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Vice consul

and any person for the time being authorised to perform the duties of consul-general consul, vice-consul or consular-agent. [General Clauses Act, 1897 (10 of 1897), s. 3(16)]

(1374): (1970) 1 SCC 590. [Penal Code (45 of 1860), s. 499] According to the definition in the General Clauses Act means a thing which is in fact done honestly, whether it is done negligently or not. In other

Financial year

the 31st day of March. Financial year shall means the year commencing on the first day of April. [General Clauses Act, 1897 (10 of 1897), s. 3(21)] Means the year ending on the 31st day of March, Bengal Engineering

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Provincial Act

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

Gazette

Webster's American Dictionary, p. 792. Gazette, is known as Gazette of India, or Official Gazette or a State, General Clauses Act, 1897, s. 3(39)

Prostitute

indiscriminately consorts with men for hire. Solicitation by prostitutes is punishable in towns by the (English) Town Police Clauses Act, 1847, s. 28 (in cases where the town is subject to a special Act incorporating that Act); in … to a special Act incorporating that Act); in London by the Metropolitan Police Act, 1839, s. 54, and generally by the Vagrancy Act, 1824. A licensed retailer of intoxicating liquor permitting his premises to be the habitual

Arrest

respect of certain minor offences on the highway [s. 78, (English) Highways Act; s. 28, (English) Town Police Clauses Act; s. 74(2), (English) Public Health Act, 1925 (Geo. 5, c. 71)]. For further statutes and for arrest generally … Act; s. 74(2), (English) Public Health Act, 1925 (Geo. 5, c. 71)]. For further statutes and for arrest generally see Archbold's Criminal Pleading, Evidence and Practice. The (English) Criminal Law Act, 1826, ss. 28 and 30, and

Short Titles

Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845, and since then gradually more and more used in the case of particular Acts. General Short Titles Acts were also passed in 1892 and 1896, that of 1896 giving short titles to 2,076

Casting vote

casting vote (s. 92), as has the chairman of a committee (s. 96), and the chairman of a general meeting (s. 76), and see Art. 52 of Table. A. under the (English) Companies Act, 1929. … 5(3). The (English) Municipal Corporations Act, 1882, still applies to London, see s. 22. By the (English) Companies Clauses Act, 1845, the chairman of directors has a casting vote (s. 92), as has the chairman of a committee

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