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The Forward Contracts (Regulation) Act, 1952
Enactment Date: 26-12-1952
Act Year: 1952
Ministry: Ministry of Finance
Department: Department of Economic Affairs
Enforcement Date: 24-08-1953
Financial Laws
Short Title
The Forward Contracts (Regulation) Act, 1952
Long Title
An Act to provide for the regulation of certain matters relating to forward contracts, the prohibition of options in goods and for matters connected therewith.
Basic Details
Enactment Date: 26-12-1952
Act Year: 1952
Ministry: Ministry of Finance
Department: Department of Economic Affairs
Enforcement Date : 24-08-1953
Section 21(h)
Crime: Manipulating prices in respect of forward contracts for the sale or purchase of any notified goods in such area specified in said notification.
Section 21(g)
Crime: Knowingly making, publishing, or circulating false statements or information affecting or tending to affect the course of business in forward contracts for notified goods.
Section 21(f)
Crime: Joining, gathering, or assisting in gathering persons at any place other than the specified business place of a recognised association, for making bids or offers or for entering into, making, or performing forward contracts in contravention of this Act.
Section 21(e)
Crime: Canvassing, advertising, or touting, for any business connected with forward contracts in contravention of the Act, while not being a member of a recognised association or its authorised agent.
Section 21(d)
Crime: Wilfully misrepresenting to or inducing any person to wrongly believe that one is a member of a recognised association, or that forward contracts can be entered into, made or performed through them.
Section 21(c)
Crime: Managing, controlling or assisting in keeping any place other than that of a recognised association, which is used for entering into, making or performing any forward contracts in contravention of any of the provisions of this Act.
Section 21(b)
Crime: Organising or assisting in organising of any association other than a recognised association for assisting in entering into, making or performing any forward contracts without permission of the Central Government.
Section 21(b)
Crime: Becoming a member of any association other than a recognised association for assisting in entering into, making or performing any forward contracts without permission of the Central Government.
Section 21(a)
Crime: Owning or keeping a place other than that of a recognised association, and knowingly permitting it to be used for entering into or making or performing any forward contracts in contravention of any of the provisions of this Act.
Section 20(c)
Crime: Publishing or circulating information relating to the rate at which any forward contract has been entered into in contravention of any bye-laws of a recognised association.
Section 20(e) r/w Section 19
Crime: Entering into options in goods.
Section 20(e) r/w Section 17
Crime: Entering into a forward contract for the sale or purchase of notified goods or classes of goods, without permission from the Central Government.
Section 20(e) r/w Section 15(4)
Crime: As a member of a recognised association, entering into a forward contract with a non-member on one's own account in respect of notified goods, without obtaining the consent or authority of such person in writing and disclosing that such sale or purchase has been made on one's own account.
Section 20(e) r/w Section 15(3A)
Crime: Entering into any forward contract for the sale or purchase of any notified goods in contravention of any of the specified bye-laws in force at the time.
Section 20(e) r/w Section 15(1)
Crime: Entering into any forward contract for the sale or purchase of goods as notified to be illegal.
Section 20(d)
Crime: Organising or assisting in organising any association in contravention of specified provisions of the Act.
Section 20(d)
Crime: Being a member of any association in contravention of specified provisions of the Act.
Section 20(b)
Crime: Being a member of any association to which a certificate of registration has not been granted.
Section 20(a)(iii) r/w Section 14
Crime: Entering into any forward contract during the suspension of business of a recognised association in pursuance of a notification.
Section 20(a)(ii)
Crime: Failing to furnish any return, statement or other document or information.
Section 20(a)(ii)
Crime: Failing to comply with any requisition made under this Act or rules.
Section 20(a)(ii)
Crime: Failing to answer any question.
Section 20(a)(i)
Crime: Knowingly making a false statement in any return, statement or other document required under the Act.
Section 20(a)(i)
Crime: Wilfully omitting to make a material statement in any return, statement or other document required under the Act.
