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Patents Act, 1970 (39 of 1970) Section 11

Title: Priority Dates of Claims of a Complete Specification

State: Central

Year: 1970

.....to which sub-sections (2), (3),1[ (3A)], (4) and (5) do not apply, the priority date of a claim shall, subject to the provisions of section 137, be the date of filing of the complete specification. (7) The reference to the date of the filing of the application or of the complete specification in this section shall, in cases where there has been a post-dating under section 9 or section 17 or, as the case may be, an ante-dating under section 16, be a reference to the date as so post-dated or ante-dated. (8) A claim in a complete specification of a patent shall not be invalid by reason only of- (a) the publication or use of the invention so far as claimed in that claim on or after the priority date of such claim; or (b) the grant of another patent which claims the invention, so far as claimed in the first mentioned claim, in a claim of the same or a later priority date. ________________________ 1. Inserted by Patents Amendment Act (15 of2005).

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Agriculture Credit Operation and Miscellaneous Provision Act, 1974 Section 7

Title: Priority of Charges and Mortgages over Certain Claims

State: Karnataka

Year: 1974

.....as term loan for development purposes, the charges or mortgages shall have priority in accordance with the dates of their creation or execution. Explanation.-For the purposes of this section, ''term loan for development purposes'' means financial assistance which would generally lead to improvement of agriculture and or building up of assets in agriculture but shall not include financial assistance for meeting working capital expenses, seasonal agricultural operations and marketing of crops. (4) Nothing in this section shall apply to borrowings from one or more co-operative societies only. _______________________ 1. Sub-Section (1) substituted by Act 34 of 1978 w.e.f. 29.12.1978.

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Sick Textile Undertakings( Nationalisation) Act, 1974 Section 21

Title: Priority of Claims

State: Central

Year: 1974

The claims arising out of the matters specified in the Second Schedule shall have priorities in accordance with the following principles namely : (a) Category I will have precedence over all other categories and Category II will have precedence over Category III and so on; (b) the claims specified in each of the categories except Category IV shall rank equally and be paid in full, but if the amount is insufficient to meet such claims in full, they shall abate in equal proportions and be paid accordingly; (c) the liabilities specified in Category IV shall be discharged, subject to the priorities specified in this section, in accordance with the terms of the secured loans and the priority inter se of such loans, and (d) the question of payment of a liability with regard to a matter specified in a lower category shall arise only if a surplus is left after meeting all the liabilities specified in the immediately higher category.

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Hindustan Tractors Limited (Acquisition and Transfer of Undertakings) Act, 1978 Section 20

Title: Priority of Claims

State: Central

Year: 1978

The claims arising out of the matters specified in the Schedule shall have priorities in accordance with the following principles, namely: (a) Category I shall have precedence over all other categories and Category II shall have precedence over Category III, and so on; (b) the claims specified in each of the categories, except Category III, shall rank equally and be paid in full, but, if the amount is insufficient to meet such claims in full, they shall abate in equal proportions and be paid accordingly; (c) the liabilities specified in Category III shall be discharged, subject to the priorities specified in this section, in accordance with the terms of the secured loans and the priority, inter se, of such loans; and (d) the question of discharging any liability with regard to a matter specified in a lower category shall arise only if a surplus is left after meeting all the liabilities specified in the immediately higher category.

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Textile Undertakings (Nationalisation) Act,1995 Section 21

Title: Priority of Claims

State: Central

Year: 1995

The claims arising out of the matters specified in the Second Schedule shall has priorities in accordance with the following principles, namely : (a) category I shall have precedence over all other categories and category II shall have precedence over category III and so on; (b) the claims specified in each of the categories, except category IV, shall rank equally and be paid in full, but if the amount is insufficient to meet such claim in full, they shall abate in equal proportions and be paid accordingly; (c) the liabilities specified in category IV shall be discharged, subject to the priorities specified in this section, in accordance with the terms of the secured loans and the priority inter se of such loans; and (d) the question of payment of a liability with regard to matter specified in a lower category shall arise only if a surplus is left after meeting all the liabilities specified in the immediately higher category.

