THE BENGAL PUBLIC DEMANDS RECOVERY (ASSAM AMENDMENT) ACT, 1962

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    "title": "THE BENGAL PUBLIC DEMANDS RECOVERY (ASSAM AMENDMENT) ACT, 1962",
    "short_title": "The Bengal Public Demands Recovery (Assam Amendment) Act, 1962",
    "act_number": "XXVIII",
    "act_year": 1962,
    "act_type": "STATE",
    "location": "Assam",
    "law_status": "amended",
    "enactment_date": "1962-09-28",
    "description": "The Bengal Public Demands Recovery (Assam Amendment) Act, 1962",
    "preamble": "",
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    "sections": [
        {
            "number": "1",
            "title": "An ACT",
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            "content": "to amend the Bengal Public Demands Recovery Act, 1913",
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        {
            "number": "2",
            "title": "Preamble",
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            "content": "WHEREAS it is expedient to amend the Bengal Public Demands Recovery Act, 1913, hereinafter referred to as the principal Act in its application to the State of Assam for the purpose and in the manner hereinafter appearing;\nIt is hereby enacted in the Thirteenth Year of the Republic of India as follows:-",
            "footnote": "Bengal Act III of 1913.",
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        {
            "number": "1",
            "title": "Section 1(1)",
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            "content": "This Act may be called the Bengal Public Demands Recovery (Assam Amendment) Act, 1962.",
            "footnote": "",
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        },
        {
            "number": "1",
            "title": "Section 1(2)",
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            "content": "It extends to the whole of Assam.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "1",
            "title": "Section 1(3)",
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            "content": "It shall come into force at once.",
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        {
            "number": "2",
            "title": "Section 2",
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            "content": "In Schedule 1 to the principal Act, after Article 9 the following shall be inserted as Article 9A, namely :-\n\"9A. Any money payable to Government or to an officer of the Government in payment of a loan in cash or in kind, in respect of which money, the person to whom the loan in cash or in kind was advanced, has agreed by written instrument that such money shall be recoverable as a public demand.\"",
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        {
            "number": "3",
            "title": "Section 3",
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            "content": "The provisions of the principal Act shall apply to all loans issued before coming into force of this amending Act, if the instrument granting the loan contained a provision that the money would be recoverable as a public demand, and if the instrument is still in force, as if on the date the said instrument was executed the principal Act was amended, as herein provided.",
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    "metadata": {
        "Act ID": "196228",
        "Act Number": "XXVIII",
        "Enactment Date": "1962-09-28",
        "Act Year": "1962",
        "Short Title": "The Bengal Public Demands Recovery (Assam Amendment) Act, 1962",
        "Department": "Assam Assembly",
        "Type": "STATE",
        "Location": "Assam"
    },
    "updated_at": "2026-09-29 21:52:19"
}