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Geneva Convention Act 1960 Schedule II

Title: Second Schedule

State: Central

Year: 1960

.....or in sick-bays of portable arms and ammunition taken from the wounded, sick and shipwrecked and not yet handed to the proper service. (4) The fact that the humanitarian activities of hospital ships and sick-bays of vessels or of the crews extend to the care of wounded, sick or shipwrecked civilians. (5) The transport of equipment and of personnel intended exclusively for medical duties, over and above the normal requirements. CHAPTER IV PERSONNEL Article 36 The religious, medical and hospital personnel or hospital ships and their crews shall be respected and protected; they may not be captured during the time they are in the service of the hospital ship, whether or not there are wounded and sick on board. (Protection of the personnel of hospital ships.) Article 37 The religious, medical and hospital personnel assigned to the medical or spiritual care of the persons designated in Article 12 and 13 shall, if they fall into the hands of the enemy, be respected and protected; they may continue to carry out their duties as long as this is necessary for the care of the wounded and sick. They shall afterwards be sent back as soon as the commander-in-chief, under.....

Merchant Shipping Act, 1958 Part IX

Title: Safety

State: Central

Year: 1958

.....at Sea (known briefly as the Safety Convention) of 1960, replacing the Safety Convention of 1948. This Convention contains a provision for the enactment and promulgation by Contracting Governments of laws and regulations to give effect to its provisions. This Convention came into force on the 17-6-1960. For definition of "Safety Convention",see Section 3 (37). Section 283A - Definitions 1[283A. Definitions (1) In this Part, unless the context otherwise requires,- (a) "existing ship" or "existing vessel" means a ship or vessel which is not a new ship or a new vessel, (b) "new ship" or "new vessel" means a ship or vessel whose keel is laid or which is at a similar stage of construction on or after the material date as defined in sub-section (2). (2) For the purposes of sub-section (1) "material date",- (i) in relation to an Indian ship, means the 21st July, 1968: (ii) in relation to a foreign ship belonging to a country to which the Load Line Convention applies, means the date as from which it is declared under section 283 that the Government of such country has accepted the Load Line Convention or, as the case may be, that the said Convention has been applied.....

Geneva Conventions Act, 1960 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1960

.....(d) procedural matters relating to legal representation, appeals, etc. 3. The existing law on the subject is to be found in the Geneva Convention Act, 1911 (an Act of the United Kingdom) as applied to India by the Gevena Convention Act, 1911 (British India) Order-in-Council dated the 24th October, 1916, and the Geneva Convention Implementing Act, 1936 (14 of 1936). The provisions of these Acts, however, are confined to extending protection to the two emblems, namely, the Red Cross and the Geneva Cross. 4. The Bill seeks to implement the Conventions in so far as it is necessary so to do and, at the same time, consolidates the law on the subject by repealing the United Kingdom Act of 1911andthe Central Act 14 of 1936and incorporating their provisions in the Bill." - Gaz. of Ind., 1959, Extra. Pt. II, S. 2, p. 1098. An Act to enable effect to be given to certain International Conventions done at Geneva on the twelfth day of August, 1949, to which India is a party, and for purposes connected therewith. Be it enacted by Parliament in the Eleventh Year of the Republic of India as follows :- -Geneva Conventions of 12th August, 1949, were ratified by the President on the 16th October,.....

Merchant Shipping Act, 1958 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1958

.....To meet the immediate requirements of the country soon after independence the Merchant Shipping Laws. (Extension to Acceding States and Amendment) Act, 1949 was enacted, by which the British Merchant Shipping Acts 1894 to 1938 were extended to the Acceding States (later known as Part B States) and Indian Consular Officers were empowered to perform functions in relation to Indian ships outside India and provision was made to enable Government to prescribe the proper national colours for ships registered in India, The Control of Shipping Act, 1947, was another short-term measure which continued the war-time control over Indian shipping and controlled the coastal trade by a system of licensing. This Act, which has been renewed from time to time, is due to expire on the 31st March, 1958. 3. The present Bill revises and consolidates all laws in force in India relating to merchant shipping, whether passed by the British Parliament or the Indian Legislature, and makes provision for the matters discussed in the succeedihg paragraphs, which also indicate the principal changes made in the law ........... -Gaz. of Ind., 1958, Extra., Pt. II, S. 2, p. 203.Act 21 of 1966.- The minimum.....

Central Excise Tariff Act, 1985 Chapter 89

Title: Ships, Boats and Floating Structures

State: Central

Year: 1985

.....transport of the goods and other vessels for the transport of both persons and goods u Nil 8902 FISHING VESSELS; FACTORY SHIPS AND OTHER VESSELS FOR PROCESSING OR PRESERVING FISHERY PRODUCTS 8902 00 - Fishing vessels; factory ships and other vessels for processing or preserving ?shery products : 8902 00 10 --- Trawlers and other ?shing vessels u Nil 8902 00 90 --- Other u Nil 8903 YACHTS AND OTHER VESSELS FOR PLEASURE OR SPORTS; ROWING BOATS AND CANOES 8903 10 00 - In?atable u 16% - Other : 8903 91 00 -- Sail boats, with or without auxiliary motor u 16% 8903 92 00 -- Motorboats, other than outboard motorboats u 16% 8903 99 -- Other : 8903 99 10 --- Canoes u 16% 8903 99 90 --- Other u 16% 8904 00 00 Tugs and pusher cr aft u Nil .....

