1 - Short title, extent and commencement
2 - Definitions
3 - Projected growth rate
4 - Base year
5 - Base year revenue
6 - Projected revenue for any year
7 - Calculation and release of compensation
8 - Levy and collection of cess
9 - Returns, payments and refunds
10 - Crediting proceeds of cess to Fund
11 - Other provisions relating to cess
12 - Power to make rules
13 - Laying of rules before Parliament
14 - Power to remove difficulties
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1 - Short title, application and commencement
2 - Definitions
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3 - Establishment of National Council
4 - Disqualifications for appointment as member
5 - Functions of National Council
6 - Power to seek advice or assistance
7 - National Council to follow consultative process
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8 - State Council of clinical establishments
9 - Providing information to National Council
10 - Authority for registration
11 - Registration for clinical establishments
12 - Condition for registration
13 - Classification of clinical establishments
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14 - Application for provisional certificate of registration
15 - Provisional certificate
16 - No inquiry prior to provisional registration
17 - Validity of provisional registration
18 - Display of certificate of registration
19 - Duplicate certificate
20 - Certificate to be non-transferable
21 - Publication of expiry of registration
22 - Renewal of registration
23 - Time limit for provisional registration
24 - Application for permanent registration
25 - Verification of application
26 - Display of information for filing objections
27 - Communication of objections
28 - Standards for permanent registration
29 - Allowing or disallowing of registration
30 - Certificate of permanent registration
31 - Fresh application for permanent registration
32 - Cancellation of registration
33 - Inspection of registered clinical establishments
34 - Power to enter
35 - Levy of fee by State Government
36 - Appeal
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37 - Register of clinical establishments
38 - Maintenance of State Register of clinical establishments
39 - Maintenance of National Register of clinical establishments
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1 - Short title, extent and commencement
2 - Definitions
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3 - Constitution of National Commission for Protection of Child Rights
4 - Appointment of Chairperson and Members
5 - Term of office and conditions of service of Chairperson and Members
6 - Salary and allowances of Chairperson and Members
7 - Removal from office
8 - Vacation of office by Chairperson or Members
9 - Vacancies, etc., not to invalidate proceedings of Commission
10 - Procedure for transaction of business
11 - Member-Secretary, officers and other employees of Commission
12 - Salaries and allowances to be paid out of grants
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13 - Functions of Commission
14 - Powers relating to inquiries
15 - Steps after inquiry
16 - Annual and special reports of Commission
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17 - Constitution of State Commission for Protection of Child Rights
18 - Appointment of Chairperson and other Members
19 - Term of office and conditions of service of Chairperson and Members
20 - Salary and allowances of Chairperson and Members
21 - Secretary, officers and other employees of the State Commission
22 - Salaries and allowances to be paid out of grants
23 - Annual and special reports of State Commission
24 - Application of certain provisions relating to National Commission for Protection of Child Rights to State Commissions
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25 - Children's Courts
26 - Special Public Prosecutor
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27 - Grants by Central Government
28 - Grants by State Governments
29 - Accounts and audit of Commission
30 - Accounts and audit of State Commission
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31 - Protection of action taken in good faith
32 - Chairperson, Members and other officers to be public servant
33 - Directions by Central Government
34 - Returns or information
35 - Power to Central Government to make rules
36 - Power of State Government to make rules
37 - Power to remove difficulties
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1 - Short title, extent, commencement and application.
2 - Definitions.
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3 - General principles to be followed in administration of Act.
4 - Juvenile Justice Board.
5 - Placement of person, who cease to be a child during process of inquiry.
6 - Placement of persons, who committed an offence, when person was below the age of eighteen years.
7 - Procedure in relation to Board.
8 - Powers, functions and responsibilities of the Board.
9 - Procedure to be followed by a Magistrate who has not been empowered under this Act.
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10 - Apprehension of child alleged to be in conflict with law.
11 - Role of person in whose charge child in conflict with law is placed.
12 - Bail to a person who is apparently a child alleged to be in conflict with law.
13 - Information to parents, guardian or probation officer.
14 - Inquiry by Board regarding child in conflict with law.
