Meghalaya Residents Safety and Security Act, 2016
No: 6 Dated: Sep, 27 2016
THE MEGHALAYA RESIDENTS SAFETY AND SECURITY ACT, 2016
ACT NO. 6 OF 2016
An Act to ensure enhanced security vetting of the tenants and to ensure the safety and security of the citizens of the State by preventing anti-social elements from gaining shelter in the State which might be detrimental to peace and tranquillity, to maintain public order and peace, to verify and regulate the tenants residing in rented houses in the State, to establish District Task Force and facilitation centres, to facilitate effective enforcement of various laws for safety and security of the citizens and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Meghalaya in the Sixty-seventh Year of the Republic of India as follows:-
1. Short title, extent and commencement:- (1) This Act may be called the Meghalaya Residents Safety and Security Act, 2016.
(2) It extends to the whole of Meghalaya.
(3) It shall come into force on such date as the State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint.
2. Definitions:- In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,-
(a) “Act” means the Meghalaya Residents Safety and Security Act, 2016;
(b) “District Task Force” means the task force constituted under section 5 of this Act;
(c ) “existing tenant” means all tenants residing in rented houses prior to or at the commencement of this Act and also those covered under the existing Tenancy law in force and such land on rent or lease for the purpose of residing or any commercial activity by person other than owner of the land;
(d) “Facilitation Centre” means a centre established under Section 17 and includes any other Centres notified by the Government under this Act;
(e) “Government” means the State Government of Meghalaya;