alcohol, and any other intoxicating substance, which the State Government may, by notification, declare to be liquor for the purpose of this Act; (20) "manufacture" includes,- (a) every process, whether natural or artificial by which any liquor or intoxicating drug is produced, prepared or blended and also re-distillation and every process for the rectification of liquor; but does not include flavouring, blending or colouring of liquor or intoxicating drug lawfully possessed for private consumption, and (b) every process of producing and drawing of toddy from trees; (21) "mhowra flower" means the flower of passialatifolla (Ippe) , but does not include the berry or seed of the mhowra tree; (22) "molasses" means the heavy, dark-coloured residual syrup drained away in the final stage of the manufacture of jaggery or sugar containing in solution or suspension, sugars which can be fermented and includes any product formed by the addition to such syrup of any ingredient which does not substantially alter the character of such syrup; but does not include any article which the State Government may, by notification, declare not to be molasses, for the purposes of this.....

Karnataka Sales Tax Act, 1957 Chapter I

Title: Preliminary

State: Karnataka

Year: 1957

.....Commissioner of Commercial Taxes] under section 3;] 9 [(f-1a) "body corporate" means a corporation, a company as defined under the Companies Act, 1956 (Central Act 1 of 1956) and a Company incorporated outside India but does not include,-- (i) a corporation sole; (ii) a co-operative society registered under any law relating to cooperative societies; and (iii) any other body corporate, not being a company as defined in the Companies Act, 1956, which the State Government may, by notification in the official Gazette, specify in this behalf.] 10 [(f-1b) "Brand name" means a name or trade mark registered under the Trade and Merchandise Marks Act, 1958 (Central Act 43 of 1958);] 11 [12 [(f-2) 'business' includes,-- (i) any trade, commerce or manufacture or any adventure or concern in the nature of trade, commerce or manufacture, whether or not such trade, commerce, manufacture, adventure or concern is carried on with a motive to make gain or profit and whether or not any profit accrues from such trade, commerce, manufacture, adventure or concern; and (ii) any transaction in connection with, or incidental or ancillary to such trade, commerce, manufacture, adventure.....

The Assam Value Added Tax Act, 2003 Complete Act

State: Assam

Year: 2003

.....for carrying out the purposes of the Act; (11) "company" and "director" shall have the meanings respectively assigned to them in the Companies Act. 1956; (Central Act 1 of 1958) (12) "contractee" means any person for whom or for whose benefit a works contract is executed; (13) "contractor" means any person who executes a works contract and includes a sub-contractor; (14) "to cultivate personally" with all its grammatical variations and cognate expressions means to carry on any agricultural operation on one's own account,- (i) by one's own labour, or (ii) by the labour of one's family, or (iii) by servants on wages payable in cash or kind (but not in crop share), or by hired labour under one's personal supervision or the personal supervision of any member of one's family. Explanation I.- A widow or a minor, or a person who is subject to any physical or mental disability or is a serving member of the armed forces of the Union, shall be deemed to cultivate land personally if it is cultivated by her or his servants or by hired labour. Explanation II.- In the case of a Hindu Undivided Family, land shall be deemed to be cultivated personally, if it is cultivated by.....

The Madras General Clauses Act, 1891 Complete Act

State: Kerala

Year: 1891

THE MADRAS GENERAL CLAUSES ACT, 1891 THE MADRAS GENERAL CLAUSES ACT, 1891 [Act No. 1 of 1891] PREAMBLE An Act for further shortening the language used in ( Substituted by the Government of India (Adaptation of Indian Laws) Order, 1937.) [Madras Acts] and for other purpose. Whereas it is expedient to further shorten the language used in [Madras Acts made] and to make certain further provisions relating to those Acts. It is hereby enacted as follows.- Section 1 - Short title (a) This Act may be called The Madras General Clauses Act, 1891; and (b) It shall come into force on the first day of January, 1892. Section 2 - Section 2 Notwithstanding anything contained in the Madras General Clauses Act. 1867, the provisions of that Act shall not apply to this Act or to any (Madras Act) which may be passed subsequent to the commencement of this Act. Section 3 - Definitions In this Act and in every (Madras Act made) after the commencement of this Act, unless there be something repugnant in the subject or context.- (1) "Abet".- "abet" with its grammatical variations and cognate expressions, shall have the same meaning as in the Indian Penal Code. (2).....

