Burma/Myanmar laws, decrees and regulations 1923
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''Whereas it is expedient to give effect in the Union of Burma to the Treaty
for the Limitation of Naval Armament and for the Exchange of Information
concerning Naval Construction signed in London on behalf of His Britannic
Majesty on the twenty-fifth day of March, 1936 ; It is hereby enacted as follows:- ...''
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Government of Burma via "The Burma Code" vol. 2
Date of publication:
1923-11-10
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2019-01-09
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''In this Act, unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or
context,—
(a) “ Collector ” means, in reference to cotton consumed in a mill in
the Union of Burma, the Collector of the district in which the
mill is situated or any other officer appointed by the President
of the Union to perform the duties of a Collector under this Act;
(b) “ the Committee ” means the Burma Cotton Committee constituted
under this Act ;
(c) “ cotton ” means raw cotton, whether baled or loose, which has
been ginned ;
(d) “ Customs-collector ” and “ customs-port ” mean respectively a
Customs-collector and a customs-port as defined in section 3 of
the Sea Customs Act...''
Source/publisher:
Government of Burma via "The Burma Code" vol. 5
Date of publication:
1923-03-16
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2019-01-09
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''Any reference to a place belonging to [the State]1 includes a place
occupied by any department oi the Government, whether the place
is or is not actually vested in [the State]
expressions referring to communicating or receiving include any
communicating or receiving, whether in whole or in part, and
whether the sketch, plan, model, article, note, document, or information itself or the substance, effect or description thereof only be
communicated or received ; expressions referring to obtaining or
retaining any sketch, plan, model, article, note, or document include
the copying or causing to be copied of the whole or any part of any
sketch, plan, model, article, note, or document ; and expressions
referring to the communication of any sketch, plan, model, article,
note or document include the transfer or transmission of the sketch,
plan, model, article, note or document...''
Source/publisher:
Government of Burma via "The Burma Code" vol. 2
Date of publication:
1923-04-02
Date of entry/update:
2019-01-09
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'' In this Act, unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or context,-
(a) “benefit” does not include any benefit which a mutwalli is entitled to claim solely by reason of his being such mutwalli;
(b) “Court” means the Court of the District Judge or, within the limits of the ordinary original civil jurisdiction of the High Court, such Court, subordinate to the High Court, as the President of the Union may, by notification in the Gazette, designate in this behalf;
(c) “mutwalli” means any person appointed either verbally or under any deed or instrument by which a wakf has been created or by a Court of competent jurisdiction to be the mutwalli of wakf, and includes a naib-mutwalli or other person appointed by a mutwalli to perform the duties of the mutwalli, and, save as otherwise provided in this Act, any person who is for the time being administering any wakf property;
(d) “prescribed” means prescribed by rules made under this Act; and
(e) “wakf” means the permanent dedication by a person professing the Mussalman faith of any property for any purpose recognized by the Mussalman law as religious, pious or charitable, but does not include any wakf, such as is described in section 3 of the Mussalman Wakf Validating Act, under which any benefit is for the time being claimable for himself by the person by whom the wakf was created or by any of his family or descendants...''
Source/publisher:
Government of Burma via "Union Attorney General's Office" vol. 9
Date of publication:
1923-08-01
Date of entry/update:
2019-01-09
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'' In this Act, unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or context,—
(1) “ effects ” incudes clothes and documents ;
(2) “ foreign-going ship ” means a ship, not being a home-trade ship.
employed in trading between any port in the Union of Burma and
any other port or place ;
(3) “ home-trade ship ” means a ship employed in trading between any
ports in the Union of Burma or between any port in the Union
of Burma and any port or place in India or Pakistan or in the
Straits Settlements, or in the Island of Ceylon ;
(4) “ master ” includes every person (except a pilot or harbour-master)
having command or charge of a ship ;
(5) “ Merchant Shipping Acts ” means the Merchant Shipping Acts,
1894—1932; “ passenger ” includes any person carried in a ship other than the master and crew and the owner, his family and servants, but does not include any persons on board the ship either in pursuance of
the obligation laid upon the master to carry ship-wrecked, distressed or other persons, or by reason of any circumstance which
neither the master nor the owner could have prevented or forestalled...''
