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Title: Power of the Central Government to Co-ordinate, Regulate and Supervise Operations Connected with Administration, Management, Etc., of Public Records
State: Central
Year: 1993
.....of records and application of standards, procedures and techniques of records management; (j) survey and inspection on public records; (k) organising training programmes in various disciplines of Archives administration and records management; (l) accepting records from any private source; (m) regulating access to public records; (n) receiving records from defunct bodies and making arrangement for securing public records in the event of national emergency; (o) receiving reports on records management and disposal practices from the records Officer; (p) providing authenticated copies of, or extracts from, public records; (q) destroying or disposal of public records; (r) obtaining on lease or purchasing or accepting as gift any document of historical or national importance.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionKarnataka Public Libraries Act, 1965 Chapter III
Title: Department of Public Libraries
State: Karnataka
Year: 1965
.....and library man-power of the State; (g) perform such other functions as may be entrusted to the Department by or under the provisions of this Act. Section 14 - Director of Public Libraries 1 [Director of PublicLibraries] (1) A whole-time officer having the prescribed qualifications to practise the library profession shall be appointed by the State Government as the1 [Director of Public Libraries]. (2) The 1 [Director of Public Libraries] shall,- (a) function as the Librarian of the State Central Library; (b) superintendent, direct, and deal with all matters relating to the Press and Registration of Books Act, 1867 (Central Act 25 of 1867) and to the maintenance and service of the books sent under the said Act; (c) control the appointments, postings, and transfers of officers and servants in the State Library Service; (d) generally assist the State Library Authority in performing its functions; (e) exercise such other powers and performs such other duties as may be conferred or imposed on him by or under this Act. _________________________ 1. Substituted by Act 30 of 1984 w.e.f. 22.5.1984 Section 14 - Director of Public Libraries 1 [Director of.....
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionYoung Persons (Harmful Publication) Act, 1956 Section 6
Title: Power to Seize and Destroy Harmful Publications
State: Central
Year: 1956
(1) Any police officer or any other officer empowered in this behalf by the State Government may seize any harmful publication. (2) Any magistrate of the first class may, by warrant, authorise any police officer not below the rank of sub-inspector to enter and search any place where any stock of harmful publications may be or may be reasonably suspected to be, and such police officer may seize any publication found in such place if in his opinion it is a harmful publication. (3) Any publication seized under sub-section (1) shall be produced, as soon as may be, before a magistrate of the first class, and any publication seized under sub-section (2) shall be produced, as soon as may be, before the court which issued the warrant. (4) If in the opinion of the magistrate or court such publication is a harmful publication, the magistrate or court may cause it to be destroyed, but if, in the opinion of the magistrate or court, such publication is not a harmful publication, the magistrate or court shall dispose of it in the manner provided in sections 523, 524 and 525 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898 (5 of 1898).
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionPublic Premises (Eviction of Unauthorised Occupants) Act, 1971 Section 6
Title: Disposal of Property Left on Public Premises by Unauthorised Occupants
State: Central
Year: 1971
.....is unable to decide as to the person or persons to whom the balance of the amount is payable or as to the apportionment of the same, he may refer such dispute to the civil Court of competent jurisdiction and the decision of the court thereon shall be final. 1[(2A) The expression "costs", referred to in sub-section (2), shall include the cost of removal recoverable under section 5A and the cost of demolition recoverable under section 5B.] _________________________ 1. Inserted by the Public Premises (Eviction of Unauthorised Occupants) Amendment Act, 1980 (61 of 1980), section 7 (20-12-1980). 2. Substituted for the words "corporate body" by the Public Premises (Eviction of Unauthorised Occupants) Amendment Act, 1980 (61 of 1980), section 7 (20-12-1980), section 2.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionDelivery of Books and Newspapers (Public Libraries) Act, 1954 Amending Act 1
Title: Delivery of Books (Public Libraries) Amendment Act, 1956
State: Central
Year: 1954
.....in this behalf by the Central Government in the Official Gazette.". 6. Amendment of section 5.- In section 5 of the principal Act,--- (a) for the words "and the value of the book", the words "and, if the contravention is in respect of a book, shall also be punishable with fine which shall be equivalent to the value of the book" shall be substituted; (b) after the words "to which the book", the words "or newspaper, as the case may be" shall be inserted. 7. Substitution of new section for section 7.-- For section 7 of the principal Act, the following section shall be substituted, namely:-- "7. Application of Act to books and newspapers published by Government.-- This Act shall also apply to books and newspapers published by or under the authority of the Government but shall not apply to books meant for official use only.".
