Burma/Myanmar laws, decrees and regulations 1912
Individual Documents
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''In this Act. unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or
context,_
(1) “ asylum ” means an asylum or mental hospital for lunatics
established or licensed by Government ;
(2) “ cost of maintenance ” in an asylum includes the cost of lodging,
maintenance, clothing, medicine and care of a lunatic, and any
expenditure incurred in removing such lunatic to and from an
asylum, together with any other charges specified in this behalf
by the President of the Union, in exercise of any power conferred
upon him by thu Act ;
(3) “ District Court ” includes the High Court as respects the area
within its civil jurisdiction ;
(4) “ criminal lunatic ” means any person for whose detention in, or
removal to an asylum, jail or other place of safe custody an
order has been made in accordance with the provisions of section
466 or section 471 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, or of
section 30 of the Prisoners Act, * * * 1 or of the Burma
Army Act ;(5) “ lunatic ” means an idiot or person of unsound mind ;
(6) “ Magistrate ” means a District Magistrate, Subdivisional Magistrate
or a Magistrate of the first class specially empowered by the
President of the Union to perform the functions of a Magistrate
under this Act...''
Source/publisher:
Government of Burma via "The Burma Code" vol. 4
Date of publication:
1912-03-16
Date of entry/update:
2019-01-14
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''In this Act. unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or
context,—
(1) “Court” means the principal civil Court of original jurisdiction
in a district, and includes the High Court in the exercise of its
ordinary original civil jurisdiction :
(2) “financial year” means each period of twelve months at the end
of which the balance of the accounts of any Provident Insurance
Society is struck, or, if no such balance is struck, then the
calendar year :
(3) “life assurance business "means the issue of, or the undertaking
of liability under, policies of assurance upon human life, or
the granting of annuities upon human life :
(4) “ policy of assurance on human life ” means any instrument by
which the payment of money is assured on death (except death
by accident only) or the happening of any contingency dependent
on human life, or any instrument evidencing a contract which is
subject to payment of premiums fora term dependent on human
life...''
Source/publisher:
Government of Burma via "The Burma Code" vol. 9
Date of publication:
1912-03-18
Date of entry/update:
2019-01-14
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'' Every life assurance company shall. [** * *] l
before it commences to carry on the business of life assurance, deposit and
keep deposited with the [Union Bank of Burma]2 or such other Bank as the
President of the Union may direct, for and on behalf of the President of the
Union, securities of [* * * *] 3 the Government of the Union
of Burma, of the face value of twenty-five thousand rupees or of a face value
equal to one-third of the income derived from life assurance business as
shown in the revenue account for the last financial year, whichever is greater ;
and, until the company keeps deposited .securities of the face value of two
hundred thousand rupees, shall annually deposit and keep deposited in like
manner like securities of a face value...''
Source/publisher:
Government of Burma via "The Burma Code" vol. 9
Date of publication:
1912-03-18
Date of entry/update:
2019-01-14
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English
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