Burma/Myanmar laws, decrees and regulations 1912

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Description: ''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
1912-03-16
Date of entry/update: 2019-01-14
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: English
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Description: ''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
1912-03-18
Date of entry/update: 2019-01-14
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: English
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Description: '' 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
1912-03-18
Date of entry/update: 2019-01-14
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: English
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