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Indian Penal Code (45 of 1860) Chapter 3

Title: Of Punishments

State: Central

Year: 1860

.....ten years but not for life [Repealed] Rep. by the Criminal Law (Removal of Racial Discriminations) Act, 1949 (17 of 1949) (w.e.f. 6-4-1949). Section 57 - Fractions of terms of punishment In calculating fractions of terms of punishment, 1 [imprisonment] for life shall be reckoned as equivalent to 1 [imprisonment] for twenty years. _____________________ 1. Substituted by Act 26 of 1955, section 117 and Schedule, for "transportation" (w.e.f. 1-1-1956). Section 58 - Offenders sentenced to transportation how dealt with until transported [Repealed] Rep. by the Code of Criminal Procedure (Amendment) Ad, 1955 (26 of 1955), section 117 and Schedule (w.e.f. 1-1-1956). Section 59 - Transportation instead of imprisonment [Repealed] Rep. by the Code of Criminal Procedure (Amendment) Act, 1955 (26 of 1955). section 117 and Schedule, (w.e.f. 1-1-1956). Section 60 - Sentence may be (in certain cases of imprisonment) wholly or partly rigorous or simple In every ease in which an offender is punishable with imprisonment which may be of either description, it shall be competent to the Court which sentences such offender to direct in the sentence that such imprisonment shall.....

Societies Registration Act, 1860 Complete Act

State: Kerala

Year: 1860

.....with Registrar of Joint-stock companies 19 Inspection of documents 20 To what societies Act applies SOCIETIES REGISTRATION ACT, 1860 [Act No. 21 of Yr. 1860] An Act for the registration of literary, scientific and charitable societies Whereas it is expedient the provision should be made for improving the legal condition or societies established for the promotion of literature, science, or the fine arts, or for the diffusion of useful knowledge, l [the diffusion of political education], or for charitable purposes; Comment : Charitable purposes which came within the language and spirit of the statute of Elizabeth (43 Eliz ch 4) could be grouped into four heads, (i) relief of poverty, (ii) education, (iii) advancement of religion and (iv) other purposes beneficial to the community not coming under any of the preceding heads. The words in Act 21/1860 are, therefore, to be understood as including religious purposes also. Hindu Public v. Rajdhani Puja Samithee AIR 1999 SUPREME COURT 964 It is enacted as follows :- 1. Societies formed by memorandum of association and registration Any seven or more persons associated for any literary, scientific,.....

Societies Registration Act, 1860 Complete Act

State: Punjab

Year: 1860

.....Registrar of Joint-stock companies 19 Inspection of documents 20 To what societies Act applies SOCIETIES REGISTRATION ACT, 1860 [Act No. 21 of Yr. 1860] An Act for the registration of literary, scientific and charitable societies Whereas it is expedient the provision should be made for improving the legal condition or societies established for the promotion of literature, science, or the fine arts, or for the diffusion of useful knowledge, l [the diffusion of political education], or for charitable purposes; Comment : Charitable purposes which came within the language and spirit of the statute of Elizabeth (43 Eliz ch 4) could be grouped into four heads, (i) relief of poverty, (ii) education, (iii) advancement of religion and (iv) other purposes beneficial to the community not coming under any of the preceding heads. The words in Act 21/1860 are, therefore, to be understood as including religious purposes also. Hindu Public v. Rajdhani Puja Samithee AIR 1999 SUPREME COURT 964 It is enacted as follows :- 1. Societies formed by memorandum of association and registration Any seven or more persons associated for any literary, scientific,.....

Indian Penal Code (45 of 1860) Section 74

Title: Limit of Solitary Confinement

State: Central

Year: 1860

In executing a sentence of solitary confinement, such confinement shall in no case exceed fourteen days at a time, with intervals between the periods of solitary confinement of not less duration than such periods; and when the imprisonment awarded shall exceed three months, the solitary confinement shall not exceed seven days in any one month of the whole imprisonment awarded, with intervals between the periods of solitary confinement of not less duration than such periods.

The Societies Registration Act 1860 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1860

THE SOCIETIES REGISTRATION ACT 1860 THE SOCIETIES REGISTRATION ACT 1860 (Act XXI of 1860) An Act for the Registration of Literary, Scientific and Charitable Societies WHEREAS it is expedient that the provisions should be made in improving the legal condition of societies established for the promotion of literature, science or the fine arts or for the diffusion of useful knowledge, the diffusion of political education, or for charitable purposes; It is enacted as follows: SECTION 01: SOCIETIES FORMED BY MEMORANDUM OF ASSOCIATION AND REGISTRATION .- Any seven or more persons associated for any literary, scientific, or charitable purpose of for any such purpose as is described in section 20 of this Act, may, by subscribing their names to a memorandum of association, and filing the same with the Registrar form themselves into a society under this Act. '[IA. Interpretation.--In this Act, unless there is anything repugnant to the subject or context, the expression "Registrar" means the Registrar of Societies appointed under section 1-B and includes other officers appointed under the said section to exercise the powers and to perform the duties and functions of the said.....

