Lalung (Tiwa) Autonomous Council Act, 1995

No: 25 Dated: Oct, 30 1995

THE LALUNG (TIWA) AUTONOMOUS COUNCIL ACT, 1995

ASSAM ACf NO. XXV OF 1995

    An Act to provide for the establishment of an administrative authority in the name and style of "THE LALUNG (TIWA) AUTONOMOUS COUNCIL" and for certain matters incidental thereto and connected therewith.

    Preamble:- Whereas it is expedient to provide for the establishment of a Lalung (Tiwa) Autonomous Council within the State of Assam with maximum autonomy within the framework of the Constitution, comprising of the satelite areas of Village Councils formed out of blocks of contiguous revenue villages, each having more than 50% population of Lalung (Tiwa) community, without having any compact area for social, economic, educational, ethnic and cultural advancement of the Lalnng community residing therein.

    It is hereby enacted in the Forty-sixth Year of the Republic of India, as follows:-

CHAPTER - I

PRELIMINARY

1. Short litlc, extent anti Commencent:- (1) This Act may be called the Lalung (Tiwa) Autonomous Council Act, 1995.

(2) It extends to the whole of the State of Assam.

(3) It shall be deemed to have come into force on the 13th day of July, 1995.

2. Definition:- In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires-

(a) 'bye-law' means tile bye-law framed by the General Council;

(b) 'Constituency' means a constituency referred to in section 48;

(c) 'Constitution' means, the Constitution of India;

(d) 'Council Area' means the Lalung Autonomous Council Area ;

(e) 'Elector' in relation to a constituency means a person whose name is entered in the electoral roll of that constituency ;

(f) 'Executive Council' means the executive body or the Ceneral Council of the Lalung Autonomous Council constituted under Section 3(3) and 24 ;

(g) 'Gaon Panchayat', 'Anchalik Panchayat' and 'Zila Parishad' have the same meaning as defi ned in the Assam Pnnchayat Act, 1994;

(h) 'General Council' means the General Council of the Lalung Auto nomous Council referred to in section 3 ;

(i) 'General Council Fund' and 'Village Council Fund' means the fu nds constituted under section 61 ;

(j) 'Government' means the Sta te Government of Assam;

(k) 'Governor' rneans the Clovcrnor of Assam;

(l) 'member' means a member of the Village Council of the General Council of thc Executive Council, as the case may be ;

(m) 'Municipality' has the same meaaning as in the Assam Municipal Act, 1956;

(n) 'notification' means the notification issued under this Act ;

(o) 'Official Gazette' means the Official Gazelle of Assam;

(p) 'prescribed' means prescribed by rules made under this Act;

(q) 'satellite area' means the area of different revenue villages:

(r) 'Village Council' means the Village Council reffered to in section 4 and;

(s) 'Vlllagc Council Arca' means the area declared to be the area of a Village Council by the Government by notification in the Official Gazette.