15 - Preliminary assessment into heinous offences by Board.
16 - Review of pendency of inquiry.
17 - Orders regarding a child not found to be in conflict with law.
18 - Orders regarding child found to be in conflict with law.
19 - Powers of Children’s Court.
20 - Child attained age of twenty-one years and yet to complete prescribed term of stay in place of safety.
21 - Order that may not be passed against a child in conflict with law.
22 - Proceeding under Chapter VIII of the Code of Criminal Procedure not to apply against child.
23 - No joint proceedings of child in conflict with law and person not a child.
24 - Removal of disqualification on the findings of an offence.
25 - Special provision in respect of pending cases.
26 - Provision with respect of run away child in conflict with law.
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27 - Child Welfare Committee.
28 - Procedure in relation to Committee.
29 - Powers of Committee.
30 - Functions and responsibilities of Committee.
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31 - Production before Committee.
32 - Mandatory reporting regarding a child found separated from guardian.
33 - Offence of non-reporting.
34 - Penalty for non-reporting.
35 - Surrender of children.
36 - Inquiry.
37 - Orders passed regarding a child in need of care and protection.
38 - Procedure for declaring a child legally free for adoption.
39 - Process of rehabilitation and social re-integration.
40 - Restoration of child in need of care and protection.
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39 - Process of rehabilitation and social re-integration.
40 - Restoration of child in need of care and protection.
41 - Registration of child care institutions.
42 - Penalty for non-registration of child care institutions.
43 - Open shelter.
44 - Foster care.
45 - Sponsorship.
46 - After care of children leaving child care institution.
47 - Observation homes.
48 - Special homes.
49 - Place of safety.
50 - Children’s Home.
51 - Fit facility.
52 - Fit person.
53 - Rehabilitation and re-integration services in institutions registered under this Act and management thereof.
54 - Inspection of institutions registered under this Act.
55 - Evaluation of functioning of structures.
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56 - Adoption.
57 - Eligibility of prospective adoptive parents.
58 - Procedure for adoption by Indian prospective adoptive parents living in India.
59 - Procedure for inter-country adoption of an orphan or abandoned or surrendered child.
60 - Procedure for inter-country relative adoption.
61 - Procedure for disposal of adoption proceedings
62 - Additional procedural requirements and documentation.
63 - Effect of adoption.
64 - Reporting of adoption.
65 - Specialised Adoption Agencies.
66 - Adoption of children residing in institutions not registered as adoption agencies.
67 - State Adoption Resource Agency.
68 - Central Adoption Resource Authority.
69 - Steering Committee of Authority.
70 - Powers of Authority.
71 - Annual Report of Authority.
72 - Grants by Central Government.
73 - Accounts and audit of Authority.
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74 - Prohibition on disclosure of identity of children.
75 - Punishment for cruelty to child.
76 - Employment of child for begging.
77 - Penalty for giving intoxicating liquor or narcotic drug or psychotropic substance to a child.
78 - Using a child for vending, peddling, carrying, supplying or smuggling any intoxicating liquor, narcotic drug or psychotropic substance.
79 - Exploitation of a child employee.
80 - Punitive measures for adoption without following prescribed procedures.
81 - Sale and procurement of children for any purpose.
82 - Corporal punishment.
83 - Use of child by militant groups or other adults.
84 - Kidnapping and abduction of child.
85 - Offences committed on disabled children.
86 - Classification of offences and designated court.
87 - Abetment.
88 - Alternative punishment.
89 - Offence committed by child under this Chapter.
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90 - Attendance of parent or guardian of child.
91 - Dispensing with attendance of child.
92 - Placement of a child suffering from disease requiring prolonged medical treatment in an approved place.
93 - Transfer of a child who is mentally ill or addicted to alcohol or other drugs.
94 - Presumption and determination of age.
95 - Transfer of a child to place of residence.
96 - Transfer of child between Children’s Homes, or special homes or fit facility or fit person in different parts of India.
97 - Release of a child from an institution.
98 - Leave of absence to a child placed in an institution.
99 - Reports to be treated as confidential.
100 - Protection of action taken in good faith.
101 - Appeals.
102 - Revision.
