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Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1881

.....but indorsed the bill to A. A's title is subject to the same objection as the drawer's title. SECTION 60: INSTRUMENT NEGOTIABLE TILL PAYMENT OR SATISFACTION A negotiable instrument may be negotiated (except by the maker, drawee or acceptor after maturity) until payment or satisfaction thereof by the maker, drawee or acceptor at or after maturity, but not after such payment or satisfaction. SECTION 61: PRESENTMENT FOR ACCEPTANCE A bill of exchange payable after sight must, if no time or place is specified therein for presentment, be presented to the drawee thereof for acceptance, if he can, after reasonable search, be found, by a person entitled to demand acceptance within a reasonable time after it is drawn, and in business hours on a business day. In default of such presentment, on party thereto is liable thereon to the person making such default. If the drawee cannot, after reasonable search, be found, the bill is dishonoured. If the bill is directed to the drawee at a particular place, it must be presented at that place, and if at the due date for presentment he cannot, after reasonable search, be found thereon, the bill is dishonoured,20[Where authorised by agreement or.....

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Delhi Police Act, 1978 Complete Act

State: Delhi

Year: 1978

.....for further service in the police, the appointing authority shall forthwith permit him to withdraw from duty on his discharging, or giving a satisfactory security for the payment of any debt due from him as such police officer to Government or to any police fund : Provided that he shall forthwith return the certificate of appointment, arms, accoutrements, uniform and all other Government property in his possession before he is permitted to withdraw from duty. (7) If any such police officer of subordinate rank resigns or withdraws himself from the duties of his office in contravention of this section, he shall be liable on the orders of the appointing authority to forfeit all arrears of pay then due to him in addition to the penalty to which he may be liable under section 22 or any other law for the time being in force. (8) Every such police officer on leaving the service in the Delhi police as aforesaid shall be given by the appointing authority a Discharge Certificate in such form as may be prescribed. Section26 Certificate, arms etc., to be delivered by person ceasing to be a police officer (1) Every person who for any reason ceases to be a police officer shall.....

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Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881 Chapter IV

Title: Of Negotiation

State: Central

Year: 1881

.....party. Illustration The acceptor of a bill of exchange, when he accepted it, deposited with the drawer certain goods as a collateral security for the payment of the bill, with power to the drawer to sell the goods and apply the proceeds in discharge of the bill if it were not paid at maturity. The bill not having been paid at maturity, the drawer sold the goods and retained the proceeds, but indorsed the bill to A. A's title is subject to the same objection as the drawer's title. Section 60 - Instrument negotiable till payment or satisfaction A negotiable instrument may be negotiated (except by the maker, drawee or acceptor after maturity) until payment or satisfaction thereof by the maker, drawee or acceptor at or after maturity, but not after such payment or satisfaction.

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Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881 Section 58

Title: Instrument Obtained by Unlawful Means or for Unlawful Consideration

State: Central

Year: 1881

When a negotiable instrument has been lost, or has been obtained from any maker, acceptor or holder thereof by means of an offence or fraud, or for an unlawful consideration, no possessor or indorsee who claims through the person who found or so obtained the instrument is entitled to receive the amount due thereon from such maker, acceptor or holder, or from any party prior to such holder, unless such possessor or indorsee is, or some person through whom he claims was, a holder thereof in due course.

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Karnataka Police Act, 1963 Chapter VI

Title: Executive Powers and Duties of the Police

State: Karnataka

Year: 1963

.....require an account thereof, and, should the account given by the possessor be manifestly false or suspicious, may seize such article and report the facts to a1[Judicial Magistrate], who shall thereon proceed according to sections 523 and 525 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898, or any other law in force. _______________________________ 1. Substituted by Act 13 of 1965 w.e.f . 1.10.1965. Section 67 - Power to search suspected persons in a street When in a street or a place of public resort a person has possession or apparent possession of any article which a Police Officer in good faith suspects to be stolen property, such Police Officer may search or examine the same and may require an account thereof, and, should the account given by the possessor be manifestly false or suspicious, may seize such article and report the facts to a1[Judicial Magistrate], who shall thereon proceed according to sections 523 and 525 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898, or any other law in force. _______________________________ 1. Substituted by Act 13 of 1965 w.e.f . 1.10.1965. Section 68 - Duties of Police Officers towards the public It shall be the duty of every Police.....

