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Information Technology Act, 2000 Section 77B

Title: Offences with Three Years Imprisonment to Be Bailable

State: Central

Year: 2000

1[77B. Offences with three years imprisonment to be bailable.- Notwithstanding anything contained in the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973(2 of 1974), the offence punishable with imprisonment of three years and above shall be cognizable and the offence punishable with imprisonment of three years shall be bailable.] _________________ 1. Inserted vide Information Technology (Amendment) Act, 2008.

Companies Act, 1956 Section 77B

Title: Prohibition for Buy-back in Certain Circumstances

State: Central

Year: 1956

1[77B. Prohibition for buy-back in certain circumstances (1) No company shall directly or indirectly purchase its own shares or other specified securities - (a) through any subsidiary company including its own subsidiary companies; or (b) through any investment company or group of investment companies; or (c) if a default, by the company, in repayment of deposit or interest payable thereon, redemption of debentures or preference shares or payment of dividend to any shareholder or repayment of any term loan or interest payable thereon to any financial institution or bank, is subsisting. (2) No company shall directly or indirectly purchase its own shares or oilier specified securities in case such company has not complied with the provisions of sections 159, 207 and 211.] _____________________ 1. Inserted by Act 21 of 1999, Section 4 (w.r.e.f. 31-10-1998).

Electricity (Supply) Act, 1948 [Repealed] Section 77B

Title: Offences by Companies

State: Central

Year: 1948

.....be liable to be proceeded against and punished accordingly: Provided that nothing contained in this sub-section shall render any such person liable to any punishment, if he proves that the offence was committed without his knowledge or that he exercised all due diligence to prevent the commission of such offence. (2) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (1), where an offence under this Act has been committed with the consent or connivance of, or is attributable to any neglect on the part of, any director or manager, secretary or other officer of the company, such director, manager, secretary or other officer shall also be deemed to be guilty of that offence and shall be liable to be proceeded against and punished accordingly. Explanation. For the purposes of this section, (a) "company" means any body corporate and includes a firm or other association of individuals; and (b) "director" in relation to a firm means a partner in the firm.

Companies Act, 1956 Part 3

Title: Prospectus and Allotment, and Other Matters Relating to Issue of Shares or Debentures

State: Central

Year: 1956

.....1934), repayment of such deposit shall be made in full on or before the 1st day of April, 1975, and such repayment shall be without prejudice to any action that may be taken under the Reserve Bank of India Act, 1934 for the acceptance of such deposit in contravention of such direction. 6[(3A) Every deposit accepted by a company after the commencement of the Companies (Amendment) Act, 1998, shall, unless renewed in accordance with the rules made under sub-section (1), be repaid in accordance with the terms and conditions of such deposit.] (4) Where any deposit is accepted by a company after the commencement of the Companies (Amendment) Act, 1974, in contravention of the rules made under sub­section (1), repayment of such deposit shall be made by the company within thirty days from the date of acceptance of such deposit or within such further time, not exceeding thirty days, as the Central Government may, on sufficient cause being shown by the company, allow. (5) Where a company omits or fails to make repayment of a deposit in accordance with the provisions of clause (c) of sub-section (3), or in the case of a deposit referred to in sub-section (4), within the time.....

Information Technology Act, 2000 Chapter XI

Title: Offences

State: Central

Year: 2000

.....- Punishment for disclosure of information in breach of lawful contract 1[72A. Punishment for disclosure of information in breach of lawful contract.-- Save as otherwise provided in this Act or any other law for the time being in force, any person including an intermediary who, while providing services under the terms of lawful contract, has secured access to any material containing personal information about another person, with the intent to cause or knowing that he is likely to cause wrongful loss or wrongful gain discloses, without the consent of the person concerned, or in breach of a lawful contract, such material to any other person, shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to three years, or with fine which may extend to five lakh rupees, or with both.] _________________ 1. Inserted vide Information Technology (Amendment) Act, 2008. Section 73 - Penalty for publishing Electronic Signature Certificate false in certain particulars (1) No person shall publish a 1[Electronic] Signature Certificate or otherwise make it available to any other person with the knowledge that (a) the Certifying Authority listed in the certificate has not.....

Companies Act, 1956 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1956

.....as in the (Depositories Act, 1996) (22 of 1996); (12B) "derivative" has the same meaning as in clause (aa) of (S.2 of the Securities Contracts (Regulation) Act, 1956) (42 of 1956);] (13) "director" includes any person occupying the position of director, by whatever name called; (14) "District Court" means the principal Civil Court of original jurisdiction in a district, but does not include a High Court in the exercise of its ordinary original civil jurisdiction ; [(14A) "dividend" includes any interim dividend;] (15) "document" includes summons, notice, requisition, order, other legal process, and registers, whether issued, sent or kept in pursuance of this or any other Act or otherwise ; [(15A) "employees stock option" means the option given to the whole-time directors, officers or employees of a company, which gives such directors, officers or employees the benefit or right to purchase or subscribe at a future date, the securities offered by the company at a pre-determined price;] (16) "existing company" means an existing company as defined in (section 3); (17) "financial year" means, in relation to any body corporate, the period in respect of which.....

