West Bengal Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and Other Backward Classes Development and Finance Corporation Act. 2017
No: 30 Dated: Sep, 13 2017
THE WEST BENGAL SCHEDULED CASTES, SCHEDULED TRIBES AND OTHER BACKWARD CLASSES DEVELOPMENT AND FINANCE CORPORATION ACT, 2017
West Bengal Act XXX of 2017
An Act to establish a Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and Other Backward Classes Development and Finance Corporation in West Bengal.
WHEREAS it is expedient to provide for the establishment of a Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and Other Backward Classes Development and Finance Corporation in West Bengal;
It is hereby enacted in the Sixty-eighth Year of the Republic of India, by the Legislature of West Bengal, as follows:—
1. Short title, extent and commencement:- (1) This Act may be called the West Bengal Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and Other Backward Classes Development and Finance Corporation Act. 2017.
(2) It extends to the whole of West Bengal.
(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 there is anything repugnant in the subject or context,—
(a) "the Corporation" means the Scheduled Castes, the Scheduled Tribes and the Other Backward Classes Development and Finance Corporation established under sub-section (1) of section 3;
(b) "marketing" includes all activities in connection with the transport, grading, pooling, marketing and sale of industrial produce, whether in the primary form or in semi-processed or processed form;
(c) "notification" means a notification published in the Official Gazette;
(d) "Other Backward Classes" means such classes as the State Government may, by notification, specify from time to time;
(e) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this Act;
(f) "Scheduled Castes" shall have the same meaning as in clause (24) of article 366 of the Constitution of India (hereinafter referred to as the Constitution);
(g) "Scheduled Tribes" shall have the same meaning as in clause (25) of article 366 of the Constitution of India (hereinafter referred to as the Constitution);
(h) "traditional occupation" means caste or community based occupations followed by the Scheduled Castes, the Scheduled Tribes and the Other Backward Classes.
3. Incorporation:- (1) With effect from such date as the State Government may, by notification, appoint, there shall be established for the purposes of this Act a Corporation, namely, the West Bengal Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and Other Backward Classes Development and Finance Corporation.
(2) The Corporation shall be a body corporate with perpetual succession and a common seal, and may sue or be sued in its corporate name, and shall be competent by the name notified under sub-section (1), having perpetual succession and a common seal, and shall by the said name sue and be sued.