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Prevention of Terrorism Act, 2002 [Repealed] Section 57

Title: Protection of Action Taken in Good Faith

State: Central

Year: 2002

No suit, prosecution or other legal proceeding shall lie against the Central Government or a State Government or any officer or authority of the Central Government or State Government or any other authority on whom powers have been conferred under this Act, for anything which is in good faith done or purported to be done in pursuance of this Act: Provided that no suit, prosecution or other legal proceedings shall lie against any serving member or retired member of the armed forces or other para-military forces in respect of any action taken or purported to be taken by him in good faith, in the course of any operation directed towards combating terrorism.

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Indian Contract Act, 1872 Section 57

Title: Reciprocal Promise to Do Things Legal, and Also Other Things Illegal

State: Central

Year: 1872

Where persons reciprocally promise, firstly, to do certain things which are legal, and, secondly, under specified circumstances to do certain other things which are illegal, the first set of promises is a contract, but the second is a void agreement. Illustration A and B agree that A shall sell B a house for 10,000 rupees, but that, if B uses it as a gambling house, he shall pay A 50,000 rupees for it. The first, set of reciprocal promises, namely, to sell the house and to pay 10,000 rupees for it, is a contract. The second set is for an unlawful object, namely, that B may use the house as a gambling house, and is a void agreement.

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Northern India Canal and Drainage Act, I873 Section 57

Title: Preparation of Schemes for Works of Improvement

State: Central

Year: 1873

Whenever it appears to the State Government that any drainage-works are necessary for the improvement of any lands, or for the proper cultivation or irrigation thereof, or that protection from floods or other accumulations of water, or from erosion by a river, is required for any lands, the State Government may cause a scheme for such drainage-works to be drawn up and published, together with an estimate of its cost and a statement of the proportion of such cost which the State Government proposes to defray, and a schedule of the lands which it is proposed to make chargeable in respect of the scheme.

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INDIAN EASEMENTS ACT, 1882 Section 57

Title: Grantor's duty to disclose defects

State: Central

Year: 1882

The grantor of a licence is bound to disclose to the licensee any defect in the property affected by the licence, likely to be dangerous to the person or property of the licensee, of which the grantor is, and the licensee is not, aware.

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Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 Section 57

Title: Subsistence Allowance

State: Central

Year: 1908

The State Government may fix scales, graduated according to rank, race and nationality, of monthly allowances payable for the subsistence of judgment-debtors.

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Punjab Reorganisation Act, 1966 Section 57

Title: Provident Fund

State: Central

Year: 1966

(1) The liability of the existing State of Punjab in respect of the provident fund account of a Government servant in service on the appointed day shall, on and from that day, be the liability of the successor State to which that Government servant is permanently allotted. (2) The liability of the existing State of Punjab in respect of the provident fund account of a Government servant who has retired from service before the appointed day shall be the liability of the State of Punjab in the first instance and shall be adjusted between the successor States according to the population ratio.

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Assam Reorganisation (Meghalaya) Act, 1969 Section 57

Title: Authorisation of Expenditure Pending Its Sanction by Legislative Assembly

State: Central

Year: 1969

The Governor may, at any time before the appointed day, authorise such expenditure from the Consolidated Fund of Meghalaya as he deems necessary for a period of not more than six months beginning with the appointed day pending the sanction of that expenditure by the Legislative Assembly: Provided that the Governor may, after the appointed day, authorise such further expenditure as he deems necessary from the Consolidated Fund of Meghalaya for any period not extending beyond the said period of six months.

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Army Act, 1950 Section 57

Title: Falsifying Official Documents and False Declaration

State: Central

Year: 1950

Any person subject to this Act who commits any of the following offences, that is to say,-- (a) in any report, return, list, certificate, book or other document made or signed by him, or of the contents of which it is his duty to ascertain the accuracy, knowingly makes, or is privy to the making of any false or fraudulent statement; or (b) in any document of the description mentioned in clause (a) knowingly makes, or is privy to the making of, any omission, with intent to defraud; or (c) knowingly and with intent to injure any person, or knowingly and with intent to defraud, suppresses, defaces, alters or makes away with any documents which it is his duty to preserve or produce; or (d) where it is his official duty to make a declaration respecting any matter, knowingly makes a false declaration; or (e) obtains for himself, or for any other person, any pension, allowance or other advantage or privilege by a statement which is false, and which he either knows or believes to be false or does not believe to be true, or by making or using a false entry in any book or record or by making any document containing a false statement, or by omitting to make a true entry or.....

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Finance Act, 1982 Section 57

Title: Bank of Bhutan to Be Exempt from Liability to Pay Income-tax on Certain Income

State: Central

Year: 1982

Notwithstanding anything contained in the Income-tax Act, the Bank of Bhutan constituted under the Royal Charter of the Bank of Bhutan, 1968, shall not be liable to pay any income-tax on the interest accruing during the period commencing on the 1st day of January, 1972, and ending with the 31st day of December, 1986, on the deposits made by that bank with the State Bank of India constituted under the State Bank of India Act, 1955 (23 of 1955).

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Air Force Act, 1950 Section 57

Title: Falsifying Official Documents and False Declaration

State: Central

Year: 1950

Any person subject to this Act who commits any of the following offences, that is to say,-- (a) in any report, return, list, certificate; book or other document made or signed by him, or of the contents of which it is his duty to ascertain the accuracy, knowingly makes, or is privy to the making of, any false or fraudulent statement; or (b) in any document of the description mentioned in clause (a) knowingly makes, or is privy to the making of, any omission, with intent to defraud; or (c) knowingly and. with intent to injure any person, or knowingly and with intent to defraud, suppresses, defaces, alters or makes away with any document which it is his duty to preserve or produce; or (d) where it is his official duty to make a declaration respecting any matter knowingly makes a false declaration; or (e) obtains for himself, or for any other person, any pension, allowance or other advantage or privilege by a statement which is false, and which he either knows or believes to be false or does not believe to be true, or by making or using a false entry in any book or record, or by making any document containing a false statement, or by omitting to make a true entry or.....

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