Skip to content


Bare Act Search Results

Home Bare Acts Phrase: section 197 Sorted by: old Page 1 of about 19 results (0.003 seconds)

Indian Penal Code (45 of 1860) Section 197

Title: Issuing or Signing False Certificate

State: Central

Year: 1860

Whoever issues or signs any certificate required by law to be given or signed, or relating to any fact of which such certificate is by law admissible in evidence, knowing or believing that such certificate is false in any material point, shall be punished in the same manner as if he gave false evidence.

View Complete Act      List Judgments citing this section

Indian Contract Act, 1872 Section 197

Title: Ratification May Be Expressed or Implied

State: Central

Year: 1872

Ratification may be expressed or may be implied in the conduct of the person on whose behalf the acts are done. Illustration (a) A, without authority, buys goods for B. Afterwards B sells them to C on his own account; B's conduct implies a ratification of the purchase made for him by A. (b) A, without B's authority, lends B's money to C. Afterwards B accepts interest on the money from C. B's conduct implies a ratification of the loan.

View Complete Act      List Judgments citing this section

Cantonments Act, 1924 Section 197

Title: Improper Use of Land

State: Central

Year: 1924

(1) If, in the opinion of a1[Board], the working of a quarry in the cantonment, or the removal of stone, earth or other material from the soil in any place in the cantonment, is dangerous to persons residing in or frequenting the neighbourhood of such quarry or place, or creates, or is likely to create, a nuisance, the1[Board] may, by notice in writing, prohibit the owner, lessee or occupier of such quarry of place or the person responsible for such2[working] or removal, from continuing or permitting the working of such quarry or the moving of such material, or require him to take such steps in the matter as the2[Board] may direct for the purpose of preventing danger or abating the nuisance arising or likely to arise therefrom. (2) If, in any case referred to in sub-section (1), the2[Board] is of opinion that such a course is necessary in order to prevent imminent danger, it may, by order in writing, require a proper hoarding or fence to be put up for the protection of passers-by. ________________________ 1. Substituted by Act 24 of 1936, section 69, for "Cantonment Authority" 2. Substituted by Act 8 of 1930, section 2 and Schedule I, for "making"

View Complete Act      List Judgments citing this section

Indian Succession Act, 1925 Section 197

Title: Prohibition of Exercise of Certain Powers by Curators

State: Central

Year: 1925

Section 197 - Prohibition of exercise of certain powers by curators ( 1) Where a certificate has been granted under Part X or under the Succession Certificate Act, 18891(7 of 1889), or a grant of probate or letters of administration has been made, a curator appointed under this Part shall not exercise any authority lawfully belonging to the holder of the certificate or to the executor or administrator. (2) Payment of debts, etc., to curators.-All persons who have paid debts or rents to a curator authorised by a Court to receive them shall be indemnified, and the curator sh all be responsible for the payment thereof to the person who has obtained the certificate, probate or letters of administration, as the case may be. ______________________ 1. Repealed partly by Act 39 of 1925 and finally by Act 1 of 1938.

View Complete Act      List Judgments citing this section

Government of India Act, 1935 [Repealed] Section 197

Title: Rights of Railway Companies in Respect of Arbitration Under Contracts

State: Central

Year: 1935

.....of this Act with respect to rights and liabilities under contracts made by or on behalf of the Secretary of State in Council, the provisions of this section shall have effect with respect to any contract so made with a railway company which immediately before the commencement of Part III of this Act was operating a railway in British India. (2) If a dispute arises under any such contract between the railway company concerned and either the Authority or the Federal Government, and if the matter in dispute is of such a nature that under the contract the company might require or, but for some provision of this Act, might have required, it to be submitted to arbitration, the dispute shall be deemed to have arisen between the company and the Secretary of State, and the pro­visions of the contract relating to the determination of such a dispute shall have effect with the substitution of the Secretary of State for the Secretary of State in Council. Any award made in an arbitration under the foregoing provisions this section and any settlement of the dispute agreed to by the Secretary of State with the concurrence of his advisers shall be binding on the Federal Government and the.....

