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Regd. No. WB/SC-320

notifications · 1994 · West Bengal

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Parent: The West Bengal Scheduled Castes And Scheduled Tribes ( Identification ) Act, 1994 (1c5ea2ed1d5c06ab8d28b9666d8daf64f417b853)

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.•/ Regd. No. WB/SC-320 Rothata VAISAKHA 20] mmirarateA Extraordinary Published by Authority THURSDAY, MAY 10, 2007 PART III— Acts of the West Bengal Legislature GOVERNMENT OF WEST BENGAL LAW DEPARTMENT Legislative NOTIFICATION No. 651-L.--10th May. 2007.—The following Act of the West Bengal Legislature. having been assented to by the Governor, is hereby published for general information :— West Bengal Act IV of 2007 THE WEST BENGAL SCHEDULED CASTES AND SCHEDULED TRIBES (IDENTIFICATION) (AMENDMENT) ACT, 2007. [Passed el' the West Bengal Legislature.] [Assent of the Governor was first published in the Kolkata Gazette, Extraordinary, of the 10th May, 2007.] An Act to amend the West Bengal Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes . . (Identification) Act, 1994. WHEREAS it is expedient to amend the West Bengal Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Identification) Act, 1994, for the purposes and in the manner hereinafter appearing: It is hereby enacted in the Fifty-eighth Year of the Republic of India, by the Legislature of West Bengal, as follows:- (1) This Act may be called the West Bengal Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Identification) (Amendment) Act, 2007. It shall come into force on such date as the State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint. In section 2 of the West Bengal Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Identification) Act, 1994 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act), clause (a) shall be renumbered as clause (aa) of that section and, before clause (aa) so renumbered, the following clause shall be inserted :— `(a) "Committee" means the State Scrutiny Committee constituted under section 8A for verification of social status of a person in whose favour a certificate is issued under section 5;'. Short title and commencement.

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8A · (1) The State Government may. by order, constitute a Committee to be called the State Scrutiny Committee for verification of social status of a person in whose favour a certificate is issued under section 5.
8B · (1) The State Government may, by order, constitute a Vigilance Cell for each district of the West Bengal.
4 · Section 9 of the principal Act shall be renumbered as sub-section (1) of that section and, after sub-section (1) so renumbered, the following sub-section shall be inserted:—
6 · After section 11 of the principal Act. the following section shall be inserted:—
11A · (1) If the appointing authority or the head of an establishment. from which a person in whose favour a certificate is issued under section 5 is going to derive benefit as a holder of the certificate. has any doubt that such certificate has been obtained by furnishing false information or by misrepresenting any fact or by suppressing any material information or by producing any documnent which is an act of forgery. it shall send an application alongwith the certificate to the Committee for verification.