The Gazette of India. Saturday August 14 1948 (Part V)

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY OF INDIA (LEGISLATIVE) The following Preliminary Report of the Select Committee on the Estate Duty Bill was presented to the Constituent Assembly of India (Legislative) on the 9th August 1948:— We the undersigned members of the Select Committee to which the Bill to provide for the levy and collection of an estate duty in the Provinces of India was referr [...] The provisions of the Hindu Code regarding succession or the structure of a joint family would have n considerable bearing as to how the duty should be levied on the death of a member of such family and it was therefore urged that the consideration of the Bill should await the passing of the Hindu Code. [...] 6. Rule-making power.—(/) The Central Government may by notification in the offi-4al Gazette make rules for the purpose of giving effect to the 'objects of this Act (2) In particular and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing power such rules may provide— (a) for the manner in which and the authority by which compensation shall be paid under section 3; and (b) for the determinatio [...] Section 12.— (i) omit sub-section (2); (ii) in sub-section (3) omit the words "otherwise than by the occurrence of a vacancy in the office of a Director elected by the Local Board" and the word "qualified" and for the word "elected" substitute the word "other"; (iii) in sub-section (4) for the words commencing with "in the case of a. nominated Director" and ending with the words "for the elec [...] (See section 9) 1. THE WESTERN AREA shall consist of the Province of Bombay the Central Provinces and Berar Hyderabad Baroda Kutch the United State of Kathiawar (Saurashtra) Kolhapur the United State of Gwalior Indore and Malwa (Madhya Bharat) Bhopal the Acceding States administered by the Government of Bombay and the Acceding States administered by the Goverment of the Central Provi