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The Indian Penal Code 1860 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1860

.....Court of Justice (including a liquidator, receiver or Commissioner) whose duty is, as such officer, to investigate or report on any matter of law or fact, or to make, authenticate, or keep any document, or to take charge or dispose of any property or to execute any judicial process, or to a administrator any oath, or to interpret, or to preserve order in the Court, and every person specially authorized by a Court of Justice to perform any of such duties; Fifth--Every juryman, assessor, or member of a Panchayat assisting a Court of Justice or public servant; Sixth--Every arbitrator or other person to whom any cause or matter has been referred for decision or report by any Court of Justice, or by any other competent public authority; Seventh--Every person who holds any office by virtue of which he is empowered to place or keep any person in confinement; Eighth--Every officer of the Government, whose duty it is, as such officer, to prevent offences, to give information of offences, to being offenders to justice, or to protect the public health, safety or convenience; Ninth--Every officer whose duty it is, as such officer, to take, receive, keep or expend any property on behalf of.....

Delhi Administration Act, 1966 Complete Act

State: Delhi

Year: 1966

.....between the Administration and the Government of India or the Government of a State, no question shall be asked except as to matters of fact and the answer shall be confined to a statement of fact. Rule44 Chairman to decide admissibility of question (1) The Chairman shall decide whether a question or part thereof is or is not admissible under these rules or any rules made under the proviso to sub-section (1) of section 24 and may disallow any question or a part thereof when in his opinion it is an abuse of the righi of questioning or calculated to obstruct or prejudicially affect the procedure of the Council or is in contravention of the said rules. (2) Subject to the provisions of rule 39, the Chairman may direct that a question be placed on the list of questions for answer, on a date later than that specified by a member in his notice, if he is of the opinion that a longer period is necessary to decide whether the question is or is not admissible. Rule45 Chairman to decide if a question is to be treated as starred or unstarred If in the opinion of the Chairman any question put down for oral answer is of such a nature that a written reply would be.....

Indian Contract Act, 1872 Chapter 8

Title: Of Indemnity and Guarantee

State: Central

Year: 1872

.....such third person may have been aware of its existence. Illustration A and B make a joint and several promissory note to C. A makes it, in fact, as surety for B, and C knows this at the time when the note is made. The fact that A, to the knowledge of C, made the note as surety for B, is no answer to a suit by C against A upon the note. Section 133 - Discharge of surety by variance in terms of contract Any variance, made without the surety's consent, in the terms of the contract between the principal 1[debtor] and the creditor, discharges the surety as to transactions subsequent to the variance. Illustrations (a) A becomes surety to C for B's conduct as a manager in C's bank. Afterwards B and C contract, without A's consent, that B's salary shall be raised, and that he shall become liable for one- fourth of the losses on overdrafts. B allows a customer to over-draw, and the bank loses a sum of money. A is discharged from his suretyship by the variance made without his consent, and is not liable to make good this loss. (b) A guarantees C against the misconduct of B in an office to which B is appointed by C, and of which the duties are defined by an Act of.....

Indian Contract Act, 1872 Section 133

Title: Discharge of Surety by Variance in Terms of Contract

State: Central

Year: 1872

.....C to B on credit. Afterwards B becomes embarrassed, and, without the knowledge of A, B and C contract that C shall continue to supply B with oil for ready money, and that the payments shall be applied to the then existing debts between B and C. A is not liable on his guarantee for any goods supplied after this new arrangement. (e) C contracts to lend B 5,000 rupees on the 1st March. A guarantees repayment. C pays the 5,000 rupees to B on the 1st January, A is discharged from his liability, as the contract has been varied, inasmuch as C might sue B for the money before the 1st of March. _______________________ 1. Inserted by Act 24 of 1917, section 2 and Schedule I.

Bombay Khoti Abolition Act, 1949, (Maharashtra) Section 2

Title: Definitions

State: Maharashtra

Year: 1949

..... G.N., R.D., No. 6017/51(a), dated 14th August, 1953 (B.G., Pt. IV-B, p. 1578) In exercise of the powers conferred by clause (i-a) of sub-section (1) of section 2 of the Bombay Khoti Abolition Act, 1949 (Bom. VI of 1950), the Government of Bombay is pleased to appoint the officers specified in column 1 of the Schedule appended hereto, to perform the functions and exercise the powers of a Collector under the said Act in the district specified against them in column 2 of the said Schedule namely :- SCHEDULE Designation of Officer (1) District (2) 1. Special Deputy Collector, Ratnagiri Ratnagiri. 2. Special Deputy Collector, Kolaba Kolaba. G.N., R.D., No. BKA. 2956-V/151437-L, dated 18th February, 1957 (B.G., Pt. IV-B, p. 165) In exercise of the powers conferred by clause (i-a) of sub-section (1) of section 2 of the Bombay Khoti Abolition Act, 1949 (Bom. VI of 1950), the Government of Bombay hereby appoints - (1) the Assistant or Deputy Collector, Panvel, and (2) the Assistant Deputy Collector, Mahad , to perform the functions and exercise the powers of the Collector under the said Act within their respective jurisdiction. G.N., R.D.,.....

Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1898

.....as such Magistrate, exercised the powers of an Assistant Sessions Judge, he may be invested with the powers under this section notwithstanding the fact that he has not exercised the powers of Magistrate of the first class for not less than ten years." Act 19 of 1969, Section 3 and Schedule, Item 14 (in Delhi on 2-10-1969). WEST BENGAL In its application to the State of West Bengal, for Section 30, substitute the following, namely: "30. Offences punishment with imprisonment not exceeding seven years.-Notwithstanding any thing contained in Section 28 or Section 29, the State Government may, in consultation with the High Court, invest any Judicial Magistrate of the first class with power to try as a Magistrate all offences not punishable with death or with imprisonment for life or with imprisonment for a term exceeding seven years : Provided that no Judicial Magistrate of the first class has, prior to his appointment as such powers unless he has, for not less than ten years, exercised powers not inferior to those of a Judicial Magistrate of the first class : Provided further that if any Judicial Magistrate of the first class has, prior to his appointment as such Magistrate,.....

Coking Coal Mines (Nationalisation) Act, 1972 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1972

.....otherwise requires,"- (a) "appointed day" means the 1st day of May, 1972'. (b) "coke oven plant" means the plant and equipment with which the manufacture of hard coke has been, or is being, carried on, and includes- (i) all lands, buildings, works, machinery and equipment, vehicles, railway, tramways and sidings, belonging to, or in, the coke oven plant, (ii) all workshops belonging to the coke oven plant, including buildings, machinery, instrument, stores, equipment of such workshops and the lands on which such workshops stand, (iii) all coke in stock or under production, and Other stores, stocks and instruments, belonging lo the coke oven plant, (iv) all power station belonging to the coke oven planter operated for supplying electricity for the purpose of working of coke oven plant or a number of coke oven plants, (v) all lands, buildings and equipment belonging to the coke oven plant where the washing of coal is carried on, (vi) all other fixed assets movable or immovable, and current assets belonging to a coke oven plant, whether within its premises or outside. CHAPTER 02: ACQUISITION OF THE RIGHTS OF OWNERS OF COKING COAL MINES AND COKE OVEN PLANTS SECTION 04:.....

Insurance Act, 1938 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1938

.....be made under the foregoing provisions of this section before the application for registration is made whether any such application is or is not in fact made]. (8) A deposit made in cash shall be held by the Reserve Bank of India to the credit of the insurer and shall 153[a] Inserted and deemed always to have been inserted by the Insurance (Amendment) Act, 1940 (20 of 1940), Section 4. [except to the extent, if any, to which the cash has been invested in securities under sub-section (9A)], be returnable to the insurer in cash in any case in which under the provisions of this Act a deposit is to be returned; and any interest accruing due and collected on securities deposited under sub-section (1) or sub-section (2) shall be paid to the insurer, subject only to deduction of the normal commission chargeable for the realization of interest. 154[a] Sub-sections (9), (9A) and (9B) were substituted and deemed always to have been substituted by Act 20 of 1940, Section 4. [(9) The insurer may at any time replace any securities deposited by him under this section with the Reserve Bank of India either by cash or by other approved securities or partly cash and partly by other approved.....

Interest Tax Act, 1974 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1974

.....or failure on the part of the assessee to make a return underSection 7-for any assessment year or to disclose fullly and trully all material facts necessary for his assessment for any assessment year, chargeable interest for that year has escaped assessment or has been under-assessed or has been made the subject of excessive relief under this Act, or (b) notwithstanding that there has been no omission or failure as mentioned in clause (a) on the part of the assessee, the23[Assessing Officer] has, in consequence of information in his possession, reason to believe that chargeable interest assessable for any assessment year has escaped assessment or has been under-assessed or has been made the subject of excessive relief under this Act. he may, in cases falling under clause (a), at any time, and in cases falling under clause (b), at any time within four years of the end of that assessment year, serve on the assesee a notice containing all or any of the requirements which may be included in a notice underSection 7-, and may proceed to assess or re-assess the amount chargeble to interest-tax, and the provisions of this Act shall, so far as may be, apply, as if the notice were.....

Land Acquisition (Mines) Act, 1885 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1885

.....or portion of the land specified in the statement, except as aforesaid, shall not vest in 4[the Government] when the land so vests under the said Act. "Section 2 of the Bill as introduced (now section 3 of the Act) required the Government to determine, before it issued its declaration under section 6 of the Land Acquisition Act, whether the land should be acquired simply under that Act, that is to say, including the minerals or whether the special provisions of this Bill should be put in force with a view to excluding the minerals from the acquisition. It has been represented that it is not for the interest of any of those concerned that an irrevocable determination should necessarily come to on so important a point at a stage of the proceedings when the circumstances of the case would in all probability be imperfectly known. The Government, it will be observed on reference to the Land Acquisition Act, has discretion to withdraw from a proposed acquisition of land up to a considerably later stage, and it seems but reasonable that it should have a discretion to exclude the minerals from the acquisition at any time up to the same stage if it turns out that their acquisition is.....