The Bihar Electricity (Temporary Control) Act, 1959

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    "title": "The Bihar Electricity (Temporary Control) Act, 1959",
    "short_title": "The Bihar Electricity (Temporary Control) Act, 1959",
    "act_number": "Bihar Act 23 of 1959",
    "act_year": 1959,
    "act_type": "STATE",
    "location": "Bihar",
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    "description": "The Bihar Electricity (Temporary Control) Act, 1959",
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            "number": "1",
            "title": "1. Short title, extent and commencement.",
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            "number": "2",
            "title": "2. Power to control supply of electrical energy.",
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            "content": "(a) where the Central Government or the State Government or a Railway authority is the addressee, at the office of such officer as the Central Government or the State Government or the Railway authority, as the case may be, may designate in this behalf;\n(b) where a local authority is the addressee, at the office of such authority;\n(c) where any other person is the addressee, at the usual, or last known place of abode or business of the person.\n(ii) Every order under sub-section (1) addressed to the owner or occupier of any premises shall be deemed to be properly addressed if addressed by the premises (naming the premises), and may be served by delivering it or a true copy thereof, to some person on the premises, or, if there is no person on the premises to whom the same can with reasonable diligence be delivered, by affixing it on some conspicuous part of the premises.",
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            "number": "3",
            "title": "3. Penalty for contravention of order.",
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            "content": "(ii) No Court inferior to that of a Magistrate of the first class shall try any offence punishable under this Act.",
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            "number": "4",
            "title": "4. Effect of orders inconsistent with other enactments.",
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        {
            "number": "5",
            "title": "5. Presumption as to orders.",
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        {
            "number": "6",
            "title": "6. Protection of action taken under the Act.",
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        "Act Number": "Bihar Act 23 of 1959",
        "Enactment Date": "",
        "Act Year": "1959",
        "Short Title": "The Bihar Electricity (Temporary Control) Act, 1959",
        "Type": "STATE",
        "Location": "Bihar"
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    "updated_at": "2026-09-29 21:55:19"
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