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Registration Act, 1908 Section 25

Title: Provision Where Delay in Presentation is Unavoidable

State: Central

Year: 1908

.....for registration. (2) Any application for such direction may be lodged with a Sub-Registrar, who shall forthwith forward it to the Registrar to whom he is subordinate. STATE AMENDMENT 2Rajasthan: In section 25-- (a) in sub-section (1), for the word "Registrar", the words "Registering Officer", for the words "direct that", the words "register the document" and for the expression "such document shall be accepted for registration", the words "on such document" shall be substituted; and (b) sub-section (2) shall be omitted. ________________________ 1.Substituted by Act 3 of 1951, section 3, and Schedule, for "the States" (w.e.f. 1-4-1951). 2.Vide Rajasthan Act 18 of 1989, section 3 (w.e.f. 18-9-1989).

Fatal Accidents Act, 1855 Preamble 1

Title: Fatal Accidents, 1855

State: Central

Year: 1855

THE FATAL ACCIDENTS, 1855 [Act, No. 13 of 1855]1 [27th March, 1855] PRAEMBLE An Act to provide compensation to families for loss occasioned by the death of a person caused by actionable wrong. Whereas no action or suit is now maintainable in any court against a person who, by his wrongful act, neglect, or default, may have caused the death of another person, and it is often-times right and expedient that the wrong-doer in such case should be answerable in damages for the injury so caused by him; It is enacted as follows:-- ________________________ 1. This Act has been extended to Pondicherry by Act 26 of 1968.

Fatal Accidents Act, 1855 Complete Act

Title: Fatal Accidents Act, 1855

State: Central

Year: 1855

Preamble1 - FATAL ACCIDENTS, 1855 Section1 - Short title and extent Section1A - Suit for compensation to the family of a person for loss occasioned to it by his death by actionable wrong Section2 - Not more than one suit to be brought Section3 - Plaintiff shall deliver particulars, etc. Section4 - Interpretation clause

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.....

Registration Act, 1908 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1908

.....to effect a contract for the sale of immovable property shall not be deemed to require or ever to have required registration by reason only of the fact that such document contains a recital of the payment of any earnest money or of the whole or any part of the purchase money.] (3) Authorities to adopt a son, executed after the 1st day of January, 1872, and not conferred by a will, shall also be registered. 18. Documents of which registration is optional Any of the following documents may be registered under this Act, namely:- (a) instruments (other than instruments of gift and wills) which purport or operate to create, declare, assign, limit or extinguish, whether in present or in future, any right, title or interest, whether vested or contingent, of a value less than one hundred rupees, to or in immovable property; (b) instruments acknowledging the receipt or payment of any consideration on account of the creation, declaration, assignment, limitation or extinction of any such right, title or interest; (c) leases of immovable property for any term not exceeding one year, and leases exempted under section 17; 16[(cc) instruments transferring or assigning any decree.....

Merchant Shipping Act, 1958 Part VIII

Title: Passenger Ships

State: Central

Year: 1958

.....stating the circumstances of the case and the total amount of the expenses shall be prima facie evidence of the amount of the expenses and of the facts that the same were duly incurred. Section 252 - Ship not to make voyage in contravention of contract The master, owner or agent of1[a special trade passenger ship] or a pilgrim ship shall not, otherwise than by reason of perils of the sea or other unavoidable accident, allow the ship to touch at any port or place in contravention of any express or implied contract or engagement with the2[special trade passengers] or pilgrims with respect to the voyage which the ship was to make and the time which that voyage was to occupy, whether the contract or engagement was made by public advertisement or otherwise. _______________________ 1. Substituted for the words "an unberthed passenger ship" by the Merchant Shipping (Amdt.) Act, 1976 (69 of 1976), Section 2. 2. Substituted for the words "unberthed passengers" by the Merchant Shipping (Amdt.) Act, 1976 (69 of 1976), Section 2. Section 253 - Information to be sent to ports of embarkation and discharge (1) The officer appointed by the Central Government in this behalf at.....

