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Stage-carriages Act, 1861 Complete Act

Title: Stage-carriages Act, 1861

State: Central

Year: 1861

.....- Penalty for not conforming to provisions of section 5 Section12 - Penalty for misconduct on part of drivers Section13 - Penalty when recoverable from proprietor Section14 - Issue of summons Section15 - Adjudicating of penalties Section16 - Recovery of penalties etc Section17 - Offender may be apprehended and detained in custody until return of warrant of distress Section18 - Imprisonment of offender if distress not sufficient Section19 - Recovery of penalty and costs from Europen British subjects Section20 - Jurisdiction Section20A - Power to make rules Section21 - Interpretation clause. "Magistrate" Section22 - Extent of Act Section23 - Power to State Government to exempt

Finance Act, 2012, (Central) Section 143

Title: Amendment of Act 32 of 1994

State: Central

Year: 2012

.....the Reserve Bank of India Act, 1934(2 of 1934); (43) "securities" has the meaning assigned to it in clause (h) of section 2 of the Securities Contract (Regulation) Act, 1956(42 of 1956); (44) "service" means any activity carried out by a person for another for consideration, and includes a declared service, but shall not include (a) an activity which constitutes merely, (i) a transfer of title in goods or immovable property, by way of sale, gift or in any other manner; or (ia) such transfer, delivery or supply of any goods which is deemed to be a sale within the meaning of clause (29A) of article 366 of the Constitution; or (ii) a transaction in money or actionable claim; (b) a provision of service by an employee to the employer in the course of or in relation to his employment; (c) fees taken in any Court or tribunal established under any law for the time being in force. Explanation 1. For the removal of doubts, it is hereby declared that nothing contained in this clause shall apply to, (A) the functions performed by the Members of Parliament, Members of State Legislature, Members of Panchayats, Members of Municipalities and Members of other local authorities.....

Stage-carriages Act, 1861 Preamble 1

Title: Stage-carriages Act, 1861

State: Central

Year: 1861

THE STAGE-CARRIAGES ACT, 1861 [Act, No. 16 of 1861]1 [7th July, 1861] PREAMBLE An Act for licensing and regulating Stage-Carriages. Whereas it is expedient to license and to regulate stage-carriages in the Provinces: It is enacted as follows :- ______________________ 1. Short title was given by the Indian Short Titles Act, 1897 (14 of 1897).

Stage-carriages Act, 1861 Section 1

Title: Definition of Stage-carriage

State: Central

Year: 1861

Every carriage drawn by one or more horses which shall ordinarily be used for the purpose of conveying passengers for hire to or from any place in the States, shall, without regard to the form or construction of such carriage, be deemed- to be a stage-carriage within the meaning of this Act. 1[*****] ______________________ 1.Proviso to section 1 which read : "Provided that this Act shall not apply to carriages not ordinarily used for journeys of greater distance than twenty miles" was omitted by the State-Carriage Act (1861) Amendment Act. 1898 (1 of 1898), section 2. which read : "Provided that this Act shall not apply to carriages not ordinarily used for journeys of greater distance than twenty miles" was omitted by the State-Carriage Act (1861) Amendment Act. 1898 (1 of 1898), section 2.

The Stage Carriages Act, 1861 Complete Act

State: Punjab

Year: 1861

THE STAGE- CARRIAGES ACT, 1861 THE STAGE- CARRIAGES ACT, 1861 ACT NO. 16 OF 1861 [ 7the July, 1861.] An Act for licensing and regulating Stage- Carriages. Preamble.- WHEREAS it is expedient to licence and to regulate stage- carriages in the Provinces; It is enacted as follows:- 1. Definition of stage- carriage." Every carriage drawn by one or more 2[ horses which shall ordinarily be used for the purpose of conveying passengers for hire to or from any place in the Stats, shall, without regard to the form or construction of such carriage, be deemed to be a stage- carriage within the meaning of this Act. 2. Carriages to be licensed.- No carriage shall be used as a stage- carriage unless licensed by a 4[ Magistrate or by the 5[ Commissioner of Police of a Presidency- town. 3. Power to refuse license." The Magistrate or 5[ Commissioner of Police to whom the application for a license of a stage- carriage is made may refuse to license the same, if he shall be of opinion that such stage- carriage is unserviceable or is unsafe or unfit for public accommodation or use. 1. Short title given by the Indian Short Titles Act, 1897 (14 of 1897 ). This Act, as.....

