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Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012, (Central) Section 15

Title: Punishment for Storage of Pornographic Material Involving Child

State: Central

Year: 2012

Any person, who stores, for commercial purposes any pornographic material in any form involving a child shall be punished with imprisonment of either description which may extend to three years or with fine or with both.

Finance Act, 2012, (Central) Schedule

Title: the Third Schedule

State: Central

Year: 2012

.....covered by ISRI code word 'Vaunt"'; (6) in Chapter 76, in heading 7602, in tariff item 7602 00 10, in column (2),-- (a) for the words "ISRI code word 'Talap', the words "ISRI code word 'Talc"' shall be substituted; (b) for the words "ISRI code word 'Tanri', the words "ISRI code word 'Tann'" shall be substituted; (c) for the words "old aluminium foil covered by ISRI code word 'Testy"', the following words shall be substituted, namely:-- "New aluminium foil covered by ISRI code word 'Tetra'; Old aluminium foil covered by ISRI code word 'Tesla';"; (d) for the words "ISRI code word 'Twitch"', the following words and brackets shall be substituted, namely:-- "ISRI codeword 'Twitch'; Aluminium auto or truck wheels covered by ISRI code word 'Troma'; Fragmentizer aluminium scrap from automobile shredders covered by ISRI code word 'Tweak'; Burnt Fragmentizer aluminium scrap (from automobile shredders) covered by ISRI code word 'Twire'; Shredded non-ferrous scrap (predominantly aluminium) covered by ISRI code word 'Zorba'; Aluminium drosses, spatterns, spellings, skimmings and sweepings covered by ISRI code word 'Thirl'; New production aluminium extrusions.....

Finance Act, 2012, (Central) Schedule

Title: the Seventh Schedule

State: Central

Year: 2012

.....of jewellery or on articles of goldsmiths' or silversmiths' wares of precious metal or of metal clad with precious metal, shall amount to "manufacture".'; (b) for the entry in column (4) occurring against all the tariff items of heading 7101, 7103, 7104 (except 7104 10 00), 7105 and 7106, the entry "12%" shall be substituted; (c) in tariff item 7104 10 00, for the entry in column (4), the entry "6%" shall be substituted; (d) in tariff item 7107 00 00, for the entry in column (4), the entry "12%" shall be substituted; (e) for the entry in column (4) occurring against all the tariff items of heading 7108, the entry "12%" shall be substituted; (f) in tariff item 7109 00 00, for the entry in column (4), the entry "12%" shall be substituted; (g) for the entry in column (4) occurring against all the tariff items of heading 7110, the entry "12%" shall be substituted; (h) in tariff item 7111 00 00, for the entry in column (4), the entry "12%" shall be substituted; (i) for the entry in column (4) occurring against all the tariff items of headings 7112, 7113, 7114, 7115 and 7116, the entry "12%" shall be substituted; (j) for the entry in column (4) occurring against.....

Prevention of Money-laundering (Amendment) Act, 2012, (Central) Section 16

Title: Substitution of New Sections for Section 20 and Section 21

State: Central

Year: 2012

.....principal Act, the following sections shall be substituted, namely:-- "20. Retention of property.-- (1) Where any property has been seized under section 17 or section 18 or frozen under sub-section (1A) of section 17 and the officer authorised by the Director in this behalf has, on the basis of material in his possession, reason to believe (the reason for such belief to be recorded by him in writing) that such property is required to be retained for the purposes of adjudication under section 8, such property may, if seized, be retained or if frozen, may continue to remain frozen, for a period not exceeding one hundred and eighty days from the day on which such property was seized or frozen, as the case may be. (2) The officer authorised by the Director shall, immediately after he has passed an order for retention or continuation of freezing of the property for purposes of adjudication under section 8, forward a copy of the order along with the material in his possession, referred to in sub-section (1), to the Adjudicating Authority, in a sealed envelope, in the manner as may be prescribed and such Adjudicating Authority shall keep such order and material for such period as.....

The Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 2012

.....over another person, for the purpose of any offence under this Act, is said to aid the doing of that act. 17. Whoever abets any offence under this Act, if the act abetted is committed in consequence of the abetment, shall be punished with punishment provided for that offence. Explanation. " An act or offence is said to be committed in consequence of abatement, when it is committed in consequence of the instigation, or in pursuance of the conspiracy or with the aid, which constitutes the abetment. 18. Whoever attempts to commit any offence punishable under this Act or to cause such an offence to be committed, and in such attempt, does any act towards the commission of the offence, shall be punished with imprisonment of any description provided for the offence, for a term which may extend to one-half of the imprisonment for life or, as the case may be, one-half of the longest term of imprisonment provided for that offence or with fine or with both. CHAPTER V PROCEDURE FOR REPORTING OF CASES 19. (1) Notwithstanding anything contained in the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973, any person (including the child), who has apprehension that an offence under this Act is likely to.....