The General Insurance Business (Nationalisation) Act, 1972
Enactment Date: 20-09-1972
Act Year: 1972
Ministry: Ministry of Finance
Department: Department of Financial Services
Enforcement Date: 20-09-1972
Banking and Insurance
Short Title
The General Insurance Business (Nationalisation) Act, 1972
Long Title
An Act to provide for the acquisition and transfer of shares of Indian insurance companies and undertakings of other existing insurers in order to serve better the needs of the economy by securing the development of general insurance business in the best interests of the community and to ensure that the operation of the economic system does not result in the concentration of wealth to the common detriment, for the regulation and control of such business and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.
Basic Details
Enactment Date: 20-09-1972
Act Year: 1972
Ministry: Ministry of Finance
Department: Department of Financial Services
Enforcement Date : 20-09-1972
Section 30.
Crime: Wilfully applying any property of an existing insurer for purposes other than one authorised by this Act.
Section 30 r/w Section 5
Crime: Unlawfully retaining possession of any property of an existing insurer, the undertaking of which is retained unlawfully which has been transferred to and vested in an Indian insurance company.
Section 30 r/w Section 29
Crime: Wilfully withholding or failing to deliver any property, books, documents or other papers which may be in his possession, to an Indian insurance company as is one's prescribed duty to deliver.
The Geneva Conventions Act, 1960
Enactment Date: 12-03-1960
Act Year: 1960
Ministry: Ministry of External Affairs
Enforcement Date: 14-08-1961
International Relations
Short Title
The Geneva Conventions Act, 1960
Long Title
An Act to enable effect to be given to certain international Conventions done at Geneva on the twelfth day of August, 1949, to which India is a party, and for purposes connected therewith.
Basic Details
Enactment Date: 12-03-1960
Act Year: 1960
Ministry: Ministry of External Affairs
Enforcement Date : 14-08-1961
Section 13 r/w Section 12(e)
Crime: Using any design or wording so nearly resembling any of the emblems or designations specified in the preceding clauses of this section as to be capable of being mistaken for, or, as the case may be, understood as referring to, one of those emblems, without the Central Government's approval.
Section 13 r/w Section 12(d)
Crime: Using the emblem of a white or silver cross with vertical and horizontal arms of the same length on and completely surrounded by red, being the heraldic emblem of the Swiss Confederation, without the Central Government's approval.
Section 13 r/w Section 12(c)
Crime: Using the emblem in red and completely surrounded by white of a lion passing from right to left of, and with its face turned towards, the observer, holding erect in its raised right forepaw a scimitar, with, appearing above the lion's back, the upper half of the sun shooting forth rays, or the designation “Red Lion and Sun”, without the Central Government's approval.
Section 13 r/w Section 12(b)
Crime: Using the emblem of a red crescent moon completely surrounded by white, or the designation “Red Crescent”, without the Central Government's approval.
Section 13 r/w Section 12(a)
Crime: Using the emblem of a red cross with vertical and horizontal arms of the same length, and completely surrounded by white, or the designation “Red Cross” or “Geneva Cross", without the Central Government's approval.
Section 3(1)(b)
Crime: Committing or procuring the commission of a grave breach of any of the Conventions, not involving the wilful killing of a person protected by any of the Conventions.
Section 3(1)(a)
Crime: Committing or procuring the commission of a grave breach of any of the Conventions, involving the wilful killing of a person protected by any of the Conventions.
The Geographical Indications of Goods (Registration and Protection) Act, 1999
Enactment Date: 30-12-1999
Act Year: 1999
Ministry: Ministry of Commerce and Industry
Department: Department of Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade
Enforcement Date: 15-09-2003
Intellectual Property Law
Short Title
The Geographical Indications of Goods (Registration and Protection) Act, 1999
Long Title
An Act to provide for the registration and better protection of geographical indications relating to goods.
Basic Details
Enactment Date: 30-12-1999
Act Year: 1999
Ministry: Ministry of Commerce and Industry
Department: Department of Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade
Enforcement Date : 15-09-2003
Section 40
Crime: Selling, letting for hire, exposing for sale, hiring or having in possession for sale, goods or things to which any false geographical indication is applied.
