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MERCHANT SHIPPING ACT, 1958 Section 95

Title: Business of seamen's employment offices

State: Central

Year: 1958

.....of seamen] (c) to perform such other duties relating to seamen and merchant ships as are from time to time, committed to them by or under this Act. 2 [***] (3) The Central Government may make rules for the purpose of enabling seamen's employment offices effectively to exercise their powers under this Act; and in particular and, without prejudice to the generality of such power, such rules may, provide for- (a) consultation with respect to any specified matter by seamen's employment offices with such advisory boards or other authorities as the Central Government may think fit to constitute or specify in this behalf; 3 [(b) the levy and collection of such fees as may be specified for the issue of licences to recruitment and placement services, renewal of such licences and services to be rendered by the seamen's employment office; (c) the issue of directions by the Central Government to any seamen's employment office or any recruitment and placement service with reference to the exercise of any of its powers; (ca) the conditions under which the recruitment and placement service to recruit and place seafarers abroad; (cb) the circumstances and conditions under.....

MERCHANT SHIPPING ACT, 1958 Section 12

Title: Seamen's employment offices

State: Central

Year: 1958

.....if done by or before a director for the purposes of this Act. (4) The Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, direct that at any port at which no separate seamen's employment office is established, the functions of the seamen's employment office in that port shall be discharged by such person or body of persons as it may specify in the notification, and thereupon the office of the person or body of persons so specified shall be deemed to be the seamen's employment office established at that port for the purposes of this Act. ___________________________ 1. Such offices have been established at Bombay and Calcutta w.e.f. 1-1-1961. 2. Director-General of Shipping, Bombay, appointed as intermediate authority for the purposes of this sub-section.

MERCHANT SHIPPING ACT, 1958 Section 13

Title: Seamen's welfare officers

State: Central

Year: 1958

(1) The Central Government may appoint a seamen's welfare officers at such ports in or outside India as it may consider necessary. (2) A seamen's welfare officer appointed under sub-section (1) shall perform-- (a) in the case of any such officer appointed at any port in India, such functions in relation to welfare of seamen as may be assigned to him by the Central Government; (b) in the case of any such officer appointed at any port outside India, such functions in relation to welfare of seamen and such functions of an Indian consular officer under Part VII as may be assigned to him by the Central Government. (3) If any seamen's welfare officer appointed at any port outside India performs any functions assigned to an Indian consular officer under Part VII, such functions shall have the same effect as if they had been performed by an Indian consular officer for the purposes of that Part.

MERCHANT SHIPPING ACT, 1958 Section 298

Title: Information about ship's stability

State: Central

Year: 1958

.....for the purpose of section 208 (which requires documents relating to navigation to be delivered by the master of a ship to his successor) information4[including any amendment thereto] under this section shall be deemed to be a document relating to the navigation of the ship. ________________________ 1. Substituted for the words "about the ships stability as is necessary for the guidance of the master in loading and ballasting the ship' by the Merchant Shipping (Amendment) Act, 1966 (21 of 1966),Section 14 (28-5-1966). 2. Substituted for former sub-section (2), by the Merchant Shipping (Amendment) Act, 1966 (21 of 1966),Section 14 (28-5-1966). 3. Inserted, by the Merchant Shipping (Amendment) Act, 1966 (21 of 1966),Section 14 (28-5-1966). 4. Inserted, by the Merchant Shipping (Amendment) Act, 1966 (21 of 1966),Section 14 (28-5-1966).

MERCHANT SHIPPING ACT, 1958 Section 192

Title: Power to suspend deserter's certificate of discharge

State: Central

Year: 1958

If it is shown to the satisfaction of a proper officer that a seaman has deserted his ship or has absented himself it hout leave and without sufficient reason from his ship or from his duty, the proper officer hall forthwith make a report to that effect to the Director-General who may thereupon direct hat the seaman's certificate of discharge or continuous certificate of discharge shall be it hheld for such period as may be specified in the direction.

Bombay Inferior Village Watans Abolition Act, 1958, (Maharashtra) Section 12

Title: Appeal Against Collector?€™s Award

State: Maharashtra

Year: 1958

An appeal shall lie against an award of the Collector to the 1[Maharashtra Revenue Tribunal] constituted under the Bombay Revenue Tribunal Act, 19572, notwithstanding anything contained in the said Act. NOTES Jurisdiction of Revenue Tribunals.-The section provides for an appeal to the Tribunal only against an award made by the Collector under the said Act. It does not provide for an appeal to the Tribunal against the Tahsildar s order.- Latari Rama Warti v. Krishna Rajeswar Thipe, 1967 Mah, L. J. 27 (Rev.). ___________________ 1. These words were substituted for the words "Bombay Revenue Tribunal" by the Maharashtra Adaptation of Laws (State and Concurrent Subjects) Order, 1960. Subsequently the words "Divisional Commissioner" were substituted by Mah. 25 of 2002 and again the words "Maharashtra Revenue Tribunal" were substituted by Mah. 23 of 2007, Sch. Serial No. 30(19). 2. Now see Maharashtra Land Revenue Code, 1966 (Mah. XLI of 1966).

