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Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006 Chapter X

Title: Adjudication and Food Safety Appellate Tribunal

State: Central

Year: 2006

.....69 - Power to compound offences (1) The Commissioner of Food Safety may, by order, empower the Designated Officer, to accept from petty manufacturers who himself manufacture and sell any article of food, retailers, hawkers, itinerant vendors, temporary stall holders against whom a reasonable belief exists that he has committed an offence or contravention against this Act, payment of a sum of money by way of composition of the offence which such person is suspected to have committed. (2) On the payment of such sum of money to such officer, the suspected person, if in custody, shall be discharged and no further proceedings in respect of the offence shall be taken against such person. (3) The sum of money accepted or agreed to be accepted as composition under subsection (1), shall not be more than one lakh rupees and due regard shall be made to the guidelines specified in section 49: Provided that no offence, for which punishment of imprisonment has been prescribed under this Act, shall be compounded. Section 70 - Establishment of Food Safety Appellate Tribunal (1) The Central Government or as the case may be, the State Government may, by notification, establish.....

Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006 Section 80

Title: Defences Which May or May Not Be Allowed in Prosecution Under This Act

State: Central

Year: 2006

.....designed for that purpose, and (ii) documented in some manner. (C) Defence of mistaken and reasonable belief not available-- In any proceedings for an offence under the provisions of this Act, it is no defence that the defendant had a mistaken but reasonable belief as to the facts that constituted the offence. (D) Defence in respect of handling food-- In proceedings for an offence under section 56, it is a defence if it is proved that the person caused the food to which the offence relates to be destroyed or otherwise disposed of immediately after the food was handled in the manner that was likely to render it unsafe. (E) Defences of significance of the nature, substance or quality of food-- It shall be no defence in a prosecution for an offence pertaining to the sale of any unsafe or misbranded article of food to allege merely that the food business operator was ignorant of the nature, substance or quality of the food sold by him or that the purchaser having purchased any article for analysis was not prejudiced by the sale.

Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 2006

.....to establish the food safety and standards Authority of India for laying down science based standards for articles of food and to regulate their manufacture, storage, distribution, sale and import, to ensure availability of safe and wholesome food for human consumption and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto. BE it enacted by Parliament in the Fifty-seventh Year of the Republic of India as follows:- CHAPTER 1 PRELIMINARY Section 1: Short title, extent and commencement (1) This Act may be called the food safety and standards act, 2006. (2) It extends to the whole of India. (3) It shall come into force on such date as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint, and different dates may be appointed for different provisions of this Act and any reference in any such provision to the commencement of this Act shall be construed as a reference to the coming into force of that provision. Section 2: Declration as to expediency of control by Union It is hereby declared that it is expedient in the public interest that the Union should take under its control the food industry. Section 3: Definitions (1) In this act, unless the context.....

Geneva Convention Act 1960 Chapter IV

Title: Abuse of the Red Cross and Other Emblems

State: Central

Year: 1960

.....for any purpose and it is proved that he used it otherwise than as, or as part of, a trade mark so registered, it shall be a defence for him to prove- (a) that he lawfully used that design or wording for that purpose before the coming into force of this Act; or (b) in a case where he is charged with using the design or wording upon goods, that the design or wording had been applied to the goods before he acquired them by some other person who had manufactured or dealt with the goods in the course of trade and who lawfully used the design or wording upon similar goods before the coming into force of this Act. Section 16 - Use of Red Cross and other emblems on Indian ship or aircraft The provisions of this Chapter extend to the use in or outside India of any emblem, designation, design or wording as is referred to in section 12 on any Indian ship or aircraft.

Geneva Convention Act 1960 Section 12

Title: Prohibition of Use of Red Cross and Other Emblems

State: Central

Year: 1960

.....that is to say, a lion passing from right to left of, and with its face turned towards, the observer, holding erect in its raised right forepaw a scimitar, with, appearing above the lion's back, the upper half of the sun shooting forth rays, or the designation "Red Lion and Sun"; (d) the emblem of a white or silver cross with vertical and horizontal arms of the same length on, and completely surrounded by, a red ground, being the heraldic emblem of the Swiss Confederation; or (e) any design or wording so nearly resembling any of the emblems or designation specified in the preceding clauses of this section as to be capable of being mistaken for, or, as the case may be, understood as referring to, one of those emblems.