103 - Procedure in inquiries, appeals and revision proceedings.
104 - Power of the Committee or the Board to amend its own orders.
105 - Juvenile justice fund.
106 - State Child Protection Society and District Child Protection Unit.
107 - Child Welfare Police Officer and Special Juvenile Police Unit.
108 - Public awareness on provisions of Act.
109 - Monitoring of implementation of Act.
110 - Power to make rules.
111 - Repeal and savings.
112 - Power to remove difficulties.
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1 - Short title and commencement.
2 - Extension and amendment of Central Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017.
3 - Repeal and saving.
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1 - Short title, application and commencement.
2 - Definitions
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3 - Evidence may be given of facts in issue and relevant facts.
4 - Relevancy of facts forming part of same transaction.
5 - Facts which are occasion, cause or effect of facts in issue or relevant facts.
6 - Motive, preparation and previous or subsequent conduct.
7 - Facts necessary to explain or introduce fact in issue or relevant facts.
8 - Things said or done by conspirator in reference to common design.
9 - When facts not otherwise relevant become relevant.
10 - Facts tending to enable Court to determine amount are relevant in suits for damages.
11 - Facts relevant when right or custom is in question.
12 - Facts showing existence of state of mind, or of body or bodily feeling.
13 - Facts bearing on question whether act was accidental or intentional.
14 - Existence of course of business when relevant.
15 - Admission defined.
16 - Admission by party to proceeding or his agent.
17 - Admissions by persons whose position must be proved as against party to suit.
18 - Admissions by persons expressly referred to by party to suit.
19 - Proof of admissions against persons making them, and by or on their behalf.
20 - When oral admissions as to contents of documents are relevant.
21 - Admissions in civil cases when relevant.
22 - Confession caused by inducement, threat, coercion or promise, when irrelevant in criminal proceeding.
23 - Confession to police officer.
24 - Consideration of proved confession affecting person making it and others jointly under trial for same offence.
25 - Admissions not conclusive proof, but may estop.
26 - Cases in which statement of relevant fact by person who is dead or cannot be found, etc., is relevant.
27 - Relevancy of certain evidence for proving, in subsequent proceeding, truth of facts therein stated.
28 - Entries in books of account when relevant.
29 - Relevancy of entry in public record or an electronic record made in performance of duty.
30 - Relevancy of statements in maps, charts and plans.
31 - Relevancy of statement as to fact of public nature contained in certain Acts or notifications.
32 - Relevancy of statements as to any law contained in law books including electronic or digital form.
33 - What evidence to be given when statement forms part of a conversation, document, electronic record, book or series of letters or papers.
34 - Previous judgments relevant to bar a second suit or trial.
35 - Relevancy of certain judgments in probate, etc., jurisdiction.
36 - Relevancy and effect of judgments, orders or decrees, other than those mentioned in section 35.
37 - Judgments, etc., other than those mentioned in sections 34, 35 and 36 when relevant.
38 - Fraud or collusion in obtaining judgment, or incompetency of Court, may be proved.
39 - Opinions of experts.
40 - Facts bearing upon opinions of experts.
41 - Opinion as to handwriting and signature, when relevant.
42 - Opinion as to existence of general custom or right, when relevant.
43 - Opinion as to usages, tenets, etc., when relevant.
44 - Opinion on relationship, when relevant.
45 - Grounds of opinion, when relevant.
46 - In civil cases character to prove conduct imputed, irrelevant.
47 - In criminal cases previous good character relevant.
48 - Evidence of character or previous sexual experience not relevant in certain cases.
49 - Previous bad character not relevant, except in reply.
50 - Character as affecting damages.
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51 - Fact judicially noticeable need not be proved.
52 - Facts of which Court shall take judicial notice.
53 - Facts admitted need not be proved.
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54 - Proof of facts by oral evidence.
55 - Oral evidence to be direct.
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56 - Proof of contents of documents.
57 - Primary evidence.
58 - Secondary evidence.
59 - Proof of documents by primary evidence.
60 - Cases in which secondary evidence relating to documents may be given.
61 - Electronic or digital record.
62 - Special provisions as to evidence relating to electronic record.
