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Displaced Persons (Claims) Supplementary Act,1954 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1954

.....the registration and verification of claims of displaced persons in respect of immovable property in West Pakistan, the Displaced Persons (Claims) Act 1950was enacted. On the expiry of the Act on the 17th May 1953 a small number of claims and some revision petitions were left undisposed of. The Bill enables disposal of such pending work. and also makes some incidental provisions regarding revision of orders already passed or which may be passed under the new law. 2. A few hundred claims for immovable property left by persons who migrated from Tochi, Kurram and certain other tribal areas adjoining the North West Frontier Province of Pakistan, not admissile under the expired Act. were nevertheless verified as if the provisions of the Act applied, as these persons migrated in the same circumstances as those from the Provinces of West Pakistan. The Bill validates such verification and enables verification of any such claims which may have remained unverified." Gaz. of Ind.. 1953. Extra Pt. II-S. 2, page 1201. An Act to provide for the disposal of certain proceedings pending under the Displaced Persons (Claims) Act, 19501and for matters connected therewith. Be it enacted by.....

Displaced Persons (Claims) Supplementary Act, 1954 [Repealed] Section 5

Title: Special Power of Revision in Respect of Cases Decided Under Act 44 of 1950

State: Central

Year: 1954

(1) Not withstanding anything contained in the principal Act, the Chief Settlement Commissioner- (a) may, on an application for revision made to him within time by any person aggrieved by the decision of the Claims Officer, call for the record of the case and make such order in the case of he thinks fit. (i) such application was not barred by limitation on the appointed day under the rules made under the principal Act and is filed within one month from the commencement of this Act; or (ii) such application had been filed before the appointed day and was not on the date on which it was filed, barred by limitation under the rules made under the principal Act; (b) may, on his own motion, but subject to any rules that may be made in this behalf, revise any verified claim and make such order in relation thereto as he thinks fit. (2) No order varying the decision of the Claims Officer or revising any verified claim which prejudicially affects any person shall be made without giving him an opportunity of being heard.

Displaced Persons (Claims) Supplementary Act, 1954 [Repealed] Section 2

Title: Definitions

State: Central

Year: 1954

.....day and includes any application filed on or before the 12th December, 1952 for setting aside an ex parte order of a Claims Officer passed under the principal Act and pending on the appointed day if the application was not, on the date on which it was filed, barred by limitation under the rules made under the principal Act; (c) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules under this Act; (d) "principal Act" means the Displaced Persons (Claims) Act, 1950 ; (e) "tribal areas" means the tribal areas of hi and Kurram and includes such other Tribal areas adjoining the North West Frontier Province as may be specified in this behalf by an order of the Central Government; (f) "verified claim" means any claim registered under the principal Act in respect of which a final order has been passed under the Act; (g) all words and expressions used but not defined in this Act and defined in the principal Act shall have the meanings assigned to them in that Act.

Railway Claims Tribunal Act, 1987 Chapter 2

Title: Establishment of Railway Claims Tribunal and Benches Thereof

State: Central

Year: 1987

.....rules, regulate the procedure for the investigation of misbehaviour or incapacity of the Chairman, Vice-Chairman or other Member referred to in sub-section (2). Section 9 - Salaries and allowances and other terms and conditions of service of Chairman, Vice-Chairman and other Members The salaries and allowances payable to, and the other terms and conditions of service (including pension, gratuity and other retirement benefits) of, the Chairman, Vice-Chairman and other Members shall be such as may be prescribed: Provided that neither the salary and allowances nor the other terms and conditions of service of the Chairman, Vice-Chairman or other Member shall be varied to his disadvantage after his appointment. Section 10 - Provision as to the holding of offices by Chairman, Vice-Chairman etc., on ceasing to be such Chairman or Vice-Chairman, etc. On ceasing to hold office-- (a) the Chairman of the Claims Tribunal shall be ineligible for further employment either under the Government of India or under the Government of a State; (b) a Vice-Chairman shall, subject to the other provisions of this Act, be eligible for appointment as the Chairman of the Claims Tribunal, or.....

Displaced Persons (Claims) Act, 1950 [Repealed] Section 7

Title: Powers of Claims Officers

State: Central

Year: 1950

..... (f) any other matter which may be prescribed. (2) A Claims Officer may, if he so thinks fit, and shall, if so required by the Chief Claims Commissioner, appoint one or more persons as assessors to advise him in any proceeding before him. (3) The Chief Claims Commissioner, the Joint or Deputy Chief Claims Commissioner, a Claims Commissioner and a Claims Officer shall be deemed to be a civil court for the purposes of sections 480 and 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898 (Act V of 1898), and any proceeding before any such Officer shall be deemed to be a judicial proceeding within the meaning of sections 193 and 228 of the Indian Penal Code (Act XLV of 1860).

