Arunachal Pradesh State Commission For Women Act, 2002

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    "title": "Arunachal Pradesh State Commission For Women Act, 2002",
    "short_title": "Arunachal Pradesh State Commission For Women Act, 2002",
    "act_number": "(Act No. 4 of 2002)",
    "act_year": 2002,
    "act_type": "STATE",
    "location": "Arunachal Pradesh",
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    "description": "Arunachal Pradesh State Commission For Women Act, 2002",
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            "number": "1",
            "title": "1. Short title, extent and commencement.",
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            "title": "2. Definitions.",
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            "content": "(1) \"Commission\" means the Arunachal Pradesh State Commission constituted under section 5\n(2) \"Government\" means the Government of Arunachal Pradesh;\n[(3) \"Member\" means a member of the Commission and include the Chairperson, Vice Chairperson and Member Secretary;]\n(4) \"Member Secretary\" means the Member Secretary appointed under section 5 and 12\n(5) \"Person\" includes a firm, company, corporation or any public undertaking association of persons, or the Government and its agencies including agencies receiving aid from the Government;\n(6) \"Prescribed\" means prescribed by rules made under this Act;\n(7) \"Public servant\" means any employee of the Government or a local body or any corporation owned or controlled by the Government or of any Government agency or any public undertaking;\n(8) \"Unfair practice\" means any distinction, exclusion or restriction or exploitation made on the basis of sex for the purpose of or which has the effect or impairing or nullifying the recognition, enjoyment or exercise by women of fundamental constitutional rights, or of human rights, or of fundamental freedom in the political economic, social, cultural, civil or any other field or the infringement of any right or benefit conferred or women by or under the provisions of any law for the time being in force or the mental or physical torture, coercion or sexual excesses on women;\n(9) \"Woman\" includes adolescent girl or female child.",
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            "number": "3",
            "title": "3. Act not to apply in certain cases.",
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            "content": "(1) the Central Government; or\n(2) any public sector undertaking of the Central Government; or any other institution owned or controlled or financed directly by the Central Government.",
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        {
            "number": "4",
            "title": "4. Application of other laws not barred.",
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        {
            "number": "5",
            "title": "5. Constitution of the Commission.",
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        {
            "number": "6",
            "title": "6. Term of office and condition of service of members and Member Secretary.",
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            "content": "(a) by writing under her hand and addressed to the Government resigns her office at any time;\n(b) be removed from office in accordance with the provisions of section II.",
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        {
            "number": "7",
            "title": "7. Quorum.",
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        {
            "number": "8",
            "title": "8. Disposal of Business.",
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        {
            "number": "9",
            "title": "9. Constitution of an Ad-hoc committee.",
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            "content": "(a) not more than two members of the Commission;\n(b) not more than two experts of the particular subject before the Commission.",
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        {
            "number": "10",
            "title": "10. Acts of the Commission not to be invalidated by infirmity or any vacancy etc.",
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        {
            "number": "11",
            "title": "11. Removal of Members from Office.",
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            "content": "(1) becomes an un-discharged insolvent;\n(2) is convicted and sentenced to imprisonment for an offence which involves moral turpitude;\n(3) becomes of unsound mind;\n(4) refuses to act or becomes physically or mentally incapable of acting;\n(5) has acquired such financial or other interest as is likely to affect pre-judicially the function as the Chairperson or member;\n(6) is without obtaining leave of absence from the Commission absent from three consecutive meetings of the Commission : or\n(7) in the opinion of the Government has so abused the position of Chairperson or member as to render that person's continuance in the office detrimental to the public interest ;",
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        {
            "number": "12",
            "title": "12. Appointment of Member Secretary and other Staff of the Commission.",
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        {
            "number": "13",
            "title": "13. Provision for Salaries, Allowances, etc.",
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            "number": "14",
            "title": "14. Powers of the Commission.",
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            "content": "(a) summoning and enforcing the attendance of any witness and examining him/her on oath;\n(b) requiring the discovery and production of any document;\n(c) receiving evidence on affidavits;\n(d) requisitioning any public records or copy thereof from any public office;\n(e) issuing commissions, summons for the examination of witnesses.",
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            "number": "15",
            "title": "15. Functions of the Commission.",
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            "content": "(a) inquire into any unfair trade practice, take decision thereon, and to recommend to the Government the actions to be taken in that matter;\n(b) cause investigations to be made by the Member Secretary on issue of importance concerning women or issues concerning unfair practice and to report thereon to the Government in the corrective measures to be taken ; (women related issues)\n(c) submit Annual Reports to the Government -\n(i) on the lacunae, inadequacies, or shortcomings in the laws in force which affect the constitutional right to equality and fair treatment of women and also on the remedial legislative measures to be taken to meet the situations;\n(ii) of the monitoring of the working of laws, in force, concerning women with a view to identifying the areas where the enforcement of law is not adequately effective or has not been streamlined and recommending executive or legislative measures to be taken in amelioration thereof;\n(iii) of the monitoring the recruitment made to State Public Service and State Public Undertakings and, promotions within the said services and, scrutinizing the rules and regulations governing such recruitment and promotions, with a view to reporting to the Government for action, if any, required to guarantee equal opportunity to women in the matter of such recruitment and promotions;\n(d)(i) inspect or cause to be inspected, by the Member Secretary or any officer of the Commission duly authorised by the Commission, in that behalf, prisons, police stations, lock-ups, sub-jails, rescue homes