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| TUNDUS |
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AN ORDINANCE TO MAKE PROVISION AGAINST THE ISSUE AND USE OF DOCUMENTS COMMONLY KNOWN AS “TUNDUS” IN RESPECT OF INDIAN LABOURERS.
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| Ordinance Nos, |
| 43 of 1921 |
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[17th December
, 1921 ]
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Short title.
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1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Tundu Prohibition Ordinance.
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Penalties for issuing,& c, tundus.
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(1) Any person who after the commencement of this Ordinance-
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(a) issues or causes or permits to be issued a tundu ; or
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(b) accepts or agrees to accept any tundu or any obligation arising thereunder or intended to be imposed thereby ; or
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(c) gives or enters into any undertaking, express or implied, with regard to any tundu; or
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(d) enters into or takes any part in any transaction for the transfer of any indebtedness heretofore effected by means of a tundu,;
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to or in respect of any labourers as denned in section 3 of the Estate Labour (Indian) Ordinance, shall be guilty of an offence, and shall be liable on conviction thereof to a fine not exceeding twenty thousand rupees, or to imprisonment of either description for any period not exceeding two years, or to both.
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(2) For the purposes of this Ordinance the expression “tundu” means the document commonly called a tundu, and in use at the time of the commencement of this Ordinance, under the provisions of the Estate Labour (Indian) Ordinance; it also includes any document, whatever its form may be, whereby the objects attained by a tundu at the time of the commencement of this Ordinance are sought to be attained after such commencement.
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