Arunachal Pradesh Water Resources Regulatory Authority Act, 2006

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    "title": "Arunachal Pradesh Water Resources Regulatory Authority Act, 2006",
    "short_title": "Arunachal Pradesh Water Resources Regulatory Authority Act, 2006",
    "act_number": "(Act No. 15 of 2006)",
    "act_year": 2006,
    "act_type": "STATE",
    "location": "Arunachal Pradesh",
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    "description": "Arunachal Pradesh Water Resources Regulatory Authority Act, 2006",
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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": "(a) \"Aggregate Bulk Water Entitlement\" means an aggregate of Entitlements issued to a group or association of Water User Entities for the purpose of joint management of the Bulk Water Entitlements ;\n(b) \"Allocation\" means the portion or percentage of an Entitlement declared annually or seasonally by the Prescribed Authority to be made available to the holder of an Entitlement based upon the availability of water for the period within the sub-basin, river basin , project or storage facility for that season or year; and during water crisis or scarcity on the principle of proportionate entitlement.\n(c) \"Authority\" means the Arunachal Pradesh Water Resources Regulatory Authority established under section 3;\n(d) \"Board\" means the State Water Board constituted under section 15;\n(e) \"Bulk Water Entitlement\" shall mean the volumetric entitlement to a share of the surface water resources produced by a project, river system or storage facility, for a specific category or Categories of Use, and deliverable within a specific period of time as specifically provided in the order granting the Entitlement;\n(f) \"Category of Use\" shall mean use of water for different purposes, such as for domestic, agricultural irrigation , agro-based industries, industrial or commercial, environmental, etc., and includes such other purposes as may be prescribed;\n(g) \"Chairperson\" means the Chairperson of the Authority;\n(h) \"Council\" means the State Water Council constituted under section 16 ;\n(i) \"Entitlement\" means any authorisation by any river basin agency to use the water for the purposes of this Act;\n(j) \"Government\" or \"State Government\" means the Government of Arunachal Pradesh.\n(k) \"Governor\" means the Governor of Arunachal Pradesh.\n(l) \"Individual Water Entitlement\" means any authorization by the Authority to use the water other than Bulk Water Entitlement or an Aggregate Bulk Water Entitlement;\n(m) \"Integrated State Water Plan \" means a water plan approved by the State Water Council;\n(n) \"Irrigation Project\" means a project constructed to provide irrigation facilities to the land situated in the command area in accordance with the project reports and orders in this regard, as revised from time to time ;\n(o) \"Member\" means a Member of the Authority and includes the Chairperson;\n(p) \"Prescribed\" means prescribed by the rules made under this Act;\n(q) \"Prescribed Authority\" means any authority at various levels within the water resource management system that has been duly authorised by the Authority to determine and declare, on an annual or seasonal basis, the quota or amount of water available within a system for use as an allocated percentage of the entitlements duly issued by the Authority;\n(r) \"Project Level Entity\" means a group of all Water User Entities, from a common supply source within a water resources project;\n(s) \"Quota\" means a volumetric quantity of water made available to an Entitlement holder, which is derived by multiplying an Entitlement by the annual or seasonal allocation percentage;\n(t) \"Regulations\" means regulations made by the Authority under this Act:\n(u) \"River basin Agency\" means any River basin Development Corporations operating in the River basin or otherwise includes the Government Authorities as specified by the Government, from time to time, -\n(v) \"Selection Committee\" means a Selection Committee constituted under section 5;\n(w) \"State\" means the State of Arunachal Pradesh;\n(x) \"State Water Policy\" means the Water Policy of the State;\n(y) \"Sub-Basin\" means a hydrologic unit or hydrologic sub-unit of a river basin within the State;\n(z) \"Sub-surface entitlement\" means an individual or Bulk Water Entitlement to a volumetric quantity of water to be extracted in the command area of the irrigation project from a tube well, bore well or other well or by any other means of extraction of sub-surface water, or a group or field or wells duly and legally permitted, registered and constructed in accordance with standards prescribed by the Authority;\n(za) \"Utility\" means any Water User Entity responsible for the management, treatment and distribution of domestic or municipal water supplies (including water use for Industries);\n(zb) \"Volumetric\" means a measurement of water on the basis of volume as per the norms of the Bureau of Indian Standard ;\n(zc) \"Water User Entity\" means any Water User's Association, Utility, Industrial User's Association, other User's Association, or any other group (or individual) which is authorised by the Authority to receive and utilize a water Entitlement;\n(zd) \"Water User's Association\" means a Water User's Association formed at the minor level or above, which represents the users of irrigation water from that segment of any project, canal or natural flow storage system;\nChapter II\nArunachal Pradesh Water Resources Regulatory Authority.",
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            "number": "3",
            "title": "3. Establishment and incorporation of Authority.",