Gift Tax Act, 1958 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1958

.....shall be deemed to be a gift made by the transferor; (c) where there is a release, discharge, surrender, forfeiture, abandonment of any debt, contract or other actionable claim or of any interest in property by any person, the value of the release, discharge, surrender, forfeiture or abandonment, to the extent to which it has not been found to the satisfaction of the [Assessing officer] to have been bona fide, shall be deemed to be a gift made by the person responsible for the release, discharge, surrender, forfeiture or abandonment; (d) where a person absolutely entitled to property causes or has caused the same to be vested in whatever manner in himself and any other person jointly without adequate consideration and such other person makes an appropriation from or out of the said property, the amount of the appropriation used for the benefit of the person making the appropriation or for the benefit of any other person shall be deemed to be a gift made in his favour by the person who causes or has caused the property to be so vested. 29[(e) where a person who has an interest in property as a tenant for a term or for life or a remainder man surrenders or relinquishes his.....

Merchant Shipping Act, 1958 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1958

.....To meet the immediate requirements of the country soon after independence the Merchant Shipping Laws. (Extension to Acceding States and Amendment) Act, 1949 was enacted, by which the British Merchant Shipping Acts 1894 to 1938 were extended to the Acceding States (later known as Part B States) and Indian Consular Officers were empowered to perform functions in relation to Indian ships outside India and provision was made to enable Government to prescribe the proper national colours for ships registered in India, The Control of Shipping Act, 1947, was another short-term measure which continued the war-time control over Indian shipping and controlled the coastal trade by a system of licensing. This Act, which has been renewed from time to time, is due to expire on the 31st March, 1958. 3. The present Bill revises and consolidates all laws in force in India relating to merchant shipping, whether passed by the British Parliament or the Indian Legislature, and makes provision for the matters discussed in the succeedihg paragraphs, which also indicate the principal changes made in the law ........... -Gaz. of Ind., 1958, Extra., Pt. II, S. 2, p. 203.Act 21 of 1966.- The minimum.....

Bombay Stamp Act, 1958 Complete Act

State: Maharashtra

Year: 1958

.....issued under clause (f) and on which any or all of the powers of the collector under this Act are conferrend" by the Bombay Stamp (Amendment) Act, 2006 (Act No. 12 of 2006) (w.e.f 01-05-2006) [so designated by the State Government and includes any other officer whom the State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint in this behalf]] (h) "duly stamped" as applied to an instrument means that the instrument bears an adhesive or impressed stamp of not less than the proper amount and that such stamp has been affixed or used in accordance with the law for the time being in force in the State;" (i) "executed" and "execution" used with reference to instruments, mean "signed" and "signature"; 14 Added by Mah.32 of 2005 (w.e.f 7-05-2005)Explanation.-The terms "signed" and "signature" also include attribution of electronic record as per section 11 of the Information Technology Act, 2000. (j) "Government securities" means a Government security as defined in the Public Debt Act, 1944; 15 Cl.(ja) was inserted by Mah.27 of 1985, S.2(d) (w.e.f. 1-12-1985)(ja) "immovable property" includes land, benefits to arise out of land, and things attached to the earth,.....

Merchant Shipping Act, 1958 Part VII

Title: Seamen and Apprentices

State: Central

Year: 1958

.....ordinarily engaged in maritime navigation, other than a ship of war.] _________________________ 1. Inserted by the Merchant Shipping (Amendment) Act, 2007 [Act No. 40 of 2007]. Section 100 - Agreements with crew The master of every Indian ship, except a home-trade ship of less than two hundred tons gross, shall enter into an agreement (in this Act called the agreement with the crew) in accordance with this Act with every seaman whom he engages in, and carries to sea as one of his crew from any port in India. Section 101 - Form and contents of the agreement (1) An agreement with the crew shall be in the prescribed form, and shall be dated at the time of the first signature thereof, and shall be1[signed by the owner or agent and the master] before any seaman signs the same. (2) The agreement with the crew shall contain as terms thereof the following particulars, namely:- (a) the name of the ship or ships on board which the seaman undertakes to serve: (b) either the nature and, as far as practicable, the duration of the intended voyage or engagement or the maximum period of the voyage or engagement, and the places or parts of the world, if any, to which the voyage.....