Source/publisher:
Government of Burma via "The Burma Code" vol. 7
Date of publication:
1923-05-01
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2019-01-09
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''The President of the Union may, for the purpose of maintaining
the quality or reputation of the cotton grown in any area, in the Union of
Burma, by notification in the Gazette, prohibit the import of cotton or of any
specified kind of cotton into that area by rail, road, river and sea, or by any
one or more of such routes, save under, and in accordance with the conditions of, a licence :
Provided that no such notification shall be deemed to prohibit the import
into any protected area of packages containing any kind of cotton and not
exceeding ten pounds avoirdupois weight.
(2) Any such notification may prohibit the delivery to, and the taking of
delivery by, any person, at any specified railway station situated in the
protected area, of any cotton, the import of which by rail into that area is
prohibited, when such cotton has been consigned from a railway station not
situated in that area, unless such person holds a licence for the import by rail
of the cotton into that area...''
Source/publisher:
Government of Burma via "The Burma Code" vol. 5
Date of publication:
1923-02-23
Date of entry/update:
2019-01-08
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''In this Act, unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or
context,—
(a) “agent”, when used in relation to a mine, means any person
appointed or acting as the representative of the owner in respect
of the management of the mine or of any part thereof, and as
such superior to a manager under this Act ;
(b) “Chief Inspector” means the Chief Inspector of Mines appointed
under this Act ;
(c) “child” means a person who has not completed his fifteenth year ;
(cc) “ day ” means a period of twenty-four hours beginning at midnight :
(d) a person is said to be “employed” in a mine who works under
appointment by or with the knowledge of the manager, whether
for wages or not, in any mining operation, or in cleaning or
oiling any part of any machinery used in or about the mine, or
in any other kind of work whatsoever incidental to, or connected
with, mining operations...''
Source/publisher:
Government of Burma via "The Burma Code" vol. 5
Date of publication:
1924-07-01
Date of entry/update:
2019-01-08
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''(1) In this Act. unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or
context.—
(a) “ adult ” and “ minor ” mean respectively a person who is not and
a person who is under the age of fifteen years ;
(b) “ Commissioner ” means a Commissioner for Workmen’s Compensation appointed under section 20 ;
(c) “ compensation ” means compensation as provided for by this Act;
(d) “ dependant ” means any of the following relatives of a deceased
workman, namely '•—
(i) a [widow]1 . a minor legitimate son and unmarried legitimate
daughter, or a widowed mother ; and
(ii) if wholly or in part dependent on the earnings of a workman at
the time of his death, a [widower] l, a parent other'than a
widowed mother, a minor illegitimate son. an unmarried
illegitimate daughter, a daughter legitimate or illegitimate if
married and a minor or if widowed, a minor brother...''
Source/publisher:
Government of Burma via "The Burma Code" vol. 5
Date of publication:
1924-07-01
Date of entry/update:
2019-01-08
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''1. * * * *
2. In this Act, unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or Definitions
context,—
(a) accident means an explosion of a boiler or steam-pipe or any
damage to a boiler or steam-pipe which is calculated to weaken
the strength thereof so as to render it liable to explode ;
(b) “ boi,er ” nieans any closed vessel exceeding five gallons in capacity which is used expressly for generating steam under pressure,
and includes any mounting or other fitting attached to such
vessel, which is wholly or partly under pressure when steam is
shut off ;
(c) Chief Inspector ” and “ Inspector ” mean, respectively, a person
appointed to be a Chief Inspector and an Inspector under this
Act ; .
(d) “ owner ” includes any person using a boiler as agent of the
owner thereof and any person using a boiler which he has hired
or obtained on loan from the owner thereof ;
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Source/publisher:
Government of Burma via "The Burma Code" vol. 5
Date of publication:
1924-01-01
Date of entry/update:
2019-01-07
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English
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