An Act to provide for the formation of the Naga Hills-Tuensang Area of Assam as an administrative unit. BE it enacted by Parliament in the Eighth Year of the Republic of India as follows:– 1.Short title and commencement. 1. Short title and commencement. (1) This Act may be called the Naga Hills-Tuensang Area Act, 1957.(2)  [ Read More ]

Assented to on 17th June, 1995.ACT NO. 27 OF 1995.An Act to provide for strict liability for damages arising out of any accident occurring while handling any hazardous substance and for the establishment of a National Environment Tribunal for effective and expeditious disposal of cases arising from such accident, with a view to giving relief  [ Read More ]

An Act to provide for the extension of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, 2005 to the State of Jammu and Kashmir BE it enacted by Parliament in the Fifty-eighth Year of the Republic of India as follows:- 1. Short title and commencement. 1. Short title and commencement. – (1) This Act may be called  [ Read More ]

CHAPTER I DOWER AMONG MUHAMMADANS 5.Muhammadan dower contracts how to be enforced. 5. Muhammadan dower contracts how to be enforced. Where the amount of dower stipulated for in any contract of dower by a Muhammadan is excessive with reference to the means of the husband, the entire sum provided in the contract shall not be  [ Read More ]

An Act to validate certain marriages solemnized in certain Part B States between the 26th day of January, 1950 and the 31st day of March, 1951, under the Indian Christian Marriage Act, 1872.BE it enacted by Parliament as follows.- 1.Short title. 1. Short title.-This Act may be called the Part B States Marriages Validating Act,  [ Read More ]

An Act for declaring which of certain rules, laws and regulations have the force of law in the Punjab and for other purposes. Preamble. WHEREAS certain rules, laws and regulations, made heretofore for the Punjab, acquired the force of law under the provisions of section 25 of the 1*Indian Councils Act, 1861; (24 & 25  [ Read More ]

An Act to provide for the abolition of the Legislative Council of the State of Punjab and for matters supplemental, incidental and consequential thereto. BE it enacted by Parliament in the Twentieth Year of the Republic of India as follows:– 1.Short title and commencement. 1. Short title and commencement.-(1) This Act may be called the  [ Read More ]

An Act to provide for the extension of the Punjab Municipal Corporation Act, 1976 to the Union territory of Chandigarh. BE it enacted by Parliament in the Forty-fifth Year of the Republic of India as follows:– 1.Short title and commencement. 1. Short title and commencement. (1) This Act may be called the Punjab Municipal Corporation  [ Read More ]

An Act to amend the Punjab Municipal Corporation Law (Extension to Chandigarh) Act, 1994.BE it enacted by Parliament in the Fifty-first Year of the Republic of India as follows:- 1.Short title. 1. Short title.-This Act may be called the Punjab Municipal Corporation Law (Extension to Chandigarh) Amendment Act, 2000. 2.Amendment of Act 45 of 1994.2.  [ Read More ]

An Act to provide for the reorganisation of the existing State of Punjab and for matters connected therewith. BE it enacted by Parliament in the Seventeenth Year of the Republic of India as follows:– PART IPRELIMINARY   1. Short title. This Act may be called the Punjab Reorganisation Act, 1966.2.Definitions.   2. Definitions. In this  [ Read More ]