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            "title": "4. Qualification for appointment of Chairperson and other Members and special invitees of Authority.",
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            "content": "(a) the Chairperson shall be a person who is or who was of the rank of Chief Secretary or equivalent thereto,\n(b) one Member shall be expert from the field of water resources engineering.\n(c) one Member shall be expert from the field of water resources economy.\n(d) five special invitees as prescribed one from each river basin Agency area, who are having adequate knowledge, experience or proved capacity in dealing with the problems relating to Engineering, agricultural, drinking water, industry, law, economics, commerce , finance or management for assisting the authority in taking policy decisions.",
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            "number": "5",
            "title": "5. Constitution and functions of Selection Committee.",
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            "content": "(a) the Chief Secretary of the State\nEx-officio President\n(b) the Secretary, Planning Department.\nEx- officio Member;\n(c) the Secretary Hydro-Power Department.\nEx -officio Member;\n(d) the Secretary Public Health Engineering\n\t\t\t\tDepartment.\nEx -officio Member;\n(e) the Secretary, Urban Development\nEx- officio Member;\n(f) the Secretary, Environment.\nEx-officio Member;\n(g) the Secretary, Agricultural Department.\nEx-officio Member;\n(h) the Secretary, Water Resources Department.\nEx-officio Member Secretary",
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            "number": "6",
            "title": "6. Term of office, salary and allowances and other conditions of service of Chairperson and Members of Authority.",
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            "content": "(a) relinquish his office by giving in writing to the Governor notice of not less than three months; or\n(b) be removed from his office in accordance with the provisions under section 7.\n(a) not be eligible for further employment under the Government of Arunachal Pradesh for a period of two years from the date he ceases to hold such office;\n(b) not accept any commercial employment for a period of two years from the date he ceases to hold such office.\n(i) \"employment under the Government\" includes, employment under any local or other authority within the territory of Arunachal Pradesh or under the control of the Government or under any corporation or society owned or controlled by the Government.\n(ii) \"commercial employment\" means employment in any capacity under, or agency of, a person engaged in trading, commercial, industrial or financial business in the Water Resources Sector and also includes a director of a company or partner of a firm and also includes setting up practice either independently or as partner of a firm or as an adviser or a consultant.",
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            "number": "7",
            "title": "7. Removal of Member.",
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            "content": "(a) has been adjudged an insolvent; or\n(b) has been convicted of an offence which, in the opinion of the Government involves moral turpitude; or\n(c) has become physically or mentally incapable of acting as Chairperson or Member; or\n(d) has acquired such financial or other interest as is likely to affect pre-judicially his function as the Chairperson or Member; or\n(e) has so abused his position as to render his continuance in office prejudicial to the public interest.",
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            "number": "8",
            "title": "8. Power of Government to depute officers and employees to Authority and their service conditions.",
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            "number": "9",
            "title": "9. Proceedings of Authority.",
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            "number": "10",
            "title": "10. Vacancies etc, not to invalidate act or proceeding.",
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            "content": "Chapter - III\nPowers, Functions and Duties of the Authority.",
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            "number": "11",
            "title": "11. Powers, Functions and duties of Authority.",
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            "content": "(a) to determine the distribution of Entitlements for various Categories of Use and the equitable distribution of Entitlements of water within each Category of Use on such terms and conditions as may be prescribed;\n(b) to enforce the decision or orders issued under this Act;\n(c) to determine the priority of equitable distribution of water available at the water resource project, sub-basin and river basin levels during periods of scarcity;\n(d) to establish a water tariff system, and to fix the criteria for water charges at sub-basin, river basin and State level after ascertaining the views of the beneficiary public , based on the principle that the water charges shall reflect the full recovery of the cost of the irrigation management, administration, operation and maintenance of water resources project;\n(e) to administer and manage interstate water resources apportionment on river systems of the State;\n(f) to review and clear water resources projects proposed at the sub- basin and river basin level to ensure that a proposal is in conformity with integrated State Water Plan and also with regard to the economic, hydrologic and environmental viability and where relevant, on the State's obligations under Tribunals, Agreements, or Decrees involving interstate entitlements :\n(g) to lay down the criteria and monitor the issuance of