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Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881 Complete Act

Title: Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881

State: Central

Year: 1881

Preamble1 - NEGOTIABLE INSTRUMENTS ACT, 1881 Chapter I Section1 - Short title Section2 - Repeal of enactments Section3 - Interpretation clause Chapter II Section4 - "Promissory note" Section5 - "Bill of exchange" Section6 - "Cheque" Section7 - "Drawer", "drawee" Section8 - "Holder" Section9 - "Holder in due course" Section10 - "Payment in due course" Section11 - "Inland instrument" Section12 - "Foreign instrument." Section13 - "Negotiable instrument" Section14 - Negotiation Section15 - Indorsement Section16 - Indorsement "in blank" and "in full"--"Indorsee" Section17 - Ambiguous instruments Section18 - Where amount is stated differently in figures and words Section19 - Instruments payable on demand Section20 - Inchoate stamped instruments Section21 - "At sight", "On presentment", "After sight" Section22 - "Maturity" Section23 - Calculating maturity of bill or note payable so many months after date or sight Section24 - Calculating maturity of bill or note payable so many days after date or sight Section25 - When day of maturity is a holiday Chapter III Section26 - Capacity to make, etc., promissory notes, etc. Section27 - Agency Section28 - Liability of.....

Negotiable Instruments (Amendment and Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 2002 Complete Act

Title: Negotiable Instruments (Amendment and Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 2002

State: Central

Year: 2002

Preamble1 - NEGOTIABLE INSTRUMENTS (AMENDMENT AND MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) ACT, 2002 Chapter I Section1 - Short title and commencement Chapter II Section2 - Substitution of new section for section 6 Section3 - Amendment of section 64 Section4 - Amendment of section 81 Section5 - Amendment of section 89 Section6 - Amendment of section 131 Section7 - Amendment of section 138 Section8 - Amendment of section 141 Section9 - Amendment of section 142 Section10 - Insertion of new sections after section 142 Chapter III Section11 - Amendment of section 2 Chapter IV Section12 - Amendment of section 1 Section13 - Insertion of a new section 81A

General Insurance Business (Nationalisation) Act, 1972 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1972

.....Companies Act; (i) "Indian insurance company" means an existing insurer having a share capital who is a company within the meaning of the Companies Act; (j) "Insurance Act" means the Insurance Act, 1938; (k) Life Insurance Corporation" means the Life Insurance Corporation of India established under the Life Insurance Corporation Act, 1956; (l) "notification" means a notification published in the Official Gazette; (m) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this Act; (n) "Schedule" means the Schedule to this Act; (o) "scheme" means the scheme framed under section 16-3[and also includes a scheme framed under section 17A-]; (p) words and expressions used in this Act but not defined herein and defined in the Insurance Act, shall have the meanings respectively assigned to them in that Act; (q) words and expressions used in this Act but not defined herein or in the Insurance Act and defined in the Companies Act, shall have the meanings respectively assigned to them in the Companies Act. Clause 3.- "The Committee feel that the Act should be made effective as early as possible and, for that purpose, there should be an overall time limit beyond which the implementation of the.....

General Insurance Business (Nationalisation) Act,1972 Chapter II

Title: Transfer to Public Ownership of Genral Insurance Business

State: Central

Year: 1972

.....Government to the concerned Indian insurance company, who shall, on receipt of such copy, and notwithstanding anything contained in the Companies Act or in its articles of association, forthwith rectify its register of members by including therein the persons mentioned in the notification as the holders of the shares specified therein. (5) For the removal of doubts it is hereby declared that the transfer and vesting of shares effected under sub-section (1) shall not be deemed to affect any right of the Indian insurance company subsisting immediately before the appointed day against any shareholder to recover from him any sum of money on the ground that that shareholder has not paid or credited to the insurer the whole or any part of the value of the shares held by him or on any other ground whatsoever. Section 5 - Transfer of undertakings of other existing insurers (1) On the appointed day, the undertaking of every existing insurer who is not an Indian insurance company shall stand transferred to and vested in the Central Government and the Central Government shall immediately thereafter provide, by notification, for the transfer to and vesting in such Indian insurance.....

Religious Societies Act, 1880 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1880

.....deems fit. SECTION 07: UPON A DISSOLUTION NO MEMBER TO RECEIVE PROFIT - If upon the dissolution of any such body there remains, after the satisfaction of all its debts and liabilities, any property whatsoever, the same shall not be paid to or distributed among the members of such body or any of them, but shall be given to some other body of persons associated for the purpose of maintaining religious worship or some other religious or charitable purpose to be determined by the votes of not less than three-fifths of the members present at a meeting convened in this behalf, or in default thereof by such court as last aforesaid. SECTION 08: SAVING OF CERTAIN PROVISIONS OF INSTRUMENTS - Nothing in sections 6-and7-shall be deemed to affect any provisions contained in any instrument for the dissolution of such body, or for the payment or distribution of such property. SECTION 09: QUESTIONS MAY BE SUBMITTED TO HIGH COURT - When any question arises, either in connection with the matters hereinbefore, referred to, or otherwise, as to whether any person is a member of any such body as aforesaid, or as to the validity of any appointment under this Act, any person interested in.....

