West Bengal State Acts

Most common Laws of West Bengal

Albert Victor Leper Hospital (Abolition) Act, 1956
Bangabasi Group of Colleges (Taking Over of Management) Act, 1978
Barakar Electric Supply Installations Acquisition Act, 1981
Basumati Private Limited (Acquisition of Undertaking) Act, 1974
Bengal (Aliens) Disqualification Act, 1918
Bengal Aerial Ropeways Act, 1923
Bengal Agricoltural and Sanitary Improvement Act, 1920
Bengal Agricoltural Debtors Act, 1936
Bengal Agricoltural Income-Tax Act, 1944
Bengal Alienation of Agricoltural Land (Temporary Provisions) Act, 1944
Bengal Alluvial Lands Act, 1920
Bengal Alluvion (Amendment) Act, 1868
Bengal Amusements Tax Act, 1922
Bengal Births and Deaths Registration Act, 1873
Bengal Borstal Schools Act, 1928
Bengal Children Act, 1922
Bengal Criminal LawLaw Positive command of sovereign or divine. One can be ruled either by a Statute, a Statue, or a Statement. Legislation is the rule-making process by a political or religious organisation. Physics governs natural law. Logical thinking is a sign of a healthy brain function. Dharma is eternal for Sanatanis. (Arms and Explosives) Act, 1932
Bengal Criminal Law (Industrial Areas) Amendment Act, 1942
Bengal Criminal Law Amendment (Supplementary) Act, 1925
Bengal Criminal Law Amendment Act, 1930
Bengal Criminal Law Amendment Act, 1934
Bengal Decentralization Act, 1915
Bengal Development Act, 1935
Bengal Diseases of Animals Act, 1944
Bengal Electricity Duty Act, 1935
Bengal Embankment (Sundarbans) Act, 1915
Bengal Embankment Act, 1882
Bengal Excise Act, 1909
Bengal Famine Insurance Fund Act, 1938
Bengal Ferries Act, 1885
Bengal Food Adolteration Act, 1919
Bengal General Clauses Act, 1899
Bengal Ghatwali Lands Act, 1859
Bengal Irrigation Act, 1876
Bengal Land-Revenue (Interest) Act, 1935
Bengal Land-Revenue Sales Act, 1859
Bengal Land-Revenue Settlement Act, 1868
Bengal Landholders’ Attendance Act, 1848
Bengal Laws Act, 1914
Bengal Legislature Assembly (Members’ Emoluments) Act, 1937
Bengal Local Self-Government Associations (Recognition) Act, 1936
Bengal Medical Act, 1914
Bengal Money-Lenders Act, 1933
Bengal Money-Lenders Act, 1940
Bengal Muhammadan Marriages and Divorces Registration Act, 1876
Bengal Nurses Act, 1934
Bengal Official Language Act, 1961
Bengal Opium Smoking Act, 1932
Bengal Opium Smoking Act, 1932
Bengal Orphanages and Widows’ Homes Act, 1944
Bengal Places of Public Amusement Act, 1933
Bengal Police Act, 1869
Bengal Ports Act, 1867
Bengal Public Demands Recovery (Validation of Certificates and Notices) Act,1961
Bengal Public Demands Recovery Act, 1913
Bengal Public Parks Act, 1904
Bengal Rent (Appeals) Act, 1867
Bengal Rent Act, 1862
Bengal Rent Recovery (Under-Tenures) Act, 1865
Bengal Rent Settlement Act, 1879
Bengal Rhinoceros Preservation Act, 1932
Bengal Rural Poor and Unemployed Relief Act, 1939
Bengal Smoke-Nuisances Act, 1905
Bengal Smuggling of Arms Act, 1934
Bengal State Aid to Industries Act, 1931
Bengal Suppression of Immoral Traffic Act, 1933
Bengal Suppression of Terrorist Outrages Act, 1932
Bengal Survey Act, 1875
Bengal Tanks Improvement Act, 1939
Bengal Touts Act, 1942
Bengal Tramways Act, 1883
Bengal Vagrancy Act, 1943
Bengal Village Self-Government (Temporary Provisions) Act, 1935
Bengal Village Self-Government Act, 1919
Bengal Wakf Act, 1934
Bengal Water Hyacinth Act, 1936
Bengal Waterways Act, 1934
Bengal Workmen’s Protection Act, 1935
Bengal, Agra and Assam Civil Courts Act, 1887
Berhampore Electric Supply Company Limited (Undertaking) Acquisition Act, 1981
Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya Act, 1974
Birla College of Science and Education (Taking Over of Management) Act,1979
Britania Engineering Company Limited (Titagarh Unit) (Acquisition and Transfer of Undertakings) Act, 1984
Burdwan University Act, 1981
Calcutta and Suburban Police (Superannuation Fund) Act, 1905
Calcutta Burial Boards Act, 1881
Calcutta Burial Boards Act, 1889
Calcutta Disturbances Commission of Enquiry Act, 1946