Companies Act, 1956 Section 77A

Title: Power of Company to Purchase Its Own Securities

State: Central

Year: 1956

.....resolution is proposed to be passed shall be accompanied by an explanatory statement stating - (a) a full and complete disclosure of all material facts; (b) the necessity for the buy-back; (c) the class of security intended to be purchased under the buy-back; (d) the amount to be invested under the buy-back; and (e) the time limit for completion of buy-back. (4) Every buy-back shall be completed within twelve months from the date of passing the3[special resolution or a resolution passed by the Board] under clause (b) of sub-section (2). (5) The buy-back under sub-section (1) may be - (a) from the existing security holders on a proportionate basis; or (b) from the open market; or (c) from odd lots, that is to say, where the lot of securities of a public company, whose shares are listed on a recognised stock exchange, is smaller than such marketable lot, as may be specified by the stock exchange; or (d) by purchasing the securities issued to employees of the company pursuant to a scheme of stock option or sweat equity. (6) Where a company has passed a special resolution under clause (b) of sub­section (2)2[or the Board has passed a resolution under the.....

Electricity (Supply) Act, 1948 [Repealed] Chapter VI

Title: Miscellaneous

State: Central

Year: 1948

.....a multi-purpose scheme for the development of any river in any region is in operation,1[the Board and the Generating Company shall co-ordinate their activities] with the activities of the persons responsible for such scheme in so far as they are inter-related. _____________________________ 1. Substituted by Act 115 of 1976, Section 28, for "the Board shall co-ordinate its activities" w.r.e.f. 8-10-1976. Section 74 - Powers of entry Any1[officer or other employee]2[of the Board or of a Generating Company] generally or specially3[authorised by the Board or by the Generating Company, as the case may be,] in this behalf may at any reasonable time after giving the owner or occupier reasonable notice enter upon any land or premises and there do such things as may be reasonably necessary for the purposes of lawfully using any transmission lines or main transmission lines or of making any survey, examination or investigation preliminary or incidental to the exercise of powers or the performance of4[duties by the Board or by the Generating Company, as the case may be,] under this Act. ______________________________ 1. Substituted by Act 23 of 1978, Section 17, for "officer or.....

The Madras Estates Land Act, 1908 Complete Act

State: Kerala

Year: 1908

THE MADRAS ESTATES LAND ACT, 1908 THE MADRAS ESTATES LAND ACT, 1908 [Act No. 1 of 1908] PREAMBLE An Act to declare and amend the law relating to the holding of land in estates in the Presidency of Madras. WHEREAS it is expedient to amend and declare the Law relating to the holding of land in estates in the Presidency of Madras; It is hereby enacted as follows:- Chapter I - PRELIMINARY THE MADRAS ESTATES LAND ACT, 1908 [Act No. 1 of 1908] PREAMBLE An Act to declare and amend the law relating to the holding of land in estates in the Presidency of Madras. WHEREAS it is expedient to amend and declare the Law relating to the holding of land in estates in the Presidency of Madras; It is hereby enacted as follows:- Section 1 - Short title, Commencement, Local extent This Act may be called the Madras Estates Land Act, 1908: It shall come into force on the first day of July 1908: and it shall extend to the whole of the Presidency of Madras except the Presidency Town, the district of Malabar and the portion of the Nilgiri district known as the South East Wynaad. Section 2 - Repeal Madras Acts VIII of 1865 and II of 1871 and section 7 of Madras Act.....

Karnataka Land Reforms Act, 1961 Section 79C

Title: Penalty for Failure to Furnish Declaration

State: Karnataka

Year: 1961

(1) Where a person fails to furnish the declaration under section 79A or section 79B or furnishes a declaration knowing or having reason to believe it to be false, the Tahsildar shall issue a notice in the prescribed form to such person to show cause within fifteen days from the date of service thereof why the penalty specified in the notice, which may extend to five hundred rupees, may not be imposed upon such person. (2) If the Tahsildar on considering the reply, if any, filed is satisfied that the person had failed to furnish the declaration without reasonable cause or had filed it, knowing or having reason to believe it to be false, he may, by order, impose the penalty and also require such person to furnish within a period of one month from the date of the order a true and correct declaration complete in all particulars. (3) If the person fails to comply with such order, his right, title and interest in the land concerned shall, as penalty, be forfeited to and vest in the State Government.] _______________________________ 1. Section 77A, 77B and 77C inserted by Act 1 of 1974 w.e.f. 1.3.1974