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Gazette [fr. gaza, treasure; or gazetta, the name of a coin, about a farthing], the official newspaper of the Government, said to have been first published of Oxford in 1665; on the removal of the Court to London, the title was changed to the London Gazette. It is published on Tuesdays and Fridays, and contains all the acts of state, proclamations, and appointments to offices under the Crown; also all Orders in Council, and such other Orders, Rules, and Regulations as are directed by Act of Parliament to be published therein; also dissolu-tions of partnership, and notices of proceedings in bankruptcy. There is also an Edinburgh Gazette. It is presumed that another Gazette will be issued for N. Ireland, which will be of the same effect as the Dublin Gazette; with regard to S. ireland it does not seem certain what steps will be taken in this direction. By various Acts (especially the (English) Documentary Evidence Acts, 1868, 1882, and 1895) publication in the Gazette is made evidence of...
Official Gazette or Gazette
Official Gazette or Gazette, shall mean the Gazette of India or the Official Gazette of a State. [General Clauses Act, 1897 (10 of 1897), s. 3(39)]...
Official Gazette
Official Gazette, the words 'Official Gazette' refers to the Official Gazette of the State, AIR 1977 All 251 (255). [Motor Vehicles Act, 1939, s. 68D(1) and (3)]...
Electronic Gazette
Electronic Gazette, means the Official Gazette published in the electronic form. [Information Technology Act, 2000 (21 of 2000), s. 2 (1) (s)]...
Gazette and local advertisement
Gazette and local advertisement, unless the context otherwise requires, means in relation to an application, proposed order, order or scheme relating to a harbour or group of harbours in England or Wales, publication in the London Gazette and , in each of two successive weeks, in one or more local newspapers circulating in the locality where the harbour or group is situate (English) Harbours Act, 1964, s. 57(1); Halsbury's Laws of England, 4th Edn., Vol. 36, p. 256...
In the Official Gazette
In the Official Gazette, the expression 'in the Official Gazette' and the publication required therein, does not undergo a change in its semantics when the route concerned is an inter-State as against an intra-State one, Bharatpur Motor Workers Co-operative Society Ltd. v. State of Uttar Pradesh, AIR 1975 SC 40 (43): (1974) 2 SCC 702: (1975) 2 SCR 37....
London Gazette
London Gazette. See GAZETTE....
Competent authority
Competent authority, means (i) the speaker in the case of the House of the people or the legislative Assembly of a State or a Union Territory having such Assembly and the Chairman in case of the council of Staff or legislative Council of a State (ii) Chief Justice of India in case of Supreme Court, (iii) Chief Justice of the High Court in the case of the High Court (iv) the President or the Governor, as the case may be, in the case of other authorities established or constituted by or under the Constitution, (v) the administrator appointed under Article 239 of the Constitution. [Right to Information Act, 2005 (22 of 2005) s. 2(e)]Means any authority authorised by the Central Government by notification in the Official Gazette to perform all or any of the functions of the competent authority under this Act. [Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Act, 1986 (61 of 1986), s. 2 (d)]Means, in relation to the United Kingdom, the CAA, and in relation to any other country the authority respo...
Unclaimed property
Unclaimed property. This devolves on the Crown at Common Law. Unclaimed property may be dealt with under the heads of (1) Government Stock, (2) Chancery Funds, (3) Stock in Public Companies, (4) Bankers' Balances, (5) Deposits with Bankers for Safe Custody, and (6) Found Property.(1) Government Stock.-The National Debt Act, 1870 (33 & 34 Vict. c. 71), ss. 51 et seq., as extended by 20 & 21 Geo. 5, c. 28, s. 49 provides that stock on which no dividend has been claimed for ten years must be transferred to the National Debt Commissioners. Lists of names in which the stock stood, with residence, description and amount of stock and date of transfer, are to be kept at the Bank of England [or Ireland, but see 13 Geo. 5, c. 2, s. 6 (d)] and at the National Debt Office, open to inspection, and also kept in duplicate at the National Debt Office. The stock may be re-transferred to persons showing title after, in the case of stock exceeding 20l., three months' public notice by advertisement. A sec...
Collector
Collector, means the chief officer in charge of the revenue-administration of a district and includes any officer whom the State Government, by notification in the Official Gazette may, by name or in virtue of his office, appoint to be a Collector in any local area or with respect to any class of persons, for all or any of the purposes of this Act. [Guardians and Wards Act, 1890 (8 of 1890), s. 4 (6)]Means the Collector having jurisdiction over the area in which the accident occurs. [Public Liability Insurance Act, 1991 (6 of 1991), s. 2 (b)]The expression means the Collector of a district, and includes a Deputy Commissioner and any officer specially appointed by the [appropriate Government] to perform the functions of a Collector under this Act. [Land Acquisition Act, 1894 (10 of 1894), s. 3 (c)]Collector,--(a) means, within the limits of the towns of Calcutta, Madras and Bombay, the Collector of Calcutta, madras and Bombay, respectively, and, without those limits, the Collector of a ...
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