Goa Human Resource Development Act, 2012

No: 12 Dated: Aug, 29 2012

Goa Human Resource Development Act, 2012

An act to make special provision for developing human resources in the State of Goa by imparting required training to the unemployed persons and to the workforce in the State of Goa, so as to make available the trained and skilled personnel to the Government Departments, Institutions, Government Undertakings, autonomous bodies, social institutions, Business establishments, individuals, etc., and also with a view to assist the unemployed youth to get gainful employment and for that purpose to establish a Human Resource Development Corporation, and to provide for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.

Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of Goa in the Sixty-third Year of the Republic of India, as follows:—

CHAPTER I

Preliminary

1. Short title, extent and commencement.— (1) This Act may be called the Goa Human Resource Development Act, 2012.

(2) It shall extend to the whole of the State of Goa. (3) It shall come into force on such date, as the Government may, by Notification, in the Official Gazette, appoint.

2. Definitions.— In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,—

(a) “Corporation” means the Goa Human Resource Development Corporation established under section 3;

(b) “Government Bodies” includes,—

(i) all Government Departments;

(ii) all autonomous bodies and institutions which are established or under control of the Government; and 

(iii) all corporations which are either wholly owned by the Government or partly in which not less than fifty-one percent of the paid up share capital is held by the Government; 

(c) “Government” means the Government of Goa.

(d) “Official Gazette” means the Official Gazette of the Government;

(e) “premises” means any land or building or part of a building and includes,—

  (i) the garden, grounds 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;

(f) “prescribed” means prescribed by rules made under this Act;

(g) “private firms” includes business houses, establishments, companies, partnership firms, etc., which are run by private individuals or groups;

(h) “services” means any services, such as housekeeping, security, maintenance and operation, gardening, etc.