Prevention of Moneylaundering (Amendment) Act, 2012 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 2012

..... (ii) after Clause (h), the following Clause shall be inserted, namely" ˜(ha) "client" means a person who is engaged in a financial transaction or activity with a reporting entity and includes a person on whose behalf the person who engaged in the transaction or activity, is acting;'; (iii) after Clause (i), the following Clauses shall be inserted, namely" ˜(ia) "corresponding law" means any law of any foreign country corresponding to any of the provisions of this Act or dealing with offences in that country corresponding to any of the scheduled offences; (ib) "dealer" has the same meaning as assigned to it in Clause (b) of Section 2 of the Central Sales Tax Act, 1956 (74 of 1956);'; (iv) Clause (ja) shall be omitted; (v) for Clause (l), the following Clause shall be substituted, namely" ˜(l) "financial institution" means a financial institution as defined in Clause (c) of Section 45-I of the Reserve Bank of India Act, 1934 (2 of 1934) and includes a chit fund company, a housing finance institution, an authorised person, a payment system operator, a non-banking financial company and the Department of Posts in the Government of India;'; (vi).....

Finance Act, 2012, (Central) Section 142

Title: Amendment of Chapter Notes to Chapter 54 of First Schedule

State: Central

Year: 2012

.....2010, namely: "1A. Notwithstanding anything contained in Note 1, man-made fibre such as polyester staple fibre and polyester filament yarn manufactured from plastic and plastic waste including waste polyethylene terephthalate bottles shall be classified as textile material under Chapter 54 or Chapter 55, as the case may be.". (2) Any action taken or anything done or purported to have been taken or done for recovery of duty of excise at any time during the period commencing on and from the 29th day of June, 2010 and ending with the date on which the Finance Act, 2012 receives the assent of the President (hereafter in this section referred to as the "specified period"), shall be deemed to be, and always to have been, for all purposes, as validly and effectively taken or done as if the amendment made by sub-section (1) had been in force at all material times and, accordingly, notwithstanding any judgment, decree or order of any court, tribunal or other authority (a) all duties of excise levied, assessed or collected during the specified period on such goods shall be deemed to be and always to have been, as validly levied, assessed or collected as if the amendment made by.....

Prevention of Money-laundering (Amendment) Act, 2012, (Central) Section 5

Title: Amendment of Section 5

State: Central

Year: 2012

In section 5 of the principal Act, for sub-section (1), the following sub-section shall be substituted, namely:-- "(1) Where the Director or any other officer not below the rank of Deputy Director authorised by the Director for the purposes of this section, has reason to believe (the reason for such belief to be recorded in writing), on the basis of material in his possession, that- (a) any person is in possession of any proceeds of crime; and (b) such proceeds of crime are likely to be concealed, transferred or dealt with in any manner which may result in frustrating any proceedings relating to confiscation of such proceeds of crime under this Chapter, he may, by order in writing, provisionally attach such property for a period not exceeding one hundred and eighty days from the date of the order, in such manner as may be prescribed: Provided that no such order of attachment shall be made unless, in relation to the scheduled offence, a report has been forwarded to a Magistrate under section 173 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973(2 of 1974), or a complaint has been filed by a person authorised to investigate the offence mentioned in that Schedule, before a.....

Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Amendment Act, 2012 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 2012

.....features as specified in the Third Schedule.'; (v) after sub-section (1), the following sub-section shall be inserted, namely" "(2) The terrorist act includes an act which constitutes an offence within the scope of, and as defined in any of the treaties specified in the Second Schedule.". 5. Omission of Section 16-A." Section 16-A of the principal Act shall be omitted. 6. Substitution of new Section for Section 17." For Section 17 of the principal Act, the following Section shall be substituted, namely" "17. Punishments for raising funds for terrorist act." Whoever, in India or in a foreign country, directly or indirectly, raises or provides funds or collects funds, whether from a legitimate or illegitimate source, from any person or persons or attempts to provide to, or raises or collects funds for any person or persons, knowing that such funds are likely to be used, in full or in part by such person or persons or by a terrorist organisation or by a terrorist gang or by an individual terrorist to commit a terrorist act, notwithstanding whether such funds were actually used or not for commission of such act, shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which shall not.....

Finance Act, 2012, (Central) Section 143

Title: Amendment of Act 32 of 1994

State: Central

Year: 2012

.....the Reserve Bank of India Act, 1934(2 of 1934); (43) "securities" has the meaning assigned to it in clause (h) of section 2 of the Securities Contract (Regulation) Act, 1956(42 of 1956); (44) "service" means any activity carried out by a person for another for consideration, and includes a declared service, but shall not include (a) an activity which constitutes merely, (i) a transfer of title in goods or immovable property, by way of sale, gift or in any other manner; or (ia) such transfer, delivery or supply of any goods which is deemed to be a sale within the meaning of clause (29A) of article 366 of the Constitution; or (ii) a transaction in money or actionable claim; (b) a provision of service by an employee to the employer in the course of or in relation to his employment; (c) fees taken in any Court or tribunal established under any law for the time being in force. Explanation 1. For the removal of doubts, it is hereby declared that nothing contained in this clause shall apply to, (A) the functions performed by the Members of Parliament, Members of State Legislature, Members of Panchayats, Members of Municipalities and Members of other local authorities.....