| Mental Health | S 309
IPC | Not repealead. Though MHCA 2017 - made the attempt to commit
suicide punishable only as an exception | Give help, not punishment |
| Real Estate (Regulation
and Development) Act,
2016 | RERA in each state to protect home buyers, boost investment,
adjudication, speedy resolution. Tribunal for appeal. |
| Rights of PWD 2016 | Replaced PWD Act 1995 | Fulfills obligations under UNCRPD
Reservation for persons with benchmark disability
Disabilities increased from 7 to 21 including blood disorders -
thallasemia, sickle cell, hemophilia
Also includes Intellectual Disability, Acid Attack Victims, Parkinson's
disease, Sickle Cell disease |
| PMLA | Control money laundering, confiscate property obtaned from
laundered money | Adjuducating authority decides weather the
property is involved in ML | Appelete Tribunal for appeal |
| Fugitive Economic
Offenders | Defines FEO | Offenses >100 cr | Provisionally Attach property |
| Transgender (POR) act
2019 | Doesn't provide for reservation in govt./higher jobs (unlike the NALSA
judgement) | Certificate of Identity from magistrate - no mechanism
for review if denied |
| POCSO | Gender neutral | Doesn't apply if offender is child | Age < 18 |
| Consumer Protection Act
1986 | CP Councils at Centre, State and distict levels
3 tier structure of National and State Commissions and district forums
Covers both goods and services
Amendment 2019 - Central regulator - Central Consumer Protection
Authority | E-Commerce within the ambit of redressal |
| AFSPA SPL POWER | To bring under control what GOI considered as 'disturbed areas'
Who declares? - Central Gov / Gov of Stat / Administrator of UT
Authorised officer - Special powers, prosecution requires prior
permission of Central govt. |
| National Security Act,
1980 | Both Centre and State can detain
State governments can concurrently make their own laws |
| Prohibition of Child
Marriages Act, 2006 | Treats underage marriages as valid, but voidable.
Neither does the provision punish a child for marrying a woman nor a
woman for marrying a male child. Punishes only a male who marries a
minor girl. |
