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Any other law for the time being in force, would mean a law other than the provisions of the Motor Vehicles Act, Deepal G. Soni v. United India Insurance Co., (2004) 5 SCC 385 (406). (Motor Vehicles Act, 1988, s. 140)...
Company
Company [fr. compagnia, Ital., which word is still printed on Bank of England notes as 'compa'], a body of persons associated for purposes of busi-ness, sometimes, but not now so frequently as some years ago, styled a Joint Stock Company.A company has its origin either (1) in a charter, as the Bank of England and many insurance companies; or (2) in a special Act of Parliament, with which, as authorizing an undertaking of a public nature such as a railway, the Companies Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845 (8 & 9 Vict. c. 16), is necessarily incorporated; or (3) in registration under the Companies Acts, 1862 and subsequent Acts, now consolidated into the (English) Companies Act, 1925 (19 & 20 Geo. 5, c. 23).By s. 13 of the Act of 1925 (1) on the registration of the memorandum of a company the registrar shall certify under his hand that the company is incorporated and, in the case of a limited company, that the company is limited. (2) From the date of incorporation mentioned in the certificat...
Civil prison
Civil prison, means any jail or place used for the detention of any criminal prisoner under the Prisons Act, 1894, or under any other law for the time being in force. [Border Security Force Act, 1968, s. 2 (1) (e); means any jail or place used for the detention of any criminal prisoner under the prison Act or under any other law for the time being in force Army Act, 1950 (45 of 1950), s. 3 (iii)]--means any jail or place used for the detention of any criminal prisoner under the Prisons Act, 1894 or under any other law for the time being in force. [Air Force Act, 1950 (45 of 1950), s. 4 (xiii)]...
Co-operative society
Co-operative society, means a co-operative society registered under the Co-operative Societies act, 1912, or under any other law for the time being in force in any State for the registration ofco-operative societies. [Wealth-tax Act, 1957(27 of 1957), s. 2 (ha)]Means a society registered or deemed to be registered under any law relating to co-operative societies for the time being in force in any State. [Multi-State Co-operative Societies Act, 2002 (39 of 2002), s. 3 (h)]Means a society registered or deemed to be registered under the Co-operative Societies Act, 1912, or any other law for the time being in force in any State relating to co-operating societies. [Payment of Bonus Act, 1965 (21 of 1965), s. 2 (10)]The expression 'co-operative society' in cl. 2 of the scheme meant only a consumers co-operative society and no other, Sarkari Sasta Anaj Vikreta Sangh v. State of Madhya Pradesh, (1981) 4 SCC 471: AIR 1981 SC 2030 (2035). [Madhya Pradesh Foodstuffs Civil Supply Distribution Sche...
Workmen's Compensation Act
Workmen's Compensation Act. (English) The Workmen's Compensation Act, 1897, introduced the principle of compulsory insurance of workmen by employers in a restricted number of trades. The gist of a right to compensation under the Acts is 'accident arising out of and in the course of the employment' causing personal injury to a workman (Workmen's Compensation Act, 1925 [15 & 16 Geo. 5, c. 84), s. 1 (1)] The compensation is not damages for negligence or any other tort at common law or by statute (see COMPBELL (LORD) ACTS (Fatal Accidents Acts, 1846-1908) and Employers Liability Act, 1880, sub tit. MASTER AND SERVANT), and an employer is not liable both for damages and compensation; but the workman or his representatives may elect between the remedies, and in an unsuccessful action for damages the Court may assess or refer the question of compensation to the proper tribunal, subject to an equitable order for costs (Workmen's Compensation Act, 1925, s. 25). Compensation is not payable for a...