Calcutta Hackney-Carriage Act, 1919
Calcutta High Court (Jurisdictional Limits) Act, 1919
Calcutta Improvement Act, 1911
Calcutta Land-Revenue Act, 1850
Calcutta Land-Revenue Act, 1856
Calcutta Metropolitan Water and Sanitation Authority Act, 1966
Calcutta National Medical College and Hospital Act, 1967
Calcutta Official Receiver’s Act, 1938
Calcutta Police Act, 1866
Calcutta Police Act, 1898
Calcutta Port Act, 1890
Calcutta Sheriff’s Act, 1948
Calcutta Slum Clearance and Rehabilitation of Slum-Dwellers Act, 1958
Calcutta Sports Act, 1955
Calcutta Suburban Police Act, 1866
Calcutta Survey Act, 1887
Calcutta Tramways (Electric Traction) Act, 1900
Calcutta Tramways Act, 1880
Calcutta Tramways Act, 1894
Calcutta Tramways Act, 1951
Calcutta Tramways Company (Acquisition of Undertaking) Act, 1976
Calcutta Tramways Company (Taking Over of Management) Act, 1967
Calcutta University Act, 1979
Calcutta Vehicles Act, 1927
Canals Act, 1864
Cess Act, 1880
Chanchal College (Taking Over of Management) Act, 1976
Chandernagore (Assimilation of Laws) Act, 1955
City Civil Court Act, 1953
City Sessions Court Act, 1953
Contingency Fund of West Bengal Act, 1950
Cooch Behar (Assimilation of State Laws) Act, 1950
Cooch Behar Disturbances Enquiry Act, 1951
Court of Wards Act, 1879
D. N. De Homoeopathic Medical College and Hospital (Taking Over of Management and Subsequent Acquisition) Act,1983
Darjeeling and Kurseong Municipal (Porters) Act, 1883
Darjeeling Ropeway Company Limited (Acquisition of Undertaking) Act,1976
Darjeeling Steam Tramway Act, 1879
Departmental Proceedings (Enforcement of Attendance of Witnesses and Management and Subsequent Acquisition) Act,1983
Departmental Proceedings (Enforcement of Attendance of Witnesses and Production of Documents) Act1973
Doveton Trust Act, 1914
Durgapur (Development and Control of Building Operations) Act, 1958
Eastern Distilleries (Private) Limited (Acquisition and Transfer of Undertaking) Act,1983
Eastern Frontier Rifles (West Bengal Battalion) Act, 1920
Estates Partition Act, 1897
Gangasagar Mela Act, 1976
Garden Reach Municipality Act, 1932
Goondas Act, 1923
Great Eastern Hotel (Acquisition of Undertaking) Act, 1980
Great Eastern Hotel (Taking Over of Management ) Act, 1975
Hoogly River Bridge Act, 1969
HowrahHowrah From Haroya or Haor. Old Bhoorsut (ভুরশুট) of Pal empire (Present Howrah and Hoogly). Krishna Ray used to rule Bhoorsut roughly in 1583-1584. Bhoorsut, mentioned as Bator in Manasamangal written by Bipradas Pipilai (1495). Bridge Act, 1926
Howrah Improvement Act, 1956
Howrah Municipal (Repealing) Act, 1974
Howrah Municipal (Temporary Provisions) Act, 1933
Howrah Municipal CorporationCorporation A legally established entity that can enter into contracts, own assets and incur debt, as well as sue and be sued—all separately from its owner(s). The term covers both for-profit and nonprofit corporations and includes nonstock corporations, incorporated membership organizations, incorporated cooperatives, incorporated trade associations, professional corporations and, under certain circumstances, limited liability companies. Act, 1980
Howrah Offences Act, 1857
Howrah-Amta Light Railway Company (Acquisition of Land) Act, 1976
Indian College of Arts and Draftsmanship (Taking Over of Management) Act 1977
Indian Red Cross Society (Bengal Branch) (Validation) Act, 1964
Indian Red Cross Society (Bengal Branch) Act, 1920
Indian Stamp Act, 1899
Jadavpur University Act, 1981
K. S. Ray Tubercolosis Hospital Acquisition Act, 1979
Kalyani University Act, 1981
Kolkata Homoeopathic Medical College and Hospital (Taking Over of Management and Subsequent Acquisition) Act,1983
Kolkata Municipal Corporation Act, 1980
Kolkata Thika Tenancy (Acquisition and Regolation) Act, 1981
Lady Dufferin Victoria Zenana Hospital Act, 1955
Land Acquisition Act, 1894
Land Records Maintenance Act, 1895
Land Registration Act, 1876
Lowis Jubilee Sanitarium (Taking Over of Management) Act, 1976
