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General Clauses Act, is an Act of 1897 which applies for the interpretation of the Constitution of India and Central and State Acts, Constitution of India, Art. 367(1)...
Act
Act, Something done or performed especially voluntarily; a deed, Black's law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 24.Is used with reference to an offence or a civil wrong, shall include a series of acts, and words which refer to act done extend also to illegal omissions. [General Clauses Act, 1897 (10 of 1897), s. 3 (2)]The term act is one of the ambiguous import, being used in various senses of different degrees of generation. When it is said, however, that an act is one of the essential conditions of liability. We use the term in the widest sense of which it is capable. We mean by it any event which is subject to the control of the human will. Such a definition is, indeed, not ultimate, but it is sufficient for the purpose of the law. John Salmond, Jurisprudence 367; Glanville L. Williams, 10th Edn. 1947.Act does not mean depose, Janki Vashdeo Bhojwani v. Indusind Bank Ltd., AIR 2005 SC 439.In view of the provisions of the General Clauses Act, the expression 'act also includes illegal omissions,...
Central Act
Central Act, shall mean an Act of Parliament, and shall include--(a) an Act of the Dominion Legislature or of the Indian Legislature passed before the commence-ment of the Constitution, and(b) an Act made before such commencement by the Governor General in Council or the Governor General, acting in a legislative capacity. [General Clauses Act, 1897 (10 of 1897), s. 3 (7)]...
Provincial Act
Provincial Act, shall mean an Act made by the Governor-in-Council, Lieutenant Governor-in-Council or Chief Commissioner in Council of a Province under any of the Indian Councils Acts or the Government of India Act, 1915, or an Act made by the local legislature or the Governor of a province under the Government of India Act, or an Act made by the Provincial Legislature or Governor of a Province or the Coorg Legislative Council under the Government of India Act, 1935. [General Clauses Act, 1897 (10 of 1897), s. 3(46)]...
Commencement of the Act
Commencement of the Act, in view of the definition of 'commencement' given in s. 3(13) of the General Clauses Act, which applies to this expression as sued in the Act, it has to be held that the commencement of the Act for the purposes of the present suit must be held to be the date on which the Act came into force, K. Manickchand v. Elias Saleh Mohd Sait, AIR 1969 SC 751 (761): (1969) 1 SCC 206....
State Act
State Act, shall means an Act passed by the Legislature of a State established or continued by the Constitution. [General Clauses Act, 1897 (10 of 1897), s. 3(59)]...
Town Police Clauses Acts, 1847
Town Police Clauses Acts, 1847 (English) (10 & 11 Vict. c. 89), and 1889 (52 & 53 Vict. c. 14). Adoptive Acts. The Act of 1847 related to obstructions and nuisances in streets, fires, places of public resort, hackney carriages, and public bathing and other matters for the order and good government of towns and other districts. The Act of 1847 is still in force as amended; the Act of 1889 was repealed by the Road Traffic Act, 1930; see also Public Health Acts, 1875 to 1936, and Road Traffic Acts, 1930 to 1934....
Commissioners Clauses Act
Commissioners Clauses Act, 1847 (English) (10 & 11 Vict. c. 16), consolidates the usual statutory clauses constituting and regulating commissioners for regulating public undertakings....
Towns Improvement Clauses Act, 1847
Towns Improvement Clauses Act, 1847 (English) (10 & 11 Vict. c. 34). An Adoptive Act. The provisions of this Act relating inter alia to 'naming streets and numbering houses,' 'improving line of streets,' etc., 'ruinous and dangerous buildings,' and 'precautions during construction an repair of sewers, streets, and houses,' are 'for the purpose of regulating such matters in urban districts.' See also the Public Health Acts, 1875 to 1936...
Local authority
Local authority, includes panchayatiraj institutions, municipalities, a district board, cantonment board, town planning authority or Zila Parishad or any other body or authority, by whatever name called, for the time being invested by law, for rendering essential services or, with the control and management of civil services, within a specified local area. [Disaster Management Act, 2005, s. 2(h)]It is the political subdivision functioning within the framework of constitution and enjoying certain degree of autonomy serving as administrative units for state services, Dictionary of Political Science, Joseph Dunner, 1965, p. 321.Means a municipal corporation, a municipal council, a Nagar Panchayat, an Industrial Township, a Cantonment Board, a Village Panchayat Constituted or Continued under any law for the time being in force. [Maharashtra Non-Biodegradable Garbage (Control) Act, 2006, s. 2(e)]Means a municipal corporation, Nagar Panchayat, Municipal Council, District Panchayat, Taluka Pa...
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