Medicinal and Toilet Preparations (Excise Duties) Rules, 1956 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1956

.....Act, 1955; (ii) "absolute alcohol" means alcohol conforming to the British Pharmacopoeial specification for dehydrated alcohol; (iii) "bonded manufactory" means the premises or any part of the premises approved and licensed for the manufacture and storage of medicinal and toilet preparations containing alcohol, opium, Indian hemp and other narcotic drugs or narcotics on which duty has not been paid; (iv) "non-bonded manufactory" means the premises or any part of the premises approved and licensed for the manufacture and storage of medicinal and toilet preparations containing alcohol, opium, Indian hemp and other narcotic drugs or narcotics on which duty has been paid; (v) "Chemical Examiner" means the Chemical Examiner to the State Government and includes such other officer whom the State Government or the Central Government may at any time appoint as Chemical Examiner: (iv) "denatured spirit" or "denatured alcohol" means alcohol of any strength which has been rendered unfit for human consumption by the addition of substances approved by the Central Government or by the State Government with the approval of the Central Government; (vii) "duty" means the duty of excise.....

Registration Act, 1908 Part IV

Title: Of the Time of Presentation

State: Central

Year: 1908

.....Act 15 of 1917, Section 2. 2. Vide Madras Act 17 of 1952, Section 2 (w.e.f. 14-1-1953) as adapted by Andhra Pradesh A.L.O., 1953, 3. Vide Kerala Act 2 of 1959, Section 2 (w.e.f. 1-6-1960). 4. Vide Tamil Nadu Act 17 of 1952, Section 2 (w.e.f. 14-1-1953) as adapted by Tamil Nadu A.L.O., 1954. Section 24 - Documents executed by several persons at different times Where there are several persons executing a document at different times, such document may be presented for registration and re-registration within four months from the date of each execution. Section 25 - Provision where delay in presentation is unavoidable (1) If, owing to urgent necessity or unavoidable accident, any document executed, or copy of a decree or order made, in1[India] is not presented for registration till after the expiration of the time hereinbefore prescribed in that behalf, the Registrar, in cases where the delay in presentation does not exceed four months, may direct that, on payment of a fine not exceeding ten times the amount of the proper registration-fee, such document shall be accepted for registration. (2) Any application for such direction may be lodged with a Sub-Registrar, who.....

Registration Act, 1908 Part VI

Title: Of Presenting Documents for Registration

State: Central

Year: 1908

.....who shall forthwith forward it to the Registrar to whom he is subordinate. (5) Nothing in this section applies to copies of decrees or orders. Section 35 - Procedure on admission and denial of execution respectively (1) (a) If all the persons executing the document appear personally before the registering officer and are personally known to him, or if he be otherwise satisfied that they are the person they represent themselves to be, and if they all admit the execution of the document, or (b) if in the case of any person appearing by a representative, assign or agent, such representative, assign or agent admits the execution, or (c) if the person executing the document is dead, and his representative or assign appears before the registering officer and admits the execution, the registering officer shall register the document as directed in sections 58 to 61 inclusive. (2) The registering officer may, in order to satisfy himself that the persons appearing before him are-the persons they represent themselves to be, or for any other purpose contemplated by this Act, examine any one present in his office. (3) (a) If any person by whom the document purports.....

Registration Act, 1908 Section 34

Title: Enquiry Before Registration by Registering Officer

State: Central

Year: 1908

..... (3) The registering officer shall thereupon-- (a) enquire whether or not such document was executed by the persons by whom it purports to have been executed; (b) satisfy himself as to the identity of the persons appearing before him and alleging that they have executed the document; and (c) in the case of any person appearing as a representative, assign or agent, satisfy himself of the right of such person so to appear. (4) Any application for a direction under the proviso to sub-section (1) may be lodged with a Sub-Registrar, who shall forthwith forward it to the Registrar to whom he is subordinate. (5) Nothing in this section applies to copies of decrees or orders.