Information
Information, an accusation, or complaint, also, communicated knowledge.Information means any material in any form, including records, documents, memos, e-mails, opinions, advices, press-releases, circulars, orders, logbooks, contracts, reports, papers, samples, models, data material held in any electronic form and information relating to any private body which can be accessed by a public authority under any other law for the time being in force. [Right to Information Act, 2005, s. 2(f)]Information in chancery. Where a suit was instituted on behalf of the Crown or Government, or of those of whom it had the custody by virtue of its prerogative (such as idiots and lunatics), or whose rights are under its particular protection (such as the objects of a public charity), the matter of complaint was offered to the Court by way of information by the Attorney or Solicitor-General, and not by way of petition. When a suit immediately concerned the crown or government alone, the proceeding was pur...
Consumer
Consumer, 'consumer' would include 'any person who consumes electrical energy supplied by a person who generates electrical energy for his own consumption', Jiyajee Rao Cotton Mills Ltd. v. State of Madhya Pradesh, AIR 1963 SC 414: (1962) Supp 1 SCR 282.The definition of the word 'consumer' shows that it would include a person who consumes energy generated by himself. The proposition that in the matter of the levy of electricity tax the Court should differentiate between cases wherein the energy consumed has been generated by someone other than the consumer and those wherein such energy has been generated by the consumer himself cannot, therefore, be countenanced, State of Mysore v. West Coast Papers Mills Ltd., (1975) 3 SCC 448: AIR 1975 SC 5: (1975) 2 SCR 127.The word 'consumer' is a comprehensive expression. It extends from a person who buys any commodity to consume either as eatable or otherwise from a shop, business house, corporation, store, fair price shop to use of private or p...
Municipality
Municipality, means the Nagar Panchayat or the Municipal Council, as the case may be, constituted under the provisions of this Act. [Manipur Municipalities Act, 1994 (43 of 1994), s. 2(34)]--means the New Delhi Municipal Committee, the Cantonment Board or any other municipal body, other than the Corporation, established by or under any law for the time being in force in or any part of Delhi. [Delhi Police Act, 1978 (34 of 1978), s. 2(i)]--the word 'Municipality' has been defined in Webster's New Dictionary as, 'a town, city or borough which has local self-government'. A Corporation or a Municipal Council or Nagar Panchayat is constituted on strength of population and the area of place where it is constituted namely rural or urban. But all the three are deemed to be municipality. A Municipal Corporation with a larger area is as much a municipality as a council with smaller area, Cantonment Board v. G. Venkataram Reddy, AIR 1995 SC 1210. [Constitution of India , Art. 243]Municipality, sh...
Complaint
Complaint. This term is most generally used with reference to Courts of Summary Jurisdiction where proceedings are commenced 'on information,' but is also sometimes used to describe a claim in an action of a civil or quasi-civil character. See STATE-MENT OF CLAIM. As to when a 'complaint' made to a third person and not in the presence of the accused is admissible as evidence, see R. v. Osborne, (1905) 1 KB 551, and as to statements made in the presence of the accused, see R. v. Norton, (1910) 2 KB 496.Means any allegation made orally or in writing to a Magistrate, with a view to his taking action under this Code, that some person, whether known or unknown, has committed an offence, but does not include a police report. [Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (2 of 1974), s. 2 (d)]Means--(i) a consumer; or(ii) any voluntary consumer association registered under the Companies Act, 1956 (1 of 1956) or under any other law for the time being in force; or(iii) the Central Government or any State G...
Utilisation of surplus area
Utilisation of surplus area, the s. empowers the State Government or its authorised officer to 'utilise' any 'surplus area' for the resettlement of tenants, the Act does not define what is meant by an order of utilisation under the s. A clue to what is actually meant by that expression, is however to be found clause (b) s. 10A which provides as follows: 10-A(b). Notwithstanding anything contained in any other law for the time being in force and save in the case of land acquired by the State Government under any law for the time being in force or an heir by inheritance no transfer or other disposition of land which is comprised in surplus area at the commencement of this Act, shall affect the utilisation thereof in clause (a), Financial Commissioner v. Kala Devi, AIR 1980 SC 309 (310): (1980) 1 SCC 77: (1980) 1 SCR 1120. [Punjab Security of Land Tenures Act (10 of 1953), s. 10A and s. 10B]...
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