Title : Report of the Result
State : Central
Year : 1951
As soon as may be after the result of an election has been declared, the returning officer shall report the result to the appropriate authority and the Election Commission, and in the case of an election to a House of Parliament or of the Legislature of a State also to the Secretary of that House, and the appropriate authority shall cause to be published in the Official Gazette the declarations containing the names of the elected candidates. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Election Petitions
State : Central
Year : 1951
No election shall be called in question except by an election petition presented in accordance with the provisions of this Part. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Documentary Evidence
State : Central
Year : 1951
Notwithstanding anything in any enactment to the contrary, no document shall be inadmissible in evidence at the trial of an election petition on the ground that it is not duly stamped or registered. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Procedure for Withdrawal of Election Petition
State : Central
Year : 1951
(1) If there are more petitioners than one, no application to withdraw an election petition shall be made except with the consent of all the petitioners. (2) No application for withdrawal shall be granted if, in the opinion of the High Court, such application has been induced by any bargain or consideration which ought not to be allowed. (3) If the application is granted-- (a) the petitioner shall be ordered to pay the costs of the respondents there to fore incurred or such portion thereof as the High Court may think fit; (b) the High Court shall direct that the notice of withdrawal shall be published in the Official Gazette and in such other manner as it may specify and thereupon the notice shall be published accordingly; (c) a person who might himself have been a petitioner..... View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Statements Made by Person to the Election Commission
State : Central
Year : 1951
No statement made by a person in the course of giving evidence before the Election Commission shall subject him to, or be used against him in, any civil or criminal proceeding except a prosecution for giving false evidence by such statement: Provided that the statement-- (a) is made in reply to a question which he is required by the Commission to answer, or (b) is relevant to the subject-matter of the inquiry. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Procedure to Be Followed by the Election Commission
State : Central
Year : 1951
The Election Commission shall have the power to regulate its own procedure (including the fixing of places and times of its sittings and deciding whether to sit in public or in private.) View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Term of Office of Members of State Legislative Councils
State : Central
Year : 1951
(1) The term of office of a member of the Legislative Council of a State, other than a member chosen to fill a casual vacancy, shall be six years, but upon the first constitution of the Council the Governor1[***] shall, after consultation with the Election Commission, make by order such provision as he thinks fit for curtailing the term of office of some of the members then chosen in order that, as nearly as may be, one-third of the members holding seals of each class shall retire in every second year thereafter. (2) A member chosen to fill a casual vacancy shall be chosen to serve for the remainder of his predecessor's term of office. ______________________ 1. The words "or the Rajpramukh, as the case may be" omitted by the Adaptation of Laws (No.2) Order, 1956. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Proceeding After Service of Notice on Respondents
State : Central
Year : 1951
(1) If there is a dispute as to whether the applicant is a displaced person or not or the assets of any displaced debtor, the Tribunal shall decide the matter after taking such evidence as may be adduced by all the parties concerned and shall pass such decree in relation thereto as it thinks fit. (2) If there is no such dispute or if the respondents do not appear or have o objection tot he application being granted, the Tribunal may, after considering the evidence placed before it, pass such decree in relation thereto as it thinks fit. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Claims by Creditors Against Displaced Debtors
State : Central
Year : 1951
Any displaced person having a claim against a displaced debtor may make an application, in such form as may be prescribed, for the determination thereof to the Tribunal within the local limits of whose jurisdiction the displaced debtor actually and voluntarily resides, or carries on business, or personally works for gain, together with a statement of the debts owed to the creditor with full particulars thereof. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Simplified Procedure in Certain Cases.-in the Determination of Any Individual Debt Which Does Not Exceed Five Thousand Rupees
State : Central
Year : 1951
(a) it shall not be necessary for the Tribunal to take down the evidence of the witnesses in writing at length but the Tribunal, as the examination of each witness proceeds, shall make a memorandum of the substance of what he deposes and such memorandum shall be written and signed by the Tribunal and shall form part of the record; (b) the decision of the Tribunal need not contain more than the points for determination and the decision thereon. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this section