63 - Admissibility of electronic records.
64 - Rules as to notice to produce.
65 - Proof of signature and handwriting of person alleged to have signed or written document produced.
66 - Proof as to electronic signature.
67 - Proof of execution of document required by law to be attested.
68 - Proof where no attesting witness found.
69 - Admission of execution by party to attested document.
70 - Proof when attesting witness denies execution.
71 - Proof of document not required by law to be attested.
72 - Comparison of signature, writing or seal with others admitted or proved.
73 - Proof as to verification of digital signature.
74 - Public and private documents.
75 - Certified copies of public documents.
76 - Proof of documents by production of certified copies.
77 - Proof of other official documents.
78 - Presumption as to genuineness of certified copies.
79 - Presumption as to documents produced as record of evidence, etc.
80 - Presumption as to Gazettes, newspapers, and other documents.
81 - Presumption as to Gazettes in electronic or digital record.
82 - Presumption as to maps or plans made by authority of Government.
83 - Presumption as to collections of laws and reports of decisions.
84 - Presumption as to powers- of-attorney.
85 - Presumption as to electronic agreements.
86 - Presumption as to electronic records and electronic signatures.
87 - Presumption as to Electronic Signature Certificates.
88 - Presumption as to certified copies of foreign judicial records.
89 - Presumption as to books, maps and charts.
90 - Presumption as to electronic messages.
91 - Presumption as to due execution, etc., of documents not produced.
92 - Presumption as to documents thirty years old.
93 - Presumption as to electronic records five years old.
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94 - Evidence of terms of contracts, grants and other dispositions of property reduced to form of document.
95 - Exclusion of evidence of oral agreement.
96 - Exclusion of evidence to explain or amend ambiguous document.
97 - Exclusion of evidence against application of document to existing facts.
98 - Evidence as to document unmeaning in reference to existing facts.
99 - Evidence as to application of language which can apply to one only of several persons.
100 - Evidence as to application of language to one of two sets of facts, to neither of which the whole correctly applies.
101 - Evidence as to meaning of illegible characters, etc.
102 - Who may give evidence of agreement varying terms of document.
103 - Saving of provisions of Indian Succession Act relating to wills.
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104 - Burden of proof.
105 - On whom burden of proof lies.
106 - Burden of proof as to particular fact.
107 - Burden of proving fact to be proved to make evidence admissible.
108 - Burden of proving that case of accused comes within exceptions.
109 - Burden of proving fact especially within knowledge.
110 - Burden of proving death of person known to have been alive within thirty years.
111 - Burden of proving that person is alive who has not been heard of for seven years.
112 - Burden of proof as to relationship in the cases of partners, landlord and tenant, principal and agent.
113 - Burden of proof as to ownership.
114 - Proof of good faith in transactions where one party is in relation of active confidence.
115 - Presumption as to certain offences.
116 - Birth during marriage, conclusive proof of legitimacy.
117 - Presumption as to abetment of suicide by a married woman.
118 - Presumption as to dowry death.
119 - Court may presume existence of certain facts.
120 - Presumption as to absence of consent in certain prosecution for rape.
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121 - Estoppel
122 - Estoppel of tenant and of licensee of person in possession.
123 - Estoppel of acceptor of bill of exchange, bailee or licensee.
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124 - Who may testify.
125 - Witness unable to communicate verbally.
126 - Competency of husband and wife as witnesses in certain cases.
127 - Judges and Magistrates.
128 - Communications during marriage.
129 - Evidence as to affairs of State.
130 - Official communications.
131 - Information as to commission of offences.
132 - Professional communications.
133 - Privilege not waived by volunteering evidence.
134 - Confidential communication with legal advisers.
135 - Production of title-deeds of witness not a party.
136 - Production of documents or electronic records which another person, having possession, could refuse to produce.
137 - Witness not excused from answering on ground that answer will criminate.
138 - Accomplice.
139 - Number of witnesses.
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140 - Order of production and examination of witnesses.
141 - Judge to decide as to admissibility of evidence.
142 - Examination of witnesses.
143 - Order of examinations.
144 - Cross- examination of person called to produce a document.
