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The Commercial Courts, Commercial Division &Amp; Commercial Appellate Division Of High Courts Act, 2015 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 2015

.....APPELLATE DIVISION OF HIGH COURTS ACT, 2015 THE COMMERCIAL COURTS, COMMERCIAL DIVISION & COMMERCIAL APPELLATE DIVISION OF HIGH COURTS ACT, 2015 NO. 4 OF 2016 An Act to provide for the constitution of Commercial Courts, Commercial Division and Commercial Appellate Division in the High Courts for adjudicating commercial disputes of specified value and matters connected therewith or incidental thereto. Be it enacted by Parliament in the Sixty-sixth Year of the Republic of India as follows: CHAPTER I PRELIMINARY Short title, extent and commencement. 1. (1) This Act may be called the Commercial Courts, Commercial Division and Commercial Appellate Division of High Courts Act, 2015. (2) It extends to the whole of India except the State of Jammu and Kashmir. (3) It shall be deemed to have come into force on the 23rd day of October, 2015. Definitions. 2. (1) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, (a) Commercial Appellate Division means the Commercial Appellate Division in a High Court constituted under sub-section (1) of section 5; (b) Commercial Court means the Commercial Court constituted under sub-section (1) of section 3; (c) commercial dispute .....

The Street Vendors (Protection Of Livelihood And Regulation Of Street Vending) Act, 2014 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 2014

.....area for public or any such place considered suitable for vending activities and providing services to the general public. (2) Any reference in this Act to any enactment or any provision thereof, shall, in relation to an area in which such enactment or such provision is not in force be construed as a reference to the corresponding law, if any, in force in that area. CHAPTER II REGULATION OF STREET VENDING Survey of street vendors and protection from eviction or relocation. 3. (1) The Town Vending Committee shall, within such period and in such manner as may be specified in the scheme, conduct a survey of all existing street vendors, within the area under its jursidiction, and subsequent survey shall be carried out at least once in every five years. (2) The Town Vending Committee shall ensure that all existing street vendors, identified in the survey, are accommondated in the vending zones subject to a norm conforming to two and half per cent. of the population of the ward or zone or town or city, as the case may be, in accordance with the plan for street vending and the holding capacity of the vending zones. (3) No street vendor shall be evicted or, as the case may be, relocated.....

Prohibition of Employment as Manual Scavengers and their Rehabilitation Act, 2013, Section 2

Title: Definitions

State: Central

Year: 2013

.....means a latrine which is not an 'insanitary latrine'; (p) "septic tank" means a water-tight settling tank or chamber, normally located underground, which is used to receive and hold human excreta, allowing it to decompose through bacterial activity; (q) "sewer" means an underground conduit or pipe for carrying off human excreta, besides other waste matter and drainage wastes; (r) "State Government", in relation to a Union territory, means the Administrator thereof appointed under article 239 of the Constitution; (s) "survey" means a survey of manual scavengers undertaken in pursuance of section 11 or section 14. (2) Words and expressions used and not defined in this Act, but defined in the Cantonments Act, 2006(41 of 2006), shall have the same meanings respectively assigned to them in that Act. (3) The reference to a Municipality under Chapters IV to VIII of this Act shall include a reference to, as the case may be, the Cantonment Board or the railway authority, in respect of areas included within the jurisdiction of the Cantonment Board and the railway land, respectively.

Companies Act, 2013, Section 333

Title: Disclaimer of Onerous Property

State: Central

Year: 2013

.....or assignment for the purpose: Provided that where the property disclaimed is of a leasehold nature, the Tribunal shall not make a vesting order in favour of any person claiming under the company, whether as under-lessee or as mortgagee or holder of a charge by way of demise, except upon the terms of making that person-- (a) subject to the same liabilities and obligations as those to which the company was subject under the lease in respect of the property at the commencement of the winding up; or (b) if the Tribunal thinks fit, subject only to the same liabilities and obligations as if the lease had been assigned to that person at that date, and in either event as if the lease had comprised only the property comprised in the vesting order, and any mortgagee or under-lessee declining to accept a vesting order upon such terms shall be excluded from all interest in, and security upon the property, and, if there is no person claiming under the company who is willing to accept an order upon such terms, the Tribunal shall have power to vest the estate and interest of the company in the property in any person liable, either personally or in a representative character,.....

