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Public Liability Insurance Act, 1991 Preamble 1

Title: The Public Liability Insurance Act, 1991

State: Central

Year: 1991

THE PUBLIC LIABILITY INSURANCE ACT, 1991 [Act, No. 6 of 1991] [22nd January 1991] PREAMBLE An Act to provide for public liability insurance for the purpose of providing immediate relief to the persons affected by accident occurring while handling any hazardous substance and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto. Be it enacted by Parliament in the Forty-first Year of the Republic of India as follows:--

Public Liability Insurance Act, 1991 Complete Act

Title: Public Liability Insurance Act, 1991

State: Central

Year: 1991

.....information Section10 - Power of entry and inspection Section11 - Power of search and seizure Section12 - Power to give directions Section13 - Power to make application to Courts for restraining owner from handling hazardous substances Section14 - Penalty for contravention of sub-section (1) or sub-section (2) or sub-section (2A) or sub-section (2C) of section 4 or failure to comply with directions under section 12 Section15 - Penalty for failure to comply with direction under section 9 or order under section 11 or obstructing any person in discharge of his functions under section 10 or 11 Section16 - Offences by companies Section17 - Offences by Government Departments Section18 - Cognizance of offences Section19 - Power to delegate Section20 - Protection of action taken in good faith Section21 - Advisory Committee Section22 - Effect of other laws Section23 - Power to make rules Schedule1 - THE SCHEDULE

Public Liability Insurance Act, 1991 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1991

PUBLIC LIABILITY INSURANCE ACT, 1991 PUBLIC LIABILITY INSURANCE ACT, 1991 6 of 1991 An Act to provide for public liability insurance for the purpose of providing immediate relief lo the persons affected by accident occurring while handling any hazardous substance and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto. BE it enacted by Parliament in the Forty-first Year of thee Republic of India as follows:- SECTION 01: SHORT TITLE AND COMMENCEMENT (1) This Act may be called the Public Liability Insurance Act, 1991. (2) It shall come into force on such date as the Central Government may, by notification, appoint. SECTION 02: DEFINITIONS In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,- 2[(a) "accident" means an accident involving a fortuitous or sudden or unintended occurrence while handling any hazardrous substance resulting in continuous or intermittent or repeated exposure to death of, injury to, any person or damage to any property but does not include an accident by reason only of war or radio-activity;] (b) "Collector" means the Collector having jurisdiction over the area in which the accident occurs; {c) "handling", in relation to any hazardous substance,.....

Public Liability Insurance Act, 1991 Section 4

Title: Duty of Owner to Take out Insurance Policies

State: Central

Year: 1991

.....substance, one or more insurance policies providing for contracts of insurance whereby he is insured against liability to give relief under sub-section (1) of section 3: Provided that any owner handling any hazardous substance immediately before the commencement of this Act shall take out such insurance policy or policies as soon as may be and in any case within a period of one year from such commencement. (2) Every owner shall get the insurance policy, referred to in sub-section (1), renewed from time to time before the expiry of the period of validity thereof so that the insurance policies may remain in force throughout the period during which such handling is continued. 1[2A) No insurance policy taken out or renewed by an owner shall be for an amount less than the amount of the paid-up capital of the undertaking handling any hazardous substance and owned or controlled by that owner, and more than the amount, not exceeding fifty crore rupees, as may be prescribed. Explanation.--For the purposes of this sub-section, "paid-up capital" means, in the case of an owner not being a company, the market value of all assets and stocks of the undertaking on the date of.....

Public Liability Insurance Act, 1991 Section 1

Title: Short Title and Commencement

State: Central

Year: 1991

(1) This Act may be called the Public Liability Insurance Act, 1991. (2) It shall come into force on such date as the Central Government may, by notification, appoint.

Insurance Act, 1938 (4 of 1938) Part II

Title: Provisions Applicable to Insurers

State: Central

Year: 1938

.....section 2 and Schedule, for "theStates" (w.e.f. 1-11-1956). Section 2E - This Act not to apply to certain insurers, ceasing to enter into new contracts before commencement of Act The provisions of this Act shall not apply to an insurer as defined in paragraph (i) or (iii) of sub-clause (a) of clause (9) of section 2 in relation to any class of his insurance business where such insurer has ceased, before the commencement of this Act, to enter into any new contracts of that class of business.] Section 3 - Registration (1) No 1 [person] shall, after the commencement of this Act, begin to carry on any class of insurance business in 2 [India] and no insurer carrying on any class of insurance business in 2 [India] shall, after the expiry of three months from the commencement of this Act, continue to carry on any such business, unless he has obtained from the 3 [Authority] a certificate of registration 4 [for the particular class of insurance business]: 5 [Provided that in case an insurer who was carrying on any class of insurance business in 2 [India] at the commencement of this Act, failure to obtain a certificate of registration in accordance with the requirements of this.....

Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 Chapter 11

Title: Insurance of Motor Vehicles Against Third Party Risks

State: Central

Year: 1988

.....of war, civil war, riot or civil commotion; or (b) that the policy is void on the ground that it was obtained by the nondisclosure of a material fact or by a representation of fact which was false in some material particular. (3) Where any such judgment as is referred to in sub-section (1) is obtained from a Court in a reciprocating country and in the case of a foreign judgment is, by virtue of the provisions of section 13 of the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 (5 of 1908) conclusive as to any matter adjudicated upon by it, the insurer (being an insurer registered under the Insurance Act, 1938 (4 of 1938) and whether or not he is registered under the corresponding law of the reciprocating country) shall be liable to the person entitled to the benefit of the decree in the manner and to the extent specified in sub-section (1), as if the judgment were given by a Court in India: Provided that no sum shall be payable by the insurer in respect of any such judgment unless, before the commencement of the proceedings in which the judgment is given, the insurer had notice through the Court concerned of the bringing of the proceedings and the insurer to whom notice is so given is.....

Insurance Rules, 1939 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1939

.....ries of Pondicherry and Lakshadweep; and (vii) words used but not defined in these rules have the meanings respectively assigned to them in the Act. CHAPTER 2 Actuaries Rule 3 Qualifications of actuaries Any person signing as actuary under the Act shall be a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries, London, or a Fellow of the Faculty of Actuaries in Scotland 33. Ins. by S.O. 961 (E), dated 24th March. 1992. [or a Fellow of Actuarial Society of India]: Provided that where application is made to the Controller of Insurance and it Is shown to his satisfaction that the employment of an Associate of such institute of actuaries or of such Faculty of Actuaries 33. Ins. by S.O. 961 (E), dated 24th March. 1992. [or of such Actuarial Society] or of any other person having actuarial knowledge for any specified purpose is expedient in order to enable an Insurer or a provident society to carry out any of his or its obligations under the Act, the Controller of Insurance may grant the application and permit such person to sign as actuary for the specified purpose, subject to such conditions and restric- tions as the Controller of Insurance thinks fit to impose. Rule 4 . . [* * * * * * * .....

War Injuries (Compensation Insurance) Act, 1943 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1943

.....whether such declaration is or is not subsequently revoked; (b) workmen employed in any factory as defined in clause (j) of8section 2 of the Factories Act, 1934 (25 of 1934); (c) workmen employed in any mine within the meaning of9theIndian Mines Act, 1923 (4 of 1923); (d) workmen employed in any major port; (e) workmen employed on any estate which is maintained for the purpose of growing cinchona, coffee, rubber or tea, and on which on any one day in the preceding twelve months twenty-five or more persons have been employed as workmen; (f) workmen employed in any employment specified in this behalf by the Central Government by notification in the Official Gazette. SECTION 07: WAR INJURIES COMPENSATION INSURANCE SCHEME (1) The Central Government shall, by notification in the Official Gazette, put into operation a scheme to be called the War Injuries Compensation Insurance10Scheme whereby provision is made for all matters necessary to give effect to the purposes of this Act and whereby the Central Government undertakes, in relation to employers of workmen to whom this Act applies, the liabilities of insuring such employers against liabilities incurred by them to.....

Life Insurance Corporation Act, 1956 Chapter 4

Title: Transfer of Existing Life Insurance Business to the Corporation

State: Central

Year: 1956

.....before the appointed day. Section 9 - General effect of vesting of controlled business (1) Unless otherwise expressly provided by or under this Act, all contracts, agreements and other instruments of whatever nature subsisting or having effect immediately before the appointed day and to which an insurer whose controlled business has been transferred to and vested in the Corporation is a party or which are in favour of such insurer shall in so far as they relate to the controlled business of the insurer be of as full force and affect against or in favour of the Corporation, as the case may be, and may be enforced or acted upon as fully and effectually as if, instead of the insurer, the Corporation had been a party thereto or as if they had been entered into or issued in favour of the Corporation. (2) If on the appointed day any suit, appeal or other legal proceeding of whatever nature is pending by or against an insurer, then, in so far as it relates to his controlled business, it shall not abate, be discontinued or be in any way prejudicially affected by reason of the transfer to the Corporation of the business of the insurer or anything done under this Act, but the suit,.....