State : Central
Year : 1978
BANKING SERVICE COMMISSION (REPEAL) ACT, 1978 BANKING SERVICE COMMISSION (REPEAL) ACT, 1978 20 of 1978 STATEMENT OF OBJECTS AND REASONS The Banking Service Commission Act, 1975. was enacted with a view to providing for the establishment of a Commission for the selection of personnel for appointment to services and posts in public sector banks. Although the Banking Service Commission was established late in February, 1977, it had not started actual recruitment of personnel for public sector banks. The need for such a Commission was reviewed and it was felt that a centralised system of recruitment in banks, as envisaged by that Act, was likely to interfere with the autonomy and flexibility in the functioning of the public sector banks and that having regard to the large..... List Judgments citing this sectionState : Central
Year : 1978
BRITANNNIA ENGINEERING COMPANY LIMITED (MOKAMEH UNIT) AND THE ARTHUR BUTLER AND COMPANY (MUZAFFARPORE) LIMITED (ACQUISITION AND TRANSFER OF UNDERTAKINGS ACT, 1978 BRITANNNIA ENGINEERING COMPANY LIMITED (MOKAMEH UNIT) AND THE ARTHUR BUTLER AND COMPANY (MUZAFFARPORE) LIMITED (ACQUISITION AND TRANSFER OF UNDERTAKINGS ACT, 1978 41 of 1978 8th December,1978 Britannia engineering Company Limited was incorporated in 1917 with its registered office at Calcutta. It owned at Titagarh an engineering unit (where it manufactured road rollers, jute mills machinery and other industrial machinery) and a steel foundry. It also set up in 1960 at Mokameh, a unit to manufacture Railway Wagons, steel structurals, etc. The engineering unit at Titagarh closed down in October 1970 and on the 22nd..... List Judgments citing this sectionState : Central
Year : 1978
DELHI POLICE ACT, 1978 DELHI POLICE ACT, 1978 34 of 1978 27th August, 1978 An Act to amend and consolidate the law relating to the regulation of the police in the Union territory of Delhi SECTION 01: SHORT TITLE, EXTENT AND COMMENCEMENT (1) This Act may be called the Delhi Police Act, 1978. (2) It extends to the whole of the Union territory of Delhi. (3) It shall be deemed to have come into force on the 1st day of July, 1978. SECTION 02: DEFINITIONS -In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,- (a) "Administrator" means the Administrator of Delhi appointed under Article 239 of the Constitution; (b) "cattle" includes elephants, camels, horses, asses, mules, sheep, goats and swine, (c) "competent authority", when used with reference to the exercise of any power or..... List Judgments citing this sectionState : Central
Year : 1978
INTEREST ACT, 1978 INTEREST ACT, 1978 14 of 1978 31st March, 1978 The Law Commission of India in its sixty-third report had recommended the revision of the existing Interest Act, 1839. This Act is a very short one; besides a preamble, it contains only one section and a proviso. However, it is a statute of importance, since it prescribes the general law of interest which becomes applicable in the absence of any contractual or statutory provisions specifically dealing with the subject. According to the Commission, almost every phrase used in the Act has given rise problems of interpretation and judicial decisions have disclosed divergence of views in respect of the same. The Commission has revised the Act comprehensively so to as make its provisions more precise, specific..... List Judgments citing this sectionState : Central
Year : 1978
PRESS COUNCIL ACT, 1978 PRESS COUNCIL ACT, 1978 37 OF 1978 An Act to establish a Press Council for the purpose of preserving the freedom of the Press and of maintaining and improving the standards of newspaper and news agencies in India. Be it enacted by Parliament in the Twenty-ninth Year of the Republic of India as follows :-STATEMENT OF OBJECTS AND REASONS The Press Council of India was established in July, 1966 under Press Council Act, 1965, mainly to preserve the freedom of the Press and to maintain and improve the standards of newspapers and news agencies in the country. During the Emergency the Press Council was dissolved with effect from the 1st January, 1976. 2. As a part of a series of measures now being undertaken by the Government to restore the freedom of the..... List Judgments citing this sectionState : Central
