Assam Industrial Infrastructure Development Corporation Act, 1990
No: 1 Dated: Feb, 14 1991
ASSAM INDUSTRIAL INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ACT 1990
ASSAM ACT NO. I OF 1991
An Act to provide for the establishment of a Corporation for the development of industrial infrastructure in the State of Assam.
Preamble. - Whereas it is expedient to make special provision for securing the orderly establishment of industries in industrial areas, industrial estates, growth centers and in establishment of commercial estate for the growth of industries in the State of Assam and to assist generally in the organization thereof, and for that purposes to establish an Industrial Infrastructure Development Corporation, and for purposes connected with the matters aforesaid.
It is hereby enacted in the Fortieth Year of the Republic of India as follows:-
CHAPTER-I
Preliminary
1. Short title extent and commencement. - (1) This Act may be called the Assam Industrial Infrastructure Development Corporation Act, 1990.
(2) It extends to the whole of the State of Assam.
(3) It shall come into force at once.
2. Definition:- In this Act, unless the context otherwise required-
(a) "Amenity" includes road, supply of water or electricity, street lighting, drainage, sewerages conservancy and such other convenience as the State Government may, by notification in the official Gazette, specify to be an amenity for the purposes of this Act.
(b) "Building" means any structure or erection, or part of a structure or erection, which is intended to be used for residential, industrial commercial or other purposes, whether in actual use or not;
(c) "Collector" means the Collector of a district, and includes any officer specially appointed by the State Government to perform the functions of a Collector under this Act;
(d) "Corporation" means the Assam Industrial Infrastructure Development Corporation established under Section 3;
(e) "Commercial estate" means any site selected by the State Government where the Corporation constructs buildings and makes them available for the purpose or carrying out industrial and commercial activities.
(f) "Court" means a principal Civil Court of original jurisdiction and includes court of any Additional District Judge or Assistant District Judge whom the State Government may appoint, by name or by virtue of his offices, to perform, concurrently with any such principal civil court all or any of the functions of the court under this Act within any specified local limit;
(g) "Development" with its grammatical variations means the carrying out of building, engineering, quarrying or other operations in, on over or under land, or the making of any material changes in any building or land, and includes reclamation and re-development but does not include mining operations and "to develop" small be construed accordingly;
(h) "Engineering operations" include the formation or laying out of means of access to a road or the laying out of means of water supply, gas supply and electricity supply;
(i) "Growth center" means any site declared to be a growth center by the State Government by notification published in the official Gazette, which is to be developed for industries;
(j) "Industry" means any business, trade, undertaking, manufacture or calling of employers and includes any calling, services, employment, handicraft or industrial occupation or avocation of workmen and the word "industrial" small be construed accordingly;
(k) "Industrial area" means any area declared to be an industrial area by the State Government by notification published in the official Gazette, which is to be developed and where industries and related services are to be accommodated;
(l) "Industrial estate" means any site selected by the State Government, where the Corporation builds factories and other buildings and makes them available for any industries or class of industries;
(m) The expression "land" and expression "person interested" shall have the meaning respectively assigned to them in Section 3 of the Land Acquisition Act, 1894.
(n) "Means of access" includes a road or any means of access, whether private or public for vehicles or for pedestrians or for rail of for water power or communication system;
(o) "Notification" means notification published in the official Gazette.
(p) "Premises" meant any land or building or part of a building and includes:-
(i) The garden, ground and out-houses, if any, appertaining to such building or part of a building; and
(ii) Any fittings affixed to such building or part of a building for the more beneficial enjoyment thereof;
(q) The "Lease Deed" means the Agreement executed between the Corporation and lessees of plots of land, building and amenities of the Corporation containing the terms and conditions of the lease:
(r) "Prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this Act;
(s) "State Government" means the State Government of Assam.
CHAPTER-II
Establishment and Constitution of the Corporation
3. Establishment and in corporation:- (1) There shall be established by the State Government by notification a corporation by the name of the Assam Industrial Infrastructure Development Corporation for the purpose of securing and assisting in the rapid and orderly establishment and organization of Industries in Industrial areas, industrial estate, growth centers, and in establishment of commercial estates for growth of industries in the State of Assam.
(2) The Corporation shall be a body corporate with perpetual succession and a common seal, and may sue and be sued in its corporate name, and shall be competent to acquire hold and dispose of property both movable and immovable and to contract and do all things necessary for the purpose of this Act.
(3) The Corporation shall establish its Head Office at such place in the State as the State Government may specify