Stage-carriages Act, 1861 Section 11

Title: Penalty for Not Conforming to Provisions of Section 5

State: Central

Year: 1861

.....thereto, if the full particulars of the license of such stage-carriage be not distinctly painted on such stage-carriage in the manner provided in section 5 of this Act. Such carriage with the horse harnessed thereto shall be taken without delay by such police officer before such Magistrate, who shall forthwith proceed to hear and determine the complaint of such police officer; and, if thereupon any fine is imposed by such Magistrate and such fine is paid, such stage-carriage and horse shall be immediately released; and if such fine be not paid, such stage-carriage and horse may be detained for twenty days as security for the payment thereof; and if the fine be not sooner paid, they may be sold and the proceeds applied (so far as they extend) to the payment of the said fine, and all costs and charges incurred on account of the detention and sale; and the surplus (if any), when claimed, shall be paid to the proprietor of such carriage and horse; and if such surplus be not claimed within a further period of two months from such sale, the same shall be forfeited to the Suite. If the proceeds of such sale do not fully pay the fine and costs and charges aforesaid, the balance.....

Stage-carriages Act, 1861 Section 10

Title: Revocation of License

State: Central

Year: 1861

Any Magistrate or1[*] Commissioner of Police within the local limits of whose jurisdiction any stage-carriage shall apply, or who has granted the license of any stage-carriage, may cancel the license of such stage-carriage if it shall appear to him that such stage-carriage or any horse or any harness used with such carriage is unserviceable or unsafe or otherwise unfit for public accommodation or use. _______________________ 1.The word "Chief was omitted by the repealing and amending Act, 1914 (10 of 1914), Section 3 and Schedule II

Stage-carriages Act, 1861 Section 20A

Title: Power to Make Rules

State: Central

Year: 1861

1[20A. Power to make rules (1) The2[State Government] may, by notification in the Official Gazette, make rules to carry out the purposes and objects of this Act in the territories under its administration or any part of the said territories. (2) In particular and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing power, such rules may- (a) prescribe forms for licenses under this Act, the sums payable for the same and the conditions on which they may be granted, and the cases in which they may be revoked; (b) provide for the inspection of stage-carriages, and of the animals employed in drawing them; and (c) regulate the number and length of the stages for which animals may be driven in stage-carriages, a nd the manner in which they shall be harnessed and yoked. (3) In making any rule under this section the2[State Government] may direct that a breach thereof shall be punishable with fine which may extend to one hundred rupees.] _______________________ 1. Inserted by the Stage-Carriages Act (1861) Amendment Act, 1898 (1 of 1898), S. 4. 2. Sub stituted for the words "Provincial Government" by A.L.O., 1950 .

Stage-carriages Act, 1861 Section 8

Title: Penalty for Allowing Carriage to Be Drawn by Fewer Animals or More Passengers, Etc. to Be,carried Than Provided by License

State: Central

Year: 1861

Any proprietor, or agent of a proprietor, or any driver of a licensed stage-carriage, who knowingly permits such carriage to be drawn by a less number of horses, or who knowingly permits a larger number of passengers, or a greater weight of luggage, to be carried by such stage-carriage than shall be provided by the license, shall be liable on a first conviction to a fine not exceeding one hundred rupees, and on any subsequent conviction, to a fine which may extend to five hundred rupees. In every case where such stage-carriage shall be proved to have been drawn by a less number of horses, or to have carried a larger number of passengers or a greater weight of luggage, than shall be provided by the license, the proprietor of such carriage shall be held to have knowingly permitted such offence, unless he shall prove that the offence was not committed with his connivance, and that he had taken every reasonable precaution and had made reasonable provision to prevent the commission of the offence.

Stage-carriages Act, 1861 Section 9

Title: Penalty for Ill-treating Animals

State: Central

Year: 1861

Any person who shall cruelly beat, ill-treat, override, abuse, torture or cause or procure to be cruelly beaten, ill-treated, overdriven, abused or tortured, any horse employed in drawing or harnessed to any stage-carriage, or who shall harness to or drive in any stage-carriage any horse which from sickness, age, wounds or other cause is unfit to be driven in such stage-carriage, shall for every such offence be liable to a fine not exceeding one hundred rupees.