Act Number: 12

Act Name: The Public Accountants Defaults Act, 1850

Year: 1850

Enactment Date: 1850-03-12

Long Title: For avoiding loss by the default of Public Accountants

Ministry: Ministry of Corporate Affairs

Department:

Section 3: “Public accountant” defined.
1For the purposes of sections 1 and 2 of this Act, the expression “public accountant” means any person who as Official Assignee or Trustee, or as sarbarahkar, is entrusted with the receipt, custody or control of any moneys or securities for money, or the management of any lands belonging to any other person or persons, and for the purposes of sections 4 and 5 of this Act the expression shall also include any person who, by reason of any office held by him in the service of the Central Government or the Government of a 2 *** State, is entrusted with the receipt, custody or control of any moneys or securities for money, or the management of any lands belonging to such Government.
Notes:
1. Subs., ibid., for section 3.
2. The word and letter “Part A” omitted by the Adaptation of Laws (No. 2) Order, 1956.
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