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Copyright Act, 1957 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1957

.....disclosed, if either the identity of the author is disclosed publicly by both the author and the publisher or is otherwise established to the satisfaction of the Copyright Board by that author. SECTION 24: TERM OF COPYRIGHT IN POSTHUMOUS WORK (1) In the case of a literary, dramatic or musical work or an engraving, in which copyright subsists at the date of the death of the author or, in the case of any such work of joint authorship, at or immediately before the date of the death of the author who dies last, but which, or any adaptation of which, has not been published before that date, copyright shall subsist until 17[sixty] years from the beginning of the calendar year next following the year in which the work is first published or, where an adaptation of the work is published in any earlier year, from the beginning of the calendar year next following that year. (2) For the purposes of this section a literary, dramatic or musical work or an adaptation of any such work shall be deemed to have been published, if it has been performed in public or if any 10[sound recording] made in respect of the work have been sold to the public or have been offered for sale to the public. .....

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Delhi Police Act, 1978 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1978

.....for further service in the police, the appointing authority shall forthwith permit him to with- draw from duty on his discharging, or giving a satisfactory security for the payment of, any debt due from him as such police officer to Government or to any police fund : Provided that he shall forthwith return the certificate of appointment, arms, accoutrements, uniform and all other Government property in his possession before he is permitted to withdraw from duty. (7) If any such police officer of subordinate rank resigns or withdraws himself from the duties of his office in contravention of this section, he shall be liable on the orders of the appointing authority to forfeit all arrears of pay then due to him in addition to the penalty to which he may be liable under section 22-or any other law for the time being in force. (8) Every such police officer on leaving the service in the Delhi police as aforesaid shall be given by the appointing authority a Discharge Certi- ficate in such form as may be prescribed. SECTION 26: CERTIFICATE) ARMS, ETC., TO BE DELIVERED BY PERSON CEASING TO BE A POLICE OFFICER (1) Every person who for any reason ceases to be a police officer shall.....

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Drugs and Cosmetics Act, 1940 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1940

.....Committee appointed by the Legislative Assembly was of the opinion that a more comprehensive measure, providing for the uniform control of manufacture and distribution of drugs as well as of import, was desirable. The Government of India accordingly asked Provincial Governments to invite the Provincial Legislatures to pass resolutions under section 103 of the Government of India Act, 1935, empowering the Central Legislature to pass an Act for regulating such matters relating to the control of drugs as fall within the Provincial Legislative list. Such resolutions have now been passed by all Provincial Legislatures. Chapter II of the Bill establishes a Board of Technical Experts to advise the Central and the Provincial Governments on technical matters. Chapter III provides for the control of the import of drugs into British India. The executive power under this Chapter will accordingly be exercised by the Central Government. Chapter IV relates to control of the manufacture, sale and distribution of drugs and contains the provisions which it is proposed should be enacted in exercise of the power conferred by the resolutions under section 103 of the Government of India Act,.....

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Insecticides Act, 1968 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1968

INSECTICIDES ACT, 1968 INSECTICIDES ACT, 1968 46 of 1968 2nd September, 1968 An Act to regulate the import, manufacture, sale, transport, distribution and use of insecticides with a view to prevent risk to human beings or animals, and for matters connected therewith Be it enacted by Parliament in the Nineteenth Year of the Republic of India as follows: SECTION 01: SHORT TITLE, EXTENT AND COMMENCEMENT (1) This Act may be called the Insecticides Act, 1968. (2) It extends to the whole of India. (3)'lt shall come into force on such date1as the Central Government may, by notification in the official Gazette, appoint and different dates may be appointed for different States2. SECTION 02: APPLICATION OF OTHER LAWS NOT BARRED The provisions of this Act shall be in addi- tion to, and not in derogation of, any other law for the time being in force. SECTION 03: DEFINITIONS In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,- (a) "animals" means animals useful to human beings and includes fish and fowl, and such kinds of wild life as the Central Government may, by notification in the official Gazette, specify, being kinds which in its opinion, it is desirable to protect or.....

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Seeds Act, 1966 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1966

.....those Governments on all matters arising out of the proposed Legislation: (b) fixing minimum standards of germination, purity and other quality factors; (c) testing seeds for quality factors at the seed testing laboratories to be established by the Central Government and the State Governments; (d) creating of seed inspection and certification service in each State and grant of licences and certificates to dealers in seeds; (c) compulsory labelling of seed containers to indicate the quality of seeds offered for sale, and (f) restricting the export, import and inter-State movement of non-descript seeds. In order to eliminate undue hardship, provision has been made in the Bill for exempting the sale of seed by (i) plant breeders, (ii) certain classes of producers, and (iii) any other persons for purposes other than for the purpose of sowing or planting.-Gaz. of Ind., 7-9-1964, Pt. II, section 2, Ext., p. 433. An Act to provide for regulating the quality of certain seeds for sale, and for matters connected therewith. BE it enacted by Parliament in the Seventeenth Year of the Republic of India as follows :- SECTION 01: SHORT TITLE, EXTENT AND COMMENCEMENT (1) This Act may be.....

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