Entitlements. These criteria among others shall also include the following,\n(i) The Entitlements shall be issued by river Basin Agency based on the Category of Use and subject to the Priority assigned to such use under State Water Policy;\n(ii) Bulk Water Entitlements shall be issued by the River basin Agency for irrigation water supply, rural water supply, municipal water supply or industrial water supply to the relevant Water User Entities including Municipalities, Water User's Associations, Industrial Users and State agencies responsible for delivery to the respective sector or to a Sub- surface Water User's Association or entity that operates a well field of multiple sub-surface water tube wells, bore wells or other wells on behalf of multiple users;\n(iii) Bulk Water Entitlements for irrigation, shall be issued by River Basin Agency , to the Water User's Associations at the primary unit level, Distributary level and Canal or Project level Associations and River Basin Agencies shall not receive Entitlements but shall act as conveyance entities for the Entitlements issued to the Water User's Associations;\n(iv) Water User Entities including Water User's Associations, managing the aggregate of Entitlements on behalf of a group of Entitlement holders may be issued an Aggregate Bulk Entitlement;\n(v) Individual Water Entitlements may be issued by River basin Agency only for the construction and operation of individual lift irrigation schemes from surface water sources, bore-wells, tube wells or other facilities for extraction of sub-surface water. Such Entitlements shall be administered, registered measured and monitored by the respective River Basin Agency in close co-ordination with relevant Government agencies. Where such facilities extract water from alluvial aquifers that are conjunctive with the surface water of a basin, the issuance and operation of such Entitlements shall be conjunctively coordinated with the use and yield of surface water resources of the basin and shall be compatible with the overall water resource plan of the local area and the respective river basin and the sustainable use of the sub-surface water resources.\n(vi) Bulk Water Entitlements shall be for a specific proportion of flow, storage or other determination of the annual yield of a water resources or facility and the Entitlement shall be measured volumetric ally and with respect to time of delivery and flow rate of delivery;\n(vii) The allocation of a percentage of the water available under the Entitlements of each facility, in the drainage basin or river basin shall be determined jointly by the River Basin Agencies and Water User Entities based upon the hydrology and other relevant parameters with regard to the specific basin. This allocation shall be utilized for the determination of the amount of water to be made available under each Entitlement for that specific year or runoff season;\n(h) to lay down the criteria for modification in Entitlements for the diversion, storage and use of the surface and sub-surface waters of the State. These criteria shall among others, include the following\n(i) Aggregate Bulk Water Entitlements will be considered as Bulk Water Entitlements under the provisions of this Act except that they shall not be a usufructuary right and will only be adjusted by the Authority if there is a compensating change , under the provisions of this Act, to any component Bulk Water Entitlement that comprise part of the Aggregate Bulk Water Entitlement;\n(ii) In the event that any Water User Entity wishes to use its category priority to mandate a change in the use or volume of any entitlement, that entity must demonstrate in a public hearing before the Authority, that it has exhausted all attempts to conserve, increase efficiency and manage its demand of water within its, entitlement and has exhausted all opportunities to increase its entitlement through a transfer within the voluntary, market -based economy. If, after such a public hearing, the Authority deems such a mandated transfer, on either an annual or permanent basis, to be legal and necessary in the interest of the people of the State, the Authority shall then determine a fair and just compensation as determined by the market value of the water resource, to be paid to the Entitlement holder by the entity exercising the mandated user category preference;\n(i) to fix the criteria for trading of water entitlements or quotas on the annual or seasonal basis by a water entitlement holder. These criteria shall among others, include the following. -\n(i) Entitlements, except Aggregate Bulk Water Entitlements, are deemed to be usufructuary rights which may be transferred, bartered, brought or sold on annual or seasonal basis within a market system and as regulated and controlled by the Authority as established in the rules of the Authority;\n(ii) Quotas of water determined by the seasonal or annual allocation assigned to an entitlement shall be volumetric usufructuary right which may be transferred, bartered, bought or sold on an annual or seasonal basis within a market system as established and controlled by the rules of the Authority;\n(iii) Bulk Water Entitlements or Quotas shall be transferable within the respective category of use as long as such transfers are compatible with the operation of the specific water resource facilities involved. Such annual transfers shall be managed and registered with the respective River Basin Agency which shall have the power to approve or deny such proposed transfers if they are incompatible with operation of the facility or would damage the entitlements or rights of other users within the system. The River Basin Agency may charge a nominal fee for the processing and registering such transfer but shall not participate in any compensation between Entitlement holders as a part of such transfer.