Haryana Aadhaar (Targeted Delivery of Financial and Other Subsidies. Benefits and Services) Act. 2017
No: 6 Dated: Mar, 29 2017
THE HARYANA AADHAAR (TARGETED DELIVERY OF FINANCIAL OTHER SUBSIDIES. BENEFITS AND SERVICES) ACT, 2017
An Act to provide for as a good governance, efficient, transparent and targeted delivery of subsidies, benefits and services. the expenditure for which is incurred entirely front the Consolidated Fund of State, to individuals residing in the State of Haryana using Aadhaar number as sole proof of establishing identity if an individual and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Haryana in the Sixty-eighth Year of the Republic of India as follows :
1. (1) This Act may be called the Haryana Aadhaar (Targeted Delivery of Financial and Other Subsidies. Benefits and Services) Act. 2017.
(2) It extends to the whole of the State of Haryana
(3) It shall come into force on such date as the Government may. by notification in the Official Gazette. appoint: and different dates may he appointed for different provisions of this Act and any reference in any such provision to the commencement of this Act shall be construed as a reference to the commencement of that provision.
2. (1) In this Act unless the context otherwise requires.-
(a) "agency of Government' means any authority or body established or constituted by any Central or State law in the State of Haryana including the local bodies and any other belli), owned and controlled by the Government and includes the bodies whose composition and administration are predominantly controlled by the Government:
(b) "benefit" means any advantage, Gift, reward, relief or payment in cash or kind provided to an individual or group of individuals and includes such other benefits, as may be notified by the Government from time to time:
(C) "Central Act" means the Aadhaar (Targeted Delivery of Financial and Other Subsidies. Benefits and Services: Act. 2016 (Central Act 18 of 2016):
(d) "Consolidated Fund" means the Consolidated Fund of the State of Haryana:
(e) "Government" means the Government of the State of Haryana:
(f) "prescribed" means prescribed by the rules made under this Act:
(g) "service" means any provision, Facility, utility or any other assistance provided in any form to an individual or group of individuals and includes such other services as may be notified by Government from time to time:
(h) "subsidy" means any form of aid, Support, grant, subvention or appropriation, in cash or kind to an individual or group of individuals and includes such other subsidies, as may be notified by the Government, from time to time.
(2) Words and expressions used in this Act but not defined and defined in the Central Act shall have the same meanings as respectively assigned to them under the Central Act.