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Durgah Khawaja Saheb Act, 1955 Section 17

Title: Defect in the Constitution Of, or Vacancy in the Committee Not to Invalidate Acts and Proceedings

State: Central

Year: 1955

No act or proceeding of the Committee shall be invalidated merely by reason of the existence of a vacancy among its members or a defect in the constitution thereof.

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Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006 Section 17

Title: Proceedings of Food Authority

State: Central

Year: 2006

.....chosen by the Members present from amongst themselves, shall preside at the meeting. (3) All questions which come up before any meeting of the Food Authority shall be decided by a majority of votes of the Members present and voting, and in the event of an equality of votes, the Chairperson or the person presiding over the meeting shall have the right to exercise a second or casting vote. (4) All orders and decisions of the Food Authority shall be authenticated by the Chief Executive Officer. (5) The Chief Executive Officer shall take part in the meetings of the Food Authority but without a right to vote. (6) The Food Authority may invite the Chairperson of the Scientific Committee to attend its meetings but without a right to vote. (7) No act or proceedings of the Food Authority shall be questioned or invalidated merely on the ground of existence of any vacancy or defect in the constitution of the Food Authority.

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Coal Mines Conservation and Development Act 1974 Section 17

Title: Protection of Action Taken in Good Faith

State: Central

Year: 1974

No suit, prosecution or other legal proceedings shall lie against the Central Government or against the Chairman or any other member of the Coal Board or any officer thereof or any other person in respect of anything which is in good faith done or intended to be done in pursuance of this Act or of any rules or orders made thereunder, or in pursuance of the Coal Mines (Conservation, Safety and Development) Act, 1952 or any rule made thereunder.

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Minimum Wages Act, 1948 Section 17

Title: Minimum Time Rate Wages for Piece Work

State: Central

Year: 1948

Where an employee is employed on piece work for which minimum time rate and not a minimum piece rate has been fixed under this Act, the employer shall pay to such employee ages at not less than the minimum time rate.

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Coal Mines Taking over of Management Act 1973 Section 17

Title: Power to Make Rules

State: Central

Year: 1973

.....which such rule is required to be, or may be, made. (3) Every rule made by the Central Government under this Act shall be laid, as soon as may be after it is made, before each House of Parliament, while it is in session, for a total period of thirty days which may be comprised in one session or in two or more successive sessions, and if, before the expiry of the session immediately following the session or the successive sessions aforesaid, both Houses agree in making any modification in the rule or both Houses agree that the rule should not be made, the rule shall thereafter have effect only in such modified form or be of no effect, as the case may be; so, however, that any such modification or annulment shall be without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done under that rule.

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Birds & Company Limited Acquistion & Transfer of Undertakings & Other Properties Act, 1980 Section 17

Title: Priority of Claims

State: Central

Year: 1980

The claims arising out of the matters specified in the Schedule II shall have priorities in accordance with the following principles:- (a) Category I shall have precedence over all other categories and Category II shall have precedence over Category III, and so on; (b) the claims specified in each of the categories shall rank equally and be paid in full, but, if the amount is insufficient to meet such claims in full, they shall abate in equal proportions and be paid accordingly; and (c) the question of discharging any liability with regard to a matter specified in a lower category shall arise only if a surplus is left after meeting all the liabilities specified in the immediately higher category.

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Ganesh Flour Mills Company Limited (Acquisition and Transfer of Undertakings) Act, 1984 Section 17

Title: Claims to Be Made to the Commissioner

State: Central

Year: 1984

Every person having a claim against the Company in relation to the Ganesh Flour Mills with regard to any of the matters specified in the Schedule shall prefer such claim before the Commissioner within thirty days from the specified date. Provided that if the Commissioner is satisfied that the claimant was prevented by sufficient cause from preferring the claim, within the said period of thirty days, he may entertain the claim within a further period of thirty days, but not thereafter.

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Recovery of Debts Due to Banks and Financial Institutions Act, 1993 Section 17

Title: Jurisdiction, Powers and Authority of Tribunals

State: Central

Year: 1993

(1) A Tribunal shall exercise, on and from the appointed day, the jurisdiction, powers and authority to entertain and decide applications from the banks and financial institutions for recovery of debts due to such banks and financial institutions. (2) An Appellate Tribunal shall exercise, on and from the appointed day, the jurisdiction, powers and authority to entertain appeals against any order made, or deemed to have been made, by a Tribunal under this Act.

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CONVERTS' MARRIAGE DISSOLUTION ACT, 1866 Section 17

Title: Decree in case of male respondent refusing to cohabit on grounds of petitioners change of religion

State: Central

Year: 1866

If the respondent be a male, and in answer to the interrogatories of the Judge or Commissioners, as the case may be, shall refuse to cohabit with the petitioner, the Judge, if upon consideration of the respondent's answers and of the facts which may have been proved by the petitioner he shall be of opinion that the ground of such refusal is the petitioner's change of religion, shall adjourn the case for a year. At the expiration of such adjournment, the petitioner shall again appear in Court; and if the respondent on being interrogated by the Judge or Commissioners, as the case may be, again refuse to cohabit with the petitioner, the Judge shall thereupon pass such a decree as last aforesaid : Proviso.-- Provided that if the petitioner shall so desire (but not otherwise), the proceedings in the suit shall, mutatis mutandis, be the same as in the case of a female respondent.

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Government of India Act, 1858 [Repealed] Section 17

Title: Compensations to Officers on Home Establishment of the Company and of Board of Control Not Retained on New Establishment

State: Central

Year: 1858

It Shall be lawful for Her Majesty, by Warrant under Her Royal Sign Manual, countersigned by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, to grant to any Secretary, Officer or Servant on the Home Establishment of the Company, or on the Establishment of the said Commissioners, who in consequence of such Reduction as aforesaid by the Secretary of State or under such Order in Council is not retained on the Establishment of the Secretary of State in Council, any Compensation, either by way of a gross or annual Payment, as having regard to the Circumstances, may seem just.

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