Public Fund Definition: Legal Meaning Explained

He is not entitled to a pension or gratuity but he contributes 5 per cent, of his salary to the provident fund established under the Public Service Provident Fund Ordinance, No. 18 of 1942. ...   On these facts I have no doubt that the appellant is " employed in the service of the Government " within the meaning of these words in the definition of the expression " public servant " in the Ordinance. .....

2025 Supreme(Online)(Bom) 4148

Section 25 of the YCMOU Act states that the University shall establish a fund to be called the University Fund. ... Clause 2(c) defines “public servant”. In the existing definition the emphasis is on the authority employing and the authority remunerating. In the proposed definition the emphasis is on public duty.” 20. ... The Statement of Objects and reasons attached to it show the inten....

2025 0 Supreme(Ker) 1973

In fact, as already pointed out, the petitioners herein are the Managing Trustee, the Hereditary Trustee, the Non- Hereditary Trustee, the Melsanthi as well as the Head Clerk and they are getting salary from the fund of the temple or the fund of the Malabar Devaswom Board. ... Mansukhbhai Kanjibhai Shah, 2020 KHC 6358 where also the Apex Court considered the definition of ‘public servant’ under Section 2(c) of the PC Act, ....

2024 Supreme(US)(ca5) 481

Private funds are excluded from the definition of “investment company” because they satisfy certain statutory requirements. 15 U.S.C. §§ 80b- 2(a)(29), 80a-3(c)(1), (7). ... Individuals—such as firefighters, public school educa- tors, and law enforcement officers—have indirect exposure to private funds through their participation in public and private pension plans, which invest directly in private funds. ... The Advisers Act defines a “pr....

A Sanitary Board is a local authority like any other with full power to manage its own affairs, to levy rates, to establish and maintain public services, to provide public amenities, to employ and pay its officers and servants, and to make all necessary disbursements out of its fund. ... Be that as it may a person employed in the service of a Sanitary Board cannot claim the benefits of the Public Servants (Liabilities....

2024 0 Supreme(Ker) 1336

This definition includes related constructions like bunds, drainage channels, ponds, and canals. ... These writ petitions are filed in the public interest by the same Petitioner. ... The Fund is generated by the State by charging a fee for permission to use the paddy lands for commercial purposes. The non-utilisation of this Agricultural Fund for the conservation of paddy lands and their restoration is the issue raised in ....

    There is a public element in a gift to the poor, i.e., where a person must be poor to get relief from a fund, the recipients of the bounty then may be even a limited class of persons provided the individuals are not ascertained; if there is a public element in a gift, the trust dealing ... relief of the poor, education, medical relief and the advancement of any other object of general public utility ?; the #HL_ST....

Railway Uniform Staff Benevolent Fund Ordinance-Section 17-Duty of secretary and treasurer to summon general meetings-Not a public auty-Mandamus. ... The duty, under section 17 of the Railway Uniform Staff Benevolent Fund Ordinance, of the secretary and treasurer to summon a general meeting is neither a public duty nor a duty to be performed in the interests of or for the benefit of the public. .....

2025 Supreme(Online)(CIC) 4431

Hence, there exists no larger public interest that would justify the disclosure of information related to this fund to 'third party' under the Right to Information Act, 2005. ... Hence, the verification of the Appellant's position as Legal Heir of the deceased employee for his Unpaid Provident Fund dues cannot be done at the Central Office of the Public Authority. ... Central Public Information Officer (D....

2024 0 Supreme(Jhk) 845

This rule of construction is simply a restatement of the common law principle of construction that the repeal of a statute operates to divest all rights accruing under the repealed statute and all proceedings not concluded prior to the repeal, since inchoate right are by definition not vested rights ... The petitioner, being a public charitable trust registered under the Indian Registration Act, 1908, has approached this Court praying therein for quashing/se....

2017 0 Supreme(Ker) 876

The funds are in trust with them for utilisation in public interest and strictly for the purposes of the statute under which they are created with specific statutory duties imposed on them. But in these cases, any directions to the public authorities to pay monetary compensation or damages would also indirectly harm general public interest. The public authorities are entrusted with public fund raised from public money. In such a situation when a party or citizen has relied, t....

2017 0 Supreme(Cal) 353

Coupled with it is the fact that the word ‘establish’ has been used in its past participle form. It cannot be something non-specific which is yet to come in the hand of the authorities. Thus, the definition of the word ‘Fund’, if etymologically analysed and syntactically understood, means the Provident Fund which has been established under any of the Scheme. This fund must be a specific one, expressed through the word ‘the’.

2016 0 Supreme(Del) 4616

The Public Provident Fund Scheme is governed by the Public Provident Fund Act, 1968. Section 3 and 12 of the Act reads as follows: "3. Public Provident Fund Scheme.- (1) The Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, frame a scheme to be called the Public Provident Fund Scheme for the establishment of a provident fund for the general public and there shall be established, as soon as may be after the framing of the Scheme, a Fund in accordance with the pr....

2012 0 Supreme(SC) 2652

The public authorities are entrusted with public fund raised from public money. In such a situation when a party or citizen has relied, to his detriment, on an erroneous representation made by public authorities and suffered loss and where the doctrine of "estoppel" will not be invoked to his aid, directing administrative redressal would be a more appropriate remedy than payment of monetary compensation for the loss caused by non-delivery of the possession of the plots and co....

2011 0 Supreme(All) 2891

The public authorities are entrusted with public fund raised from public money. In such a situation when a party or citizen has relied, to his detriment, on an erroneous representation made by public authorities and suffered loss and where doctrine of ‘estoppel’ will not be invoked to his aid, directing administrative redressal would be a more appropriate remedy than payment of monetary compensation for the loss caused by non-delivery of the possession of the plots and conseq....