145 - Witnesses to character.
146 - Leading questions.
147 - Evidence as to matters in writing.
148 - Cross- examination as to previous statements in writing.
149 - Questions lawful in cross- examination.
150 - When witness to be compelled to answer.
151 - Court to decide when question shall be asked and when witness compelled to answer.
152 - Question not to be asked without reasonable grounds.
153 - Procedure of Court in case of question being asked without reasonable grounds.
154 - Indecent and scandalous questions.
155 - Questions intended to insult or annoy.
156 - Exclusion of evidence to contradict answers to questions testing veracity.
157 - Question by party to his own witness.
158 - Impeaching credit of witness.
159 - Questions tending to corroborate evidence of relevant fact, admissible.
160 - Former statements of witness may be proved to corroborate later testimony as to same fact.
161 - What matters may be proved in connection with proved statement relevant under section 26 or 27
162 - Refreshing memory.
163 - Testimony to facts stated in document mentioned in section 162.
164 - Right of adverse party as to writing used to refresh memory.
165 - Production of documents.
166 - Giving, as evidence, of document called for and produced on notice.
167 - Using, as evidence, of document production of which was refused on notice.
168 - Judge's power to put questions or order production.
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169 - No new trial for improper admission or rejection of evidence.
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170 - Repeal and savings.
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1 - Short title, extent and commencement.
2 - Definitions.
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3 - Bar of limitation
4 - Expiry of prescribed period when court is closed
5 - Extension of prescribed period in certain cases
6 - Legal disability
7 - Disability of one of several persons
8 - Special exceptions
9 - Continuous running of time
10 - Suits against trustees and their representatives
11 - Suits on contracts entered into outside the territories to which the Act extends
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12 - Exclusion of time in legal proceedings
13 - Exclusion of time in cases where leave to sue or appeal as a pauper is applied for
14 - Exclusion of time of proceeding bona fide in court without jurisdiction
15 - Exclusion of time in certain other cases
16 - Effect of death on or before the accrual of the right to sue
17 - Effect of fraud or mistake
18 - Effect of acknowledgment in writing
19 - Effect of payment on account of debt or of interest on legacy
20 - Effect of acknowledgment or payment by another person
21 - Effect of substituting or adding new plaintiff or defendant
22 - Continuing breaches and torts
23 - Suits for compensation for acts not actionable without special damage
24 - Computation of time mentioned in instruments
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25 - Acquisition of easements by prescription
26 - Exclusion in favour of reversioner of serivent tenement
27 - Extinguishment of right to property
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28 - [Amendment of certain Acts.]
29 - Savings
30 - Provision for suits, etc., for which the prescribed period is shorter than the period prescribed by the Indian Limitation Act, 1908
31 - Provisions as to barred or pending suits, etc
32 - [Repeal.]
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1 - Short title, extent and commencement.
2 - Definitions.
3 - Savings.
4 - Specific relief to be granted only for enforcing individual civil rights and not for enforcing penal laws.
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5 - Recovery of specific immovable property.
6 - Suit by person dispossessed of immovable property.
7 - Recovery of specific movable property.
8 - Liability of person in possession, not as owner, to deliver to persons entitled to immediate possession.
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9 - Defences respecting suits for relief based on contract.
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10 - Cases in which specific performance of contract enforceable.
11 - Cases in which specific performance of contracts connected with trusts enforceable.
12 - Specific performance of part of contract.
13 - Rights of purchaser or lessee against person with no title or imperfect title.
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14 - Contracts not specifically enforceable.
14A - Power of court to engage experts.
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15 - Who may obtain specific performance.
16 - Personal bars to relief.
17 - Contract to sell or let property by one who has no title, not specifically enforceable.
18 - Non-enforcement except with variation.
19 - Relief against parties and persons claiming under them by subsequent title.
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20 - Substituted performance of contract
20A - Special provisions for contract relating to infrastructure project.
20B - Special Courts.
20C - Expeditious disposal of suits.
21 - Power to award compensation in certain cases.
22 - Power to grant relief for possession, partition, refund of earnest money, etc.
23 - Liquidation of damages not a bar to specific performance.