Section 40
Crime: Selling, letting for hire, exposing for sale, hiring or having in possession for sale, notified goods or things to without the required indication of the country or place in which they were made, or the name and address of the manufacturer, or person for whom the goods were manufactured.
Section 39(e)
Crime: Tampering with, altering or effacing any geographical indication or causing to tamper, alter or efface any any geographical indication of origin to any notified goods with the intent to defraud.
Section 39(d)
Crime: Applying or causing to apply false geographical indication of the country or place or name or address of the manufacturer, to any notified goods with the intent to defraud.
Section 39(c)
Crime: Possessing or causing to possess any die, block, machine, plate or other instrument for falsifying a geographical indication with the intent to defraud.
Section 39(c)
Crime: Making or causing to be made any die, block, machine, plate or other instrument for falsifying a geographical indication with the intent to defraud.
Section 39(c)
Crime: Disposing of or causing dispose any die, block, machine, plate or other instrument for falsifying a geographical indication with the intent to defraud.
Section 39(b)
Crime: Falsely applying or causing to be falsely applied any geographical indication to goods with the intent to defraud.
Section 39(a)
Crime: Falsifying or causing the falsification of any geographical indication with the intent to defraud.
The Gift-tax Act, 1958
Enactment Date: 15-05-1958
Act Year: 1958
Ministry: Ministry of Finance
Department: Department of Revenue
Enforcement Date: 01-04-1958
Taxes, Tolls & Cess Laws
Short Title
The Gift-tax Act, 1958
Long Title
An Act to provide for the levy of gift-tax
Basic Details
Enactment Date: 15-05-1958
Act Year: 1958
Ministry: Ministry of Finance
Department: Department of Revenue
Enforcement Date : 01-04-1958
Section 35(2)
Crime: Knowingly making a false statement in a verification in any return of gift furnished under the Act.
Section 35(1)(b)
Crime: Failing to produce such accounts, records and documents as are specified in the notice issued by an Assessing Officer.
Section 35(1)(a)
Crime: Failing to furnish return of gifts within due time without reasonable cause.
The Goa, Daman and Diu Mining Concessions (Abolition and Declaration as Mining Leases) Act, 1987
Enactment Date: 23-05-1987
Act Year: 1987
Ministry: Ministry of Mines
Enforcement Date: 23-05-1987
Industries
Short Title
The Goa, Daman and Diu Mining Concessions (Abolition and Declaration as Mining Leases) Act, 1987
Long Title
An Act to provide for the abolition of the mining concessions in operation in the Union territory of Goa, Daman and Diu and specified in the First and the Second Schedules, and for the declaration of such mining concessions as mining leases under the Mines and Minerals (Regulation and Development) Act, 1957 with a view to the regulation of the mines to which such concessions relate and for the development of minerals under the control of the Union and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.
Basic Details
Enactment Date: 23-05-1987
Act Year: 1987
Ministry: Ministry of Mines
Enforcement Date : 23-05-1987
Section 15.
Crime: Contravening any provision of this Act.
The Guardians and Wards Act, 1890
Enactment Date: 21-03-1890
Act Year: 1890
Ministry: Ministry of Law and Justice
Department: Legislative Department
Enforcement Date: 21-03-1890
Women and Child Development
Short Title
The Guardians and Wards Act, 1890
Long Title
An Act to consolidate and amend the law relating to Guardian and Wards.
