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Terrorist act, has the meaning assigned to it in sub-s. (1) of s. 3, and the expression 'terrorist' shall be construed accordingly. [Prevention of Terrorism Act, 2002 (15 of 2002), s. 2 (g)]...
Terrorist gang
Terrorist gang, means any association, other then terrorist organisation, whether systematic or otherwise, which is concerned wife, or involved in, terrorist act. [Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967 (37 of 1967), s. 2(l)]...
Proceeds of terrorism
Proceeds of terrorism, means all kinds of properties which have been derived or obtained from commission of any terrorist act or have been acquired through funds traceable to a terrorist act, irrespective of person in whose name such proceeds are standing or in whose possession they are found, and includes any property which is being used, or is intended to be used, for the purpose of a terrorist organisation. [Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 2004, s. 2(g)]Proceeds of terrorism, shall mean all kinds of properties which have been derived or obtained from commission of any terrorist act or have been acquired through funds traceable to a terrorist act, and shall include cash, irrespective of person in whose name such proceeds are standing or in whose possession they are found. [Prevention of Terrorism Act, 2000 (15 of 2002), s. 2(c)]...
Terrorist
Terrorist, means one who adopts or supports the policy of terrorism, State of Punjab v. Sukhpal Singh, (1990) 1 SCC 35; Mohd Iqbal v. State of Maharashtra, 1998 (4) SCC 494.Terrorist, shall have the meaning assigned to this expression in the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967; (37 of 1967). [Weapons of Mass Destruction and their Delivery System (Prohibition of Unlawful Activities) Act, 2005, s. 4(m)]Terrorist means one who adopts or supports the policy of terrorism, State of Punjab v. Sukhpal Singh, AIR 1990 SC 231 (237): (1990) 1 SCC 35: (1989) Supp 1 SCR 420; Mohd. Iqbal v. State of Maharashtra, 1998 (4) SCC 494. [Terrorist Disruptive Activities (Preven-tion) Act, 1985]...
Untoward incident
Untoward incident, means:(1)(i) The commission of a terrorist act within the meaning of sub-s. (1) of s. 3 of the Terrorist and Disruptive Activities (Prevention) Act, 1987 (28 of 1987); or(ii) the making of a violent attack or the commission of robbery or dacoity; or(iii) the indulging in rioting, shoot-out or arson,by any person in or any train carrying passengers, or in a waiting hall, cloakroom or reservation or booking office or on any platform or in any other place within the precincts of a railway station; or(2) the accidental falling of any passenger from a train carrying passengers. [Railways Act, 1989 (24 of 1989), s. 123(c)]...
Terrorist disruption
Terrorist disruption, means the act of bursting and tearing. Disruptive means producing or resulting from or attending disruption, State of Punjab v. Sukhpal Singh, (1990) 1 SCC 35; Mohd Iqbal v. State of Maharashtra, 1998 (4) SCC 494....
Terrorist activity
Terrorist activity, a 'terrorist activity' does not merely arise by causing disturbance of law and order or of public order. The fallout of the intended activity is to be one that it travels beyond the capacity of the ordinary law-enforcement agencies to tackle it under the ordinary penal law. It is in essence a deliberate and systematic use of coercive intimidation, Madan Singh v. State of Bihar, (2004) 4 SCC 622 (633)....
Act of Parliament
Act of Parliament, a law made by the sovereign, with the advice and consent of the Lords spiritual and temporal, and the Commons, in Parliament assembled (1 Bl. Com. 85); but, in the case of an Act passed under the provisions of the (English) Parliament Act, 1911, a law made by the sovereign 'by and with the advice and consent of the Commons in this present Parliament assembled in accordance with the provisions of the Parliament Act, 1911, and by authority of the same'; also called a 'statute.'Means a bill passed by two Houses of Parliament and assented to by the President and in the absence of an express provision to the contrary, operative from the date of notification in the Gazette, Handbook for Members of Rajya Sabha, April, 2002.Means an action; a thing done or established; a written law formally passed by the legislative power of a State; a Bill enacted by the legislature into a law, as distinguished from a bill which is in the form of draft of a law or legislative proposal pres...
Consolidation Acts (English)
Consolidation Acts (English). Acts by which several Acts upon the same subject are reduced into one. Of such a character are the Larceny Act, 1861, now largely repealed and replaced by the Larceny Act, 1916, and other Criminal Law Consolidation Acts of 1861, the Public Health Act, 1875, the Municipal Corporations Act, 1882, the Sheriffs Act, 1887, the Arbitration Act, 1889, the Factors Act, 1889, the Lunacy Act, 1890, the Stamp Act, 1891, the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, the Friendly Societies Act, 1896, the Factory and Workshop Act, 1901, the Coal Mines Act, 1911, the Forgery Act, 1913, the Companies Act,1929, the Poor Law Act, 1930, the Local Government Act, 1933, the County Court Act, 1934.The (English) Interpretation Act, 1889 (see that title), by s. 38(1) enacts that--Where this Act or any Act passed after the commencement of this Act repeals and re-enacts, with or without modification, any provisions of a former Act, references in any other Act to the provisions so repealed shall...
Increase of Rent and Mortgage (Restrictions) Acts (English)
Increase of Rent and Mortgage (Restrictions) Acts (English). A series of statutes, each of a temporary character, curtailing the contractual rights, in respect of certain classes of property, of landlords and mortgagees. This legislation was rendered necessary, in the first instance, by the conditions caused by the outbreak of the Great War. The continuance of the protection to tenants and mortgagees of dwelling-houses afforded by the later Acts was made necessary by the housing shortage, caused principally by the economic effects of the war. The Courts (Emergency Powers) Act,1914 (4 & 5 Geo. 5, c. 78), was the first of such Acts: it restricted the right to levy distress or resume possession of property by landlords and of mortgagees to foreclose or realize their security. This Act was followed by a series of complicated statutes which imposed restrictions on increasing the rent and mortgage interest on properties falling within their scope. the obscure and ambiguous drafting of these ...
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