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Geneva Convention Act 1960 Schedule III

Title: Third Schedule

State: Central

Year: 1960

.....Parties, each party to the conflict shall be bound to apply, as a minimum, the following provisions:- (Conflicts not of an international character.) (1) Persons taking no active part in the hostilities, including members of armed forces who have down their arms and those placed hors de combat by sickness, wounds, detention, or any other cause, shall in all circumstances be treated humanely without any adverse distinction founded on race, colour, religion or faith, sex, birth or wealth, or any other similar criteria. To this end, the following acts are and shall remain prohibited at any time and in any place whatsoever with respect to the above-mentioned persons:- (a) Violence to life and person, in particular murder of all kinds, mutilation, cruel treatment and torture; (b) taking of hostages; (c) outrages upon personal dignity, in particular, humiliating and degrading treatment; (d) the passing of sentences and the carrying out of executions without previous judgement pronounced by a regularly constituted court affording all the judicial guarantees which are recognised as indispensable by civilized peoples. (2) The wounded and sick shall be collected and.....

Wild Life (Protection) Act, 1972 Schedule 1

Title: Schedule I

State: Central

Year: 1972

.....in theGazette of India, Extra., Pt. II, Section 3(i), dated 24th November, 1986. 4.Vide Notification No. FJ 11012/31/76 FRY(WL), dated 29th August, 1977, publishedin the Gazette of India, Extra., Pt. II, Section 3(i), p. 333, dated 3rdSeptember, 1977. 5.Vide Notification NO. S.O. 1085(E), dated 30th September, 2002, published in theGazette of India, Extra., Pt. II, Section 3(ii), dated 11th October, 2002. 6.Vide Notification No. S.O. 474 (E), dared 28th May, 2001, published in theGazette of India, Extra, Pt. II, Section3 (ii), dated 29th May, 2001. 7.Inserted Vide Notification No. S.O. 665 (E), dated 11th July, 2001. 8.Substituted by S.O. 1197(E), dated 5th December, 2001 (w.e.f. 6-12-2001) andcorrected by S.O. 233(E), dated 19th February, 2002. 9.Inserted Vide Notification F.1-4/95 WL-I, dated 11th July, 2001. 10.Substituted by S.O. 1197(E), dated 5th December, 2001 (w.e.f. 6-12-2001) andcorrected by S.O. 233(E), dated 19th February, 2002.

Air Force Act, 1950 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1950

.....or confinement of a person according to the usages of the service and includes military or naval custody: (vi) "air force law" means the law enacted by this Act and the rules made there under and includes the usages of the service; (vii) "air force reward" includes any gratuity or annuity for long service or good conduct, badge pay or pension, and any other air force pecuniary reward; (viii) "airman" means any person subject to this Act other than an officer; (ix) "air officer" means any officer of the Air Force above the rank of group captain; (x) "air signal" means any signal intended for the guidance of aircraft, whether given by flag, ground signal, light, wind indicator or in any manner whatsoever: (xi) "Chief Legal Adviser" means a person appointed as such by5[the Chief of the Air Staff] to give advice on matters relating to air force law and to perform such other duties of a legal character as may arise in connection therewith; (xii) "civil offence" means an offence which is triable by a criminal court; (xiii) "civil prison" means any jail or place used for the detention of any criminal prisoner under the Prisons Act, 1894-, or under any other law for the time.....

Geneva Conventions Act, 1960 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1960

.....(d) procedural matters relating to legal representation, appeals, etc. 3. The existing law on the subject is to be found in the Geneva Convention Act, 1911 (an Act of the United Kingdom) as applied to India by the Gevena Convention Act, 1911 (British India) Order-in-Council dated the 24th October, 1916, and the Geneva Convention Implementing Act, 1936 (14 of 1936). The provisions of these Acts, however, are confined to extending protection to the two emblems, namely, the Red Cross and the Geneva Cross. 4. The Bill seeks to implement the Conventions in so far as it is necessary so to do and, at the same time, consolidates the law on the subject by repealing the United Kingdom Act of 1911andthe Central Act 14 of 1936and incorporating their provisions in the Bill." - Gaz. of Ind., 1959, Extra. Pt. II, S. 2, p. 1098. An Act to enable effect to be given to certain International Conventions done at Geneva on the twelfth day of August, 1949, to which India is a party, and for purposes connected therewith. Be it enacted by Parliament in the Eleventh Year of the Republic of India as follows :- -Geneva Conventions of 12th August, 1949, were ratified by the President on the 16th October,.....

Wildlife Protection Act Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1887

....."lives stock" includes buffaloes, bulls, bullocks, camels, cows, donkeys goats, horses, mules, pigs, sheeps, yaks and also their young;] (19) "Manufacturer" means a manufacturer of animal articles; (20) "Meat" includes blood, bones, sinew, eggs, fat and flesh, whether raw or cooked, of any wild animal, other than vermin; (21) "National Park" means an area declared, whether under setion 35 of section 38, or deemed, under sub-section (3) of section 66, to be declared, as a National Park; (22) "Notification" means a noification published in the Official Gazette; (23) "Permit" means a permit granted under this Act or any rule made thereunder; (24) "Person" includes a firm; (25) "Prescribed" means by rules made under this Act; 1[(25A) "recognised zoo" means a zoo recognised under section 38H; (25B) "reserve forest" means the forest declared to reserved by the State Government under section 20 of the Indian Forest Act,1927 (16 of 1927);] (26) "sanctuary" means an area declared, whether under section 2[26A] or section 66, to be declared as wild life sanctuary; 2[(27) "specified plant" means any plant specified in Schedule VI;] (28) "special game" means any animal specified in Schedule.....

