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Karnataka Money-lenders Act, 1961 Section 38

Title: Penalty for Molestation

State: Karnataka

Year: 1961

.....thousand] rupees or with both. Explanation.--For the purposes of this section, a person who, with intent to cause another person to abstain from doing any act which he has a right to do or to do any act which he has a right to abstain from doing,-- (a) obstructs or uses violence to or intimidates such other person, or (b) persistently follows such other person from place to place or interferes with any property owned or used by him or deprives him of, or hinders him in, the use of any such property, or (c) loiters at or near a house or other place where such other person resides or works, or carries on business, or happens to be, or (d) does any act calculated to annoy or intimidate such other person or the members of his family, or (e) moves or acts in a manner which causes or is calculated to cause alarm or danger to the person or property of such other person, -shall be deemed to molest such other person: Provided that a person who goes to the house or place referred to in clause (c) in order merely to obtain or communicate information shall not be deemed to molest. _____________________ 1. Substituted by Act 77 of 1976 w.e.f. 27.10.1976.

Bombay Money-lenders Act, 1946, (Maharashtra) Section 33

Title: Penalty for Molestation

State: Maharashtra

Year: 1946

.....of either description which may extend to three months or with fine which may extend to Rs.500 or with both. Explanation.-Forthe purposes of this section a person who, with intent to cause another person to abstain from doing any act which he has a right to do or to do any act which he has a right to abstain from doing- (a) obstructs or uses violence to or intimidates such other person, or (b) persistently follows such other person from place to place or interferes with any property owned, or used by him or deprives him of, or hinders him in, the use thereof, or (c) loiters near a house or other place where such other person resides or works, or carries on business, or happens to be, or does any act calculated to annoy or intimidate such other person shall be deemed to molest such other person; shall be deemed to modest such other person; Providedthat a person who goes to such house or place in order merely to obtain or communicate information shall not be deemed to molest. 1 [* * * *] _____________________ 1. Sub-section (2) was deleted byBom. 7 of 1955, s.3.

Criminal Law Amendment Act, 1932 Section 7

Title: Molesting a Person to Prejudice of Employment or Business

State: Central

Year: 1932

.....to five hundred rupees, or with both. Explanation.-- Encouragement of indigenous industries or advocacy of temperance, without the commission of any of the acts prohibited by this section is not an offence under this section. (2) No Court shall take cognizance of an offence punishable under this section except upon a report in writing of facts which constitute such offence made by a police officer not below the rank of officer in charge of a police station. OBJECTS AND RFASONS The explanation emphasises the fact that the section is not intended to hamper lawful advocacy of swadeshi or abstention from intoxicating liquor. See S.C.R. ________________________ 1. Section 7 was enforced in Kutch, Saurashtra and Hyderabad areas of the State of Bombay from 24-8-1959. It was also enforced in the districts of Dehra Dun, Saharanpur, Moradabad, Mirzapur, Basil, Gorakhpur, Deoria Muzaffarnagar, Aligarh and Rampur; Lalitpur and Gaziabad w.e.f. 31-8-1977.

New Delhi Municipal Council Act 1994 Section 346

Title: Prohibition of Obstruction or Molestation in Execution of Work

State: Central

Year: 1994

No person shall obstruct or molest any person authorised or empowered by or under this Act or any person with whom the Council has lawfully contracted, in the execution of his duty or of anything which he is authorised or empowered or required to do by virtue or in consequence of any of the provisions of this Act, rules, regulations or any bye-law made thereunder, or in fulfilment of his contract, as the case may be.

Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Act, 1964 Section 97

Title: Prohibition or Obstruction or Molestation in Execution of Work

State: Karnataka

Year: 1964

No person shall obstruct or molest any person authorised or empowered by or under this Act in the execution of his duty or of anything which he is authorised or empowered or required to do by virtue or in consequence of any of the provisions of this Act or any rule or regulation made thereunder.

The Pondicherry Moneylenders Act, 1970 Complete Act

State: Pondicherry

Year: 1970

.....Act 10 of 1949); (b) "co-operative society" means a society registered or deemed to be registered under the Pondicherry Co-operative Societies Act, 1965 (Act No.11 of 1965): (c) "Government" means the Administrator appointed by the President under article 239 of the Constitution; (d) "Inspector" means an Inspector appointed under section 10; (e) "interest" includes the return to be made over and above what was actually lent, whether the same is charged or sought to be recovered specifically by way of interest or otherwise but does not include any sum charged by a lender in accordance with the provisions of this Act or any other law for the time being in force, for or on account of cost; charges or expenses; (f) "licence" means a money-lender's licence granted under this Act; (g) "loan" means an advance whether of money or in kind at interest, and includes any transaction which the court finds in substance to amount to such an advance, but does not include- (i) a deposit of money or other property in a Government Post Office Savings Bank or in a bank in a company as defined in the Companies Act, 1956 (Central Act 1 of 1956) or with a co-operative society; (ii).....

