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Geneva Conventions Act, 1960 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1960

.....power to sentence him to death or to imprisonment for a term of two years or more, shall not proceed with the trial until it is proved to the satisfaction of the Court that a notice containing the particulars mentioned in the next following sub-section, so far as they are known to the prosecutor, has been served not less than three weeks previously on the protecting power (if there is a protecting power) and, if the accused is a protected prisoner of war, on the accused and the prisoners' representative. (2) The particulars referred to in the foregoing sub-section are - (a) the full name and description of the accused, including the date of his birth and his profession or trade, if any, and, if the accused is protected prisoner of war, his rank and arm, regimental, personal or serial number; (b) his place of detention, internment or residence; (c) the offence with which he is charged- and (d) the Court before which the trial is to take place and the time and place appointed for the trial. (3) For the purposes of this section a document purporting - (a) to be signed on behalf of the protecting power or by the prisoners representative or by the person accused, as the case may.....

Geneva Convention Act 1960 Schedule IV

Title: Fourth Schedule

State: Central

Year: 1960

.....appropriate cases, a reasonable time limit, and after such warning has remained unheeded. (IV. Discontinuance of protection of hospitals) The fact that sick or wounded members of the armed forces are nursed in these hospitals, or the presence of small arms and ammunition taken from such combatants which have not yet been handed to the proper service, shall not be considered to be acts harmful to the enemy. Article 20 Persons regularly and solely engaged in the operation and administration of civilian hospitals, including the personnel engaged in the search for, removal and transporting of and caring for wounded and sick civilians, the infirm and maternity cases shall be respected and protected. (V. Hospital staff) In occupied territory and in zones of military operations, the above personnel shall be recognisable by means of an identity card certifying their status, bearing the photograph of the holder and embossed with the stamp of the responsible authority, and also by means of a stamped, water-resistant armlet which they shall wear on the left arm while carrying out their duties. This armlet shall be issued by the State and shall bear the emblem provided for in.....

Geneva Convention Act 1960 Schedule II

Title: Second Schedule

State: Central

Year: 1960

.....hospital ships or sick-bays of vessels of the protection due to them:- (Conditions not depriving hospital ships of protection.) (1) The fact that the crews of ships or sick-bays are armed for the maintenance of order, for their own defence or that of the sick and wounded. (2) The presence on board of apparatus exclusively intended to facilitate navigation or communication. (3) The discovery on board hospital ships or in sick-bays of portable arms and ammunition taken from the wounded, sick and shipwrecked and not yet handed to the proper service. (4) The fact that the humanitarian activities of hospital ships and sick-bays of vessels or of the crews extend to the care of wounded, sick or shipwrecked civilians. (5) The transport of equipment and of personnel intended exclusively for medical duties, over and above the normal requirements. CHAPTER IV PERSONNEL Article 36 The religious, medical and hospital personnel or hospital ships and their crews shall be respected and protected; they may not be captured during the time they are in the service of the hospital ship, whether or not there are wounded and sick on board. (Protection of the personnel of.....

Geneva Convention Act 1960 Schedule I

Title: First Schedule

State: Central

Year: 1960

.....medical units and establishments clearly visible to the enemy land, air or naval forces, in order to obviate the possibility of any hostile action. Article 43 The medical units belonging to neutral countries, which may have been authorized to lend their services to a belligerent under the conditions laid down in Article 27, shall fly, along with the flag of the convention, the national flag of that belligerent, wherever the latter makes use of the faculty conferred on him by Article 42. (Marking of units of neutral countries.) Subject to orders to the contrary by the responsible military authorities, they may on all occasions, fly their national flag, even if they fall into the hands of the adverse party. Article 44 With the exception of the cases mentioned in the following paragraphs of the present Article, the emblem of the Red Cross on a white ground and the words "Red Cross", or "Geneva Cross" may not be employed, either in time of peace or in time of war, except to indicate or to protect the medical units and establishments, the personnel and material protected by the present convention and other conventions dealing with similar matters. The same shall.....

Geneva Convention Act 1960 Schedule III

Title: Third Schedule

State: Central

Year: 1960

.....classes:- (Authorized work) (a) agriculture; (b) industries connected with the production or the extraction of raw materials, and manufacturing industries, with the exception of metallurgical, machinery and chemical industries; public works and building operations which have no military character or purpose; (c) transport and handling of stores which are not military in character or purpose; (d) commercial business, and arts and crafts; (e) domestic service; (f) public utility services having no military character or purpose. Should the above provisions be infringed, prisoners of war shall be allowed to exercise their right of complaint, in conformity with Article 78. Article 51 Prisoners of war must be granted suitable working conditions, especially as regards accommodation, food, clothing and equipment; such conditions shall not be inferior to those enjoyed by nationals of the Detaining Power employed in similar work; account shall also be taken of climatic conditions. (Working conditions) The Detaining Power, in utilizing the labour of prisoners of war, shall ensure that in areas in which prisoners are employed, the national legislation.....