Railway Claims Tribunal Act, 1987 Chapter 3

Title: Jurisdiction, Powers and Authority of Claims Tribunal

State: Central

Year: 1987

.....of animals or goods entrusted to a railway administration for carriage by railway; (ii) compensation payable under section 82A of the Railways Act or the rules made thereunder; and (b) in respect of the claims for refund of fares or part thereof or for refund of any freight paid in respect of animals or goods entrusted to a railway administration to be carried by railway. 1[(1A) The Claims Tribunal shall also exercise, on and from the date of commencement of the provisions of section 124A of the Railways Act, 1989 (24 of 1989), all such jurisdiction, powers and authority as were exercisable immediately before that date by any civil court in respect of claims for compensation now payable by the railway administration under section 124A of the said Act or the rules made thereunder.] (2) The provisions of the2[Railways Act, 1989 (24 of 1989)] and the rules made thereunder shall, so far as may be, be applicable to the inquiring into or determining, any claims by the Claims Tribunal under this Act. ______________________ 1. Inserted by Railways (amdt)Act (28 of 1994), section 9 2. Substituted for the words "Railways Act", by Railways (Amdt) Act (28 of 1994), section.....

Waste Lands (Claims) Act, 1863 Complete Act

Title: Waste Lands (Claims) Act, 1863

State: Central

Year: 1863

.....appeal or revision Section15 - Reference of question of law, etc., to High Court, etc. Section16 - Court may proceed notwithstanding reference Section17 - Records of cases where to be deposited Section18 - Limitation as to claims to land sold or dealt with Section19 - If claim established, possession not to be given, but compensation Section20 - When land sold not absolutely, or not sold, but otherwise dealt with Section21 - Award under two last sections to be in full satisfaction Section22 - Government not barred from awarding compensation for land absolutely sold, though claim be not preferred in time Section23 - Compensation for land sold subject to condition, if claim proved, though not preferred in time Section23A - Exercise of power of the State Government by the Board of Revenue or the Financial Commissioner Section24 - [Repealed]

Railway Claims Tribunal Act, 1987 Complete Act

Title: Railway Claims Tribunal Act, 1987

State: Central

Year: 1987

.....Tribunal Chapter 5 Section23 - Appeals Chapter 6 Section24 - Transfer of pending cases Section25 - Proceedings before Claims Tribunal to be judicial proceedings Section26 - Members and staff of Claims Tribunal to be public servants Section27 - Protection of action taken in good faith Section28 - Act to have overriding effect Section29 - Power to remove difficulties Section30 - Power to make rules Section30A - Power to make rules retrospectively Chapter7 - AMENDMENTS TO THE RAILWAYS ACT Section31 - Amendment of section 3 Section32 - Amendment of section 78A Section33 - Substitution of new section for section 80 Section34 - Omission of sections 82B, 82D and 82F Section35 - Amendment of section 82C Section36 - Amendment of sections 82E, 82G and 82HH Section37 - Amendment of section 82-I Section38 - Amendment of section 82J

Displaced Persons (Claims) Act, 1950 [Repealed] Section 6

Title: Jurisdiction of Claims Officers

State: Central

Year: 1950

(1)A Claims Officer shall have jurisdiction to decide such cases or such classes of cases as may, by general on special order, be transferred to him by the Central Government or by an officer empowered in this behalf by the Central Government. (2)A Claims Officer shall hold a summary inquiry into the cases transferred to him and, after taking such evidence and examining such documents, as may be constitution, pass such orders as he thinks fit in relation to the verification of the claim and the valuation of such claim. (3)The decision of the Claims Officer shall be final : Provided that the Chief Claims Commissioner may call for the record of any case which has been decided by the Claims Officer and may make such order in the case as he thinks fit and no order varying the decision of the Claims Officer shall be made without giving the person concerned an opportunity of being heard.

Railway Claims Tribunal Act, 1987 Section 13

Title: Jurisdiction, Powers and Authority of Claims Tribunal

State: Central

Year: 1987

.....of animals or goods entrusted to a railway administration for carriage by railway; (ii) compensation payable under section 82A of the Railways Act or the rules made thereunder; and (b) in respect of the claims for refund of fares or part thereof or for refund of any freight paid in respect of animals or goods entrusted to a railway administration to be carried by railway. 1[(1A) The Claims Tribunal shall also exercise, on and from the date of commencement of the provisions of section 124A of the Railways Act, 1989 (24 of 1989), all such jurisdiction, powers and authority as were exercisable immediately before that date by any civil court in respect of claims for compensation now payable by the railway administration under section 124A of the said Act or the rules made thereunder.] (2) The provisions of the2[Railways Act, 1989 (24 of 1989)] and the rules made thereunder shall, so far as may be, be applicable to the inquiring into or determining, any claims by the Claims Tribunal under this Act. ______________________ 1. Inserted by Railways (amdt)Act (28 of 1994), section 9 2. Substituted for the words "Railways Act", by Railways (Amdt) Act (28 of 1994), section.....