Tamil Nadu Money Lenders Act 1957 Complete Act

State: Tamil Nadu

Year: 1957

TAMIL NADU MONEY LENDERS ACT 1957 TAMIL NADU MONEY LENDERS ACT 1957 (Act 26 of 1957) (For Statement of Objects and Reasons. Sec Fort St. George Gazette (Extraordinary), Pan IV-A, pages 93-94, dated the 22nd October, 1957) WHEREAS it is expedient, to make provision for the regulation and control of the business of money-lenders in the State of Substituted by Tamil Nadu Act XLI of 1979 [Tamil Nadu]. BE it enacted in the Eighth Year of the Republic of India as follows: 1. Short title, extent and commencement: " (1) This Act may be called Substituted by Tamil Nadu Act XLI of 1979 [TAMIL NADU] MONEY-LENDERS ACT, 1957. (2) It extends to the whole of the State of Substituted by Tamil Nadu Act XLI of 1979 [Tamil Nadu] (3) It shall come into force in any area on such date as the Government may by notification specify which date shall not be earlier than the expiry of one month form the publication of the notification and the Government may cancel or modify any such notification. NOTES S.1: Object of the Act is to protect debtor from unscruplous money lenders - 1957 Bombay 12; 1941 Cal. 673; (1947) 2 M.L.J. 14 (P.C); Art Constitutionaly valid-(1963)1 M.L.J......

The Tripura Agricultural Debtors Relief Act, 1975 Complete Act

State: Tripura

Year: 1975

.....faith. 27. Period of limitation. 28. Remission of interest. 29. Power to make rules. 30. Repeal and savings. THE TRIPURA AGRICULTURAL DEBTORS RELIEF ACT, 1975. AN ACT To impose moratorium on recovery of debt and for matters connected therewith. Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of Tripura in the Twenty-sixty Year of the Republic of India as follows : CHAPTER 1 Preliminary 1. (1) This Act may be called the Tripura Agriculture Debtors Relief Act, 1975. (2) It extends to the whole of Tripura. (3) It shall be deemed to have come into force on and from the seventeenth day of September, 1975. 2. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,-- (a) "agriculture" includes horticulture, forestry, the raising of annual or periodical crops or garden produce, dairy farming, poultry farming, livestock breeding, bees breeding, grazing, pisciculture and growing of fruits, vegetables and the like ; (b) "Civil court" means a Civil court within the meaning of the Tripura (Courts) Order, 1950 and includes Nyaya Panchayats established under section 42 of the United Provinces Panchayat Raj Act, 1947, as extended to Tripura, and includes also any court exercising appellate or revisional.....

The Jharkhand Municipal Act, 2011 Complete Act

State: Jharkhand

Year: 2011

.....or the Nagar Panchayat, the Executive Officer of the Municipal Council or the Nagar Panchayat; (47) "Factory" means a factory as defined in the Factories Act, 1948; (48) "Filth" means (a) night soil or other contents of latrines, cesspools and drains; (b) dirt, dung, refuse, useless or offensive materials thrown out in consequence of any process of manufacture, industry or trade; and (c) putrid or putrifying substance, (49) "Finance Commission" means the State Finance Commission constituted under Article 243-I of the Constitution of India and referred to in section 97 of this Act; (50) "Food" includes every article used for food or drink by man, other than drugs or water, and any article which ordinarily enters into, or is used in the composition or preparation of, human food, and also includes confectionery, flavouring and colouring matters, spices and condiments; (51) "Footpath" means a pavement, for use by pedestrians; (52) "Goods" include animals; (53) "Government" means the State Government of Jharkhand; (54) "Holding" means land held under one title or agreement and surrounded by one set of boundaries: Provided that, where two or more adjoining holdings held by the same.....

The Bombay Money Lenders Act, 1946 Complete Act

State: Maharashtra

Year: 1946

.....other property, whether moveable or immoveable, and includes a wholesale or retail merchant, a commission agent, - a broker, a manufacturer, a contractor, a factory owner, but does not include an artisan or a person who sells his agricultural produce or cattle or buys agricultural produce or cattle, for his use. Explanation."For the purposes of this clause an "artisan" means a person who does not employ more than ten workers in a manufacturing process on any one day of the twelve months immediately preceding. NOTES: (A) Changes made by the new amendment in two of the definitions have created disturbance in business community and especially the money-lenders who were advancing loans to traders. (B) Definition of word LOAN in sub-section 2 has been amended by addition of words WHETHER IN CASH OR KIND AND after the words ADVANCING LOANS. These words appear to have been added to clarify the word loan as to include the advance in kind like grains advanced with condition to return one and half times after harvest. The definition of word LOAN in sub section (9) even prior to the amendment states that the loan meant an advance whether of money or in kind. Thus this particular amendment.....