Gujarat Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and Other Backward Classes (Regulation of Issuance and Verification of Caste Certificates) Act, 2018

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    "title": "Gujarat Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and Other Backward Classes (Regulation of Issuance and Verification of Caste Certificates) Act, 2018",
    "short_title": "Gujarat Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and Other Backward Classes (Regulation of Issuance and Verification of Caste Certificates) Act, 2018",
    "act_number": "(Gujarat Act No. 19 of 2018)",
    "act_year": 2018,
    "act_type": "STATE",
    "location": "Gujarat",
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    "enactment_date": null,
    "description": "Gujarat Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and Other Backward Classes (Regulation of Issuance and Verification of Caste Certificates) Act, 2018",
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        {
            "number": "1",
            "title": "1. Short title and commencement.",
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            "number": "2",
            "title": "2. Definitions.",
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            "content": "(a) \"Caste Certificate\" means the certificate issued by the Competent Authority to an applicant indicating therein the Scheduled Caste, Scheduled Tribe or Other Backward Class, as the case may be, to which such applicant belongs;\n(b) \"Competent Authority\" means an officer or authority authorized by the Government, by notification in the Official Gazette , to issue a Caste Certificate, for such area and for such purpose as may be specified in the said notification;\n(c) \"Educational Institution\" means any School, Degree College, College of Education, Polytechnic, Industrial Training Institute, College of Fine Arts and Architecture, College of Music and Dance, Engineering College, Agricultural College, Veterinary College, Medical College, Dental College, Ayurvedic College, Homoeopathic College, Unani College, Nurses Training School, Health Visitors Training School, Vocational Training Institution, Deemed University, Open University and various colleges under the control of any University established by or under an Act of the Central or State Legislature and such other Institution, by whatever name called, which is carrying on (either exclusively or among other activities) the activity of imparting education;\n(d) \" Government \" means the Government of Gujarat;\n(e) \"Local authority\" means,-\n(i) a Municipal Corporation constituted under the Gujarat Provincial Municipal Corporations Act, 1949, (Bombay LIX of 1949);\n(ii) a Municipality constituted under the Gujarat Municipalities Act, 1963;\n(iii) a Panchayat constituted under the Gujarat Panchayats Act, 1993, (Gujarat 18 of 1993);\n(f) \"Other Backward Classes\" means any Socially and Educationally Backward Classes of citizens as declared by the Government and includes other Backward Classes declared by the Government of India in relation to the State of Gujarat;\n(g) \"prescribed\" means prescribed by rules made under this Act;\n(h) \"Scheduled Castes\" and \"Scheduled Tribes\" shall have the meanings respectively assigned to them in clause (24) and clause (25) of article 366 of the Constitution of India;\n(i) \"Scrutiny Committee\" means the Committee or committees constituted under sub-section (1) of section 6 for verification of the Caste Certificate and to perform the functions of Scrutiny Committee under this Act.",
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        {
            "number": "3",
            "title": "3. Application for a Caste Certificate.",
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        {
            "number": "4",
            "title": "4. Caste Certificate to be issued by the Competent Authority.",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 3
        },
        {
            "number": "5",
            "title": "5. Appeal.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "6",
            "title": "6. Verification of Caste Certificate by Scrutiny Committee.",
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            "sort_order": 5
        },
        {
            "number": "7",
            "title": "7. Application pending prior to the Commencement of the Act.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "8",
            "title": "8. Confiscation and cancellation of false Caste Certificate.",
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            "content": "",
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        },
        {
            "number": "9",
            "title": "9. Burden of proof.",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 8
        },
        {
            "number": "10",
            "title": "10. Powers of Civil court to Competent Authority, Appellate Authority and Scrutiny Committee.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) summoning and enforcing the attendance of any person and examining him on oath;\n(b) requiring the discovery and production of any document;\n(c) receiving evidence on affidavits ;\n(d) requisitioning any public record or copy thereof from any Court or office ; and\n(e) issuing commissions for the examination of witnesses or documents.",
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            "sort_order": 9
        },
        {
            "number": "11",
            "title": "11. Benefits secured on the basis of false Caste Certificate to be withdrawn.",
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            "content": "(a) debarred from the concerned educational institution, or as the case may be,\n(b) discharged from the said employment forthwith,",
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        },
        {
            "number": "12",
            "title": "12. Offences and penalties.",
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            "content": "(a) obtains a false Caste Certificate by furnishing false information or filing false statement or documents or by any other fraudulent means ; or\n(b) not being a person belonging to any of the Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes or Other Backward Classes secures any benefits or appointments exclusively reserved for such Castes, Tribes or Classes in the Government, local authority, co-operative society or any other company or corporation owned or controlled by the Government or in any Government aided institution, or secures admission in any educational institution against a seat exclusively reserved for such Castes, Tribes or Classes or is elected to any of the elective offices of any local authority or cooperative society against the office, reserved for such Castes, Tribes or Classes, by producing a false Caste Certificate,",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 11
        },
        {
            "number": "13",
            "title": "13. Offences under Act to be cognizable and non-bailable.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) offences punishable under section 12 shall be cognizable and non- bailable;\n(b) every offence punishable under this Act, shall be tried by any Magistrate of First Class following summons case procedure prescribed in the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973, (2 of 1974).",
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        },
        {
            "number": "14",
            "title": "14. Penalty for issuing false Caste Certificate.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "15",
            "title": "15. Bar of jurisdiction of civil court.",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 14
        },
        {
            "number": "16",
            "title": "16. Protection of action taken in good faith.",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 15
        },
        {
            "number": "17",
            "title": "17. Acts not in derogation to any other law.",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "18",
            "title": "18. Power to make rules.",
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            "sort_order": 17
        },
        {
            "number": "19",
            "title": "19. Power to remove difficulties.",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 18
        }
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    "metadata": {
        "Act ID": "guj260",
        "Act Number": "(Gujarat Act No. 19 of 2018)",
        "Enactment Date": "",
        "Act Year": "2018",
        "Short Title": "Gujarat Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and Other Backward Classes (Regulation of Issuance and Verification of Caste Certificates) Act, 2018",
        "Type": "STATE",
        "Location": "Gujarat"
    },
    "updated_at": "2026-09-29 21:55:19"
}