or other places of custody where women are kept as prisoners or otherwise, or shelters for women or other similar places run by the Government, or any of its agencies including agencies receiving aid from the Government for the purpose of offering rescue or shelter to women, or hostels intended for women or girls run by any person and all such other places wherein unfair practices against women is complained of and, cause further inquiries to be made about the treatment that women and girls are subjected to at such places and, to report to the Government for taking remedial action ;\n(ii) in case where the Commission is of the view that any public servant has been grossly negligent or grossly indifferent in regard to the discharge of his/her duties in relation to the protection of the interest of women, it may recommend to the concerned disciplinary authority or initiate disciplinary action :\n(e) recommend to Government, the welfare measures to be adopted and implemented by the Government with a view to ameliorating the conditions of women;\n(f) formulate a comprehensive and affirmative scheme for securing equal opportunities to women and devise a programme for implementing such scheme which shall be forwarded to the Government for approval and, on obtaining approval thereof with or without modification, implement the same or cause the same to be implemented;\n(g) Empower the Member Secretary to recommend to the appropriate authority to take prosecution proceedings in respect of offences committed against women under any statute providing for penalty for violation of the provisions of such statute;\n(h) maintain a comprehensive Data Bank relating to the social economic and political conditions of the women including comparative study, updating the same from time to time, making available such data for use in actions for vindication of the rights of women ;\n(i) recommend to Government to initiate legislation for removal of discrimination in the case of inheritance, guardianship, adoption and divorce or for matters relating to the safeguarding of the dignity of women and the honour of motherhood :\n(j) call for special studies or investigations into specific problems or situations arising out of discrimination and atrocities against women and identify the constraints so as to recommend strategies for their removal;\n(k) participate and advise on the planning process of social, political and economic development of women ;\n(l) fund litigation involving issues affecting a large body of women ;\n(m) make periodical reports lo the Government on any matter pertaining to women, and in particular, various difficulties under which women toil;\n(n) undertake promotional and educational research so as to suggest ways of ensuring due representation of women in all spheres, including monitoring of the academic curricula in the State so as to check gender-bias, sex stereotyping, envisaged in the core curricular area of National Policy of Education, 1986 (Revised 1992).\n(o) identify factors responsible for impending the advancement of women. such as lack of access to housing and basic services, particularly for single women and female-headed households, and inadequate support services and technologies for reducing drudgery and, occupational health hazards and, for increasing their productivity;\n(p) hold Family Court to dispose off cases related to unfair practices against women;\n(r) any other matter which may be referred to it by the Government",
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        {
            "number": "16",
            "title": "16. Inquiry into unfair practices.",
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            "content": "(a) in receiving a written complaint from any women alleging that she has been subjected to any unfair practice or on a similar complaint from any registered reputed women's organization or individuals;\n(b) on its own knowledge or information;\n(c) request from the Government;",
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        {
            "number": "17",
            "title": "17. Initiation of Prosecution and implementation.",
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        {
            "number": "18",
            "title": "18. Annual report to be laid before the Legislative Assembly.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "19",
            "title": "19. Sitting of the Commission.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "20",
            "title": "20. Authentication of orders etc. of the Commission.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "21",
            "title": "21. Donations, contributions etc. to the Commission.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "22",
            "title": "22. Government consulting the Commission.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "23",
            "title": "23. Members, officers and employees of the Commission to be Public Servants.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "24",
            "title": "24. Protection acts done Good Faith.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "25",
            "title": "25. Courts not to Grant injunctions.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "26",
            "title": "26. Removal of Difficulties.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "27",
            "title": "27. Power to make rules.",
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            "content": "(a) the salary, allowances, and other conditions of service of the members, the Member Secretary and the other staff of the Commission ;\n(b) procedure for removal of the members of the Commission under section 11.\n(c) procedure for inquiries under section 16 of the Act;\n(d) investigations by the committee(s)/Member Secretary;\n(e) procedure for inspection of prisons, police stations, lock-ups, sub-jails, rescue homes or, other places of custody where women are kept as prisoners or otherwise or, shelters for women or, other places run by the Government or any of its agencies including agencies receiving aid from the Government for the purpose of offering rescue or shelter to women or, hostels intended for women or girls run by any person and such other places wherein unfair practice to women or girls is complained of or, for holding of inquiries about the treatment that women or girls are subjected to at such place;\n(f) maintaining a Data Bank;\n(g) the formulation of comprehensive and affirmative scheme for securing equal opportunity to women and for the improvement and uplift of women and, programme for its implementation.\n(h) procedure for recommending prosecution in respect of offences committed against women under any stature or any other laws and prevailing practices;\n(i) any other matter which has to be, or may be prescribed.",
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        {
            "number": "28",
            "title": "28. Finance, Accounts and Audit.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "29",
            "title": "29. Maintenance of Accounts and other records.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "30",
            "title": "30. Report of Activities etc.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "31",
            "title": "31. Commission and the State.",
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    "metadata": {
        "Act ID": "Last Updated 18th February, 2020 [aru049]",
        "Act Number": "(Act No. 4 of 2002)",
        "Enactment Date": "",
        "Act Year": "2002",
        "Short Title": "Arunachal Pradesh State Commission For Women Act, 2002",
        "Type": "STATE",
        "Location": "Arunachal Pradesh"
    },
    "updated_at": "2026-09-29 21:55:19"
}