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Home Dictionary Name: technologyTechnology
Technology, means any information (including information embodied in software) other than information in the public domain, that is capable of being used in--(i) the development, production or use of any goods or software; (ii) the development of, or the carrying out of, an industrial or commercial activity or the provision of a service of any kind. Explanation, When technology is described wholly or partly by reference to the uses to which it (or the goods to which it relates) may be put, it shall include services which are provided or used, or which are capable of being used, in the development, production or use of such technology or goods. [Weapons of Mass Destruction and their Delivery System (Prohibition of Unlawful Activities) Act, 2005, s. 4(l)]Means the branch of knowledge; the knowledge and means used to produce the material necessities of a society, (New Webster's Dictionary of the English Language), Central Board of Direct Taxes v. Oberoi Hotels (India) Pvt. Ltd., (1998) 4 ...
Cyber law
Cyber law, the problem of cyber laws has arisen throughout the world. These problems arise in all areas of law. The law (statutory or otherwise) providing answers to these problems or dealing with Information Technology are sometimes named as 'Computer Laws' or 'Information Technology Laws' or simply 'Cyber laws'. The most important legislative measure is the Information Technology Act, 2000. The Act has this amended, The Indian Penal Code, 1860, The Indian Evidence Act, 1872, The Bankers' Book Evidence Act, 1891, The Reserve Bank of India Act, 1934. The Communication Convergence Bill is addition to it...
Extension education
Extension education, means the educational activities concerned with the training of farmers and homemakers and other groups serving agriculture, in improved agricultural practices and the various phases of scientific technology related to agriculture and agricultural production and marketing, the Gujarat Agricultural Universities Act, 2004, s. 2(8).Extension education, s. 2(j) 'extension education' means the educational activities concerned with the training of orchardists, farmers and other groups serving agriculture, horticulture, fisheries and improved practices related thereto and the various phases of scientific technology, related to agriculture and agricultural production including post-harvest technology and marketing. [Central Agricultural University Act, 1992 (40 of 1992), s. 2(j)]...
low tech
not involving high technology using long established technology Opposite of high tech...
Charitable purpose
Charitable purpose, includes relief of the poor, education, medical relief and the advancement of any other object of general public utility, but does not include a purpose which relates exclusively to religious teaching or worship. [Charitable Endow-ments Act, 1890 (6 of 1890), s. 2]Means relief of the poor, education, medical relief and the advancement of any other object of general public utility without the additive words 'not involving the carrying on of any activity for profit', Additional Commissioner of Income Tax v. Surat Art Silk Cloth Manufacturers Association, Surat, (1980) 2 SCR 77: (1980) 2 SCC 31: AIR 1980 SC 387.The definition of 'charitable purposes' in the West Bengal Estates Acquisition Act, 1953 follows, though not quite, the well-known definition of charity given by Lord Macnaghten in Commissioners for Special Purposes of Income Tax v. Pemsel, (1891) AC 531 (583), where four principal divisions were said to be comprised-trusts for the relief of poverty; trusts for ...
Fashion
Fashion, includes a popular trend or a life-style, specially in styles of dress and ornament or manners of behaviour or the business of creating, promoting or studying styles in vogue or the designing, production and marketing of new styles of goods such as, clothing accessories, craft and cosmetics; and the words 'fashion technology' with their grammatical variations and cognate expressions, shall be construed accordingly, National Institute of Fashion Technology Act, 2006, s. 2(e)....
Graduate or technician apprentice
Graduate or technician apprentice, means an apprentice who holds, or is undergoing training in order that he may hold a degree or diploma in engineering or technology or equivalent qualifica-tion granted by any institution recognised by the Government and undergoes apprenticeship train-ing in any such subject field in engineering or technology as may be prescribed. [Apprentices Act, 1961 (52 of 1961), s. 2 (j)]...
Import
Import, in relation to any technology, means the bringing into India of, such technology from a place outside India. [Research and Development Cess Act, 1986, s. 2 (d)]Means bringing into any place within the territories to which this Act extends from a place outside those territories. [Insecticides Act, 1968 (46 of 1968), s. 3 (d)]Means bringing into India. [Aircraft Act, 1934 (22 of 1934), s. 2 (3)]Means to bring into India from a place outside India by land, sea or air. [Explosives Act, 1884 (4 of 1884), s. 4 (f)]With its grammatical variations and cognate expressions, means bringing into India from a place outside India. [Customs Act, 1962 (52 of 1962), s. 2 (23)]Means bringing into India from out of India, Gramophone Company of India Ltd. v. Birendra Bahadur Pandey, AIR 1984 SC 667: (1984) 2 SCR 664: (1984) 2 SCC 534. (Copyright Act, 1957, ss. 51, 53)In a sense, import may be said to be complete for certain purposes say, sales tax purposes on their clearance after assessment of du...
Institutions
Institutions. It was the object of Justinian to comprise in his Code and Digest, or Pandects, a complete body of law. But these works were not adapted to the purposes of elementary instruction, and the writings of the ancient jurists were no longer allowed to have any authority, except so far as they had been incorporated in the digest, Smith's Dict. of Antiq. It was therefore necessary to prepare an elementary treatise, and the Institutes were published a month before the Pandects, A.D. 533, and designed as an elementary introduction to legal study (legum cunabula). The work was divided into four books, subdivided into titles.The Institutes are the elements of the Roman Law, and were composed at the command of the Emperor Justinian, by Trebonian, Dorotheus, and The ophilus, who took them from the writings of the ancient lawyers, and chiefly from those of Gaius especially from his Institutes and his books called Aureorum (i.e., of important matters).The Institutes are divided into four...
Secure system
Secure system, means computer hardware, software, and procedure that, (a) are reasonably secure from unauthorised access and misuse; (b) provide a reasonable level of reliability and correct operation; (c) are reasonably suited to performing the intended functions; and (d) adhere to generally accepted security procedure. [Information Technology Act, 2000 (21 of 2000), s. 2(1) (ze)]Secure system, means computer hardware, soft-ware, and procedure that--(a) are reasonably secure from intrusion and misuse,(b) provide a reasonable level of reliability and correct operation,(c) are reasonably suited to performing the intended functions, and(d) adhere to generally accepted security procedures,The Information Technology Act, 2000, s. 2(ze)...
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