Companies Act, 2013, Schedule

Title: Schedule Vi

State: Central

Year: 2013

.....power by laying a network of new transmission or distribution lines. (7) Petroleum and natural gas, including the following:-- (a) exploration and production; (b) import terminals; (c) liquefaction and re-gasification; (d) storage terminals; (e) transmission networks and distribution networks including city gas infrastructure. (8) Housing, including the following:-- (a) urban and rural housing including public/mass housing, slum rehabilitation, etc; (b) other allied activities such as drainage, lighting, laying of roads, sanitation and facilities. (9) Other miscellaneous facilities/services, including the following:-- (a) mining and related activities; (b) technology related infrastructure; (c) manufacturing of components and materials or any other utilities or facilities required by the infrastructure sector like energy saving devices and metering devices; (d) environment related infrastructure; (e) disaster management services; (f) preservation of monuments and icons; (g) emergency services (including medical, police, fire and rescue). (10) such other facility service as may be prescribed.

Companies Act, 2013, Section 216

Title: Investigation of Ownership of Company

State: Central

Year: 2013

.....company, for the purposes specified in sub-section (1). (3) While appointing an inspector under sub-section (1), the Central Government may define the scope of the investigation, whether as respects the matters or the period to which it is to extend or otherwise, and in particular, may limit the investigation to matters connected with particular shares or debentures. (4) Subject to the terms of appointment of an inspector, his powers shall extend to the investigation of any circumstances suggesting the existence of any arrangement or understanding which, though not legally binding, is or was observed or is likely to be observed in practice and which is relevant for the purposes of his investigation.

Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012, (Central) Section 11

Title: Sexual Harassment

State: Central

Year: 2012

A person is said to commit sexual harassment upon a child when such person with sexual intent,-- (i) utters any word or makes any sound, or makes any gesture or exhibits any object or part of body with the intention that such word or sound shall be heard, or such gesture or object or part of body shall be seen by the child; or (ii) makes a child exhibit his body or any part of his body so as it is seen by such person or any other person; or (iii) shows any object to a child in any form or media for pornographic purposes; or (iv) repeatedly or constantly follows or watches or contacts a child either directly or through electronic, digital or any other means; or (v) threatens to use, in any form of media, a real or fabricated depiction through electronic, film or digital or any other mode, of any part of the body of the child or the involvement of the child in a sexual act; or (vi) entices a child for pornographic purposes or gives gratification therefor. Explanation,--Any question which involves "sexual intent" shall be a question of fact.

Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012, (Central) Section 13

Title: Use of Child for Pornographic Purposes

State: Central

Year: 2012

Whoever, uses a child in any form of media (including programme or advertisement telecast by television channels or internet or any other electronic form or printed form, whether or not such programme or advertisement is intended for personal use or for distribution), for the purposes of sexual gratification, which includes-- (a) representation of the sexual organs of a child; (b) usage of a child engaged in real or simulated sexual acts (with or without penetration); (c) the indecent or obscene representation of a child, shall be guilty of the offence of using a child for pornographic purposes. Explanation.--For the purposes of this section, the expression "use a child" shall include involving a child through any medium like print, electronic, computer or any other technology for preparation, production, offering, transmitting, publishing, facilitation and distribution of the pornographic material.

Prevention of Money-laundering (Amendment) Act, 2012, (Central) Section 2

Title: Amendment of Section 2

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) for clause.....

Prevention of Money-laundering (Amendment) Act, 2012, (Central) Section 19

Title: Amendment of Section 24

State: Central

Year: 2012

For section 24 of the principal Act, the following section shall be substituted, namely: "24. Burden of Proof.-- In any proceeding relating to proceeds of crime under this Act,-- (a) in the case of a person charged with the offence of money-laundering under section 3. the Authority or Court shall, unless the contrary is proved. presume that such proceeds of crime are involved in money-laundering; and (b) in the case of any other person the Authority or Court, may presume that such proceeds of crime are involved in money-laundering.".