Finance Act, 1992 Chapter III

Title: Direct Taxes Income-tax

State: Central

Year: 1992

.....section 3 of the Companies Act, 1956 (1 of 1956); (c) "Government company" shall have the meaning assigned to it in section 617 of the Companies Act, 1956 (1 of 1956).'. Section 15 - Amendment Of Section 37 In section 37 of the Income-tax Act, for sub-sections (2) and (2A), the following sub-section shall be substituted with effect from the 1st day of April, 1993, namely :- '(2) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (1), any expenditure in the nature of entertainment expenditure incurred by any assessee during any previous year commencing on the 1st day of April, 1992 shall be allowed as follows :- (a) where the amount of such expenditure does not exceed ten thousand rupees, the whole of such amount; (b) in any other case, ten thousand rupees as increased by a sum equal to fifty per cent. of such expenditure in excess of ten thousand rupees. Explanation : For the purposes of this sub-section, "entertainment expenditure" includes - (i) the amount of any allowance in the nature of entertainment allowance paid by the assessee to any employee or other person; (ii) the amount of any expenditure in the nature of entertainment expenditure [not being.....

Finance Act, 1992 Section 89

Title: Amendment of Section 2

State: Central

Year: 1992

.....Official Gazette, but does not include land on which construction of a building is not permissible under any law for the time being in force in the area in which such land is situated or the land occupied by any building which has been constructed with the approval of the appropriate authority or any unused land held by the assessee for industrial purposes for a period of two years from the date of its acquisition by him;'; (c) in clause (m), for the portion beginning with the words "on the valuation date other than -" and ending with the words, brackets, figures and letter "under sub-section (1A) of section 5;"; the words "on the valuation date which have been incurred in relation to the said assets;" shall be substituted.

Central Excise Tariff (Amendment) Act, 2004 Chapter LXXXIX

Title: Ships, Boats and Floating Structures

State: Central

Year: 2004

.....for transport of the goods and other vessels for the transport of both persons and goods u Nil 8902 FISHING VESSELS; FACTORY SHIPS AND OTHER VESSELS FOR PROCESSING OR PRESERVING FISHERY PRODUCTS 8902 00 - Fishing vessels; factory ships and other vessels for processing or preserving fishery products: 8902 00 10 --- Trawlers and other fishing vessels u Nil 8902 00 90 -- Other u Nil 8903 YACHTS AND OTHER VESSELS FOR PLEASURE OR SPORTS; ROWING BOATS AND CANOES 8903 10 00 - Inflatable u 16% nbsp; - Other: 8903 91 00 -- Sail boats, with or without auxiliary motor u 16% 8903 92 00 -- Motorboats, other than outboard motorboats u 16% 8903 99 - Other: 8903 99 10 --- Canoes u 16% 8903 99 90 -- Other u 16% 8904 00 00 TUGS AND PUSHER CRAFT u Nil 8905 LIGHT-VESSELS, FIRE-FLOATS, DREDGERS, FLOATING CRANES, AND OTHER VESSELS THE.....

Merchant Shipping Act, 1958 Section 310

Title: Ships Exempt from Provisions Relating to Load Lines

State: Central

Year: 1958

.....complies with safety requirements which are adequate for the purposes for which the ship is intended and are such as to ensure the overall safety of the ship; (f) any ship which is not normally engaged on voyages to ports outside India but which in exceptional circumstances is required to undertake such voyage if the Central Government is satisfied that the ship complies with safety requirements which are adequate for such voyage.] ________________________ 1. Substituted for former Clause (a) by Merchant Shipping (Amendment) Act, 1970 (25 of 1970), section 5(a) (w.r.e.f. 21-7-1968). 2. Clause (d) substituted and clauses (e) and (f) inserted thereafter, by Merchant Shipping (Amendment) Act, 1970 (25 of 1970), section 5(a) (w.r.e.f. 21-7-1968). section 5(b) (w.r.e.f. 21-7-1968).

Merchant Shipping Act, 1958 Section 343

Title: Exemption of Ships from Certain Provisions of This Part

State: Central

Year: 1958

.....gross] or to any ship not fitted with mechanical means of propulsion. (2) Nothing in the preceding sub-section shall affect the exemption conferred by any other provision of this Act. (3) Nothing in this Part shall apply to any ship other than an Indian ship while it is within any port in India if it would not have been within such port but for stress of weather or any other circumstance that neither the master nor the owner nor the charterer, if any, of the ship could have prevented or forestalled. ________________________ 1. Substituted for the words 'any ship of less than five hundred tons gross other than a passenger ship', by Act 21 of 1966. Section 29(28-5-1966).