Assam Right to Public Services Act, 2012

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    "title": "Assam Right to Public Services Act, 2012",
    "short_title": "Assam Right to Public Services Act, 2012",
    "act_number": "(Assam Act No. 9 of 2012)",
    "act_year": 2012,
    "act_type": "STATE",
    "location": "Assam",
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    "description": "Assam Right to Public Services Act, 2012",
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            "number": "1",
            "title": "1. Short title, extent and commencement.",
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            "number": "2",
            "title": "2. Application.",
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            "content": "(i) persons appointed on casual or daily rates basis;\n(ii) persons employed on contract except when the contract provides otherwise;\n(iii) persons whose terms and conditions of services are expressly provided in the Constitution.",
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            "number": "3",
            "title": "3. Definitions.",
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            "content": "(a) \"Appellate Authority\" means an authority including one belonging to the local self government who is notified as such under section 4, who shall be empowered to impose cost on the Government Servant defaulting or delaying the delivery of services in accordance with this Act;\n(b) \"application\" means a written request by an eligible person to provide notified services under this Act;\n(c) \"Designated Public Servant\" means an authority including one belonging to the local self government and organizations, fully or partially funded by the State Government, notified as such for providing the service under section 4;\n(d) \"eligible person\" means a citizen who is eligible for obtaining the notified service;\n(e) \"prescribed\" means prescribed by the rules made under this Act;\n(f) \"Reviewing Authority\" means an authority including one belonging to the local self government who is notified as such under section 4;\n(g) \"Government Servant\" means a person appointed substantively to any civil service or post in connection with the affairs of the State Government including person working on deputation basis; and person appointed in a local body which is owned, controlled or substantially financed by the State Government;\n(h) \"Right to Public Service\" means right to obtain the notified service under this Act from time to time within the stipulated time limit as described under section 5 ;\n(i) \"notified service\" means any service notified by the State Government under section 4;\n(j) \"State Government\" means the Government of Assam;\n(k) \"stipulated time limit\" means maximum time to provide the service by the Designated Public Servant or to decide the appeal by the Appellate Authority and Reviewing Authority as notified under section 4 ;\n(l) \"notification\" means a notification published in the Official Gazette;\n(m) \"rules\" means rules made by the State Government under this Act ;\n(n) \"Year\" means the calendar year commencing on the 1st day of January of the Year and ending on the 31st day of December.",
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            "number": "4",
            "title": "4. Notification of services, Designated Public Servant, Appellate Authority, Reviewing Authority, User Charge and stipulated Time Limits.",
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        {
            "number": "5",
            "title": "5. Right of citizens to obtain time bound delivery of services.",
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        {
            "number": "6",
            "title": "6. Liability of Government Servant to deliver services within stipulated period.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "7",
            "title": "7. Providing notified services within stipulated time limit.",
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            "content": "(i) the reasons for such rejection;\n(ii) the period within which an appeal against such rejection may be preferred; and\n(iii) the particulars of the Appellate Authority.",
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            "number": "8",
            "title": "8. Appeal.",
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            "content": "(b) Along with the order to provide the notified service, the Appellate Authority may impose penalty according to the provisions of section 9 of this Act.\n(a) requiring the production and inspection of documents;\n(b) issuing summons for hearing to the Designated Public Servant and appellant; and\n(c) any other matter which may be prescribed.",
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        {
            "number": "9",
            "title": "9. Penalty.",
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            "content": "(b) Where the Appellate Authority is of the opinion that the Designated Public Servant has caused delay in providing the notified service without sufficient and reasonable cause, he may impose a penalty at the rate specified from time to time as prescribed in the rules framed under this Act for such delay on the Designated Public Servant:",
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        {
            "number": "10",
            "title": "10. Non-Compliance amounting to misconduct.",
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        {
            "number": "11",
            "title": "11. Bar on jurisdiction of Civil Court.",
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        {
            "number": "12",
            "title": "12. Power of the State Government to send the applications to Appellate Authority directly.",
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        {
            "number": "13",
            "title": "13. Protection of action taken in good faith.",
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        {
            "number": "14",
            "title": "14. Overriding effect of the Act.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "15",
            "title": "15. Power to make rules.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "16",
            "title": "16. Power to remove difficulties.",
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    "metadata": {
        "Act ID": "Last Updated 17th March, 2020 [ass392]",
        "Act Number": "(Assam Act No. 9 of 2012)",
        "Enactment Date": "",
        "Act Year": "2012",
        "Short Title": "Assam Right to Public Services Act, 2012",
        "Type": "STATE",
        "Location": "Assam"
    },
    "updated_at": "2026-09-29 21:55:19"
}