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The Bombay Money Lenders Act, 1946
The Bombay Money Lenders Act, 1946
Sections
1. Short title, extent and commencement.
Section 12. Definitions.
Section 23. Appointment of Registrar General, Registrars and Assistant Registrars.
Section 34. Register of Money-lenders.
Section 45. Money lender not to carry on business of money-lending except for area under licence and except in accordance with terms of licence.
Section 56. Application for licence.
Section 68. Refusal of issue of licence.
Section 89. Term of licence.
Section 99C. Issue of copies of documents on payment of fees.
Section 9C10. Stay of suits by money-lenders not holding licence.
Section 1011. Entry in register and grant of licence to a money-lender directed to obtain licence under section 10.
Section 1012. Application for cancellation of licence.
Section 1213. Registrar General, Registrar and Assistant Registrar to have powers of Civil Court.
Section 1314. Court's power to cancel or suspend a licence.
Section 1415. No compensation for suspension or cancellation of licence.
Section 1516. Persons debarred from doing business during period of suspension or cancellation of licence.
Section 1617. Person whose licence is suspended or cancelled not to apply without giving particulars of endorsement or of disqualification.
Section 1718. Duty of money-lender to keep accounts, and furnish copies.
Section 1819. Delivery of statements of accounts and copies thereof by money-lender.
Section 1920. Debtor not bound to admit correctness of accounts.
Section 2021. Procedure of Court in suit regarding loans.
Section 2122. Provisions of certain sections not to apply to loans made by [* * [company] or unincorporated body exempted by Government.
Section 2223. Power of Court to limit interest recoverable in certain cases.
Section 2324. Power of Court to direct payment of decretal amount by instalments.
Section 2425. Limitation of rates of interest.
Section 2526. Prohibition of charge for expenses on loans by money-lenders.
Section 2627. Notice and information to be given on assignment of loans.
Section 2728. Application of Act as respects assignees.
Section 2829. Reopening of transactions.
Section 2930. Inquiry for taking accounts and declaring the amount due.
Section 3031. Deposit in Court of money due to money-lender.
Section 3132. Entry of wrong sum in bond, etc. to be an offence.
Section 3233. Penalty for molestation.
Section 3334. General provision regarding penalties.
Section 3435. Offences by corporations, etc.
Section 3535C. Compounding of certain offences.
Section 35C36. Arrest and imprisonment in execution of decree for money, against agricultural debtors, abolished.
Section 3637. Every officer to be public servant.
Section 3738. Provisions of Bombay [XXVIII of 1947] saved.
Section 3839. Rules.
Section 39
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"content": "[(1) \"bank\" means a banking company as defined in the Banking Companies Act, 1949 (X of 1949) and includes the Reserve Bank of India, the State Bank of India and any other banking institution notified by the Central Government under section 51 of the Banking Companies Act, 1949 (X of 1949);]\n(2) \"business of money-lending\" means the business of advancing loans whether or not in connection with or in addition to any other business;\n(3) \"capital\" means a sum of money which a money-lender invests in the business of money-lending;\n(4) \"company\" means a company as defined in the Indian Companies Act, 1913 (VII of 1913), or formed in pursuance of an Act of Parliament [of the United Kingdom] or by Royal Charter or Letters Patent, or by an Act of the Legislature of a British Possession;\n(5) \"co-operative society\" means a society registered or deemed to have been registered under the Bombay Co-operative Societies Act, 1925 (Bombay VII of 1925) [or any other law in force corresponding to that Act] , or the Cooperative Societies Act, 1912 (II of 1912), or any Act of any other [State] Legislature relating to co-operative societies;\n[(5A) \"inspection fee\" means the fee leviable under section 9A in respect of inspection of books of account of a money-lender;]\n(6) \"interest\" includes any sum, by whatsoever name called, in excess of the principal paid or payable to a money-lender in consideration of or otherwise in respect of a loan, but does not include any sum lawfully charged by a money-lender for or on account of costs, charges or expenses in accordance with the provisions of this Act, or any other law for the time being in force;\n(7) \"licence\" means a licence granted under this Act;\n(8) \"licence fee\" means the fee payable in respect of a licence;\n(9) \"loan\" means an advance at interest [* * *] whether of money or in kind, but does not include-\n(a) a deposit of money or other property in a Government Post Office Bank or in any other bank or in a company or with a co-operative society;\n(b) a loan to, or by, or a deposit with any society or association registered under the Societies Registration Act, 1860 (XXI of I860), or