The Indian Penal Code 1860 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1860

.....1908, `India', means the territory of India excluding the State of Jammu and Kashmir. Under s. 2(e) of the Monopolies and Restrictive Trade Practices Act, 1969, `India' means for the purposes of this Act the territories to which this Act extends (i.e., whole of India except the State of Jammu and Kashmir). According to s. 2(27) of Customs Act, 1962, `India' includes the territorial waters of India. SECTION 19: "JUDGE" The word "judge" denotes not only every person who is officially designated as a Judge, but also every person, who is empowered by law to give, in any legal proceeding, civil or criminal, a definitive judgement or a judgement which, if not appealed against, would be definitive, or a judgement which, if confirmed by some other authority, would be definitive, or who is one of a body of persons, which body of persons is empowered by law to give such a judgement. Illustrations (a) A Collector exercising jurisdiction in a suit under Act 10 of 1859, is a Judge. (b) A Magistrate exercising jurisdiction in respect of a charge on which he has power to sentence to fine or imprisonment, with or without appeal, is a Judge. (c) A member of a Panchayat which has power.....

Societies Registration Act, 1860 Section 12

Title: Societies Enabled to Alter, Extend or Abridge their Purposes

State: Central

Year: 1860

Whenever it shall appear to the governing body of any society registered under this Act, which has been established for any particular purpose or purposes, that it is advisable to alter, extend, or abridge such purpose to or for other purposes within the meaning of this Act, or to amalgamate such society either wholly or partially with any other society, such governing body may submit the proposition to the members of the society in a written or printed report, and may convene a special meeting for the consideration thereof according to the regulations of the society; but no such proposition shall be carried into effect unless such report shall have been delivered or sent by post to every member of the society ten days previous to the special meeting convened by the governing body for the consideration thereof, nor unless such proposition shall have been agreed to by the votes of three-fifths of .the members delivered in person or by proxy, and confirmed by the votes of three-fifths of the members present at a second special meeting convened by the governing body at an interval of one month after the former meeting.

Sarais Act, 1867 Section 8

Title: Power to Order Reports from Keepers of Sars

State: Central

Year: 1867

The keeper of a sarai shall from time to time, if required so to do by an order of the Magistrate of the District served upon him, report, either orally or in writing as may be directed by the Magistrate, to such Magistrate or to such person as the Magistrate shall appoint, every person who resorted to such sarai during the preceding day or ought. If written reports are required for any space of time, exceeding a single day or night, schedules shall be furnished by the Magistrate of the District to the keeper. The keeper shall from time to time kill up the said schedule with information so required, and transmit them to the said Magistrate, in such manner and at such intervals as may from time to time be ordered by him.

Sarais Act, 1867 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1867

.....apply to any Sarai which may be under the direct management of the7[State Government] or of any Municipal Committee. SECTION 17: EXTENT OF ACT This Act shall in the first instance extend only to the territories under the Government of the Lieutenant-Governor of the North-Western Provinces of the Presidency of Fort William in Bengal. Power to State Government to extend this Act. But it shall be lawful for the 9[State Government], by notification in the10[official Gazette] to extend this Act, mutatis mutandis, to any other part of11[the territories under its Government], except; the towns of Calcutta, Madras and bombay12[* * *]. SECTION 18: SHORT TITLE This Act may be called The Sarais Act. 1867. SCHEDULE 1 FORM OF NOTICE Take notice that on the day of 1867, an Act called the Sarais Act, 1867, was passed, and that, before the day of 18 , you, being keeper of a Sarai [or purao] within there state the district over which the jurisdiction of the Magistrate giving the notice extends], must have your sarai [or purao] registered, and that the register is to be kept at [here state where the register is to be kept) and that, if you do not have your sarai [or purao] so.....

The Village Chaukidari Act, 1870 Complete Act

State: Jharkhand

Year: 1870

THE VILLAGE CHAUKIDARI ACT, 1870 THE VILLAGE CHAUKIDARI ACT, 1870 [Act No. 4 of 1870] PREAMBLE An Act to provide for the Appointment, Dismissal and Maintenance of village-Chaukidars. Whereas it is expedient to make provision for the appointment, dismissal and maintenance of village-chaukidars in the provinces subject of the Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal] [The definition of "Magistrate" was repealed by s. 2(1) of the same Act, and is omitted.]; It is enacted as follows:- Part I - PART I THE VILLAGE CHAUKIDARI ACT, 1870 [Act No. 4 of 1870] PREAMBLE An Act to provide for the Appointment, Dismissal and Maintenance of village-Chaukidars. Whereas it is expedient to make provision for the appointment, dismissal and maintenance of village-chaukidars in the provinces subject of the Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal] [The definition of "Magistrate" was repealed by s. 2(1) of the same Act, and is omitted.]; It is enacted as follows:- Section 1 - Definitions The following words and expressions shall, in the construction of this Act, have the several meanings hereby assigned to them respectively except where a different intention shall appear from the.....