\n(j) Entitlements may be subject to review at intervals of not less than three years and then, only if warranted by concerns about, the sustainability of the level of allocation ;\n(k) Bulk Water Entitlements shall be registered by the River Basin Agency and shall be monitored by the Authority or its duly delegated competent representative;\n(l) permanent transfer of Entitlements shall only be made with the approval of the respective River Basin Agency and the Authority and in compliance with the rules of the Authority promulgated for this purpose. All approved transfers shall be entered into the registry of Entitlements of the Authority;\n(m) in the event of water scarcity, the Authority, in compliance with its policy and rules for allocating such scarcity, shall adjust the quantities of water to be made available to all Entitlements and shall permit the temporary transfer of water Entitlements between users and categories of users in accordance with the approval of the River Basin Agencies;\n(n) to establish regulatory system for the water resources of the State, including surface and sub-surface waters, to regulate the use of these waters, apportion the Entitlement to the use of the water of the State between water using categories;\n(o) to establish a system of enforcement, monitoring and measurement of the Entitlements for the use of water that will ensure that the actual use of water, both in quantity and type of use are in compliance with the Entitlements as issued by the Authority,\n(p) to administer the use and Entitlement of water resources within the State in a manner consistent with the State Water Policy to ensure the compliance of the obligation of State with regard to the apportionment of interstate waters between the State and others States;\n(q) to promote efficient use of water and to minimize the wastage of water and to fix reasonable use criteria for each Category of Use ;\n(r) to determine and ensure that cross -subsidies between Categories of used if any, being given by the Government are totally offset by stable funding from such cross-subsidies or Government payments to assure that the sustainable operation and maintenance of the water management and delivery systems within the State are not jeopardised in any way ;\n(s) to develop the State Water Entitlement data base that shall clearly record all Entitlements issued for the use of water within the State, any transfers of Entitlements and a record of deliveries and uses made as a result of those Entitlements ;\n(t) to facilitate and ensure development, maintenance and dissemination of a comprehensive hydro-meteorological information data base in co-operation with the River Basin Agencies ;\n(u) the Authority shall review and revise, the water charges after every three years;\n(v) the Authority may ensure that the irrigation Status Report is published by the Government every year, such report shall contain all statistical data relating to irrigation including details in respect of district wise irrigation potential created and its actual utilisation;\n(w) such other powers, function and duties as may be prescribed.",
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            "number": "12",
            "title": "12. General Policies of the Authority.",
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            "content": "(a) for equitable distribution of water in the command area of the project, every land holder in the command area shall be given Quota;\n(b) the Quota shall be fixed on the basis of the land in the command area;\n(c) in order to share the distress in the river basin of sub-basin equitably, the water stored in the reservoirs in the basin or sub-basin, as the case may be, shall be controlled by the end of October every year in such way that, the percentage of utiiizable water, including Kharif use, shall, for all reservoirs approximately be the same;\n(d) subject to the condition of efficient use of water, the existing private sector lift irrigation management schemes shall be allowed to continue for a period of five years from the date of commencement of this Act and thereafter on the date that may be specified by the Government the provisions of sub-section (4) of section 14 shall apply :\n(e) the command area of private lift Irrigation schemes, on the date of commencement of this Act, shall be treated at par with the command area of the irrigation projects;\n(b) The Authority shall ensure that, the funds made available to a drought prone district are spent preferably in the areas, where irrigation facilities are less than the other areas of that district.\n(c) Notwithstanding anything contained in this act, a person having more than two children shall be required to pay one and half times of the normal rates of water charges fixed under clause (d) of section 11 of this Act to get entitlement of water for the purpose of agriculture under this Act:\n(a) Where a couple has only one child on or after the date of such commencement, any number of children born out of a single subsequent delivery shall be deemed to be one entity;\n(b) \"Child\" does not include an adopted child or children;",
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            "number": "13",
            "title": "13. Powers of Authority and Dispute Resolution Officer.",
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            "content": "(a) the summoning and enforcing the attendance of any witness and examining him on oath ;\n(b) the discovery and production of any document or other material object producible as evidence;\n(c) the reception of evidence on affidavits;\n(d) the requisition of any public record;\n(e) the issue of commission for examination of witnesses;\n(f) review its decisions, directions and orders;\n(g) any other matter which may be prescribed.\nChapter IV\nState Water Planning",