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Braithwaite and Company (India) Limited (Acquisition and Transfer of Undertakings) Act, 1976 Section 18

Title: Priority of Claims

State: Central

Year: 1976

The claims arising out of the matters specified in the Schedule shall have priorities in accordance with the following principles, namely:- (a) Category I will have precedence over all other categories and Category II will have precedence over Category III, and so on; (b) the claims specified in each of the categories, except Category VI, shall rank equally and be paid in full, they shall abate in equal proportions and be paid accordingly; (c) the liabilities specified in Category VI shall be discharged, subject to the priorities specified in this section, in accordance with the terms of the secured loans and the priority, inter se, of such loans; and (d) the question of discharging any liability with regard to a matter specified in a lower category shall arise only if a surplus is left after meeting all the liabilities specified in the immediately higher category.

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Burn Company and Indian Standard Wagon Company (Nationalisation) Act, 1976 Section 18

Title: Priority of Claims

State: Central

Year: 1976

The claims arising out of the matters specified in the Second Schedule shall have priorities in accordance with the following principles, namely:- (a) Category I shall have precedence over all other categories and Category II shall have precedence over Category III, and so on; (b) the claims specified in each of the categories, except Category IV, shall rank equally and be paid in full, but, if the amount is insufficient to meet such claims in full, they shall abate in equal proportions and be paid accordingly; (c) the liabilities specified in Category IV shall be discharged, subject to the priorities specified in this section, in accordance with the terms of the secured loans and the priority, inter se, of such loans; and (d) the question of discharging any liability with regard to a matter specified in a lower category shall arise only if a surplus is left after meeting all the liabilities specified in the immediately higher category.

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Britannia Engineering Company Limited (Mokameh Unit) and the Arthur Butler and Company (Muzaffarpore) Limited (Acquisition and Transfer of Undertaking) Act 1978 Section 19

Title: Priority of Claims

State: Central

Year: 1978

The claims arising out of the matters specified in the Second Schedule shall have priorities in accordance with the following principles.Namely- (a) category I shall have precedence over all categories and category 11 shall have precedence over category 111 and so on; (b) the claim's specified in each of the categories except category 1v shall rank equally and be paid in full nut it the amount insufficient to meet such claims in full they shall abate in equal proportion and be paid accordingly; (c) the liabilities specified in category 1v shall be discharged subject to the priorities specified in this section in accordance with the terms of the secured loan and the priority inter so of such loans; and (d) the question of discharging any liability with regard to a matter specified in a lower category shall arise only if a surplus is left after meeting all the liabilities specified in the immediately higher category.

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Assam Sillimanite Limited (Acquisition and Transfer of Refractory Plant) Act, 1976 Section 17

Title: Priority in Relation to Other Claims

State: Central

Year: 1976

.....has, under such a contract with insurers as is mentioned in section 14 of the said Act, rights capable of being transferred to and vested in the workmen; (c) all sums deducted by the Company from the salary or wages of any employee of the Refractory Plant for credit to any provident fund or any other fund established for the welfare of the employees but not deposited to the credit of such funds. (3) The debts specified in sub-section (2) shall rank equally among themselves and be paid in full, unless the balance of the amount left after meeting the liabilities referred to in section 16, and sub-section (1) of this section, is insufficient to meet them, in which case they shall abate in equal proportions and be paid accordingly.

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Industries (Development and Regulation) Act, 1951 Section 29D

Title: Debts Incurred by the Authorized Person to Have Priority

State: Central

Year: 1951

1 [29-D. Debts incurred by the authorized person to have priority Every debt arising out of any loan obtained by the authorised person for carrying on the management of, or exercising function of control in relation to, an industrial undertaking or part thereof, the management of which has been taken over under Section 18-A or Section 18-AA or Section 18-FA,-- (a) shall have priority over all other debts, whether secured or unsecured, incurred before the management of such industrial undertaking was taken over, (b) shall be a preferential debt within the meaning of Section 530 of the Companies Act, 1956 (1 of 1956), and such debts shall rank equally among themselves and be paid in full out of the assets of the industrial undertakings unless such assets are insufficient to meet them, in which case they shall abate in equal proportions.] _____________________________ 1. Inserted by Act 72 of 1971, Section 8 (w.e.f. 1st November, 1971).

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