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Merchant Shipping Act, 1958 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1958

.....in 1867, 1882andagain in 1893and 1896 but all these attempts failed owing to legal and constitutional difficulties.Two of the principal contributory factors were the then limited powers of the Indian Legislature to legislate regarding shipping and the fact that part of the British Statute law on the subject, including parts of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, which is the principal United-Kingdom enactment on the subject, applied to Indian and any Indian enactment had to be in legal harmony with that law. A fresh attempt was made in 1921-22 to codify the Indian law on merchant shipping by the Statute Law Revision Committee, which decided that only consolidation, and not revision should be attempted immediately. The result was the Indian Merchant Shipping Act, 1923, which is now on the Statute Book and which consolidated some 21 existing Indian Acts on the subject. This Act has also been amended from time to time, the two major amendments being those made in 1933 and in 1953 so as to take power to implement the provisions of the international conventions with respect to load lines, 1930, and with respect to safety of life at sea, 1948, respectively, which have been ratified by.....

Constitution of India Preamble 1

Title: Constitution of India

State: Central

Year: 1950

THE CONSTITUTION OF INDIA PREAMBLE WE, THE PEOPLE OF INDIA, having solemnly resolved to constitute India into a 1[SOVEREIGN SOCIALIST SECULAR DEMOCRATIC REPU B LIC] and to secure to all its citizens: JUSTICE, social, economic and political; LI B ERTY of thought, expression, belief, faith and worship; EQUALITY of status and of opportunity; and to promote among them all; FRATERNITY assuring the dignity of the individual and the2[unity and integrity of the Nation]; IN OUR CONSTITUENT ASSEM B LY this twenty-sixth day of November, 1949 , do HERE B Y ADOPT, ENACT AND GIVE TO OURSELVES THIS CONSTITUTION. ___________________ 1. Substituted by the Constitution (Forty-second Amendment) Act, 1976, section 2, for "SOVEREIGN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC" (w.e.f. 3-1-1977). 2. Substituted by the Constitution (Forty-second Amendment) Act, 1976, section 2, for "unity of the Nation" (w.e.f. 3-1-1977).

Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1898

.....as such Magistrate, exercised the powers of an Assistant Sessions Judge, he may be invested with the powers under this section notwithstanding the fact that he has not exercised the powers of Magistrate of the first class for not less than ten years." Act 19 of 1969, Section 3 and Schedule, Item 14 (in Delhi on 2-10-1969). WEST BENGAL In its application to the State of West Bengal, for Section 30, substitute the following, namely: "30. Offences punishment with imprisonment not exceeding seven years.-Notwithstanding any thing contained in Section 28 or Section 29, the State Government may, in consultation with the High Court, invest any Judicial Magistrate of the first class with power to try as a Magistrate all offences not punishable with death or with imprisonment for life or with imprisonment for a term exceeding seven years : Provided that no Judicial Magistrate of the first class has, prior to his appointment as such powers unless he has, for not less than ten years, exercised powers not inferior to those of a Judicial Magistrate of the first class : Provided further that if any Judicial Magistrate of the first class has, prior to his appointment as such Magistrate,.....

Constitution of India Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1949

.....against the order. (6) Nothing in Cl. (5) shall require the authority making any such order as is referred to in that clause to disclose facts which such authority considers to be against the public interest to disclose. (7) Parliament may by law prescribe,- (a) the circumstances under which, and the class or classes of cases in which, a person may be detained for a period longer than three months under any law providing for preventive detention without obtaining the opinion of an Advisory Board in accordance with the provisions of sub-clause (a) of Cl. (4); (b) the maximum period for which any person may in any class or classes of cases be detained under any law providing for preventive detention; and (c) the procedure to be followed by an Advisory Board in any inquiry under sub-clause (a.) of Cl. (4). ARTICLE 23: Prohibition of traffic in human beings and forced labour: Traffic in human beings and begar and other similar forms of forced labour are prohibited and any contravention of this provision shall be an offence punishable in accordance with law. (2) Nothing in this article shall prevent the State from imposing compulsory service for public purposes, and in.....

Copyright Act, 1957 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1957

.....disclosed, if either the identity of the author is disclosed publicly by both the author and the publisher or is otherwise established to the satisfaction of the Copyright Board by that author. SECTION 24: TERM OF COPYRIGHT IN POSTHUMOUS WORK (1) In the case of a literary, dramatic or musical work or an engraving, in which copyright subsists at the date of the death of the author or, in the case of any such work of joint authorship, at or immediately before the date of the death of the author who dies last, but which, or any adaptation of which, has not been published before that date, copyright shall subsist until 17[sixty] years from the beginning of the calendar year next following the year in which the work is first published or, where an adaptation of the work is published in any earlier year, from the beginning of the calendar year next following that year. (2) For the purposes of this section a literary, dramatic or musical work or an adaptation of any such work shall be deemed to have been published, if it has been performed in public or if any 10[sound recording] made in respect of the work have been sold to the public or have been offered for sale to the public. .....

Foreign Awards (Recognition and Enforcement) Act, 1961 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1961

.....and the court, unless satisfied that the agreement is null and void, inoperative or incapable of being performed or that there is not. in fact, any dispute between the parties with regard to the matter agreed to be referred, shall make an order staying the proceedings.) SECTION 04: EFFECT OF FOREIGN AWARDS (1) A foreign award shall, subject to the provisions of this Act, be enforceable in India as if it were an award made on a matter referred to arbitration in India. (2) Any foreign award which would be enforceable under this Act shall be treated as binding for all purposes on the persons as between whom it was made, and may accordingly be relied on by any of those persons by way of defense, set off or otherwise in any legal proceedings in India and any references in this Act to enforcing a foreign award shall be construed as including references to relying on an award. SECTION 05: FILING OF FOREIGN AWARDS IN COURT (1) any person interested in a foreign award may apply to any Court having jurisdiction over the subject matter of the award that the award be filed in court. (2) The application shall be in writing and shall be numbered and registered as a suit between.....

Merchant Shipping (Prevention of Pollution of the Sea by Oil) Rules, 1974 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1974

.....which are being loaded and water round the ship's side shall be inspected to ascertain that no oil is escaping; (c) if loading is proceeding satisfactorily, the rate of loading may be gradually increased until the desired loading rate is obtained; (d) after obtaining the desired rate of loading, a further inspection shall be made of the tank being loaded and water around ship's side for detecting any possible escape of oil; (e) only such number of tanks may be loaded simultaneously as could be safely watched and controlled; (f) the depth of oil in each cargo tank which is being loaded shall be constantly watched and the receiving rate shall be appropriately reduced towards the final stages of loading; (g) to allow time for orderly control, the slowing down of receiving rate that may be necessary during the topping off process shall be anticipated and appropriate notice given to the shore staff ; (h) after any tank valve been closed, the liquid level in the tank shall be checked to ensure that the valve is properly closed. (4) Before commencement of unloading operations, the tanker shall be inspected to ensure that (a) all cargo deck line valves, sea valves and any stern.....