24 - Bar of suit for compensation for breach after dismissal of suit for specific performance.
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25 - Application of preceding sections to certain awards and testamentary directions to execute settlements.
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26 - When instrument may be rectified.
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27 - When rescission may be adjudged or refused.
28 - Rescission in certain circumstances of contracts for the sale or lease of immovable property, the specific performance of which has been decreed.
29 - Alternative prayer for rescission in suit for specific performance.
30 - Court may require parties rescinding to do equity.
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31 - When cancellation may be ordered.
32 - What instruments may be partially cancelled.
33 - Power to require benefit to be restored or compensation to be made when instrument is cancelled or is successfully resisted as being void or voidable.
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34 - Discretion of court as to declaration of status or right.
35 - Effect of declaration.
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36 - Preventive relief how granted.
37 - Temporary and perpetual injunctions.
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38 - Perpetual injunction when granted.
39 - Mandatory injunctions.
40 - Damages in lieu of, or in addition to, injunction.
41 - Injunction when refused.
42 - Injunction to perform negative agreement.
43 - Repealed.
44 - Repealed.
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1 - Short title, extent and commencement
2 - Application of Act
3 - Definition
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4 - Preparation of Social Impact Assessment study
5 - Public hearing for Social Impact Assessment
6 - Publication of Social Impact Assessment study
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7 - Appraisal of Social Impact Assessment report by an Expert Group
8 - Examination of proposals for land acquisition and Social Impact Assessment report by appropriate Government
9 - Exemption from Social Impact Assessment
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10 - Special provision to safeguard food security
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11 - Publication of preliminary notification and power of officers
12 - Preliminary survey of land and power of officers to carry out survey
13 - Payment for damage
14 - Lapse of Social Impact Assessment report
15 - Hearing of objections
16 - Preparation of Rehabilitation and Resettlement Scheme by the Administrator
17 - Review of the Rehabilitation and Resettlement Scheme
18 - Approved Rehabilitation and Resettlement Scheme to be made public
19 - Publication of declaration and summary of Rehabilitation and Resettlement
20 - Land to be marked out, measured and planned including marking of specific areas
21 - Notice to persons interested
22 - Power to require and enforce the making of statements as to names and interests
23 - Enquiry and land acquisition award by Collector
24 - Land acquisition process under Act No. 1 of 1894 shall be deemed to have lapsed in certain cases
25 - Period within which an award shall be made
26 - Determination of market value of land by Collector
27 - Determination of amount of compensation
28 - Parameters to be considered by Collector in determination of award
29 - Determination of value of things attached to land or building
30 - Award of solatium
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31 - Rehabilitation and Resettlement Award for affected families by Collector
32 - Provision of infrastructural amenities in resettlement area
33 - Corrections to awards by Collector
34 - Adjournment of enquiry
35 - Power to summon and enforce attendance of witnesses and production of documents
36 - Power to call for records, etc
37 - Awards of Collector when to be final
38 - Power to take possession of land to be acquired
39 - Additional compensation in case of multiple displacements
40 - Special powers in case of urgency to acquire land in certain cases
41 - Special provisions for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes
42 - Reservation and other benefits
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43 - Appointment of Administrator
44 - Commissioner for rehabilitation and resettlement
45 - Rehabilitation and resettlement committee at project level
46 - Provisions relating to rehabilitation and resettlement to apply in case of certain persons other than specified persons
47 - Quantification and deposit of rehabilitation and resettlement amount
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48 - Establishment of National Monitoring Committee for rehabilitation and resettlement
49 - Reporting requirements
50 - Establishment of State Monitoring Committee for rehabilitation and resettlement
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51 - Establishment of Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Authority
52 - Composition of Authority
53 - Qualifications for appointment as Presiding Officer
54 - Terms of office of Presiding Officer
55 - Staff of Authority
56 - Salary and allowances and other terms and conditions of service of Presiding Officers
57 - Filling up of vacancies
