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Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 Complete Act

Title: Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973

State: Central

Year: 1973

.....interested Section480 - Practising pleader not to sit as Magistrate in certain Courts Section481 - Public servant concerned in sale not to purchase or bid for property Section482 - Saving of inherent power of High Court Section483 - Duty of High Court to exercise continuous superintendence over Courts of Judicial Magistrates Section484 - Repeal and savings Schedule1 - THE FIRST SCHEDULE Schedule1 - THE FIRST SCHEDULE (Chapter XI to XIX) Schedule1 - THE FIRST SCHEDULE (Chapter XX to XXIII) Schedule2 - THE SECOND SCHEDULE Amending Act1 - CODE OF CRIMINAL PROCEDURE (AMENDMENT) ACT, 2001 Amending Act2 - CODE OF CRIMINAL PROCEDURE (AMENDMENT) Act, 2005 Amending Act3 - CRIMINAL LAW (AMENDMENT) ACT, 2005 Amending Act4 - CODE OF CRIMINAL PROCEDURE (AMENDMENT) AMENDING ACT, 2006

Indian Penal Code (45 of 1860) Chapter 16

Title: Of Offences Affecting the Human Body

State: Central

Year: 1860

..... 1. Substituted by Act 26 of 1955, section 117 and Schedule, for "transportation for life" (w.e.f. 1-1-1956). 2. Inserted by Act 27 of 1870, section 11. 3. Inserted by Act 12 of 1891, section 2 and Schedule II. Section 308 - Attempt to commit culpable homicide Whoever does any act with such intention or knowledge and under such circumstances that, if he by that act caused death, he would be guilty of culpable homicide not amounting to murder, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to three years, or with fine, or with both; and, if hurt is caused to any person by such act, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to seven years, or with fine, or with both. Illustration A, on grave and sudden provocation, fires a pistol at Z, under such circumstances that if he thereby caused death he would be guilty of culpable homicide not amounting to murder. A has committed the offence defined in this section. Section 309 - Attempt to commit suicide Whoever attempts to commit suicide and does any act towards the commission of such offence, shall he punished with.....

The Mahe Land Reforms Act, 1968 Complete Act

State: Pondicherry

Year: 1968

.....Power to make rules. 139. Limitation. 140. Repeal and savings. THE MAHE LAND REFORMS ACT, 1968 (Act No.1 of 1968) 22nd March, 1968 AN ACT To enact a comprehensive legislation relating to land reforms in Mahe region of the Union Territory of Pondicherry. WHEREAS it is expedient to enact a comprehensive legislation relating to land reforms in the Mahe region of the Union territory of Pondicherry; BE it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of Pondicherry in the Nineteenth Year of the Republic of India as follows:- CHAPTER I PRELIMINARY Short title, extent and commencement. 1. (1) This Act may be called the Mahe Land Reforms Act, 1968. (2) It extends to the whole of Mahe region of the Union territory of Pondicherry. The Act came into force from 22nd March, 1968 vide Extraordinary Gazette No.23, dated 22nd March, 1968. (3) The provisions of this Act, except this section which shall come into force at once, shall come into force on such date as the Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint; Provided that different dates may be appointed for different provisions of this Act, and any reference to the commencement of this Act in.....

Prisoners Act, 1900 Part VI

Title: Removal of Prisoners

State: Central

Year: 1900

.....prisoner confined as aforesaid in a prison in the State to any other prison in the 6 [State] 7 [].] _________________________ 1. Substituted by Act 1 of 1903, section. 3, and Sch. II, for section 29. 2.Substituted by the A.O. 1937, for "the Governor-General in Council". 3. Substituted by the A.O. 1937, for "British India or to any Prison in Berar". The words "or to any prison in Berar" had been added by Act 17 of 1923, section. 2. 4. The words "or with the consent of the State Government concerned, to any prison in any other State" omitted by Act 29 of 1950, section. 4. 5. Substituted by the A.O. 1937, for "The Local Government, and (subject to its orders and under its control)". 6. Substituted by the A.O. 1950, for "Province". 7. The words "or, in the case of a prisoner so confined in a prison in the C.P., for his removal to any other prison in the Province or to any prison in Berar", omitted by the A.O. 1937 Section 30 - Lunatic prisoners how to be dealt with (1) Where it appears to the 1 [State Government] that any person detained or imprisoned under any order or sentence of any Court is of unsound mind, the 1 [State Government] may, by a warrant setting.....

Prisoners Act, 1900 Section 30

Title: Lunatic Prisoners How to Be Dealt with

State: Central

Year: 1900

.....which he may have been ordered or sentenced by the Court to undergo. 4 [(4) In any case in which the 1 [State Government] is competent under sub-section (1) to order the removal of a prisoner to a lunatic asylum or other place of safe custody within the 2 [State], the 1 [State Government] may order his removal to any such asylum or place within any other 2 [State]or within 5 [any part of India to which this Act does not extend] by agreement with the 1 [State Government] of such other 2 [State]6 [***]; and the provisions of this section respecting the custody, detention, remand and discharge of a prisoner removed under sub-section (1)shall, so far as they can be made applicable, apply to a prisoner removed under this sub-section.] _________________________ 1. Substituted by the A.O. 1950, for "Provincial Government". 2. Substituted by the A.O. 1950, for "Province". 3. Now the Indian Lunacy Act, 1912 (4 of 1912). 4. Substituted by Act 38 of 1920, section. 2 and Sch. 1, for sub-section (4). 5. Substituted by the Adaptation of Laws (No. 2) Order, 1956, for "any Part B State". 6. The words "or, with such State or the Ruler thereof, as the case may be", omitted by.....