The Orissa Special Armed Police Act, 1946 Complete Act

State: Orissa

Year: 1946

.....under Sec. 2 of the Police Act, 1861, (V of 1861) who has signed the statement in the Schedule to this Act, in accordance with provision of this Act; (2) "Active Service" means against hostile or groups of persons in the file; (3) "District Magistrate" includes a Deputy Commissioner, an Agent to the Provincial Government and a Special Assistant Agent and a Magistrate in charge of a sub-division; (4) "Commandant" means person appointed by the Provincial Government to be a Commandant of [Substituted by Orissa Act 18 of 1980, w.e.f. 20.12.1980.] [Special Armed Police] and includes a District Superintendent of Police and an Assistant District Superintendent of Police in charge of the civil police of a district or of a subdivision; (5) "Assistant Commandant" means a person appointed by the Provincial Government to be an Assistant Commandant of [Substituted by Orissa Act 18 of 1980, w.e.f. 20.12.1980.] [Special Armed Police], and includes an Assistant or Deputy Superintendent of Police not in charge of the civil police of a district or of a subdivision; and (6) the expressions, "reason to believe", "criminal force", "assault", "fraudulently" and "voluntarily causing hurt" have the.....

Cantonments Act, 1924 Chapter XIV

Title: Removal and Exclusion from Cantonments and Suppression of Sexual Immorality

State: Central

Year: 1924

.....in the order. ________________________ 1. Substituted by Act 7 of 1925, section 10, for "Commanding Officer of a cantonment". 2. Inserted by Act 2 of 1954, section 20. 3. Substituted by Act 7 of 1925, section 14, for "Commanding Officer of the Cantonment". 4. Substituted by Act 2 of 1954, section 20, for "he may". Section 236 - Penalty for loitering and importuning for purposes of prostitution (1) Whoever in a cantonment loiters for the purpose of prostitution or importunes any person to the commission of sexual immorality, shall be punishable with imprisonment which may extend to one month, or with fine which may extend to1[five hundred rupees]. (2) No prosecution for an offence under this section shall be instituted except on the complaint of the person importuned, or of a military officer in whose presence the offence was committed, or of a member of the Military2[, Naval] or Air Force Police, being employed in the cantonment and authorised in this behalf by the3[Officer Commanding the station], in whose presence the offence was committed, or of a police officer not below the rank of a sub-inspector4[or a sergeant] who is employed in the cantonment and.....

Cantonments Act, 1924 Section 236

Title: Penalty for Loitering and Importuning for Purposes of Prostitution

State: Central

Year: 1924

.....Naval] or Air Force Police, being employed in the cantonment and authorised in this behalf by the3[Officer Commanding the station], in whose presence the offence was committed, or of a police officer not below the rank of a sub-inspector4[or a sergeant] who is employed in the cantonment and authorised in this behalf by the3[Officer Commanding the station]4[with the concurrence of the District Magistrate]. ________________________ 1. Substituted by Act 15 of 1983, section 134, for "two hundred rupees" (w.e.f. 1-10-1983). 2. Inserted by Act 15 of 1983, section 134 (w.e.f. 1-10-1983). 3. Substituted by Act 7 of 1925, section 14, for "commanding Officer of the Cantonment". 4. Inserted by Act 7 of 1931, sec 7.

Bombay Lotteries (Control and Tax) and Prize Competitions (Tax) Act, 1958, (Maharashtra) Section 18

Title: Power of Entry and Search

State: Maharashtra

Year: 1958

It shall be lawful for a police officer-- (i) in Grater Bombay, not below the rank of Sergeant or Sub-Inspector either empowered by general order in writing or autherised in each case by special warrant issued by the Commissioner of Police, Bombay, and (ii) elsewhere, not below the rank of a Sub-Inspector of Police autherised by a special warrant issued in each case by a Magistrate of the First Class or a District Superintendent of Police or by an Assistant or Deputy Superintendent of Police specially empowered by the State Government in this behalf (a) to enter, with the assistance of such persons as may be found necessary by night or day and by force if necessary, any house room, or place which he has reason to suspect is used for purposes connected with the promotion for conduct of any lottery; (b) to search all parts of the house, room or place which he shall have so entered, the persons whom he shall find therein and also such persons as may be specified by name in the warrant; (c) to take into custody and bring before a Magistrate all such persons; (d) to seize all things which are reasonably suspected to have been used or intended to be used in connection with.....

Bombay Prevention of Gambling Act, 1887, (Maharashtra) Section 6

Title: Entry, Search, Etc., by Police Officers in Gaming

State: Maharashtra

Year: 1887

.....Notwithstanding anything in any law for the time being in force, no search made under this section shall be deemed illegal by reason only of the fact that the witnesses (if any) of the search were not inhabitants of the locality in which the house, room or place searched is situate.] _____________________ 1 Section 6 was substituted for the original section, by Bom. 1 of 1936, s. 5. 2 Section 6 was renumbered as sub-section (1) by Mah. 1 of 1963, s. 2. 3 These words were substituted for the words," in the Greater Bombay" by Bom. 36 of 1959, s. 3., Sch. 4 The words" Sergeant or " were deleted by Bom. 14 of 1959, s. 3 (d). 5 These words were substituted for the words " by a Magistrate of the First Class or" by Bom. 60 of 1954, s. 2. 6 These words were substituted for the words " District Superintendent of Police" by Mah. 46 of 1962, s. 3., Sch. 7 The words " the Provincial Government" were substituted for the words " Government" by the Adaptation of Indian Laws Order in Council. 8 This word was substituted for the word " Provincial" by the Adaptation of Laws Order, 1950. 9 This word was inserted by Bon . 14 of 1959, s. 3 (d). 10 This clause was inserted,.....