{"act":{"id":"andhra-pradesh-gaming-act-1974","short_title":"The Andhra Pradesh Gaming Act, 1974","long_title":null,"act_number":"27","act_year":1974,"enact_date":null,"enforcement_date":null,"ministry":null,"department":null,"jurisdiction":"Andhra Pradesh","unit":"section","section_count":13,"in_force":true,"spent":false,"spent_note":null,"duplicate_of":null,"text_source":"ocr","scan_url":"https://indiacode.ecourtsindia.com/scan/1b4e90c0-eef2-4424-aaa8-d801c99a6f44.pdf","url":"https://indiacode.ecourtsindia.com/andhra-pradesh-gaming-act-1974/"},"unit":"section","section":{"number":"14","heading":"Payments of portion of fine to informants","text":"(1) The convicting magistrate may direct any portion, not exceeding one half, of any fine which is imposed under section 3, section 4 or section 9 and of the moneys or the proceeds of articles seized and ordered to be forfeited under section 8 or section 12 to be paid to such informants as may have assisted in the detection of the offenders. (2) A direction under sub-section (1) may also be made by any court of appeal, reference or revision. (3) Where a direction is made under sub-section (1) or sub-section (2) the magistrate or court concerned shall send the amount to be paid under sub-section (1) or sub-section (2), as the case may be, in the area within the jurisdiction of the commissioner of Police, Hyderabad to the said Commissioner and elsewhere to the Superintendent of Police, who shall distribute it among such of the informants aforesaid as may be chosen by him in such proportion as he thinks fit. (4) The amount to be paid as aforesaid shall not be sent to the Commissioner of Police or the Superintendent of Police until the expiration of three months from the date of the direction under sub-section (1) or if an appeal, reference or revision is made within the period, until the same is disposed of. 1[15. Overriding effect - The Provisions of this Act, shall have the effect notwithstanding anything inconsistent therewith in any other law for the time being in force.]","html":"<p>Payments of portion of fine to informants - (1) The convicting magistrate may direct any portion, not exceeding one half, of any fine which is imposed under section 3, section <a href=\"/andhra-pradesh-gaming-act-1974/section/4/\">4</a> or section <a href=\"/andhra-pradesh-gaming-act-1974/section/9/\">9</a> and of the moneys or the proceeds of articles seized and ordered to be forfeited under section <a href=\"/andhra-pradesh-gaming-act-1974/section/8/\">8</a> or section <a href=\"/andhra-pradesh-gaming-act-1974/section/12/\">12</a> to be paid to such informants as may have assisted in the detection of the offenders. (2) A direction under sub-section (1) may also be made by any court of appeal, reference or revision. (3) Where a direction is made under sub-section (1) or sub-section (2) the magistrate or court concerned shall send the amount to be paid under sub-section (1) or sub-section (2), as the case may be, in the area within the jurisdiction of the commissioner of Police, Hyderabad to the said Commissioner and elsewhere to the Superintendent of Police, who shall distribute it among such of the informants aforesaid as may be chosen by him in such proportion as he thinks fit. (4) The amount to be paid as aforesaid shall not be sent to the Commissioner of Police or the Superintendent of Police until the expiration of three months from the date of the direction under sub-section (1) or if an appeal, reference or revision is made within the period, until the same is disposed of. 1[15. Overriding effect - The Provisions of this Act, shall have the effect notwithstanding anything inconsistent therewith in any other law for the time being in force.]</p>","words":244,"text_source":"ocr"},"classification":[],"instruments":[],"judgments":[],"corresponds_to":[],"url":"https://indiacode.ecourtsindia.com/andhra-pradesh-gaming-act-1974/section/14/","note":null,"source_note":"Read from the Government's own scanned gazette with Azure Document Intelligence, then split into sections by their numbering. India Code publishes no text for this Act. The scan itself is mirrored into our own storage and served at /scan/1b4e90c0-eef2-4424-aaa8-d801c99a6f44.pdf, so the reading here can be checked against the page it came from without depending on India Code's own copy staying where it is (it was at https://indiacode.gov.in/server/api/core/bitstreams/031eb2f2-f859-4331-bc3c-5837b07ae6cd/content).","judgments_note":"Judgment holdings are the ratio decidendi as extracted from the order by eCourts India, reproduced unaltered. Reported judgments only.","licence":"Published with commentary and other original matter under s.52(1)(q)(ii), Copyright Act 1957."}