Electricity Act, 1999
The Minister must appoint by statutory instrument the day(s) on which the Act (or parts of it) come into force.
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The Minister must appoint by statutory instrument the day(s) on which the Act (or parts of it) come into force.
This section provides definitions for terms used in the Act, including "broadcasting", "chairperson", "cinematograph theatre", "council", "electronic media", "exhibition", "Minister", "operator", "producer" and "proprietor".
The Minister appoints the date on which the Act comes into force by statutory instrument.
The Act comes into force on a date appointed by the Minister.
Defines "court of competent jurisdiction" as a court of law established otherwise than by emergency regulations.
The regulations state the official short title: "The Employment (Sexual Harassment) Regulations, 2012."
Sets which persons and categories the Act applies to and lists exclusions and regulatory powers for the Minister to modify application by regulation.
This section provides definitions for terms used in the Act (for example: "board", "chairperson", "institution", "member", "ordinarily resident", "register", "registered engineer", "registrar", "vice chairperson").
This section provides definitions of terms used in the Act, including "area licensing board", "authorised officer", "Central Licensing Board", "collecting centre", "distil", "enguli", "exclusive buying licence", "jaggery manufacturing licence", and "refined spirits".
This section provides definitions for terms used in the Act.
Section 1 provides definitions of terms used in the Act, including "Administrator General", "dependent relative", "family", "manager", "Minister", "missing person", "order", "prescribed" and "property"; it also states that an order to manage the estate of a missing person shall not be granted to anyone under twenty-one
Provides definitions for “bank” or “banker”, “bankers’ books”, and “legal proceeding”.
This Act shall apply to all judicial proceedings in or before the Supreme Court, the Court of Appeal, the High Court and all courts established under the Magistrates Courts Act, but not to affidavits presented to any court or officer nor to proceedings before an arbitrator.
This section provides definitions (interpretation) for terms used throughout the Act.
Defines "authorised explosive" as explosives named in the Schedule and other explosives the Minister may declare by statutory instrument.
This section provides definitions of terms used in the Act (for example: "Board", "departed Asians", "former owner", "joint venture company", "military regime", "Minister", "property or business", and "scheduled article").
Defines "export restricted goods", "goods", and "import restricted goods" and requires notices under the Act to be published in the Gazette and in one issue of a nationwide newspaper.
Defines terms used in the section: “accused person”, “conviction”/“convicted”, “fugitive criminal”, “magistrate”, and “warrant”.
The Act applies only to factories as defined by the Act, but, unless a contrary intention appears, it applies to all those factories.
The Act applies to financial institutions defined in section 2; it does not apply to cooperative societies registered under the Cooperative Societies Act (except those established to accept deposits from the public) or to microfinance deposit-taking institutions.