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Indian Post Office Act, 1898 Section 44

Title: Power for Remitter to Recall Money Order or Alter Name of Payee

State: Central

Year: 1898

(1) Subject to such conditions as the Central Government may, by rules made under Section 43, prescribe in respect of the levy of additional rates of commission or fees or any other matters, a person remitting money through the Post Office by means of a money order may require that the amount of the order, if not paid to the payee, be repaid to him, or be paid to such person other than the original payee as he may direct. (2) If neither the payee nor the remitter of a money order can be found, and if within the period of one year from the date of issue of the order no claim is made by such payee or remitter, the amount of such order shall not be claimable from the Government.

Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881 Section 121

Title: Estoppel Against Denying Capacity of Payee to Indorse

State: Central

Year: 1881

No maker of a promissory note and no acceptor of a bill of exchange1[payable to ord er] sh all, in a suit thereon by a holder in due course, be permitted to deny the payee's capacity, at the rate of the note or bill, to indorse the same. ___________________ 1. Substituted by Act 8 of 1919, sec. 5, for "payable to, or to the order of, a specified person".

Income Tax Act, 1961 Chapter XVII

Title: Collection and Recovery of Tax

State: Central

Year: 1961

.....the public are substantially interested, being debentures listed on a recognised stock exchange in India in accordance with the Securities Contracts (Regulation) Act, 1956 (42 of 1956), and any rules made thereunder, if (a) the interest is paid by the company by an account payee cheque; and (b) the amount of such interest or, as the case may be, the aggregate of the amounts of such interest paid or likely to be paid during the financial year by the company to such individual does not exceed two thousand and five hundred rupees; 3[(vi) any interest payable to the Life Insurance Corporation of India established under the Life Insurance Corporation Act, 1956 (31 of 1956), in respect of any securities owned by it or in which it has full beneficial interest; or] 3[(vii) any interest payable to the General Insurance Corporation of India (hereafter in this clause referred to as the Corporation) or to any of the four companies (hereafter in this clause referred to as such company), formed by virtue of the schemes framed under sub-section (1) of section 16 of the General Insurance Business (Nationalisation) Act, 1972 (57 of 1972), in respect of any securities owned by the.....

Income Tax Act, 1961 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1961

INCOME TAX ACT, 1961 INCOME TAX ACT, 1961 43 of 1961 [AS AMENDED BY FINANCE ACT, 2003] An Act to consolidate and amend the law relating to income-tax and super-tax BE it enacted by Parliament in the Twelfth 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 Income-tax Act, 1961. (2) It extends to the whole of India. (3) Save as otherwise provided in this Act, it shall come into force on the 1st day of April, 1962. Section 2 Definitions 1 Inserted by the Direct Tax Laws (Amendment) Act, 1987, w.e.f. 1-4-1989.[(1) "advance tax" means the advance tax payable in accordance with the provisions of Chapter XVII-C;] 2 Renumbered as clause (1A) by the Direct Tax Laws (Amendment) Act, 1987, w.e.f. 1-4-1989.[(1A)] 3 For manner of computation of income which is partially agricultural and partially frombusiness, see rules 7, 7A, 7B and 8. For analysis, see Mashbra's Income-tax Rules."agricultural income" means - 4 Substituted by the Taxation Laws (Amendment) Act, 1970, w.r.e.f. 1-4-1962.[(a) any rent or revenue derived from land which is situated in India and is used for.....

Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1881

.....When the holder of an accepted bill of exchange enters into any contract with the acceptor which, under section 134 or 135 of the Indian Contract Act, 1872 (9 of 1872), would discharge the other parties, the holder may expressly reserve his right to charge the other parties, and in such case they are not discharged. SECTION 40: DISCHARGE OF INDORSER'S LIABILITY Where the holder of a negotiable instrument, without the consent of the indorser, destroys or impairs the indorser's remedy against a prior party, the indorser is discharged from liability to the holder to the same extent as if the instrument had been paid at maturity. Illustration A is the holder of a bill of exchange made payable to the order of B, which contains the following indorsements in blank- First indorsement, "B". Second indorsement, "Peter Williams". Third indorsement "Wright & Co." Fourth indorsement "John Rozario". This bill A puts in suit against John Rozario and strikes out, without John Rozario's consent, the indorsements by Peter Williams and Wright & Co. A is not entitled to recover anything from John Rozario. SECTION 41: ACCEPTOR BOUND, ALTHOUGH INDORSEMENT FORGED An acceptor of a bill of.....

