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Railway. A road owned by a private person or public company on which carriages run over iron rails; if the road is a public highway, that part of it on which the rails are laid is called a tramway. Every railway in this country (except a few private railways running through land owned by the owner of the railway) is constructed and managed (1) under a local and personal Act of Parliament; and (2) under the Companies Clauses, Lands Clauses, and Railways Clauses Consolidation Acts; and (3) under the general Acts relating to railways. The (English) Railway Act, 1921, provides for the reorganization of almost all the railways in England.Railway Companies as Carriers, The powers of railway companies as carriers are given by the 86th section of the Railways Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845, and controlled by the (English) Railway and Canal Traffic Acts of 1854, 1873, and 1888. The (English) Act of 1845, s. 86, enacts that:-It shall be lawful for the company [authorized (see s. 3) by the speci...
Inter-State transmission
Inter-State transmission, 'Inter-State transmission includes--(i) the conveyance of energy by means of a main transmission line from the territory of one State to the territory of another State; (ii) the conveyance of energy across the territory of an intervening State as well as conveyance within the State which is incidental to such inter-State transmission of energy. [Electricity Regulatory Co-mmission Act, 1998 (14 of 1998), s. 2(e)]Includes:(i) the conveyance of energy by means of a main transmission line from the territory of one State to the territory of another State.(ii) the conveyance of energy across the territory of an intervening State as well as conveyance within the State which is incidental to such inter-State transmission of energy.(iii) the transmission of energy within the territory on a system built, owned, operated, maintained or controlled by a central transmission utility or by any person under the supervision and control of a central transmission utility. [Elect...
Wheeling
Wheeling, means the operation whereby the distribution system and associated facilities of a transmission licensee or distribution licensee, as the case may be, are used by another person for the conveyance of electricity on payment of charges to be determined under s. 62. [Electricity Act, 2003 (36 of 2003), s. 2(77)]...
Open access
Open access, means the non-discriminatory pro-vision for the use of transmission lines or distribu-tion system or associated facilities with such lines or system by any licensee or consumer or a person engaged in generation in accordance with the regulations specified by the Appropriate Com-mission. [Electricity Act, 2003 (36 of 2003), s. 2(47)]Means confinement within the precincts of any barracks, lines or camp for the time being occupied by any part of the Force. [Central Reserve Police Force Act, 1949, s. 2(e)]...
Salary or wages
Salary or wages, means all remuneration (other than remuneration in respect of over-time work) capable of being expressed in terms of money, which would, if the terms of employment, express or implied, were fulfilled, be payable to an employee in respect of his employment or of work done in such employment and includes dearness allowance (that is to say, all cash payments, by whatever name called, paid to an employee on account of a rise in the cost of living), but does not include--(i) any other allowance which the employee is for the time being entitled to;(ii) the value of any house accommodation or of supply of light, water, medical attendance or other amenity or of any service or of any concessional supply of foodgrains or other articles.(iii) any travelling concession;(iv) any bonus (including incentive, production and attendance bonus);(v) any contribution paid or payable by the employer to any pension fund or provident fund or for the benefit of the employee under any law for t...
Communication
Communication, means that the electrical impulse or signal transmitted by a telephone call was in itself a communication and any intentional interception of that signal in the course of its transmission through a public telecommunication system was subject to the provisions, Morgans v. D.P.P. [HL(E)], (2000) 2 WLR 386. [Interception of Communication Act, 1985, s. 1(1) (UK)]A communication did not take place until the subscriber's telephone was answered at the destination and the calling parties communicated with each other. In other words, the digits dialed were a means to an end in the making of a communication, Morgans v. DPP (DC), (1999) 1 WLR 981.Means information imparted by one person to another, A Dictionary of Law, William C. Anderson, 1889, p. 213.In Indian Parliament Communications are ex-changed between the President and either House of Parliament and between both the Houses of Parliament. The President may send a message to either House of Parliament with respect to a Bill ...
Contemporanea expositio
Contemporanea expositio, it is a well-settled principle or doctrine which applies only to the construction of ambiguous language in old statutes, Doypock Systems (P.) Ltd. v. Union of India, AIR 1988 SC 782 (801).The maxim contemporanea expositio as laid downby Coke was applied to construing ancientstatutes, but not to interpreting Acts which are comparatively modern, Seniar Electric Inspector v. Laxminarayan Chopra, AIR 1962 SC 159 (163); See also Desh Bandhu Gupta v. Delhi Stock Exchange Association Ltd., AIR 1979 SC 1049 (1054)....
Wireless telegraphy
Wireless telegraphy, defined in the Wireless Telegraphy Acts, 1904 (4 Edw. 7, c. 24), s. 7, and 1925 (15 & 16 Geo.5, c. 67), s. 1, as meaning 'any system of communication by telegraph as defined in the Telegraph Acts, 1863 to 1904, without the aid of any wire connecting the points from and at which the messages or other communications are sent and received,' it being also provided that nothing in the Act shall prevent any person from making or using electrical apparatus for actuating machinery or for any purpose other than the transmission, including the reception as well as the sending, of messages. The Act of 1924 prohibits the establishment of any wireless telegraph station, or the establishment or working of any apparatus for wireless telegraphy, in any place or onboard any British ship, except under and in accordance with a licence granted in that behalf by the Postmaster-General. Search-warrants may be issued by order of the Postmaster-General, the Admiralty, Army Council, Air Co...
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