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionPublic Records Act, 1993 Complete Act
Title: Public Records Act, 1993
State: Central
Year: 1993
Preamble1 - PUBLIC RECORDS ACT, 1993 Section1 - Short title and commencement Section2 - Definitions Section3 - Power of the Central Government to co-ordinate, regulate and supervise operations connected with administration, management, etc., of public records Section4 - Prohibition against taking of public records out of India Section5 - Records officer Section6 - Responsibilities of records officer Section7 - Records officer to take appropriate action in the event of unauthorised removal, destruction, etc., of public records in his custody Section8 - Destruction or disposal of public records Section9 - Penalty for contraventions Section10 - Public records bearing security classification Section11 - Receipt of records from private sources Section12 - Access to public records Section13 - Archival Advisory Board Section14 - Functions of the Board Section15 - Power of the Director General to lay down norms and standards for courses in archival science Section16 - Protection of action taken in good faith Section17 - Power to make rules Section18 - Laying of rules before Parliament
List Judgments citing this sectionYoung Persons (Harmful Publication) Act, 1956 Section 3
Title: Penalty for Sale, Etc., of Harmful Publications
State: Central
Year: 1956
(1) If a person-- (a) sells, lets to hire, distributes, publicly exhibits or in any manner puts into circulation, any harmful publication, or (b) for purposes of sale, hire, distribution, public exhibition or circulation, prints, makes or produces or has in his possession any harmful publication, or (c) advertises or makes known by any means whatsoever that any harmful publication can be procured from or through any person, he shall be punishable with imprisonment which may extend to six months, or with fine, or with both. (2) On a conviction under this section, the court may order the destruction of all the copies of the harmful publication in respect of which the conviction was had and which are in the custody of court or remain in the possession or power of the person convicted.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionPublic Gambling Act 1867 Section 13
Title: Gaming and Setting Birds and Animals to Fight in Public Streets
State: Central
Year: 1867
A police officer may apprehend without warrant any person found playing for money or other valuable thing with cards, dice, counters or other instruments of gaming, used in playing any game not being a game of mere skill in any public street, place or thoroughfare situated within the limits aforesaid or any person setting any birds or animals to fight in any public street, place or thoroughfare situated within the limits aforesaid or any person there present aiding and abetting such public fighting of birds and animals. Such person when apprehended shall be brought without delay before a Magistrate, and shall be liable to a fine not exceeding fifty rupees, or to imprisonment, either simple or rigorous, for any term not exceeding one calendar month; Distraction of instruments of gaming found in public street. and such police officer may seize all instruments of gaming found to such public place or on the person of those whom he shall so arrest, and the Magistrate may on conviction of the offender order such instruments to be forthwith destroyed.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionPublic Debt Act, 1944 Preamble 1
Title: Public Debt Act, 1944
State: Central
Year: 1944
THE PUBLIC DEBT ACT, 1944 [Act, No. 18 of 1944] [22nd November, 1944] PREAMBLE An Act to consolidate and amend the law relating to Government securities1[* * *] and to the management by the Reserve Bank of India .of the public debt of2[the Government] WHEREAS it is expedient to consolidate and amend the law relating to Government securities1[* * *] and to the management by the Reserve Bank of India of the public debt of2[the Government]; It is hereby enacted as follows :-- ________________________ 1. The words "issued by the Central Government" were omitted by the Public Debt (Central Government) Amendment Act, 1949 (6 of 1949), Section 2 (1-4-1949). 2. Substituted for the words "the Union and the Part A States" by the Public Debt (Amendment) Act, 1956 (57 of 1956), Section 2 (15-10-1956).
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionParliamentary Proceedings (Protection of Publication) Act, 1977 Section 3
Title: Publication of Reports of Parliamentary Proceedings Privileged
State: Central
Year: 1977
(1) Save as otherwise provided in sub-section (2), no person shall be liable to any proceedings, civil or criminal, in any court in respect of the publication in a newspaper of a substantially true report of any proceedings of either House of Parliament unless the publication is proved to have been made with malice. (2) Nothing in sub-section (1) shall be construed as protecting the publication of any matter, the publication of which is not for the public good.
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