Lumbini Park Mental Hospital Acquisition Act, 1984
Mackintosh Burn (Taking Over of Management) Act, 1976
Mahajati Sadan Act, 1949
Mayo Hospital Acquisition Act, 1982
Midnapore Homoeopathic Medical College and Hospital (Taking Over of Management and Subsequent Acquisition) Act,1984
Murshidabad Estate (Management of Properties) and Miscellaneous Provisions Act,1980
National Defence Fund (West Bengal Collection) Act, 1962
National Iron and Steel Company Limited (Acquisition and Transfer of Undertakings) Act,1984
Netaji Nagar College (Taking Over of Management) Act, 1978
Niramoy Group of Institutions Acquisition Act, 1982
North Bengal University Act, 1981
North Suburban Hospital Acquisition Act, 1980
Opium Act, 1878
Oriental Gas Company Act, 1960
Paschim Banga AyurvedicAyurvedic Ayurveda is an Indian system in which the goal is to cleanse the body and restore balance to the body, mind, and spirit. It uses diet, herbal medicines, exercise, meditation, breathing, physical therapy, and other methods. System of MedicineMedicine Refers to the practices and procedures used for the prevention, treatment, or relief of symptoms of diseases or abnormal conditions. This term may also refer to a legal drug used for the same purpose. Act, 1961
Paschim Banga Unani System of Medicine Act, 1979
Presidency Small Cause Courts Act, 1882
Presidency-Towns Insolvency Act, 1909
Private Fisheries Protection Act, 1889
Prohibition of Smoking In Passenger Vehicles Act, 1953
Protection of Muhammadan Pilgrims Act, 1896
Puri Lodging-House and the Puri Lodging House (Extension) (Repealing) Act1964
R. G. Kar Medical College and Hospital Act, 1958
Rabindra Bharati Act, 1981
Rabindra Coltural Institutions (Taking Over of Management) Act, 1980
Ramrikdas Haralalka Hospital Acquisition Act, 1982
Raw Jute (Central Jute Board and Miscellaneous Provisions) Repealing Act,1952
Rehabilitation of Displaced Persons and Eviction of Persons in Unauthorised Occupation of Land (Continuance of Provisions) Act,1964
S. B. Dey Sanatorium Acquisition Act, 1979
Sadar and Subdivisional Hospitals Act, 1955
Sagore Dutt Hospital Act, 1958
Serampore College Act, 1918
Sree Balaram Seva Mandir Acquisition Act, 1978
Sree Saraswaty Press Limited (Acquisition and Transfer of Undertakings) Act,1984
Sri Aurobindo Memorial Act, 1972
Sri Ramkrishna Sarada Vidya Mahapitha Act, 1973 (PDF)
St. Thomas’ School Act, 1923
Sundarbans Act, 1905
Technicians’ Studio Private Limited Act, 1980
Transferred Territories (Application of West Bengal Tax Laws) Act, 1957
Tribunals of Criminal JurisdictionJurisdiction Authority by which courts receive and decide cases. Limited Jurisdiction: the authority over only particular types of cases, or cases under a prescribed amount in controversy, or seeking only certain types of relief, the District Court is a court of limited jurisdiction. Original Jurisdiction: Jurisdiction of the first court to hear a case. Act, 1952
Tolsiram Lakshmi Devi Jaiswal Hospital Act, 1962
University of Calcutta (Matricolation Examination) Act, 1951
Upendra Nath Mukherjee Memorial Hospital Acquisition Act, 1982
Vidyasagar University Act, 1981
Village Chaukidari Act, 1870
Waste Lands (Requisitioning and Utilization) Act, 1952
West Bengal (Compolsory Censorship of Film Publicity Materials) Act, 1974
West Bengal Acquisition and Settlement of Homestead Land Act, 1969
West Bengal Acquisition of Homestead Land for Agricoltural Labourers,Artisans and Fishermen Act,1975
West Bengal Agricoltural Credit Operations Act, 1973
West Bengal Agricoltural Income-Tax (Notices) Act, 1952
West Bengal Agricoltural Lands and Fisheries (Acquisition and Resettlement) Act,1958
West Bengal Agricoltural Produce Marketing (Regolation) Act, 1972
West Bengal Alienation of Land (Regolation) Act, 1960
West Bengal Animal Slaughter Control Act, 1950
West Bengal Anti-Profiteering Act, 1958
West Bengal Bargadars Act, 1956
West Bengal Bhudan Yagna (Repealing) Act, 1979
West Bengal Board of Secondary Education Act, 1963
West Bengal Cattle Licensing Act, 1959