Year : 1978
PRIZE CHITS AND MONEY CIRCULATION SCHEMES (BANNING) ACT, 1978 PRIZE CHITS AND MONEY CIRCULATION SCHEMES (BANNING) ACT, 1978 43 of 1978 12th December, 1978 STATEMENT OF OBJECTS AND REASONS In June, 1974, the Reserve Bank of India had constituted a Study Group under the Chairmanship of Shri James S. Raj, the then Chairman Unit Trust of India, for examining in depth the provisions of Chapter 3B of the Reserve Bank of India Act, 1934, and the directions issued thereunder to non-banking companies in order to assess their adequacy in the context of ensuring the efficacy of the monetary and credit policies of the country and affording a degree of protection to the interests of the depositors who place their savings with such companies. In its report submitted to the Reserve Bank..... List Judgments citing this sectionState : Assam
Year : 1978
THE ASSAM SCHEDULED CASTES AND SCHEDULED TRIBES (RESERVATION OF VACANCIES IN SERVICES AND POSTS) ACT, 1978 THE ASSAM SCHEDULED CASTES AND SCHEDULED TRIBES (RESERVATION OF VACANCIES IN SERVICES AND POSTS) ACT, 1978 [Act No. XII of 1979] PREAMBLE An Act to provide for reservation of vacancies in services and posts for the members of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes. STATEMENT OF OBJECT AND REASONS In order to provide for reservation of vacancies in services and posts for the members of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes who are the Backward Classes of citizen and are not adequately represented in the services and posts in the affairs of the State within the State, it was considered expedient to provide adequate reservation of vacancies in services and..... List Judgments citing this sectionState : Nagaland
Year : 1978
THE ARBITRATION (EXTENSION TO NAGAIAND) ACT, 1978 THE ARBITRATION (EXTENSION TO NAGAIAND) ACT, 1978 (NAGALAND ACT NO. 9 OF 1978) Received the assent of the President of India on the 23rd September, 1978. An Act to provide for the extension of the Arbitration Act, 1940 (10 of 1940) to the State of Nagaland. It is hereby enacted in the Twenty ninth year of the Republic of India as follows 1. Short title. (1) This Act may be called The Arbitration (Extension to Nagaland) Act, 1978. (2) It shall come into force at once. 2. Extension of Act 10 of1940 to Nagaland. The Arbitration Act, 1940 is hereby extended and shall be in force in the State of Nagaland. 3. Extension to have retrospective effect. (1) The extension of the Principal Act, by section 2 of this..... List Judgments citing this sectionState : Nagaland
Year : 1978
THE NAGALAND ESSENTIAL SERVICES (MAINTENANCE ACT, 1978) THE NAGALAND ESSENTIAL SERVICES (MAINTENANCE ACT, 1978) (NAGALAND ACT NO. 4 OF 1978) (Received the assent of the Governor on the 6th June, 1978 and in the Nagaland Gazette dated the 30th October, 1980 published) An Act to provide for the maintenance of certain Essential Services and normal life of the Community. It is hereby enacted in the Twenty-Ninth Year of the Republic of India as follows : - 1. Short Title (1) This Act may be called the Nagaland Essential Services (Maintenance) Act, 1978. (2) It extends to the whole of the State of Nagaland. (3) It shall come into force at once. 2. Definition In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires :- (a) "essential service" means :- (i) any..... List Judgments citing this sectionState : Orissa
Year : 1855
THE (BENGAL) EMBANKMENT ACT, 1855 THE (BENGAL) EMBANKMENT ACT, 1855 [Published vide Bengal Act No. 32/30.11.1885.] PREAMBLE An Act relating to embankments Whereas the Regulations now in force for the maintenance embankments in the territories under the Government of the Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal have been found ineffectual for the intended purposes thereof; and whereas it is desirable that provision should be made for the better supervision and protection of the same it is enacted as follows: Section 1 - Section 1 [* * *] Section 2 - "Embankment" defined The word "embankment" in this Act means an embankment for the purpose of excluding or retaining water; and every embankment which is now kept up, or may hereafter be kept up, by the officers of the Crown at..... List Judgments citing this section