General Insurance Business (Nationalisation) Act,1972 Section 6

Title: Effect of Transfer of Undertakings

State: Central

Year: 1972

.....of doubts it is hereby declared that in the case of a foreign insurer or, as the case may be, the Life Insurance Corporation, the provisions of section 5 and of the preceding sub-sections shall only apply to the extent to which any property appertains, in the former case, to the general insurance business carried on in India and, in the latter case, to the general insurance business carried on, whether within or without India, and to rights and powers acquired, and to debts, liabilities and obligations incurred and to contracts, agreements and other instruments made by the foreign insurer or the Life Insurance Corporation, as the case may be, for the purpose of such general insurance business and to legal proceedings relating to those purposes, and the said provisions shall be construed accordingly. (5) If any question arises as to whether any property appertains to any such general insurance business as is referred to in this section or whether any rights, powers, liabilities or obligations were acquired or incurred or any contract, agreement or other instrument was made by the foreign insurer or the Life Insurance Corporation, as the case may be, for the purposes of any.....

Railway Companies (Emergency Provisions) Act, 1951 Section 18

Title: Power of Central Government to Acquire Railway of Railway Company

State: Central

Year: 1951

(1) Where under any instrument, having effect by virtue of any law other than this Act or by virtue of an agreement arrived at between the parties, provision is made for the purchase by a person or local authority or the State Government of a railway which is the property of a railway company on payment of the value thereof calculated in the manner and subject to the conditions specified in the instrument, the Central Government shall also have the same right to purchase the railway on the same terms and subject to the same conditions as the person, local authority or the state Government has under the instrument. (2) If in respect of any railway the Central Government exercise its right of purchase under this section, any person, local authority or State Government in whom or in which a similar right is vested under the instrument, shall be deemed to have become disentitled to exercise the same.

Andhra Scientific Company Limited (Acquisition and Transfer of Undertakings) Act, 1982 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1982

.....and the order, if any, for the payment of the claim being treated as an order for the refund of revenue. CHAPTER 07: MISCELLANEOUS SECTION 25: ACT TO HAVE OVERRIDING EFFECT - The provisions of this Act shall have effect notwithstanding anything inconsistent therewith in any other law for the time being in force or in any instrument having effect by virtue of any law, other than this Act, or in any decree or order of any court, tribunal or other authority. SECTION 26: CONTRACTS TO CEASE TO HAVE EFFECT UNLESS RATIFIED BY CENTRAL GOVERNMENT OR GOVERNMENT COMPANY - Every contract entered into by the Company in relation to any of its undertakings, which has vested in the Central Government under section 3-, for any service, sale or supply, and in force immediately before the appointed day, shall, on and from the expiry of a period of thirty days from the date on which this Act receives the assent of the President, cease to have effect unless such contract is, before the expiry of that period, ratified in writing, by the Central Government or the Government company in which such undertaking has been vested under this Act and in ratifying such contract, the Central Government.....

Official Trustees Act, 1913 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1913

OFFICIAL TRUSTEES ACT, 1913 OFFICIAL TRUSTEES ACT, 1913 AN ACT TO CONSOLIDATE AND AMEND THE LAW CONSTITUTING THE OFFICE OF OFFICIAL TRUSTEE. IT IS HEREBY ENACTED AS FOLLOWS:- PART -I PRELIMINARY SECTION 01: SHORT TITLE, EXTENT AND COMMENCEMENT (1) This Act may be called the Official Trustees Act, 1913. (2) It extends to the whole of India. (3) It shall come into force on such date as the Central Government, by notification in the Official Gazette may direct. SECTION 02: INTERPRETATION CLAUSE In this Act, unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or context,- (1) "Government" or "the Government" means, in relation to a Stale, the State Government and, in relation to a Union territory, the Central Government. (2)** (3) "Prescribed" means prescribed by rules under this Act. SECTION 03: EXTENT OF JURISDICTION OF HIGH COURT The High Court shall, in respect of proceedings instituted by or against the Official Trustee under this Act or the Indian Trusts Act, 1882 (2 of 1882), be a competent Court throughout the territories in relation to which it exercises civil appellate jurisdiction: Provided that nothing in this section shall be construed as affecting the.....

Bengal Chemical and Pharmaceutical Works Limited (Acquisition and Transfer of Undertakings) Act, 1980 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1980

.....and the order, if any, for payment of the claim being treated as an order for the refund of the revenue, CHAPTER 07: MISCELLANEOUS SECTION 26: ACT TO HAVE OVERRIDING EFFECT. The provisions of this Act shall have effect notwithstanding anything inconsistent therewith contained in any other law for the time being in force or in any instrument having effect by virtue of any law other than this Act, or in any decree or order of any Court, tribunal or other authority. SECTION 27: CONTRACTS TO CEASE TO HAVE EFFECT UNLESS RATIFIED BY THE CENTRAL GOVERNMENT OR EXISTING, OR NEW, GOVERNMENT COMPANY. Every contract entered into by the Company in relation to its undertakings for any service, sale or supply, and in force immediately before the appointed day. shall, on and from the expiry of one hundred and eighty days from that day, cease to have effect unless such contract is, before the expiry of the said period ratified in writing by the Central Government or, as the case may be, the existing, or new, Government company, and in ratifying such contract, the Central Government or, as the case may be, the existing, or new, Government company may make such alterations or.....