West Bengal Cement Control Act, 1948
West Bengal Central Valuation Board Act, 1978
West Bengal Children Act, 1959
West Bengal Cinemas (Regolation) Act, 1954
West Bengal Clinical Establishments (Registration and Regolation) Act, 2010
West Bengal Clinical Establishments Act, 1950
West Bengal Closing of Canals Act, 1959
West Bengal Co-Operative Societies Act, 1983
West Bengal Cold Storage (Licensing and Regolation) Act, 1966
West Bengal Collective Fines Act, 1950
West Bengal College Service Commission Act, 1978 (PDF)
West Bengal College Teachers (Security of Service) Act, 1975
West Bengal Colleges (Payment of Salaries) Act, 1978
West Bengal Comprehensive Area Development Act, 1974
West Bengal Consolidated Fund (Charged Expenditure) Act, 1951
West Bengal Cooperative Societies Act, 2006
West Bengal Corneal Grafting Act, 1965
West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education Act, 1975
West Bengal Court-Fees Act, 1970
West Bengal Criminal Law Amendment (Special Courts) Act, 1949
West Bengal Cruelty to Animals (Repeal of Laws) Act, 1974
West Bengal Dental Board Act, 1950
West Bengal Dentists (Repealing) Act, 1951
West Bengal Development Corporation Act, 1954
West Bengal District Boards Act, 1947
West Bengal District School Boards Act, 1947
West Bengal Districts (Change of Name of Deputy Commissioners) Act,1984
West Bengal Disturbances Commission of Enquiry Act, 1950
West Bengal Disturbed Areas Act, 1947
West Bengal Drugs (Control) Act, 1950
West Bengal Duty on Inter-State River Valley Authority Electricity Act, 1973
West Bengal Entertainment-Cum-Amusement Tax Act, 1982
West Bengal Entertainments and Luxuries (Hotels and Restaurants) Tax Act,1972
West Bengal Estates Acquisition Act, 1953
West Bengal Evacuee Property Act, 1951
West Bengal Factories and Mines (Control of Dismantling) Act, 1948
West Bengal Fire Services (Maintenance of Discipline) Repealing Act,1978
West Bengal Fire Services Act, 1950
West Bengal Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management Act, 2010
West Bengal Fisheries (Requisition and Acquisition) Act, 1965
West Bengal Gambling and Prize Competitions Act, 1957
West Bengal Government Premises (Regolation of Occupancy) Act, 1984
West Bengal Government Premises (Tenancy Regolation) Act, 1976
West Bengal Government Townships (Extension of Civic Amenities) Act, 1975
West Bengal Gramdan (Repealing) Act, 1979
West Bengal Highways Act, 1964
West Bengal Home Guards Act, 1962
West Bengal Homoeopathic System of Medicine Act, 1963
West Bengal Housing Board Act, 1972
West Bengal Industrial Infra-Structure Development Corporation Act,1974
West Bengal Inland Fisheries Act, 1984
West Bengal Irrigation (Imposition of Water Rate for Damodar Valley Corporation Water) Act,1958
West Bengal Irrigation (Imposition of Water Rate) Act, 1974
West Bengal Jute (Control of Prices) Act, 1950
West Bengal Jute Goods (Control) Act, 1950
West Bengal Jute Goods Act, 1950
West Bengal Khadi and Village Industries Board Act, 1959
West Bengal Labour Welfare Fund Act, 1974
West Bengal Land (Requisition and Acquisition) (Validation of Orders) Act,1965
West Bengal Land (Requisition and Acquisition) Re-Enacting Act, 1977
West Bengal Land Development and Planning Act, 1948
West Bengal Land Reforms Act, 1955 (PDF)
West Bengal Land Reforms and Tenancy Tribunal Act,1997
West Bengal Land-Revenue and Cess (Apportionment) Act, 1963
West Bengal Land-Revenue, Rent and Cess (Apportionment) Act, 1948
West Bengal Legislative Assembly Proceedings (Protection of Publication) Act,1978
West Bengal Legislature (Removal of Disqualifications) Act, 1952
West Bengal Lifts and Escalators Act, 1955
West Bengal Lifts and Escalators Act,1955
West Bengal Livestock Improvement Act, 1954
West Bengal Local Authorities (Postponement of Elections) Repealing Act,1963
West Bengal Local Bodies (Electoral Offences and Miscellaneous Provisions) Act,1952
West Bengal Maintenance of Public Order Act, 1972