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            "number": "14",
            "title": "14. Permission of River Basin Agency.",
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            "content": "(a) any bore well, tube well or other wells which are being used for domestic purposes; and\n(b) tanks, small reservoirs or catchments of rainwater harvesting with an annual yield capacity as may be decided by the Authority.",
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            "title": "15. State water Board.",
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            "content": "(a) the Chief\n\t\t\t\tSecretary of the State\n-ex officio President;\n(b) the Secretary, Planning Deptt.\n-ex officio Member;\n(c) the Secretary, Finance Deptt\n-ex officio Member;\n(d) the Secretary, Public Health Engineering.\n-ex officio Member;\n(e) the Secretary, Urban Development\n-ex officio Member;\n(f) the Secretary, Power & Hydro Department\n-ex officio Member;\n(g) the Secretary, Agriculture Department.\n-ex officio Member;\n(h) the Secretary, Water Resources Department.\n-ex officio Member\n(i) the Chief Engineer, Water Resources\n\t\t\t\tDepartment.\n-Member Secretary",
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            "number": "16",
            "title": "16. State Water Board.",
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            "content": "(a) the Chief\n\t\t\t\tMinister\n-ex officio President;\n(b) the Minister, Water Resources\n-ex officio Vice President\n(c) the Minister, Agriculture\n-ex officio Member;\n(d) the Minister, Water Supply\n-ex officio Member;\n(e) the Minister, Finance and Planning\n-ex officio Member;\n(f) the Minister, Urban Development\n-ex officio Member;\n(g) the Minister, Industries\n-ex officio Member;\n(h) the Minister, Environment\n-ex officio Member;\n(i) the Secretary, Water Resources Department\n-ex officio ; Member -Secretary;\nChapter V\nAccounts, Audit and Reports",
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            "number": "17",
            "title": "17. Grants and advances to Authority.",
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            "number": "18",
            "title": "18. Budget of Authority.",
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            "number": "19",
            "title": "19. Accounts of Authority.",
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            "number": "20",
            "title": "20. Annual Report of Authority.",
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            "content": "(b) Such annual report shall include an Annexure containing irrigation backlog of each district based on the State average Rabbi equivalent irrigation potential District wise sown area, standard Rabbi equivalent irrigation potential from State sector and local sector schemes , percentage of irrigation potential to the sown area, percentage less than the State average, backlog in Hectare for the latest year for which the data is available, and every year thereafter, physical backlog worked out on the basis of State average and financial backlog based on the latest schedule of rates.\n(c) Such report shall also include Annexure showing District wise and Region wise yearly expenditure incurred on the Irrigation Sector and cumulative figures upto latest year for which data is available and every year thereafter,\n(d) The details of Annexures at clauses (b) and (c) may be modified in accordance with the Governor's directives, from time to time,\nChapter VI\nSpecial powers of authority for removal of backlog as per government's directives",
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            "number": "21",
            "title": "21. Special Responsibility of Authority.",
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            "content": "Chapter VII\nMiscellaneous",
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            "title": "24. Members, officers and other staff of Authority to be public servants.",
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            "number": "25",
            "title": "25. Protection of action taken in good faith.",
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            "number": "26",
            "title": "26. Punishment for non-compliance of orders under this Act.",
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            "number": "27",
            "title": "27. Offences by companies.",
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            "content": "(a) \"company\" means a body corporate and includes firm association of persons or body of individuals whether incorporated or not.\n(b) \"director\", in relation to firm, means a partner in the firm, and in relation to any association of persons or body of individuals, means any member controlling the affairs thereof.",
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            "number": "28",
            "title": "28. Compounding of offences.",
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            "number": "29",
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            "title": "30. Powers of Government to make rules.",
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    "metadata": {
        "Act ID": "Last Updated 17th February, 2020 [aru045]",
        "Act Number": "(Act No. 15 of 2006)",
        "Enactment Date": "",
        "Act Year": "2006",
        "Short Title": "Arunachal Pradesh Water Resources Regulatory Authority Act, 2006",
        "Type": "STATE",
        "Location": "Arunachal Pradesh"
    },
    "updated_at": "2026-09-29 21:55:19"
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