any other enactment relating to a public, religious or charitable object; 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or\n[* * *]\n[(iiia) a company, or]\n(iv) an unincorporated body of individuals, who or which -\n(a) carries on the business of money-lending in the [State] ; or\n(b) has his or its principal place of such business in the [State] ;\n[(10A) \"pawn-broker\" means a money-lender who in the ordinary course of his business advances a loan and takes goods in pawn as security for payment of such loan;]\n(11) \"prescribed\" means prescribed by rules made under this Act;\n(12) \"principal\" means in relation to a loan the amount actually advanced to the debtor;\n[and where under the terms of contract, compound interest is charged, includes the amount of interest included in the amount actually advanced for the purposes of charging interest.] [(12A) \"Provident Fund\" means a Provident Fund as defined in the Provident Funds Act, 1925 (XIX of 1925), and includes a Government Provident Fund and a Railway Provident Fund as defined in the said Act;] [( 13) \"State\" means the [State of Gujarat;] (13A) \"recognised language\" means [* * *] the language of the Court; (14) \"register\" means a register of money-lenders maintained under section 4; (15) \"rules\" means rules made under this Act; [* *****] (17) \"suit to which this Act applies\" means any suit or proceeding- (a) for the recovery of a loan made after the date on which this Act comes into force; (b) for the enforcement of any security taken or any agreement, made after the date on which this Act comes into force in respect of any loan made either before or after the said date; or (c) for the redemption of any security given after the date on which this Act comes into force in respect of any loan made either before or after the said date; (18) \"trader\" means a person who in the regular course of business buys and sells goods or other property, whether moveable or immoveable, and includes - a wholesale or retail merchant, a commission agent, a broker, a manufacturer, a contractor, a factory owner, but does not include an artisan or a person who sells his agricultural produce or cattle or buys agricultural produce or cattle for his use.\n[and where under the terms of contract, compound interest is charged, includes the amount of interest included in the amount actually advanced for the purposes of charging interest.]\n[(12A) \"Provident Fund\" means a Provident Fund as defined in the Provident Funds Act, 1925 (XIX of 1925), and includes a Government Provident Fund and a Railway Provident Fund as defined in the said Act;]\n[( 13) \"State\" means the [State of Gujarat;]\n(13A) \"recognised language\" means [* * *] the language of the Court;\n(14) \"register\" means a register of money-lenders maintained under section 4;\n(15) \"rules\" means rules made under this Act;\n[* *****]\n(17) \"suit to which this Act applies\" means any suit or proceeding-\n(a) for the recovery of a loan made after the date on which this Act comes into force;\n(b) for the enforcement of any security taken or any agreement, made after the date on which this Act comes into force in respect of any loan made either before or after the said date; 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"content": "(a) the name in which such money-lender intends to carry on business and the name of the person proposed to be responsible for the management of the business;\n(b) if the application is by or on behalf of-\n(i) an individual, the name and address of such individual,\n(ii) an undivided Hindu family, the names and addresses of the manager and the adult co-parceners of such family;\n(iii) [a company] , the names and addresses of the directors, manager or principal officer managing it;\n(iv) an unincorporated body of individuals, the names and addresses of such individuals;\n(c) the area and the place or principal place of the business of money-lending in the [State] ;\n(d) the name of any other place in the [State] where the business of money-lending is carried on or intended to be carried on;\n(e) whether the person signing the application has himself or any of the adult co-parceners of an undivided Hindu family, or any director, manager or principal officer of the [ [* * * company] or any member of the unincorporated body on behalf of which such application has been made, as the case may be, has carried on the business of money-lending in the [State] in the year ending on the 31st day of March immediatly preceding the date of the application either individually, or in partnership, or jointly with any other co-parcener or any other person and whether in the same or any other name;\n(f) the total amount of the capital which such person intends to invest in the business of money-lending in the year for which the application has been made;\n[(g) if the places at which the business of money-lending is to be carried on are more than one, the names of person who shall be in the management of the business at each such place.]