Punjab Khadi and Village Industries Board Act, 1955

No: 40 Dated: Oct, 25 1956

The Punjab Khadi and Village Industries Board Act, 1955

Punjab Act No. 40 of 1956

    An Act to provide for the establishemnt of a State Statutory Board for encouraging and intensifying the Khadi and Village Industries in Punjab.

    Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Punjab in the Sixth Year of the Republic of India as follows -

CHAPTER I

Preliminary

1. Short title, extent and commencement. - (1) This Act may be called the Punjab Khadi and Village Industries Board Act, 1955.

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

(3) It shall come into force at once.

2. Definitions. - In this Act, unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or context,

(i) "Board" means the Punjab Khadi and Village Industries Board constituted under section 3,

(ii) "Khadi" means any handloom cloth woven from yarn handspun in India.

(iii) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this Act.

(iv) "village industries" means such industries which generally form the normal occupation, whether whole time or part time, of any class of the rural population of the State of Punjab and in particular such industries as may be recommended from time to time by the [Commission] appointed by the Government of India and such other industries as the State Government may, by notification in the official gazette, specify in this behalf in consultation with the Board.

(v) "Government " means the Government of the State of Punjab.

[(vi) "Commission" means the Khadi and Village Industries Commission established under section 4 of the Khadi and Village Industries Commission Act, 1956, (No. 61 of 1956).]

(vii)"member" or "member of the Board" includes "Chairman" or "Chairman of the Board" respectively.

CHAPTER II

Establishment and Constitution of The Board

3. Incorporation of Board. - (1) For carrying out the purpose of this Act, the Government shall, as soon as possible, after the commencement of this Act, by a notification in the official gazette, establish a Board to be called "The Punjab Khadi and Village Industries Board."

(2) The Board shall be a body corporate having perpetual succession and a common seal and may sue and be sued in its corporate name and shall be competent to acquire and hold and dispose of property both moveable and immoveable and to contract and do all things necessary for the purposes of this Act.