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Section 9 in The Foreign Exchange Regulation Act, 1973 [Entire Act]
The Coinage Act, 2011
The Foreign Exchange Regulation Act, 1973
Section 24 in The Foreign Exchange Regulation Act, 1973 [Entire Act]
The General Clauses Act, 1897
Srinivas Mall Bairoliya vs Emperor on 28 April, 1947
The judgment of the
Judicial Committee insofar as it was in favour of the
appellant, was based on two lines of reasoning. The first
was that in order to constitute a contravention of s. 6(2)
of the Ordinance mens rea was essential. The second was
that even if the order of the Minister under s. 9 were
regarded as an exercise of legislative power, the maxim
'ignorance of law is no excuse' could not apply because
there was not, in Singapore, any provision for the
publication, in any form, of an order of the kind made in
the case or any other provision to enable a man, by
appropriate enquiry, to find out what the law was.
Lord Evershed who delivered the judgment of the Board
referred with approval to the formulation of the principle
as
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regards mens rea to be found in the judgment of Wright J. in
Sherras v. De Rutzen,(1) already referred to. His Lordship
also accepted as correct the enunciation of the rule in
Srinivas Mall Bairoliya v. King-Emperor (2) in the passage
we have extracted earlier. Referring next to the argument
that where the statute was one for the regulation for the
public welfare of a particular activity it had frequently
been inferred that strict liability was the object -.ought
to be enforced by the legislature, it was pointed out :
Section 19 in The Foreign Exchange Regulation Act, 1973 [Entire Act]
Indo-China Steam Navigation Co. Ltd vs Jasjit Singh, Additional Collector ... on 3 February, 1964
This question as to when the presumption as to the necessity
for mens rea is overborne has received elaborate
consideration at the hands of this Court when the question
of the construction of s. 52-A of the Sea Customs Act came
up for consideration in The Indo-China Steam Navigation Co.
Ltd. v. Jasjit Singh, Addl.