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Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 Section 179

Title: Offence Triable Where Act is Done or Consequence Ensues

State: Central

Year: 1973

When an act is an offence by reason of anything which has been done and of a consequence which has ensued, the offence may be inquired into or tried by a Court within whose local jurisdiction such thing has been done or such consequence has ensued.

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Merchant Shipping Act, 1958 Section 179

Title: Particulars to Be Furnished in Plaints, Etc.

State: Central

Year: 1958

(1) If any person presenting any plaint, application or appeal to any Court has reason to believe that any adverse party is a serving seaman, he shall make a statement accordingly in the plaint, application or appeal. (2) If any collector has reason to believe that any seaman who ordinarily resides or has property in his district and who is a party to any proceedings pending before any Court is unable to appear therein or is a serving seaman, the collector may certify the facts to the Court.

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Indian Contract Act, 1872 Section 179

Title: Pledge Where Pawnor Has Only a Limited Interest

State: Central

Year: 1872

Where a person pledges goods in which he has only a limited interest, the pledge is valid to the extent of that interest.

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Income Tax Act, 1961 Section 179

Title: M.private Companies

State: Central

Year: 1961

1 [M.-Privatecompanies] ________________________ 1.Substituted for "M.-Private company in liquidation" by the TaxationLaws (Amendment) Act, 1975, w.e.f. 1-10-1975.

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Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 Section 179

Title: Disobedience of Orders, Obstruction and Refusal of Information

State: Central

Year: 1988

(1) Whoever wilfully disobeys any direction lawfully given by any person or authority empowered under this Act to give such direction, or obstructs any person or authority in the discharge of any functions which such person or authority is required or empowered under this Act to discharge, shall, if no other penalty is provided for the offence be punishable with fine which may extend to five hundred rupees. (2) Whoever, being required by or under this Act to supply any information, wilfully withholds such information or gives information which he knows to be false or which he does not believe to be true, shall, if no other penalty is provided for the offence, be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to one month, or with fine which may extend to five hundred rupees, or with both.

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Indian Penal Code (45 of 1860) Section 179

Title: Refusing to Answer Public Servant Authorised to Question

State: Central

Year: 1860

Whoever, being legally bound to slate the truth on any subject to any public servant, refuses to answer any question demanded of him touching that subject by such public servant in the exercise of the legal powers of such public servant, shall be punished with simple imprisonment for a term which may extend to six months, or with fine which may extend to one thousand rupees, or with both.

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Indian Succession Act, 1925 Section 179

Title: No Ademption by Subsequent Provision for Legatee

State: Central

Year: 1925

No bequest shall be wholly or partially adeemed by a subsequent provision made by settlement or otherwise for the legatee. Illustrations (i) A bequeaths 20,000 rupees to his son B. He afterwards gives to B the sum of 20,000 rupees. The legacy is not thereby adeemed. (ii) A bequeaths 40,000 rupees to B, his orphan niece whom he had brought up from her infancy. Afterwards, on the occasion of B's marriage, A settles upon her the sum of 30,000 rupees. The legacy is not thereby diminished.

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Railways Act, 1989 Section 179

Title: Arrest for Offences Under Certain Sections

State: Central

Year: 1989

.....servant or the police officer or the officer authorised, as the case may be, may call to his aid any other person to effect the arrest under subsection (1) or sub-section (2), as the case may be. (4) Any person so arrested under this section shall be produced before the nearest Magistrate within a period of twenty-four hours of such arrest excluding the time necessary for the journey from the place of arrest to the court of the Magistrate.] ________________________ 1. Substituted by the Railways (Second Amendment) Act, 2003. Prior to substitution, it read as under: "179. Arrest for offences under certain sections.-- (1) If a person commits any offence mentioned in sections 137, 141 to 147, 150 to 157, 160 to 162, 164, 166, 168 and 172 to 175, he may be arrested without warrant or other written authority by any railway servant or police officer not below the rank of a head constable, (2) The railway servant or the police officer may call to his aid any other person to effect the arrest under sub-section (1). (3) Any person so arrested under this section shall be produced before the nearest Magistrate within a period of twenty-four hours of such arrest excluding.....

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Government of India Act, 1935 [Repealed] Section 179

Title: Legal Proceedings as to Certain Matters

State: Central

Year: 1935

.....the Secretary of State shall be deemed to be substituted in those proceedings for the Secretary of State in Council, and the provisions of sub-section (1) of this section shall apply in relation to sums ordered to be paid, and costs or expenses incurred, by the Secretary of State or the Secretary of State in Council in or in connection with any such proceedings as they apply in relation to sums ordered to be paid in, and costs or expenses incurred in or in connection with the defence of, proceedings brought against the Secretary of Slate under the said sub­section (1). (3) Any contract made in respect of the affairs of the Federation or a Province by or on behalf of the Secretary of State after the commence-ment of Part III of this Act may provide that any proceedings under that contract shall be brought in the United Kingdom by or against the Secretary of State and any such proceedings may be brought accordingly, and any sum ordered to be paid by the Secretary of State by way of debt, damages or costs in any such proceedings, and any costs or expenses incurred by the Secretary of State in or in connection therewith, shall be paid out of the revenues of the Federation.....

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Electricity Act, 2003 Section 179

Title: Rules and Regulations to Be Laid Before Parliament

State: Central

Year: 2003

Every rule made by the Central Government, every regulation made by the Authority, and every regulation made by the Central Commission shall be laid, as soon as may be after it is made, before each House of the 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 regulation or agree that the rule or regulation should not be made, the rule or regulation 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 or regulation.

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