Cigarettes (Regulation of Production, Supply and Distribution) Act, 1975 [Repealed] Section 2

Title: Definitions

State: Central

Year: 1975

.....in the Eighth Schedule to the Constitution, and includes any dialect of such language; (h) "label" means any written, marked, stamped, printed or graphic matter, affixed to, or appearing upon, any package; (i) "package" includes a box, carton, tin or other container; (j) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this Act; (k) "production", with its grammatical variations and cognate expressions; includes- (i) packing, labelling, re-labelling, of containers, (ii) re-packing from bulk packages to retail packages, and (iii) the adoption of any other method to render the product marketable; (l) "sale," with its grammatical variations and cognate expressions, means any transfer of property in goods by one person to another whether for cash or on credit, or by way of exchange, and whether wholesale or retail, and includes an agreement for sale, an offer for sale and exposure for sale; (m) "specified warning' means the following warning, namely, "Cigarette smoking is injurious to health."

Cigarettes (Regulation of Production, Supply and Distribution) Act, 1975 [Repealed] Repealing Act 1

Title: Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products (Prohibition of Advertisement and Regulation of Trade and Commerce, Production, Supply and Distribution) Act, 2003

State: Central

Year: 1975

.....the Central Government or the State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, authorise one or more persons who shall be competent to act under this Act: Provided that the person so authorised may, if he has reasonable ground for believing that any person has committed an offence under section 4 or section 6, may detain such person unless the accused person furnishes his name and address, and otherwise satisfies the officer detaining him that he will duly answer any summons or other proceedings which may be taken against him. (2) Any person detained under sub-section (1) shall forthwith be taken before Magistrate to be dealt with according to law. (3) Any person committing an offence under section 4 or section 6 shall be triable for such offence in any place in which he may be or which the State Government may notify in this behalf, as well as in any other place in which he is liable to be tried under any law for the time being in force. (4) Every notification issued under sub-sections (1) and (3) shall be published in the Official Gazette, and a copy thereof shall be exhibited for information to the public in some conspicuous place or places as the State.....

Standards of Weights and Measures Act, 1976 Part I

Title: Provisions Applicable to Every Part

State: Central

Year: 1976

.....carried on, and also includes any measuring instrument mounted on a vehicle, vessel or other mobile device; (s) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this Act and "prescribed authority" means such authority as may be specified by such rules; (t) "reference standard" means the set of standard weight or measure which is made or manufactured by or on behalf of the Central Government for the verification of any secondary standard; (u) "repairer" includes a person who adjusts, cleans, lubricates or paints any weight or measure or renders any other service to such weight or measure to ensure that such weight or measure conforms to the standards established by or under this Act; (v) "sale", with its grammatical variations and cognate expressions, means transfer of property in any weight, measure or other goods by one person to another for cash or for deferred payment or for any other valuable consideration, and includes a transfer of any weight, measure or other goods on the hire-purchase system or any other system of payment by instalments, but does not include a mortgage or hypothecation of, or a charge or pledge on, such weight, measure or other goods; (w).....

Standards of Weights and Measures Act, 1976 Section 2

Title: Definitions

State: Central

Year: 1976

.....on behalf of any principal, (ii) an importer who sells, supplies, distributes or otherwise delivers any weight or measure to any user, manufacturer, repairer, consumer or any other person, but does not include a manufacturer who sells, supplies, distributes or otherwise delivers any weight or measure to any person or category of persons referred to in this clause. Explanation.For the removal of doubts, it is hereby declared that a manufacturer, who sells, supplies, distributes or otherwise delivers any weight or measure to any person other than a dealer, shall be deemed to be a dealer; (d) "Director" means the Director of Legal Metrology appointed under section 28; (e) "export" with its grammatical variations and cognate expressions, means taking out of India to a place outside India; (f) "false package" means any package which does not conform to the provisions of this Act or any rule or order made thereunder in relation to such package; (g) "false weight or measure" means any weight or measure which does not conform to the standards established by or under this Act in relation to that weight or measure; (h) "General Conference on Weights and Measures".....

General Clauses Act 1897 Section 3

Title: Definitions

State: Central

Year: 1897

.....Acts or the Government of India Act, 1915, or an Act made by the Local Legislature or the Governor of a Province under the Government of India Act, or an Act made by the Provincial Legislature or Governor of a Province or the Coorg Legislative Council under the Government of India Act, 1935; (47) "Provincial Government" shall mean, as respects anything done before the commencement of the Constitution2 , the authority or person authorised at the relevant date to administer executive Government in the Province in question; (48) "public nuisance" shall mean a public nuisance as defined in the Indian Penal Code (45 of 1860); (49) "registered", used with reference to a document, shall mean registered in 13 [India] under the law for the time being in force for the registration of documents; (50) "Regulation" shall mean a Regulation made by the President 14 [under article 240 of the Constitution and shall include a Regulation made by the President under article 243 thereof and] a Regulation made by the Central Government under the Government of India Act, 1870, or the Government of India Act, 1915, or the Government of India Act, 1935; (51) "rule" shall mean a rule made.....