Sections 490 to 492

THE INDIAN PENAL CODE, 1860

CONTENTS

CHAPTER XIX

OF THE CRIMINAL BREACH OF CONTRACTS OF SERVICE

490. [Repealed]

491. Breach of contract to attend on and supply wants of helpless person

492. [Repealed]

CHAPTER XIX

OF THE CRIMINAL BREACH OF CONTRACTS OF SERVICE

490. Breach of contract of service during voyage or journey. —

[Rep. by the Workmen’s Breach of Contract (Repealing) Act, 1925 (3 of 1925), sec. 2 and Sch.]

491. Breach of contract to attend on and supply wants of helpless person: - Whoever, being bound by a lawful contract to attend on or to supply the wants of any person who, by reason or youth, or of unsoundness of mind, or of a disease or bodily weakness, is helpless or incapable of providing for his own safety or of supplying his own wants, voluntarily omits so to do, shall be punished with imprisonment of either
description for a term which may extend to three months, or with fine which may
extend to two hundred rupees, or with both.

492. Breach of contract to serve at distant place to which servant is conveyed at master’s expense—.

[Rep. by the workmen’s Breach of Contract (Repealing) Act, 1925 (3 of 1925), sec. 2 and Sch.]

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