View Complete Act      List Judgments citing this section

Companies Act, 1956 Section 197

Title: Publication of Reports of Proceedings of General Meetings

State: Central

Year: 1956

(1) No document purporting to be a report of the proceedings of any general meeting of a company shall be circulated or advertised at the expense of the company, unless it includes the matters required by section 193 to be contained in the minutes of the proceedings of such meeting. (2) If any report is circulated or advertised in contravention of sub-section (1), the company, and every officer of the company who is in default, shall be punishable, in respect of each offence, with fine which may extend to1[five thousand rupees]. ______________________ 1. Substituted by Act 53 of 2000, Section 83, for "five hundred rupees" (w.e.f. 13-12-2000).

View Complete Act      List Judgments citing this section

Merchant Shipping Act, 1958 Section 197

Title: Report of Desertions and Absence Without Leave

State: Central

Year: 1958

Whenever any seaman engaged outside India on an Indian ship deserts or otherwise absents himself in India without leave, the master of the ship shall, within forty-eight hours of discovering such desertion or absence, report the same to the shipping master or to such other officer as the Central Government specifies in this behalf, unless in the meantime, the deserter or absentee returns.

View Complete Act      List Judgments citing this section

Income Tax Act, 1961 Section 197

Title: Certificate for Deduction at Lower Rate

State: Central

Year: 1961

.....in the Official Gazette, make rules specifying the cases in which, and the circumstances under which, an application may be made for the grant of a certificate under sub-section (1) and the conditions subject to which such certificate may be granted and providing for all other matters connected therewith. ____________________ 1. See rules 28(1), 28AA, 28AB and 29 and Form Nos. 13, 15 and 15AA. For analysis, see Mashbras Income-tax Rules. 2. Substituted for any income of any person by the Finance Act, 2003, with effect from 1st June, 2003. 3. Substituted for 194A, 194D, 194H, 194-I, 194K, 194L by the Finance Act, 2003, with effect from 1st June, 2003. 4. Substituted for 194C, 194D, 194G, 194H, 194-I, 194J, 194K by the Finance (No. 2) Act, 2004, with effect from 1st October, 2004. 5. Inserted by the Finance Act, 2001, with effect from 1st June, 2001.

View Complete Act      List Judgments citing this section

Karnataka Land Revenue Act, 1964 Section 197

Title: Power of State Government to Make Rules

State: Karnataka

Year: 1964

.....that any person committing a breach of any specified rule shall, on conviction, be punished with imprisonment for a term not exceeding one month or with fine not exceeding five hundred rupees, or with both, in addition to any other consequences that would ensue from such breach. (4) A rule under this Act may be made with retrospective effect and whensuch a rule is made the reasons for making the rule shall be specified in a statement laid before both Houses of the State Legislature. Subject to any modification made under section 198, every rule made under this Act shall have effect as if enacted in this Act. ________________ 1. Substituted by Act 10 of 1985 w.e.f. 8.6.1984. 2. Inserted by Act 23 of 1982 w.e.f. 15.7.1982.

View Complete Act      List Judgments citing this section

Karnataka Municipalities Act, 1964 Section 197

Title: Right to Carry Drain Through Land or into Drain Belonging to Other Persons

State: Karnataka

Year: 1964

.....for maintaining, repairing, flushing, clearing and emptying the said drains as may appear to him to be adequate and equitable. (3) Every such order shall be a complete authority to the person in whose favour it is made, or to any agent or other person employed by him for this purpose, after giving or tendering to the owner, occupier or user of the said land or drain the compensation or rent, if any, specified in the said order, and otherwise fulfilling as far as possible the conditions of the said order, and after giving to the said owner, occupier, or user reasonable notice in writing, to enter upon the land specified in the said order with assistants and, workmen at any time between sunrise and sunset and, subject to the provisions of this Act, to do all such work as may be necessary, -- (a) for the construction or connection of the drain, as may be authorised by the said order; (b) for renewing, repairing, or altering the same as may be necessary from time to time; or (c) for discharging any responsibility attaching to him under the terms of the order as to maintaining, repairing, flushing, cleaning or emptying the said drain or any part thereof. (4) In.....

View Complete Act      List Judgments citing this section

  • << Prev.

Sign-up to get more results

Unlock complete result pages and premium legal research features.

Start Free Trial

Save Judgments// Add Notes // Store Search Result sets // Organize Client Files //