Bills of Exchange Act, 1882 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1882

.....operates as notice that the agent has but a limited authority to sign, and the principal is only bound by such signature the agent in so signing was acting within the actual limit of his authority. SECTION 26: PERSON SIGNING AS AGENT OR IN REPRESENTATIVE CAPACITY (1) Where a person signs a bill as drawer, endorser or acceptor, and adds words to his signature, indicating that he signs for or on behalf of a principal, or in a representative character, he is not personally liable thereon ; but the mere addition to his signature of words describing him as an agent, or as filling a representative character, does not exempt him from personal liability. (2) In determining whether a signature on a bill is that of the principal or that of the agent by whose hand it is written, the construction most favourable to the validity of the instrument shall be adopted. SECTION 27: VALUE DEFINED (1) Valuable consideration for a bill may be constituted by- (a) any consideration sufficient to support a simple contract ; (b) an antecedent debt or liability. Such a debt or liability is deemed valuable consideration whether the bill is payable on demand or at a future time. (2) Where value.....

Income Tax Act, 1961 Section 40A

Title: Expenses or Payments Not Deductible in Certain Circumstances

State: Central

Year: 1961

.....may be prescribed2, having regard to the nature and extent of banking facilities available, considerations of business expediency and other relevant factors. 2[Provided further that in the case of payment made for plying, hiring or leasing goods carriages, the provisions of sub-sections (3) and (3A) shall have effect as if for the words twenty thousand rupees, the words thirty-five thousand rupees had been substituted.] (4) Notwithstanding anything contained in any other law for the time being in force or in any contract, where any payment in respect of any expenditure has to be made by 3[an account payee cheque drawn on a bank or account payee bank draft] in order that such expenditure may not be disallowed as a deduction under sub-section (3), then the payment may be made by such cheque or draft; and where the payment is so made or tendered, no person shall be allowed to raise, in any suit or other proceeding, a plea based on the ground that the payment was not made or tendered in cash or in any other manner. (5) and (6) [Omitted by the Direct Tax Laws (Amendment) Act, 1987, with effect from 1st April, 1989.] 4[(7) (a) Subject to the provisions of clause (b), no.....

Finance Act, 1995 Chapter III

Title: Direct Taxes

State: Central

Year: 1995

.....by virtue of holding a capital asset, being a share or any other security, within the meaning of clause (h) of section 2 of the Securities Contracts (Regulation) Act, 1956 (42 of 1956 (hereafter in this clause referred to as the financial asset), the assessee - (A) becomes entitled to subscribe to any additional financial asset; or (B) is allotted any additional financial asset without any payment, then, subject to the provisions of sub-clauses (i) and (ii) of clause (b)"; (ii) after sub-clause (iii), the following sub-clause shall be inserted, namely :- "(iiia) in relation to the financial asset allotted to the assessee without any payment and on the basis of holding of any other financial asset, shall be taken to be nil in the case of such assessee;". Section 15 - Insertion of New Section 80DDA After section 80DD of the Income-tax Act, the following section shall be inserted, with effect from the 1st day of April, 1996, namely :- '80DDA. Deduction in respect of deposit made for maintenance of handicapped dependant. - (1) In computing the total income of an assessee who is resident in India, being an individual or a Hindu undivided family, there shall be.....

Finance Act, 1995 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1995

.....by virtue of holding a capital asset, being a share or any other security within the meaning of clause (h) of section 2 of the Securities Contracts (Regulation) Act, 1956 (hereinafter in this clause referred to as the financial asset), the assessee" (A) becomes entitled to subscribe to any additional financial asset; or (B) is allotted any additional financial asset without any payment. then, subject to the provisions of sub-clauses (i) and (ii) of clause (b)"; (ii) after sub-clause (iii), the following sub-clause shall be inserted, namely :" '(iiia) in relation to the financial asset allotted to the assessee without any payment and on the basis of holding of any other financial asset, shall be taken to be nil in the case of such assessee"; SECTION 15: INSERTION OF NEW SECTION 80DDA After section 80DD of the Income-tax Act, the following section shall be inserted, with effect from the 1st day of April, 1996, namely :" '80DDA. Deduction in respect of deposit made for maintenance of handicapped dependant." (1) In computing the total income of an assessee who is resident in India, being an individual or a Hindu undivided family, there shall be deducted, in accordance with and.....

Cantonments Act, 1924 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1924

.....administration of cantonments the spirit of the reformed scheme of Government, recommended a complete revision and an algamation of the Cantonments Act(Act 15 of 1910) and the Cantonment Code, 1912, in order to bring into conformity with ordinary municipal law the system under which military cantonments are administered. The recommendations of the committee have now been examined by the Government of India and the conclusions arrived at are embodied in the BiH. The main features of the Rill are as follows:- (a) It is proposed to lake power to municipalize the government of those cantonments which contain a substantial civil population having no essential connection with or dependence upon the military administration. In other cantonments where these circumstances do not fully exist the administration of contanment. Affairs will be vested in the hands of the commanding officer of the cantonment, who for the purpose of the Act, will be constituted a corporation sole. The general effect will be that the Government authority will cease to be the purely executive .agency as at present. In the larger cantonments the existing cantonment committee will be replaced by a cantonment Board.....