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Statutory body, must be created by or under a statute and owe its existence to a statute, Sukhdev Singh v. Bhagatram Sardar Singh, AIR 1975 SC 1331; Vaish Degree College v. Lakshmi Narain, (1976) 2 Lab LJ 163: 1976 Lab IC 576: (1976) 1 Lab LN 474: AIR 1976 SC 888: (1976) 2 SCWR 588: (1976) SLWR 67: 1976 SCC (Lab) 176: (1976) 2 SCC 58.Statutory body, the institution concerned must owe its very existence to a statute which would be the fountainhead of its powers, Vaish Degree College v. Lakshmi Narain, AIR 1976 SC 888 (893). [Agra University Hand-book (1965-66) Statute 14A]...
Statutory Rules and Orders
Statutory Rules and Orders. Very numerous Acts of Parliament, especially those passed in recent years, empower the Sovereign in Council, some Govern-ment Department, or Courts of Justice, to make rules, having the same effect as the statute under which they are made, to regulate details left unprovided for by such statute. Thus, there are the Bankruptcy Rules regulating the practice under the Bankruptcy Acts; the Rules of the Supreme Court, regulating the practice of the High Court and the Court of Appeal; Orders of the Ministries of Health, Labour, etc., and Orders of the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, under the (English) Diseases of Animals Act, 1894, and other Acts; and hundreds of other rules, orders, and regulations, in some cases requiring to be laid before Parliament, and in other cases not, and in some cases required to be published in the London, Edinburgh, or Dublin Gazette, and in others not.The (English) Rules Publication Act 1893 (56 & 57 Vict. c. 66), directs that...
Records creating agency
Records creating agency, includes--(i) in relation to the Central Government, any ministry, department or office of that Government.(ii) in relation to any statutory body or corporation wholly or substantially controlled or financed by the Central Government or commission or any committee constituted by that Government, the offices of the said body, corporation, commission or committee;(iii) in relation to a Union territory Administration, any department or office of that Administration;(iv) in relation to any statutory body or corporation wholly or substantially controlled or financed by Union territory Administration or commission or any committee constituted by that Administration, the offices of the said body corporation commission or committee. [Public Records Act, 1993, s. 2(f)]...
Planning Commission
Planning Commission, is a non-statutory body set up by a resolution of the Government of India in March 1950, in pursuance of declared objectives to promote a rapid rise in the standard of living of the people by efficient exploitation of resources of the country, increasing production and offering opportunities to all for employment. It is essentially an advisory body and has neither constitutional nor statutory authority. It formulates plans for the development of the country. Sector wise working groups are set by the Commission for making recommendations on various policy matters. Advisory bodies are also setup for consulting other knowledgeable people especially non-official experts, Dictionary of Constitutional and Parliamentary Terms, 2nd Edn., 2005, p. 330....
Records
Records, creating agency includes--(i) in relation to the State Government, any Department of Mantralaya or office of the State Government;(ii) in relation to the local authority or any statutory body or corporation wholly or substantially controlled or financed by the State Government or Commission or any committee constituted by the State Government, the office of the said local authority, statutory body, corporation, commission or committee. [Maharashtra Public Records Act, 2005, s. 2(h)]Records, include the records maintained in the form of books or stored in a computer or such other form as may be prescribed. [Prevention of Money-Laundering Act, 2002 (15 of 2003), s. 2(1) (w)]...
National insurance
National insurance. The (English) National Insur-ance Act, 1911 (1 & 2 Geo. 5, c. 55), introduced by Mr. Lloyd George, established a wide system of compulsory state insurance covering both ill-health and unemployment, which is based upon premiums contributed in part by the employer, in part by the employee, and in part by the State. The Act consisted of three parts, the first dealing with National Health Insurance, the second with Unemployment Insurance, and the third contained miscellaneous provisions. This Act remained the basis of National Health Insurance, although the subject of very extensive amendment, until the National Health Insurance Act, 1924, consolidated the law. The law has been consolidated again by the (English) National Health Insurance Act, 1936 (26 Geo. 5, and 1 Edw. 8, c. 32), amends and repeals the whole of the Acts passed in 1920, 1922, 1924 and 1928. The arrangement is as follows:-Part I. Insured Persons and Contributions.Part II. Benefits.Part III. Approved Soc...
Disability
Disability, incapacity to do any legal act. It is divided into two classes: (1) absolute, which, while it continues, wholly disables the person 'such were outlawry, excommunication, attainder (but see the Forfeiture Act, 1870 (32 & 33 Vict. c.23), s. 1, abolishing attainder on conviction for treason or felony), and acts by statutory bodies or corporations in excess of their statutory powers, see ULTRA VIRES; (2) partial, as infancy, coverture, lunacy, and drunkenness. As to which, see the various titles relating thereto. The compulsory purchase, by railway and other companies, of the lands of persons under disability is regulated by the Lands Clauses Acts, and see ULTRA VIRES.It means--(i) blindness; (ii) low vision; (iii) leprosy-cured; (iv) hearing impairment; (v) locomotor disability; (vi) mental retardation; (vii) mental illness. [The Persons with Disabilities (Equal Opportunities, Protection of Rights and Full Participation) Act, 1995 (1 of 1996), s. 2 (i) (i) (ii) (iii) (iv) (v) ...
Statutory authority
Statutory authority, means any authority, board, corporation, council, institute, university or any other body corporate, established by or under any Central, State or Provincial Act for the purposes of regulating production or supply of goods or provision of any services or markets therefor or any matter connected therewith or incidental thereto. [Competition Act, 2003 (12 of 2003), s. 2(w)]...
Statutory tenant
Statutory tenant, a person remaining in occupation of premises let to him after the determination of or expiry of the period of the tenancy is commonly, though in law not accurately, called a statutory tenant. Statutory tenant being a person who enjoys the status of irremovability, would enjoy the protection of the statute until he is evicted from the premises under the enabling provisions of the statute. A statutory tenancy would, therefore, come to an end on either the surrender of premises by such a tenant or if a decree of eviction, Biswabani Pvt. Ltd. v. Santosh Kumar Dutta, AIR 1980 SC 226: (1980) 1 SCR 650: (1980) 1 SCC 185.Statutory tenant, a tenant continuing in possession of a rented land or building after its termination of tenancy is 'statutory tenant', AIR 1989 P&H 9(10). [Haryana Urban Control of Rent and Eviction) Act, 1973, s. 4(2)(b)]Statutory tenant, can be described more conveniently as a tenant whose contractual tenancy has been terminated, Ratanlal v. Raniram, 1986...
Public services and posts
Public services and posts, means the services and posts in connection with the affairs of the State and includes services and posts in-(i) a local authority; (ii) a co-operative society established under the Maharashtra Co-operative Societies Act, 1960 (Mah. XXIV of 1961), in which Government is a shareholder; (iii) a Board or a corporation on a statutory body established by or under a Central or a State Act, which is owned and controlled by the Government, or a Government Company as defined in s. 617 of the Companies Act, 1956 (1 of 1956); (iv) an educational institution owned and controlled by the Government, which receives grant-in-aid from the Government including a University established by or under a Maharashtra Act; (v) any establishment; and (vi) respect of which reservation was applicable by government orders on the date of commencement of this Act and which are not covered under sub-clauses (i) and (v), The Maharashtra State Public Services (Reservation for Scheduled Castes, ...
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