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NEGOTIABLE INSTRUMENTS ACT, 1881 Section 45A

Title: Holder's right to duplicate of lost bill

State: Central

Year: 1881

1[ 45 A. Holder's right to duplicate of lost bill Where a bill of exchange has been lost before it is over-due, the person who was the holder of it may apply to the dr awer to give hi m another bill of the same tenor, giving security to the dr awer, if required, to indemnify hi m against all persons whatever in case the bill alleged to have been lost sh all be found again. If the dr awer on request as aforesaid refuses to give such duplicate bill, he may be compelled to do so.] _______________________ 1 . Inserted b y Act 2 of 1885 , sec. 3 .

Merchant Shipping Act, 1958 Section 36

Title: Power to Grant New Certificate when Original Certificate is Defaced, Lost, Etc.

State: Central

Year: 1958

.....the ship is at the time of the event referred to in sub-section (2) or first arrives after the event is outside India, then the master of the ship or some other person having knowledge of the facts of the case shall make a declaration stating such facts and the names and descriptions of the registered owners of such ship to the best of the declarant's knowledge and belief to the nearest available Indian consular officer who may thereupon grant a provisional certificate containing a statement of the circumstances under which it is granted. (4) The provisional certificate shall, within ten days after the first subsequent arrival of the ship at her port of discharge in India, be delivered by the master to the registrar of her port of registry and the registrar shall thereupon grant a new certificate of registry. (5) If the certificate of registry stated to have been mislaid, lost or destroyed shall at any time afterwards be found, or if the person entitled to the certificate of registry obtains it at any time afterwards, the said certificate shall forthwith be delivered to the registrar of her port of registry to be cancelled.

Merchant Shipping Act, 1958 Section 39

Title: Delivery of Certificate of Ship Lost or Ceasing to Be an Indian Ship

State: Central

Year: 1958

(1) In the event of a registered, ship being either actually or constructively lost, taken by the enemy, burnt or broken up or ceasing for any reason to be an Indian ship, every owner of the ship or any share in the ship shall immediately on obtaining knowledge of the event, if no notice thereof has already been given to the registrar, give notice thereof to the registrar at her port of registry and that registrar shall make an entry thereof in the register book and its registry in that book shall be considered as closed except so far as relates to any unsatisfied mortgages entered therein. (2) In any such case, except where the ship's certificate of registry is mislaid, lost or destroyed, the master of the ship shall, immediately if the event occurs in any port in India, or within ten days after his arrival in port if it occurs elsewhere, deliver the certificate to the registrar of the port or any other officer specified in this behalf by the Central Government if the port of arrival is in India, or if the arrival is in any port outside India to the Indian consular officer there, and the registrar if he is not himself the registrar of her port of registry or the officer so.....

Merchant Shipping Act, 1958 Section 157

Title: Recovery of Wages, Etc., of Seamen Lost with their Ship

State: Central

Year: 1958

(1) Where a seaman or apprentice is lost with the ship to which he belongs, the Central Government or such officer as the Central Government may appoint in this behalf, may recover the wages and the compensation due to him from the owner, master or agent of the ship in the same Court and in the same manner in which seamen's wages are recoverable, and shall deal with those wages in the same manner as with the wages and compensation due to other deceased seamen or apprentices under this Act. (2) In any proceedings for the recovery of the wages and compensation, if it is shown by some official records or by other evidence that the ship has, twelve months or upwards before the institution of the proceeding, left any port, she shall, unless it is shown that she has been heard of within twelve months after the departure be deemed to have been lost with all hands on board either immediately after the time she was last heard of or at such later time as the Court hearing the case may think probable.

Indian Ports Act, 1908 Section 29

Title: Unauthorised Person Not to Search for Lost Stores

State: Central

Year: 1908

(1) No person, without the permission of the conservator shall, in any port subject to this Act, creep or sweep for anchors, cables or other stores lost or supposed to be lost therein, (2) If any person offends against the provisions of Sub-section (1), he shall be punishable with fine which may extend to one hundred rupees.

Reserve Bank of India Act, 1934 (2 of 1934) Section 28

Title: Recovery of Notes Lost, Stolen, Mutilated or Imperfect

State: Central

Year: 1934

.....of the 2 [Central Government], prescribed the circumstances in and the conditions and limitations subject to which the value of such currency notes or bank notes may be refunded as of grace and the rules made under this proviso shall be laid on the table 3 [***] of 4 [Parliament]. 5 [***] ________________________ 1. The brackets and figure "(1)" Inserted by the India and Burma (Burma Monetary Arrangements) Order, 1937 and omitted by Act 11 of 1947, section 15 (w.e.f. 1-4-1947). 2. Substituted by the India and Burma (Burma Monetary Arrangements) Order, 1937, for "Governor-General in Council". 3. The words " of both Houses" omitted by the A.O. 1948. 4. Substituted by the A.O. 1950, for "Central Legislature". 5. Sub-section (2) Inserted by the India and Burma (Burma Monetary Arrangements) Order, 1937 and omitted by Act 11 of 1947, section 15 (w.e.f. 1-4-1947).

Indian Succession Act, 1925 Section 237

Title: Probate of Copy or Draft of Lost Will

State: Central

Year: 1925

When a Will has been lost or mislaid since the testator's death, or has been destroyed by wrong or accident and not by any act of the testator, and a copy or the draft of the Will has been preserved, probate may be granted of such copy or draft, limited until the original or a properly authenticated copy of it is produced.

Indian Succession Act, 1925 Section 238

Title: Probate of Contents of Lost or Destroyed Will

State: Central

Year: 1925

When a Will has been lost or destroyed and no copy has been made nor the draft preserved, probate may be granted of its contents if they can be established by evidence.

Airports Authority of India Act, 1994 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1994

.....shall be returned to that person forthwith on his giving his name and address to the officer, who shall, as soon as possible thereafter report the facts and give the claimant's name, address and description of the lost property to the Lost Property Office. (2) The officer of the Lost Property Office as referred to in clause (1) of regulation 4 shall be responsible to maintain a register containing the description of the lost property, name, address and signature of the officer and the person(s) handing it over and taking it over the property. REGULATION 05: RECORDING AND SAFE CUSTODY OF LOST PROPERTY Any lost property delivered to the Lost Property Officer shall be retained in safe custody by the Incharge of the Airport or Civil Enclave until claimed by the owner thereof or disposed of in accordance with regulation 7 , and the Incharge of the Airport or Civil Enclave shall keep, for a period of not less than three months after the disposal of the property, a record showing the particulars of the lost property (whether delivered to the Lost Property Office or returned to the owner under proviso of regulation (4), the circumstances in which it was found and its ultimate.....

Merchant Shipping Act, 1958 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1958

.....in 1867, 1882andagain in 1893and 1896 but all these attempts failed owing to legal and constitutional difficulties.Two of the principal contributory factors were the then limited powers of the Indian Legislature to legislate regarding shipping and the fact that part of the British Statute law on the subject, including parts of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, which is the principal United-Kingdom enactment on the subject, applied to Indian and any Indian enactment had to be in legal harmony with that law. A fresh attempt was made in 1921-22 to codify the Indian law on merchant shipping by the Statute Law Revision Committee, which decided that only consolidation, and not revision should be attempted immediately. The result was the Indian Merchant Shipping Act, 1923, which is now on the Statute Book and which consolidated some 21 existing Indian Acts on the subject. This Act has also been amended from time to time, the two major amendments being those made in 1933 and in 1953 so as to take power to implement the provisions of the international conventions with respect to load lines, 1930, and with respect to safety of life at sea, 1948, respectively, which have been ratified by.....