Maharashtra Lotteries (Control and Tax) and Prize Competitions (Tax) Act
- Act number
- 82 of 1958
- Enacted
- 8 October 1958
- Contents
- 34 sections
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Contents
- Section 1 – Short title, extent and commencement
- Section 2 – Definitions
- Section 3 – All lotteries unlawful
- Section 4 – Offences in connection with lotteries
- Section 5 – Licensed entertainment lotteries not unlawful
- Section 6 – Licensed private lotteries not unlawful (preview)
- Section 7 – Licences (preview)
- Section 8 – Powers of State Government to issue orders pertaining to licences (preview)
- Section 9 – Suspension or cancellation of licence (preview)
- Section 10 – Levy of tax on lotteries and prize competitions (preview)
- Section 11 – Levy of tax on lotteries in newspapers and publications printed and published outside State (preview)
- Section 12 – Calculation and recovery of tax levied under section 10 (preview)
- Section 13 – Licence fee and other dues to be recoverable as arrears of land revenue (preview)
- Section 14 – Promoters of lotteries or prize competitions to keep and maintain accounts, submit statements and make declarations (preview)
- Section 15 – Penalty for failure to keep accounts, submit statements or make declaration of keeping false accounts, submitting false statements and making false declaration (preview)
- Section 16 – Forfeiture of newspapers and publications, containing unlawful lotteries (preview)
- Section 17 – Power of Collector to require production of accounts or to inspect accounts (preview)
- Section 18 – Power of entry and search (preview)
- Section 19 – Searches how made (preview)
- Section 20 – Power to arrest without warrant in certain cases (preview)
- Section 21 – Power of investigation (preview)
- Section 22 – Offences to be bailable (preview)
- Section 23 – Jurisdiction to try offences (preview)
- Section 24 – Government may authorise certain officer to perform functions of Collector (preview)
- Section 25 – Offences by companies (preview)
- Section 26 – Collectors and other officers to act subject to orders of State Government (preview)
- Section 27 – Officers to be public servants (preview)
- Section 28 – Protection of persons acting in good faith and limitation of suit and prosecutions (preview)
- Section 29 – Appeal and revision (preview)
- Section 30 – Exemption (preview)
- Section 31 – Rules (preview)
- Section 32 – Savings (preview)
- Section 33 – Repeal of section 294A of Act XLV of 1860 (preview)
- Section 34 – Repeal and savings (preview)