Karnataka Prisoners Act, 1963 Section 9

Title: Lunatic Prisoners How to Be Dealt with

State: Karnataka

Year: 1963

.....or imprisoned; and the time during which a prisoner is confined in a mental hospital or other place of safe custody under that sub--section shall be reckoned as part of the term of detention or imprisonment which he may have been ordered or sentenced by the court to undergo. (4) In any case in which the State Government is competent under sub--section (1) to order the removal of the prisoner to a mental hospital or other place of safe custody within the1[State of Karnataka], the State Government may order his removal to any such hospital or place in any other State by agreement with the Government of such other State; and the provisions of this section respecting the custody, detention, remand, and discharge of a prisoner removed under sub--section (1) shall, so far they can be made applicable, apply to a prisoner removed under this sub--section. ______________________________________ 1. Adapted by the Karnataka Adaptations of Laws Order 1973 w.e.f. 1.11.1973

Indian Penal Code (45 of 1860) Section 361

Title: Kidnapping from Lawful Guardianship

State: Central

Year: 1860

Whoever takes or entices any minor under 1 [sixteen] years of age if a male, or under 2 [eighteen] years of age if a female, or any person of unsound mind, out of the keeping of the lawful guardian of such minor or person of unsound mind, without the consent of such guardian, is said to kidnap such minor or person from lawful guardianship. Explanation.--The words "lawful guardian" in this section include any person lawfully entrusted with the care of custody of such minor or other person. Exception.--This section does not extend to the act of any person who in good faith believes himself to be the father of an illegitimate child, or who in good faith believes himself to be entitled to lawful custody of such child, unless such act is committed for an immoral or unlawful purpose. STATE AMENDMENTS 3 Manipur in section 361 for the words 'eighteen" substitute the word 'fifteen'. _______________________ 1. Substituted by Act 42 of 1949, section 2, for "fourteen". 2. Substituted by Act 42 of 1949, section 2, for "sixteen". 3. Vide Manipur Act 30 of 1950, section 3 (w.e.f. 16-4-1950), read with Act 81 of 1971, section 3 (w.e.f. 25-1-1972).

Powers of Attorney Act, 1882 Section 3

Title: Payment by Attorney Under Power, Without Notice of Death, Etc., Good

State: Central

Year: 1882

Any person making or doing any payment or act in good faith, in pursuance of a power-of-attorney, shall not be liable in respect of the payment or act by reason that, before the payment or act, the donor of the power had died or become1[***], of unsound mind,1[***] or insolvent, or had revoked the power, if the fact of death,1[***], unsoundness of mind,1[***], insolvency or revocation was not, at the time of the payment or act, known to the person making or doing the same. But this section shall not affect any right against the payee of any person interested in any money so paid; and that person shall have the like remedy against the payee as he would have had against the payer, if the payment had not been made by him. This section applies only to payments and acts made or done after this Act comes into force. ________________________ 1.Words "Lunatic", "Bankrupt", "Lunacy", "Bankruptcy" omitted by the Powers-of-Attorney (Amendment) Act, 1982, w.e.f. 22-10-1982.

Powers of Attorney Act, 1882 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1882

.....as to trustees, executors and administrators making payments under powers, which has been in force in British India for the last fifteen years-See Act 28 of 1866,section 39. The third and last object of the Bill is to provide for the deposit of instruments creating powers of attorney, and for the evidence of the contents of such instruments. The section effecting this is copied (with the modifications necessary to adapt it to India) from 44 and 45 Vict. c. 41,section 48 ."-Gazette of India, 1881, Part V, page 1473. Amending Act 55 of 1982.- The Law Commission in its Sixty -Eighth Report examined the Powers-of-Attorney Act, 1882and while suggesting that because of its archaic form and language it should be replaced by a new enactment, it also suggested certain amendments to the Act. As the amendments do not call for any radical or substantial changes in the Act which had worked smoothly for a century, it is proposed, instead of replacing the Act by a new one, to make the necessary amendments therein. 2. The Act though it deals with powers-of-attorney, does not contain the definition of '''power-of-attorney". It is proposed to remedy this defect by inserting a suitable.....

Indian Evidence Act, 1872 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1872

.....to another when the one is connected with the other in any of the ways referred to in the provisions of this Act relating to the relevancy of facts. "Facts in issue" " The expression "facts in issue" means and includes " any fact from which, either by itself or in connection with other facts, the existence, non-existence, nature or extent of any right, liability, or disability, asserted or denied on any suit or proceeding, necessarily follows. Explanation - Whenever, under the provisions of the law for the time being in force relating to Civil Procedure, any Court records an issue of fact, the fact to be asserted or denied in the answer to such issue is a fact in issue. Illustrations A is accused of the murder of B. At his trial the following facts may be in issue:- That caused A B's death; That A intended to cause Bs' death; That A had received grave and sudden provocation from B; That A, at the time of doing the act which caused B's death, was, by reason of unsoundness of mind, incapable of knowing its nature. "Documents" " "Documents" means any matter expressed of described upon any substance by means of letters, figures or marks, or by more than one of those means,.....