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Fire

& 62 Vict. c. 38), and the Acts therein recited. By s. 90 of the (English) Public Health Amendment Act, 1907, local authorities can agree for the common use of fire engines and appliances; ss. 87-89 of

National insurance

contained miscellaneous provisions. This Act remained the basis of National Health Insurance, although the subject of very extensive amendment, until the National Health Insurance Act, 1924, consolidated the law. The law has been consolidated again by the

Fixed fee

Fixed fee, the term 'licence fee' or the term 'fixed fee' in the context of the Uttar Pradesh Excise Act, the Ordinance with its preamble and the Excise (Amendment) Rules, connotes the idea of payment of...

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Rape

to be imprisoned for not exceeding two years, with or without hard labour. See also the Criminal Law Amendment Act, 1885, by s. 4 of which connection induced by personation of the woman's husband is declared to

Public order

Schedule VII) The expression 'public order' was inserted in Article 19(2) of the Constitution by the Constitution First Amendment Act, 1951, the wide concept of 'public order' is split up under different heads. It enables the imposition

Other legal proceeding

the expression 'other legal proceeding' employed in s. 40(2) of the Act as it stood prior to its amendment by Act 22 of 1973, Assistant Collector of Central Excise v. Ramdev Tobacoo Co., AIR 1991 SC 506

Next ensuing

which occur in s. 66 of the Punjab Municipal Act, 1911, cannot co-related to the date of the amendment so as to mean 'the year next ensuing after the year in which the amendment is made', New

Nemo tenetur prodere seipsum

but a series of particular enactments, e.g., the (English) Licensing Act, 1872, s. 51, the (English) Criminal Law Amendment Act, 1885, s. 20, and the (English) Law of Libel Amendment Act, 1888, s. 9, and finally the

Partnership

title) of 1865 (28 & 29 Vict. c. 86), and a small part of the (English) Mercantile Law Amendment Act of 1856, being the only previous statutory enactments on the subject. Rules, which, however, subject to any

Modification

Modification, includes additions, omissions and amendments and related expressions shall be construed accordingly. An 'addition' or 'omission', not amounting to or requiring an amendment

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