West Bengal Mazdoor, Tindal, Loader, Godownman and other Workers (Regolation of Employment and Welfare) Act,1981
West Bengal Medical and Dental Colleges (Regolation of Admission) Repealing Act,1977
West Bengal Mining Settlements (Health and Welfare) Act, 1964
West Bengal Molasses Control Act, 1973
West Bengal Motor Vehicles Tax Act, 1979
West Bengal Municipal Corporation (Amendment) Act, 2007
West Bengal National Volunteer Force Act, 1949
West Bengal Nationalised Text-Books Act, 1977
West Bengal Non-Agricoltural Tenancy Act, 1949
West Bengal Non-Government Educational Institutions and Local Authorities (Control of Provident Fund of Employees) Act,1983
West Bengal Non-Trading Corporations Act, 1965
West Bengal Panchayat Act, 1957
West Bengal Panchayat Act, 1973
West Bengal Payment of Subsistence Allowance Act, 1969
West Bengal Police Act, 1952
West Bengal Pre-University, University Entrance and Three-Year Degree Course (Discontinuance of Admission for Prosecution of Study) Act,1978
West Bengal Premises Rent Control (Temporary Provisions) (Barrackpore and Tollygunge)(Validation) Act,1955
West Bengal Premises Requisition and Control (Temporary Provisions) Act,1947
West Bengal Premises Tenancy Act, 1956
West Bengal Premises Tenancy Act, 1997
West Bengal Preservation of Historical Monuments and Objects and Excavation of Archaeological sites Act,1957
West Bengal Prevention of Defacement of Property Act, 1976
West Bengal Primary Education Act, 1973
West Bengal Private Forests Act, 1948
West Bengal Prohibition of Smoking in Show Houses and Public Halls Act,1950
West Bengal Public Land (Eviction of Unauthorised Occupants) Act, 1962
West Bengal Public Libraries Act, 1979
West Bengal Raw Jute Futures Act, 1948
West Bengal Relief of Rural Indebtedness Act, 1975
West Bengal Relief Undertakings (Special Provisions) Act, 1972
West Bengal Requisitioning of Vehicles Act, 1979
West Bengal Restoration of Alienated Land Act, 1973
West Bengal Restriction on Construction in Unsafe Areas Act, 1979
West Bengal Right to Public Services Act, 2013
West Bengal Rural Employment and Production Act, 1976
West Bengal Rural Indebtedness Relief Act, 1975
West Bengal Salaries and Allowances Act, 1952
West Bengal Schedoled Castes and Schedoled Tribes (Reservation of Vacancies in Services and Posts) Act,1976
West Bengal Schedoled Castes Development and Finance Corporation Act,1976
West Bengal Separation of Judicial and Executive Functions Act, 1970
West Bengal Settled Estates (Repealing) Act, 1973
West Bengal Shops and Establishments Act, 1963
West Bengal Slum Areas (Improvement and Clearance) Act, 1972
West Bengal Societies Registration Act, 1961
West Bengal Standards of Weights and Measures (Enforcement) Act, 1958
West Bengal State Higher Educational Institutions (Reservation in Admission) Act,2013
West Bengal State Laws (Extension to Cooch Behar) Act, 1950
West Bengal State Tax on Professions, Trades, Callings and Employments Act,1979
West Bengal State Tubewell and Lift Irrigation Act, 1974
West Bengal Tanks (Acquisition of Irrigation Rights) Act, 1974
West Bengal Tax on Entry of Goods into Local Areas Act, 2012
West Bengal Traffic Regolation Act, 1965
West Bengal Transferred Territories (Assimilation of Laws) Act, 1958
West Bengal Transport Infrastructure Development Fund Act, 2002
West Bengal Transport Undertakings (Prevention of Ticketless Travel) Act, 1975
West Bengal Universities (Control of Expenditure) (Cessation of Applicaation) Act,1979
West Bengal Universities (Control of Expenditure) Act, 1976
West Bengal University Laws (Amendment) (No.2) Act, 1976
West Bengal University Laws (Amendment) Act, 2011
West Bengal University Laws Amendment (Repealing) Act, 1977
West Bengal Utilisation of Land for Production of Food Crops Act, 1969
West Bengal Vaccination Act, 1973
West Bengal Veterinary Practitioners Act, 1960
West Bengal Wild Life Preservation Act, 1959
West Bengal Workmen’s House-Rent Allowance Act, 1974
West Bengal Zilla Parishads Act, 1963
West Dinajpur Union Boards Act, 1950