Basic Details
Enactment Date: 21-03-1890
Act Year: 1890
Ministry: Ministry of Law and Justice
Department: Legislative Department
Enforcement Date : 21-03-1890
Section 45(1)(b) r/w Section 41(3)
Crime: Person who has ceased to be a guardian, failing to deliver any property or any accounts in their possession or control belonging to the ward
Section 45(1)(b) r/w Section 34(d)
Crime: Guardian failing to pay into the Court the balance due from them on those accounts, or so much thereof as the Court directs
Section 45(1)(b) r/w Section 34(c)
Crime: Guardian failing to exhibit accounts in the Court at such times and in such form as the Court from time to time directs
Section 45(1)(b) r/w Section 34(b)
Crime: Guardian failing to deliver to the Court a statement of the immovable property belonging to the ward, of the money and other movable property which they have received on behalf of the ward up to the date of delivering the statement, and of the debts due on that date to or from the ward, within prescribed time
Section 45(1)(a)
Crime: Failing to produce a minor in compliance with a direction issued by a court
Section 45(1)(a)
Crime: Failing to do one's utmost to compel the minor to return to the custody of their guardian in obedience to an order issued by the Court for their return
Section 44
Crime: Guardian removing the ward from the limits of the jurisdiction of the Court or the purpose or with the effect of preventing the Court from exercising its authority with respect to a ward
The Handlooms (Reservation of Articles for Production) Act, 1985
Enactment Date: 29-03-1985
Act Year: 1985
Ministry: Ministry of Textiles
Enforcement Date: 31-03-1986
Textiles
Short Title
The Handlooms (Reservation of Articles for Production) Act, 1985
Long Title
An Act to provide for reservation of certain articles for exclusive production by handlooms and for matters connected therewith.
Basic Details
Enactment Date: 29-03-1985
Act Year: 1985
Ministry: Ministry of Textiles
Enforcement Date : 31-03-1986
Section 11(b)
Crime: Damaging or destroying any books of account, registers, records or other documents under this Act when required to produce them.
Section 11(b)
Crime: Failing to produce any books of account, registers, records or other documents when required to be produced.
Section 11(a)
Crime: Failing to provide information or sample
Section 11(a)
Crime: Damaging or destroying any article from which sample was required to be produced
Section 11(a)
Crime: Furnishing false information or sample
Section 10 r/w Section 3
Crime: Producing any article or class of articles in contravention of an order issued to reserve the production of the article exclusively by handlooms.
The Haryana and Uttar Pradesh (Alteration of Boundaries) Act, 1979
Enactment Date: 11-06-1979
Act Year: 1979
Ministry: Ministry of Home Affairs
Department: Department of States
Enforcement Date: 11-06-1979
State Re-organisation and Extension of Laws
Short Title
The Haryana and Uttar Pradesh (Alteration of Boundaries) Act, 1979
Long Title
An Act to provide for the alteration of boundaries of the States of Haryana and Uttar Pradesh and for matters connected therewith.
Basic Details
Enactment Date: 11-06-1979
Act Year: 1979
Ministry: Ministry of Home Affairs
Department: Department of States
Enforcement Date : 11-06-1979
Section 32.
Crime: Wilfully removing or injuring any boundary pillar.
The Hind Cycles Limited and Sen-Raleigh Limited (Nationalisation) Act, 1980
Enactment Date: 27-12-1980
Act Year: 1980
Ministry: Ministry of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises
Department: Department of Heavy Industry
Enforcement Date: 15-10-1980
Nationalisation
Short Title
The Hind Cycles Limited and Sen-Raleigh Limited (Nationalisation) Act, 1980
Long Title
An Act to provide for the acquisition of the undertakings of the Hind Cycles Limited, and Sen-Raleigh Limited, with a view to securing the proper management of such undertakings so as to subserve the interests of the general public by ensuring the continued manufacture, production and distribution of bicycles, and their component parts and accessories which are essential to the needs of the economy of the country and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.
Basic Details
Enactment Date: 27-12-1980
Act Year: 1980
Ministry: Ministry of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises
Department: Department of Heavy Industry
Enforcement Date : 15-10-1980
Section 27(e)
Crime: Preferring any claim which one knows or has reason to believe to be false or grossly inaccurate.
Section 27(e)
Crime: Wrongfully removing or destroying any property forming part of any undetaking of either of the two companies or prefers any claim which he knows or has reason to believe to be false or grossly inaccurate.
Section 27(d)
Crime: Failing to deliver to the Central Government or the Government company or any other body so specified, any assets, books of account, registers or other documents relating to the such undertaking.
Section 27(c)
Crime: Wilfully withholding or failing to furnish any document relating to such undertaking, to the Central Government, the Government company or any person or body of persons specified.
Section 27(b)
Crime: Wrongfully obtaining possession or retaining any property forming part of any undertaking of either of the two companies.
Section 27(a)
Crime: Wrongfully withholding property from the central government or new company