\n(a) (i) if the application is made by an individual, by the individual;\n(ii) if the application is made on behalf of an undivided Hindu family, by the manager [* * *] of such family;\n(iii) if the application is made by a [ [* *] company] or unincorporated body, by the managing director or any other person having control of its principal place of business in [the territory of India except Part B States] [but including the Saurashtra and Hyderabad areas of the State of Bombay] or of its place of business in the area in which it intends to carry on the business; or\n(b) by an agent authorised in this behalf by a power of attorney by the individual money-lender himself, or the family, or the [ [* * company] or the unincorporated body, as the case may be.\n(a) If the place at which the business of money- [Rs,10.]\n(b) If the business of money-lending is to be [Rs. 10.] for the principal place of carried on at more than one place within the business and [Rs.4.] for the licence limits of the area of the Registrar. for each of the other places in the area:\n[7. Grant of licence and entry in register.",
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"content": "(a) that the applicant, or any person responsible or proposed to be responsible for the management of his business as a money-lender is disqualified from holding a licence;\n(b) that the applicant has not complied with the provisions of this Act or the rules in respect of an application for the grant of a licence;\n(c) that the applicant has made wilful default in complying with or knowingly acted in contravention of any requirement of this Act;\n(d) that satisfactory evidence has been produced that the applicant or any person responsible or proposed to be responsible for the management of his business of money-lending has-\n(i) knowingly participated in or connived at any fraud or dishonesty in the conduct of or in connection with the business of money-lending, or\n(ii) been found guilty of an offence under Chapter XVII or section 465, 477 or 477-A of Chapter XVIII of the Indian Penal Code (X of 1860).\n[8A. Registrar's Power to cancel licences.",
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"number": "9",
"title": "9. Term of licence.",
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"content": "[9A. Levy of Inspection fee.\n[9B. Issue of duplicate licence.",
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"number": "9C",
"title": "9C. Issue of copies of documents on payment of fees.",
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"number": "10",
"title": "10. Stay of suits by money-lenders not holding licence.",
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"content": "(a) suits in respect of loans advanced by a money-lender before the date on which this Act comes into force;\n[(b) the powers of a Court of Wards, or an Official Assignee, a receiver, an administrator or a Court under the provisions of the Presidency Towns Insolvency Act, 1909 (III of 1909), or the Provincial Insolvency Act, 1920 (V of 1920) or any other law in force corresponding to that Act, or of a liquidator under the Companies Act, 1956 (I of 1956), to realise the property of a money-lender.]",
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"number": "10",
"title": "11. Entry in register and grant of licence to a money-lender directed to obtain licence under section 10.",
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"number": "12",
"title": "12. Application for cancellation of licence.",
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"number": "13",
"title": "13. Registrar General, Registrar and Assistant Registrar to have powers of Civil Court.",
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"content": "(a) enforcing the attendance of any person and examining him on oath;\n(b) compelling the production of documents and material objects;\n(c) issuing commissions for the examination of witnesses; and\n(d) proof of facts by affidavits.\n[13A. Power of authorised officer to require production of records or documents.",
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"number": "14",
"title": "14. Court's power to cancel or suspend a licence.",
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"content": "(ii) a Court trying a suit to which this Act applies, if satisfied that such money-lender has committed such contravention of the provisions of this Act or the rules as would, in its opinion, make him unfit to carry on the business of money-lending-\n(a) may order that all the licences held by such money-lender in the [State] be cancelled or suspended for such time as it may think fit, and\n(b) may, if it thinks fit, declare any such money-lender, or if any moneylender is an undivided Hindu family, a [ [* * company] or an unincorporated body, Such family, [ [* * company] or body and also any person responsible for the management of the business of money-lending carried on by such family, [ [* * company] or body, to be disqualified from holding any licence in the [State] for such time as the Court may think fit.",
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"number": "15",