58 - Resignation and removal
59 - Orders constituting Authority to be final and not to invalidate its proceedings
60 - Powers of Authority and procedure before it
61 - Proceedings before Authority to be judicial proceedings
62 - Members and officers of Authority to be public servants
63 - Jurisdiction of civil courts barred
64 - Reference to Authority
65 - Collector’s statement to Authority
66 - Service of notice by Authority
67 - Restriction on scope of proceedings
68 - Proceedings to be in public
69 - Determination of award by Authority
70 - Form of award
71 - Costs
72 - Collector may be directed to pay interest on excess compensation
73 - Re-determination of amount of compensation on the basis of the award of the Authority
74 - Appeal to High Court
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75 - Particulars of apportionment to be specified
76 - Dispute as to apportionment
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77 - Payment of compensation or deposit of same in Authority
78 - Investment of money deposited in respect of lands belonging to person incompetent to alienate
79 - Investment of money deposited in other cases
80 - Payment of interest
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81 - Temporary occupation of waste or arable land, procedure when difference as to compensation exists
82 - Power to enter and take possession and compensation on restoration
83 - Difference as to condition of land
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84 - Punishment for false information, mala fide action, etc
85 - Penalty for contravention of provisions of Act
86 - Offences by companies
87 - Offences by Government departments
88 - Cognizance of offences by court
89 - Offences to be non-cognizable
90 - Offences to be cognizable only on complaint filed by certain persons
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91 - Magistrate to enforce surrender
92 - Service of notice
93 - Completion of acquisition not compulsory, but compensation to be awarded when not completed
94 - Acquisition of part of house or building
95 - Acquisition of land at cost of a local authority or Requiring Body
96 - Exemption from income-tax, stamp duty and fees
97 - Acceptance of certified copy as evidence
98 - Notice in case of suits for anything done in pursuance of Act
99 - No change of purpose to be allowed
100 - No change of ownership without permission to be allowed
101 - Return of unutilised land
102 - Difference in price of land when transferred for higher consideration to be shared
103 - Provisions to be in addition to existing laws
104 - Option of appropriate Government to lease
105 - Provisions of this Act not to apply in certain cases or to apply with certain modifications
106 - Power to amend Schedule
107 - Power of State Legislatures to enact any law more beneficial to affected families
108 - Option to affected families to avail better compensation and rehabilitation and resettlement
109 - Power of appropriate Government to make rules
110 - Rules made by Central Government to be laid before Parliament
111 - Rules made by State Government to be laid before State Legislature
112 - Previous publication of rules made by Central and State Government
113 - Power to remove difficulties
114 - Repeal and saving
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1 - Short title and commencement
2 - Definitions
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3 - Establishment of Tribunal
4 - Composition of Tribunal
5 - Qualifications for appointment of Chairperson, Judicial Member and Expert Member
6 - Appointment of Chairperson, Judicial Member and Expert Member
7 - Term of office and other conditions of service of Chairperson, Judicial Member and Expert Member
8 - Resignation
9 - Salaries, allowances and other terms and conditions of service
10 - Removal and suspension of Chairperson, Judicial Member and Expert Member
10A - Qualifications, terms and conditions of service of Chairperson, Judicial Member and Expert Member
11 - To act as Chairperson of Tribunal or to discharge his functions in certain circumstances
12 - Staff of Tribunal
13 - Financial and administrative powers of Chairperson
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14 - Tribunal to settle disputes
15 - Relief, compensation and restitution
16 - Tribunal to have appellate jurisdiction
17 - Liability to pay relief or compensation in certain cases
18 - Application or appeal to Tribunal
19 - Procedure and powers of Tribunal
20 - Tribunal to apply certain principles
21 - Decision to be taken by majority
22 - Appeal to Supreme Court
23 - Cost
24 - Deposit of amount payable for damage to environment
25 - Execution of award or order or decision of Tribunal
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26 - Penalty for failure to comply with orders of Tribunal
27 - Offences by companies
28 - Offences by Government Department
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29 - Bar of jurisdiction
30 - Cognizance of offences
31 - Members and staff of Tribunal to be public servants
32 - Protection of action taken in good faith
33 - Act to have overriding effect
34 - Power to amend Schedule I
35 - Power to make rules
36 - Amendment of certain enactments
37 - Power to remove difficulties
38 - Repeal and savings
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