Passports Act 1967 Section 3 : Passport or travel document for departure from India : No person shall depart from, or attempt to depart from India, unless he holds in this behalf a valid passport or travel document. Explanation. For the purposes of this section,…
Passports Act 1967 Section 2 : Definitions : In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, (a) departure, with its grammatical variations and cognate expressions, means departure from India by water, land or air; (b) passport means a passport issued or deemed to have been…
Passports Act 1967 (15 of 1967) Statement of Objects and Reasons : Prior to the decision of the Supreme Court in Satwant Singh Sawlmey v. Union of India (W.P. No. 236 of 1966), passports were issued by the Government in the exercise of its executive…
Prevention Of Insults To National Honour Act 1971 Section 3A : 1.[Enhanced penalty on second and subsequent convictions : Whoever, having already been convicted of an offence under section 2 or section 3, is again convicted of any such offence shall be punishable for the…
Prevention Of Insults To National Honour Act 1971 Section 3 : Prevention of singing of Indian National Anthem, etc : Whoever Intentionally prevents the singing of the Indian National Anthem or causes disturbance to any assembly engaged in such singing shall be punished with imprisonment…
Prevention Of Insults To National Honour Act 1971 Section 2 : Insult to Indian National Flag and Constitution of India : Whoever in any public place or in any other place within public view burns, mutilates, defaces, defiles, disfigures, destroys, tramples upon or 1.[otherwise shows…
Prevention Of Insults To National Honour Act 1971 Act No. 69 Of 1971 Statement of Objects and Reasons : Cases involving deliberate disrespect to National Flag, the National Anthem and the Constitution have come to the notice in the recent past. Some of these incidents…
Protection of Civil Rights Act 1955 The Schedule : (See section 17) : 1. The Bihar Harijan (Removal of Civil Disabilities) Act, 1949 (Bihar Act 19 of 1949). 2. The Bombay Harijan (Removal of Social Disabilities) Act, 1946 (Bombay Act 10 of 1947). 3. The…
Protection of Civil Rights Act 1955 Section 17 : Repeal : The enactments specified in the Schedule are hereby repealed to the extent to which they or any of the provisions contained therein correspond or are repugnant to this Act or to any of the…
Protection of Civil Rights Act 1955 Section 16B : Power to make rules : (1) The Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, make rules to carry out the provisions of this Act. (2) Every rule made by the Central Government under this…
Protection of Civil Rights Act 1955 Section 16A : 1.[Probation of Offenders Act, 1958, not to apply to persons above the age of fourteen years : The provisions of the Probation of Offenders Act, 1958 (20 of 1958), shall not apply to any person above…
Protection of Civil Rights Act 1955 Section 16 : Act to override other laws : Save a otherwise expressly provided in this Act, the provisions of this Act shall have effect notwithstanding anything inconsistent therewith contained in any other law for the time being in…
Protection of Civil Rights Act 1955 Section 15A : 1.[Duty of State Government to ensure that the rights accruing from the abolition of untouchability may be availed of by the concerned persons : (1) Subject to such rules as the Central Government may make in…
Protection of Civil Rights Act 1955 Section 15 : 1.[Offences to be cognizable and triable summarily : (1) Notwith-standing anything contained in the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (2 of 1974), every offence punishable under this Act shall be cognizable and every such offence, except…
Protection of Civil Rights Act 1955 Section 14A : 1.[Protection of action taken in good faith : (1) No suit, prosecution or other legal proceeding shall lie against the Central Government or a State Government for anything which is in good faith done or intended…
Protection of Civil Rights Act 1955 Section 14 : Offences by companies : (1) If the person committing an offence under this Act is a company, every person who at the time of the offence was committed was in charge of, and was responsible to,…
Protection of Civil Rights Act 1955 Section 13 : Limitation of jurisdiction of civil Courts : (1) No civil Court shall entertain or continue any suit or proceeding or shall pass any decree or order or execute wholly or partially any decree or order if…
Protection of Civil Rights Act 1955 Section 12 : Presumption by Courts in certain cases : Where any act constituting an offence under this Act is committed in relation to a member of a Scheduled Caste 1.[***], the Court shall presume, unless the contrary is…
Protection of Civil Rights Act 1955 Section 11 : Enhanced penalty on subsequent conviction : Whoever having already been convicted of an offence under this Act or of an abetment of such offence is again convicted of any such offence or abetment, 1.[shall, on conviction,…
Protection of Civil Rights Act 1955 Section 10A : 1.[Power of State Government to impose collective fine : (1) If, after an inquiry in the prescribed manner, the State Government is satisfied that the inhabitants of an area are concerned in, or abetting the commission…