"title": "15. No compensation for suspension or cancellation of licence.",
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"number": "16",
"title": "16. Persons debarred from doing business during period of suspension or cancellation of licence.",
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"number": "17",
"title": "17. Person whose licence is suspended or cancelled not to apply without giving particulars of endorsement or of disqualification.",
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"number": "18",
"title": "18. Duty of money-lender to keep accounts, and furnish copies.",
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"content": "(a) deliver or cause to be delivered-\n(i) to the debtor within 30 days from the date on which a loan is made, a statement in any recognised language showing in clear and distinct Terms the amount and date of the loan and of its maturity the nature of the security, if any, for the loan, the name and address of the debtor and of the money-lender and the rate of interest charged:\n(ii) to the Assistant Registrar, within the said period [a statement containing the particulars referred to in clause (a) (i)] ;\n(b) upon repayment of a loan in full, mark indelibly every paper signed by the debtor with words indicating payment or cancellation, and discharge every mortgage, restore every pledge, return every note and cancel or reassign every assignment given by the debtor as security for the loan.",
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"number": "19",
"title": "19. Delivery of statements of accounts and copies thereof by money-lender.",
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"content": "[(i) the amount of principal, the amount of interest and the amount of fees referred to in section 19A, separately, due to the money-lender at the beginning of the year;\n(ii) the total amount of loans advanced during the year\n(iii) the total amount of repayments received during the year; and\n(iv) the amounts of principal and interest due at the end of the year.]\n[19A. Fees for certain statements supplied to debtors and Assistant Registrars.",
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"number": "20",
"title": "20. Debtor not bound to admit correctness of accounts.",
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"number": "21",
"title": "21. Procedure of Court in suit regarding loans.",
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"content": "(a) a Court shall, before deciding the claim on merits, frame and decide the issue whether the money-lender has complied with the provisions of sections 18 and 19;\n(b) if the Court finds that the provisions of section 18 or section 19 have not been complied with by the money-lender, it may, if the plaintiffs claim is established, in whole or in part, disallow the whole or any portion of the interest found due, as may seem reasonable to it in the circumstances of the case and may disallow costs.",
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"number": "22",
"title": "22. Provisions of certain sections not to apply to loans made by [* * [company] or unincorporated body exempted by Government.",
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"number": "23",
"title": "23. Power of Court to limit interest recoverable in certain cases.",
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"number": "24",
"title": "24. Power of Court to direct payment of decretal amount by instalments.",
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"number": "25",
"title": "25. Limitation of rates of interest.",
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"number": "26",
"title": "26. Prohibition of charge for expenses on loans by money-lenders.",
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"number": "27",
"title": "27. Notice and information to be given on assignment of loans.",
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"content": "(a) give the assignee notice in writing that the loan, interest, agreement or security is affected by the operation of this Act;\n(b) supply to the assignee all information necessary to enable him to comply with the provisions of this Act; and\n(c) give the debtor notice in writing of the assignment supplying the name and address of the assignee.",
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"number": "28",
"title": "28. Application of Act as respects assignees.",
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"number": "29",
"title": "29. Reopening of transactions.",
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"content": "(a) reopen any transaction, or any account already taken between the parties;\n(b) take an account between the parties;\n(c) reduce the amount charged to the debtor in respect of any excessive interest;\n(d) if on taking accounts it is found that the money-lender has received more than what is due to him pass a decree in favour of the debtor in respect of such amount:\n(i) reopen any adjustment or agreement purporting to close previous dealings and to create new obligations which have been entered into by the parties or any person through whom they claim at a date more than six years from the date of the suit;\n(ii) do anything which affects any decree of a Court.",
