Haryana State Commission For Women Act, 2012

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    "title": "Haryana State Commission For Women Act, 2012",
    "short_title": "Haryana State Commission For Women Act, 2012",
    "act_number": "(Haryana Act No. 27 of 2012)",
    "act_year": 2012,
    "act_type": "STATE",
    "location": "Haryana",
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    "description": "Haryana State Commission For Women Act, 2012",
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            "number": "1",
            "title": "1. Short title, extent and commencement.",
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            "number": "2",
            "title": "2. Definitions.",
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            "content": "(a) \"Commission\" means the Haryana State Commission for Women constituted under section 3;\n(b) \"Chairperson\" means Chairperson of the Commission;\n(c) \"Government\" means the Government of the State of Haryana;\n(d) \"Member\" means the member for the Commission and includes the Chairperson, Vice Chairperson and Member Secretary;\n(e) \"National Commission for Women\" means the National Commission for Women constituted under section 3 of the National Commission for Women Act, 1990 (20 of 1990);\n(f) \"Public Office\" includes an office, body or institution established or constituted under the Constitution of India, by Law of Parliament or State Legislature, by order or notification by the Government or a body or Non-Government Organization substantially financed by the Government;\n(g) \"prescribed\" means prescribed by rules made under this Act;\n(h) \"Vice Chairperson\" means Vice-Chairperson of the Commission; and\n(i) \"Women\" means a female including girl child or adolescent girl.\nChapter - II\nHaryana State Commission For Women",
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            "number": "3",
            "title": "3. Constitution of State Commission for Women.",
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            "content": "(a) a Chairperson, who shall be a woman, committed to the cause of women, to be nominated by the Government;\n(b) a Vice-Chairperson and a maximum of five members to be nominated by the Government from amongst persons of ability, integrity and standing who have experience in law, legislation, trade unionism, management of industry or organization committed to increase the employment potential for women, women's voluntary organizations (including women activists) administration, economic development, health, education or social welfare;\n(c) a Member-Secretary to be nominated by the Government preferably from amongst the women officers of the Indian Administrative Services or the Haryana Civil Service, not below the rank of Joint/Deputy Secretary to the Government;\n(d) the Administrative Secretary of Women and Child Development, Haryana shall be a special invitee;\n(e) the Director, Women and Child Development, Haryana and the Director General of Police of Haryana shall be ex-officio members of the Commission;\n(f) the majority of the members of the Commission shall be women.",
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            "number": "4",
            "title": "4. Term of office and conditions of service of Chairperson, Vice-Chairperson and members.",
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            "content": "(a) Becomes an undercharged insolvent;\n(b) Gets convicted and sentenced to imprisonment for an offence which in the opinion of the Government involves moral turpitude;\n(c) Gets involved in a criminal case or charges are framed against him;\n(d) Becomes of unsound mind and stands so declared by a competent court;\n(e) Refuses to act or becomes incapable of acting;\n(f) Is without obtaining leave of absence from the Commission, absents himself for three consecutive meetings of the Commission; or\n(g) In the opinion of the Government has so abused the position as to render that person's continuance in office detrimental to the public interest or interest of women:",
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            "number": "5",
            "title": "5. Officers and other employees of the Commission.",
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            "number": "6",
            "title": "6. Salaries and allowances to be paid out of grants/budgetary support.",
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        {
            "number": "7",
            "title": "7. Vacancies etc., not to be invalidate proceedings of the Commission.",
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            "content": "8.",
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        {
            "number": "9",
            "title": "9. Procedure to be regulated by the Commission.",
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            "content": "Chapter - III\nFunctions of the Commission",
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            "number": "10",
            "title": "10. Functions of the Commission.",
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            "content": "(a) Investigate and examine all matters relating to the safeguards provided for women under the Constitution and other laws;\n(b) Present to the Government, annually and at such other times as the Commission may deem fit, reports upon the working of those safeguards;\n(c) Make in such reports recommendations for the effective implementation of those safeguards for improving the conditions of women by the State;\n(d) Review, from time to time, the existing provisions of the Constitutions and other laws affecting women and recommend amendments thereto so as to suggest remedial legislative measures to meet any lacunae, inadequacies or shortcomings in such legislation's;\n(e) Take up the case of violation of the provisions of the Constitution and of other laws, relating to women with the appropriate authorities;\n(f) Look into complaints an take suo motu notice of matters relating to -\nI. Deprivation of women's rights;\nII. Non-implementations of laws enacted to provide protection to women and also to achieve the objective of equality and development;\nIII. Non-compliance of policy decisions, guidelines or instructions aimed at mitigating hardships and ensuring welfare and providing relief to women; and take up the issues arising out of such matters with appropriate authorities;\n(g) 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(h) Undertake promotional and educational research so as to suggest ways of ensuring due representation of women in all spheres and identify factors responsible for impeding their advancement, such as, lack of access to housing and basic services, inadequate support services and technologies for reducing drudgery and occupational health hazards and for increasing their productivity;\n(i) Participate and advise on the planning process of socio-economic development of women;\n(j) Monitor and review the women related schemes/programmes in the States and evaluate the progress of the development of women under the State;\n(k) Inspect or cause to be inspected Police Stations, Jail, remand home, women's institution or other place of custody where women are kept prisoners or otherwise, and take up with the concerned authorities for remedial action, if found necessary;\n(l) Call for data from any organization on various issues/aspects of journey of women towards development, empowerment and accessibility, including growth and hurdles faced by them for individual, family or society etc:\n(m) Make periodical reports to the Government on any matter pertaining to women and in particular various difficulties under which women toil;\n(n) Any other matter which may be referred to it by the Government;\n(o) Shall furnish comments and recommendations on any report of the National Commission for Women on any matter with which the Government is concerned as the Government may call for.\n(a) Summoning and enforcing the attendance of any person from any part of India and examining him on oath;(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 public office;\n(e) Any other matter which may be prescribed.\nChapter - IV\nFinance, Accounts and Audit",
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            "number": "11",
            "title": "11. Grants/Budgetary support by the Government.",
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            "number": "12",
            "title": "12. Accounts and Audit.",
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            "number": "13",
            "title": "13. Annual report.",
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        {
            "number": "14",
            "title": "14. Annual report and audit report to be laid before legislature.",
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            "content": "Chapter - V\nMiscellaneous",
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            "number": "15",
            "title": "15. Chairperson, Vice Chairperson, Members and Staff of the Commission to be public servants.",
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            "number": "16",
            "title": "16. Government to consult commission.",
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        {
            "number": "17",
            "title": "17. Protection of action taken in good faith.",
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        {
            "number": "18",
            "title": "18. Power to make rules.",
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        {
            "number": "19",
            "title": "19. Savings.",
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    "metadata": {
        "Act ID": "Last Updated 9th January, 2020 [hl780]",
        "Act Number": "(Haryana Act No. 27 of 2012)",
        "Enactment Date": "",
        "Act Year": "2012",
        "Short Title": "Haryana State Commission For Women Act, 2012",
        "Type": "STATE",
        "Location": "Haryana"
    },
    "updated_at": "2026-09-29 21:55:19"
}