Introduction

Indlaw.com - India's Premium Online Research Service offers you the most intuitive and advanced Delegated Legislation and Rules research solutions.

The following guide has been provided to assist you step by step to make the best of this highly advanced search facility. Through this, you can learn to retrieve rules or delegated legislations in different ways suiting your research needs. And find out easy ways to research comprehensively on a particular law of importance to you. This guide further explains how to choose between the various search tools within this database so that you find the most relevant information quickly.

Three Intuitive Search Formats

To enable you to have more control over your search for relevant sections or rules, or to alternatively search for words or concepts, Indlaw offers you 3 possible search formats to search within the Rule database, viz.

1. Rule Search (by Title) - (Use this search in case you know the short title or full title of the Rule.)

2. Advanced Search - (Use this search to narrow down your search for Rule on the basis of any of the following parameters, viz. Title, Parent Act, Section No., keywords/ concepts, law, industry or state.)

3. Free Text Search - (Use this search to find out the statistically most relevant Rule using keywords or concepts.)

Search Tool 1 - Rule Search

Search by Short Title / Title
To search for a Rule enter the long title / short title of the Rule or the keyword in the Rule to narrow your search for the specific Rule.

If you are searching for the appropriate Rule under the Customs Act, all you need to do is enter the word "Customs" in the relevant box of the Rule Title field. You will get all the rules concerning customs.

Search Tool 2 - Free Text Search


Free Text or Natural Language Search

The Indlaw Free Text Rule Search allows you to search for Rules using phrases, concepts or principles to retrieve the most statistically relevant Rule from our Rule database. Simply type the principle / concept / word and click GO. Indlaw will display the Rule that most closely matches the concepts in your description.

Eg. If you wish to retrieve Rules relating to the Company Law Board, all you have to do is enter the word "Company Law Board" in the Search field "Free Text Search - Rule" to retrieve the most relevant Rule.

Depending on what you wish to search, you could further refine your search for the most relevant Rule, by clicking on the Rule that matches your nearest requirement.

Refining your Free Text Search
Free Text Search would often throw up multiple search results especially if search is being made on the basis of certain common words or phrases. To help you find the most relevant Rule containing the exact phrase, concept or keyword you have entered, Indlaw advises the use the Boolean operators.

The following Note gives you a brief idea as to how Boolean Operators,connectors and proximity operators operate. To learn more about them, click here -

If you want more than one phrase or word to appear in the retrieved Rules, put an AND between them. For example, to find Rules containing the phrase "copyright act" as well as the word "patent act", type: Copyright Act AND Patent Act.

If, on the other hand, you want to find one term and / or another one, put an OR between them.

Eg. To find rules stuff which contain the words "copyright act" or "patent act" search for Copyright act OR patent act.

Search Examples

1. copy* related words - copy, copyright, copying.

2. "crime" Search only for crime.

3. "crime AND conviction" the words crime and conviction, occurring together on the same page.

4. Crime conviction the words crime and conviction, occurring on the same page.

5. Commerce* All words beginning with commerce .

6. Commerce, transaction any of the words Commerce,transaction. The more instances of these words in a page, the higher it appears in the result list.

For More detailed explanation of how to refine your search using Boolean search tips , Proximity connectors and Wildcards go to the Boolean Tips Section.

Search Tool 3 - Advanced Search


Search by Title
For search for a Rule enter the long title / short title of the Rule or the keyword in the Rule to narrow your search for the specific Rule you are looking for.

If you are searching for the appropriate Rule under the Customs Act, all you need to do is enter the word "Customs" in the relevant box of the Rule Title field. You get all the rules concerning customs.

Just click on the most relevant Rule and continue the search.

Search by Parent Act
If you want to search for Rules on the basis of the Primary Legislation under which the rule has been notified, you need to type the name of the legislation in the "Parent Act" field in the Rules Search Form.

Search by Section No.
If you want to further refine your search for Rules on the basis of a particular provision of the legislation under which the rule has been enacted, then you need to type the name of the legislation in the "Parent Act" search field of the Rules Search and thereafter type the Section / Provision number in the "Section" Field of the Rules Search.

Search by Laws
This field is used to restrict the search to a restricted number of Indlaw's proprietary databases or a specific database. To see a complete list of Indlaw databases click here.

Search by Industry
This field is used to restrict the search to specific industries, sectors or products. And it enables you to search for industries', sectors' or product specific legal information from specific database. Our databases cover over 6000 industries, sectors and products.

Eg. enter "computer" in the "Industry" field to get all the Rules that may be relevant to the computer industry.

Search by State
This field is used to restrict the search to a restricted number of Indlaw's proprietary databases or a specific database. To see a complete list of Indlaw databases click here.

Search by Industry
This field is used to restrict the search to specific industries, sectors or products. And it enables you to search for industries', sectors' or product specific legal information from specific database. Our databases cover over 6000 industries, sectors and products.

Eg. Enter "computer" in the "Industry" field to get all the legislations which may be relevant to the computer industry.

Search by State
This field is used to restrict the search to state specific databases. To see a complete list of Indlaw State databases click here.

Reviewing Results


Search Engine Results by Relevance and date

Search queries will return results, ranked by relevance and date. When reviewing your results, consider the following elements:

1) The user would need to restrict his search results to specific database to further retrieve the searches he has looked up.

2) The search engine calculates percentage relevance. Higher percentages indicate a higher occurrence or a closer relevance to your search. Results are displayed in descending order of relevance or occurrence of the word searched.

3) The Search results are also sorted on the basis of date.

4) In the Search Results Page, there would be a linked Rule Title that on clicking would lead to the relevant Rule. The Title of the Rule would provide the context in which to evaluate the result Title and Summary.

If you determine that all results of interest to you ought to be from a particular database.

Eg. (Intellectual Property Database) then you can limit your search to that database and further refine your search in the area of interest using "Search within Search" function.

Printing or emailing results


Click the "Print this page" button to print a hard copy of the Rule.

Click the "Mail this page" button to email the Rule link.