Chemical Weapons Convention Act, 2000 Schedule I

Title: Schedule

State: Central

Year: 2000

..... (d) Law enforcement including domestic riot control purposes. 10. "Production Capacity" means: The annual quantitative potential for manufacturing a specific chemical based on the technological process actually used or, if the process is not yet operational, planned to be used at the relevant facility. It shall be deemed to be equal to the nameplate capacity or, if the nameplate capacity is not available, to the design capacity. The nameplate capacity is the product output under conditions optimized for maximum quantity for the production facility, as demonstrated by one or more test-runs. The design capacity is the corresponding theoretically calculated product output. 11. "Organization" means: The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons established pursuant to Article VIII of this Convention. 12. For the purposes of Article VI: (a) "Production" of a chemical means its formation through chemical reaction; (b) "Processing" of a chemical means a physical process, such as formulation, extraction and purification, in which a chemical is not converted into another chemical; (c) "Consumption" of a chemical means its conversion into another chemical.....

The Pandharpur Temples Act, 1973 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1973

.....the State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint and different dates as may be appointed for different provisions of this Act. SECTION 02: DEFINITIONS In this Act, unless the context requires otherwise, (a) "appointed day", " (i) in relation to the provisions of subsection (2) of section 1, sections 21 to 31, 33, 34, 38 and 39, means the 3rd July 1975 [being the date on which the provisions were brought into force under a notification issued Linder subsection (2) of section 1]; and (ii) in relation to any other provision of this Act, means the day on which that provision comes into force under a notification issued under sub-section (2) of section I (b) "authorised officer" means an officer not below the rank of a Deputy Charity Commissioner or an officer who in the opinion of the State Government is equivalent rank authorised by the State Government for the purposes of this Act; (c) "Badves", in relation to the Temple of God Vitthal, means all those persons who according to the decision of the High Court in Gangaram and others vs. Banaji Shankar and others (1891 P.J. 182) are declared to be the chief priest managers, guardians and overseers duly of the.....

Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act, 1960 Section 5

Title: Constitution of the Board

State: Central

Year: 1960

.....of Parliament, four to be elected by the House of the People (Lok Sabha) and two by the Council of States (Rajya Sabha). (2) Any of the persons referred to in clause (a) or 3 [clause (b) or clause (ba) or clause (bb)] of sub-section (1) may depute any other person to attend any of the meetings of the Board. 4 [(3) The Central Government shall nominate one of the members of the Board to be its Chairman and another member of the Board to be its Vice-Chairman.] _________________________ 1. Substituted by Act 26 of 1982, section 5 (w.e.f. 30-7-1982) 2. Substituted by Act 26 of 1982, section 5, for clause (e) (w.e.f. 30-7-1982). 3. Substituted by Act 26 of 1982, section 5, for "clause (b)" (w.e.f. 30-7-1982). 4. Substituted by Act 26 of 1982, section 5, for sub-section (3) (w.e.f. 30-7-1982)

Bombay Land Requisition Act, 1948, (Maharashtra) Section 9

Title: Release from Requisition

State: Maharashtra

Year: 1948

.....at the same time it is also necessary, purely on humanitarian ground, to give them some time to make their own alternate arrangement. In the facts and circumstances as aforesaid, it was considered expedient to extend the period of requisition under the Act for a further period of three years beyond the 26th December, 1994, so as to enable the State Government to complete the process of de-requisitioning during the extended period of three years. It was, therefore, proposed to suitably amend sub-section (1A) of section 9 of the principal Act extending the total period of requisition from twenty-one years to twenty-four years.- [Mah. Act No. 7 of 1995]. The Bombay Rents, Hotel and Lodging House Rates Control, the Bombay Land Requisition and the Bombay Government Premises (Eviction) (Amendment) Act, 1996 (Mah. XVI of 1997), has been enacted by the Government of Maharashtra with a view to protect the occupants of the requisitioned premises. In view of the Supreme Court Judgment in Grahak Sanstha Manch v. State of Maharashtra, AIR 1994 SC 2319, Government was required to obtain vacant possession of the requisitioned premises and hand over the vacant possession of the.....

Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act, 1971 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1971

.....maintained therein and the termination of pregnancy at such place cannot be made under safe and hygienic conditions, he shall make a report of the fact to the committee giving the detail of the deficiencies or defects found at the place and the committee may, if it is satisfied, suspend or cancel the approval provided that the committee shall give an opportunity of making representation to the owner of the place before the certificate issued underRule 5is cancelled. (2) Where a certificate issued underRule 5is cancelled, the owner of the place may make such additions or improvements in the place and thereafter, he may make an application to the committee for grant of approval underRule 5. (3) In the event of suspension of a certificate, or approval, the place shall not be deemed to be an approved place during the suspension for the purposes of termination of pregnancy from the date of communication of the order of such suspension. RULE 08: REVIEW (1) The owner of a place, who is aggrieved by an order made underRule 7, may make an application for review of the order to the Government within a period of sixty days from the date of such order : Provided that the Government may.....