Trade Marks Act, 1999 (47 of 1999) Chapter 1

Title: Preliminary

State: Central

Year: 1999

.....with which it is used in the course of trade which are certified by the proprietor of the mark in respect of origin, material, mode of manufacture of goods or performance of services, quality, accuracy or other characteristics from goods or services not so certified and registrable as such under Chapter IX in respect of those goods or services in the name, as proprietor of the certification trade mark, of that person; (f) "Chairman" means the Chairman of the Appellate Board; (g) "collective mark" means a trade mark distinguishing the goods or services of members of an association of persons [not being a partnership within the meaning of the Indian Partnership Act, 1932 (9 of 1932)] which is the proprietor of the mark from those of others; (h) "deceptively similar".--A mark shall be deemed to be deceptively similar to another mark if it so nearly resembles that other mark as to be likely to deceive or cause confusion; (i) "false trade description" means-- (I) a trade description which is untrue or misleading in a material respect as regards the goods or services to which it is applied; or (II) any alteration of a trade description as regards the goods or.....

Trade Marks Act, 1999 (47 of 1999) Section 2

Title: Definitions and Interpretation

State: Central

Year: 1999

.....with which it is used in the course of trade which are certified by the proprietor of the mark in respect of origin, material, mode of manufacture of goods or performance of services, quality, accuracy or other characteristics from goods or services not so certified and registrable as such under Chapter IX in respect of those goods or services in the name, as proprietor of the certification trade mark, of that person; (f) "Chairman" means the Chairman of the Appellate Board; (g) "collective mark" means a trade mark distinguishing the goods or services of members of an association of persons [not being a partnership within the meaning of the Indian Partnership Act, 1932 (9 of 1932)] which is the proprietor of the mark from those of others; (h) "deceptively similar".--A mark shall be deemed to be deceptively similar to another mark if it so nearly resembles that other mark as to be likely to deceive or cause confusion; (i) "false trade description" means-- (I) a trade description which is untrue or misleading in a material respect as regards the goods or services to which it is applied; or (II) any alteration of a trade description as regards the goods or.....

Limited Liability Partnership Act 2008 Chapter III

Title: Incorporation of Limited Liability Partnership and Matters Incidental Thereto

State: Central

Year: 2008

.....which may extend to five lakh rupees. Section 12 - Incorporation by registration (1) When the requirements imposed by clauses (b) and (c) of sub-section (1) of section 11 have been complied with, the Registrar shall retain the incorporation document and, unless the requirement imposed by clause (a) of that sub-section has not been complied with, he shall, within a period of fourteen days-- (a) register the incorporation document; and (b) give a certificate that the limited liability partnership is incorporated by the name specified therein. (2) The Registrar may accept the statement delivered under clause (c) of sub-section (1) of section 11 as sufficient evidence that the requirement imposed by clause (a) of that sub-section has been complied with. (3) The certificate issued under clause (b) of sub-section (1) shall be signed by the Registrar and authenticated by his official seal. (4) The certificate shall be conclusive evidence that the limited liability partnership is incorporated by the name specified therein. Section 13 - Registered office of limited liability partnership and change therein (1) Every limited liability partnership shall have a registered.....

Limited Liability Partnership Act 2008 Section 17

Title: Charge of Name of Limited Liability Partnership

State: Central

Year: 2008

.....is satisfied that a limited liability partnership has been registered (whether through inadvertence or otherwise and whether originally or by a change of name) under a name which -- (a) is a name referred to in sub-section (2) of section 15; or (b) is identical with or too nearly resembles the name of any other limited liability partnership or body corporate or other name as to be likely to be mistaken for it, the Central Government may direct such limited liability partnership to change its name, and the limited liability partnership shall comply with the said direction within three months after the date of the direction or such longer period as the Central Government may allow. (2) Any limited liability partnership which fails to comply with a direction given under sub-section (1) shall be punishable with fine which shall not be less than ten thousand rupees but which may extend to five lakh rupees and the designated partner of such limited liability partnership shall be punishable with fine which shall not be less than ten thousand rupees but which may extend to one lakh rupees.

Trade and Merchandise Marks Act, 1958 [Repealed] Chapter 1

Title: Preliminary

State: Central

Year: 1958

.....adapted in relation to any goods to distinguish, in the course of trade, goods certified by any person in respect of origin, material, mode of manufacture, quality, accuracy or other characteristic, from goods not so certified and registrable as such under the provisions of Chapter VIII in respect of those goods in the name as proprietor of the certification trade mark, of that person; (d) "deceptively similar":--A mark shall be deemed to be deceptively similar to another mark if it so nearly resembles that other mark as to be likely to deceive or cause confusion; (e) "District Court" has the meaning assigned to it in the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 (5 of 1908); (f) "false trade description" means (i) a trade description which is untrue or misleading in a material respect as regards the goods to which it is applied; or (ii) any alteration of a trade description as regards the goods to which it is applied, whether by way of addition, effacement or otherwise, where that alteration makes the description untrue or misleading in a material respect; or (iii) any trade description which denotes or implies that there are contained, as regards the goods to which it is.....