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"number": "30",
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"number": "31",
"title": "31. Deposit in Court of money due to money-lender.",
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"content": "[31A. When interest to be paid for entire month.",
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"number": "32",
"title": "32. Entry of wrong sum in bond, etc. to be an offence.",
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"number": "33",
"title": "33. Penalty for molestation.",
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"content": "(a) obstructs or uses violence to or intimidates such other person, or\n(b) persistently follows such other person from place to place or interferes with any property owned, or used by him or deprives him of, or hinders him in, the use thereof, or\n(c) loiters near a house or other place where such other person resides or works, or carries on business, or happens to be, or does any act calculated to annoy or intimidate such other person, shall be deemed to molest such other person:",
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"number": "34",
"title": "34. General provision regarding penalties.",
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"content": "[(a) for the first offence with simple imprisonment which may extend to two months or with fine which may extend to Rs. 500 or with both, and\n(b) for the second or subsequent offence with imprisonment of either description which may extend to six months or with fine or with both] .",
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"number": "35",
"title": "35. Offences by corporations, etc.",
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"content": "[35A. Certain offences to be cognizable.\n(a) under section 34 for contravening the provisions of section 5, and\n(b) under section 33, shall be cognizable.]\n[35B. Cognizance of certain offences.",
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"number": "35C",
"title": "35C. Compounding of certain offences.",
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"number": "36",
"title": "36. Arrest and imprisonment in execution of decree for money, against agricultural debtors, abolished.",
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"number": "37",
"title": "37. Every officer to be public servant.",
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"number": "38",
"title": "38. Provisions of Bombay [XXVIII of 1947] saved.",
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"content": "[38A. Power of State Government to delegate its powers.",
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"number": "39",
"title": "39. Rules.",
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"content": "(a) the form of the register under section 4;\n[(b) the form of the application for a licence, the further particulars to be included therein and the manner of payment of licence fee under section 6;]\n(c) the form and conditions of the licence, the manner of payment of licence fee and the procedure for a summary inquiry under section 7;\n[(ca) the fees for the issue of a duplicate licence under section 9B;\n(cb) the fees for the grant of copies of documents under section 9C] .\n(d) the form of cashbook and ledger and the manner in which they should be maintained under sub-section (1), and the other particulars to be prescribed under sub-section (4), of section 18;\n(e) the form of the statement of accounts [and pass books] to be furnished\n[(ee) the rates at which and the manner in which fees may be recovered under section 19A;]\n(f) the form of application and the fee to be paid under sub-section (1) of section 30;\n(g) any other matter which is or may be prescribed under this Act [* * * *] .\n[40. Repeal and savings.\n(a) the previous operation of any Act so repealed or anything duly done or suffered thereunder;\n(b) any right, privilege, obligation or liability acquired, accrued or incurred under any Act so repealed; or\n(c) any penalty, forfeiture or punishment incurred in respect of any offence committed against any Act so repealed; or\n(d) any investigation, legal proceeding or remedy in respect of any such right, privilege, obligation, liability, penalty, forfeiture or punishment as aforesaid, and any such investigation, legal proceeding or remedy may be instituted, continued or enforced, and any such penalty, forfeiture or punishment may be imposed as if the Bombay Money-lenders (Unification and Amendment) Act, 1959 (Bombay L of 1959) had not been passed:\n[* * * * * *]",
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"Act Number": "Bombay Act No. 31 of 1947",
"Enactment Date": "",
"Act Year": "1946",
"Short Title": "The Bombay Money Lenders Act, 1946",
"Type": "STATE",
"Location": "Gujarat"
},
"updated_at": "2026-09-29 21:55:19"
}