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The Goa Public Men's Corruption (Investigations and Inquiries) Act, 1988
The Goa Public Men's Corruption (Investigations and Inquiries) Act, 1988
Sections
1. Short title, extent and commencement.
Section 12. Definitions.
Section 23. Definition of corruption.
Section 34. Constitution of Commission.
Section 45. Member not to hold any other office.
Section 56. Term of office and other conditions of service of members.
Section 67. Removal of member.
Section 78. Staff of Commission.
Section 89. Matters which may be investigated by Commission.
Section 910. Matters not subject to investigation.
Section 1011. Complaint for initiating proceedings.
Section 1112. Preliminary investigation.
Section 1213. Result of preliminary investigation and further action.
Section 1314. Issue of search warrant, etc.
Section 1415. Evidence.
Section 1516. Prosecution for false evidence.
Section 1617. Reports of Commission.
Section 1718. Public man to vacate office if directed by Commission.
Section 1819. Initiation of prosecution.
Section 1920. Secrecy of information.
Section 2022. Protection of action taken under the Act.
Section 2223. Power to delegate.
Section 2324. Conferment of additional function on Commission.
Section 2425. Public man to submit property statements.
Section 2526. Bar to inquiries.
Section 2627. Costs.
Section 2728. Disposal of deposit.
Section 2829. Pendency of case not to bar proceedings under this Act.
Section 2930. Bar of prosecution on allegations not proved or not substantiated.
Section 3031. Commission to make suggestions.
Section 3132. Powers to make rules.
Section 3233. Power to remove difficulties.
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"content": "(a) \"Commission\" means a Commission constituted under section 4;\n(b) \"Complaint\" means a complaint alleging that a public man has committed corruption;\n(c) \"competent authority\" in relation to a public man means,-\n(i) in the case of Chief Minister or a Member of the State Legislature, the Governor acting in his discretion;\n(ii) in the case of Minister, the Chief Minister;\n(iii) in the case of any other public man, such authority as may be prescribed;\n(d) \"family\" of a public man means the spouse and such parents, unmarried sisters and children of the public man as are dependent on him;\n(e) \"Governor\" means the Governor of Goa;\n(f) \"local authority\" means a Municipal Corporation or a Municipal Council or a Planning Development Authority or a Township Committee or a Panchayat;\n(g) \"member\" means a member of the Commission;\n(h) \"political party\" means a political party or group which has representation in Parliament or in the Legislative Assembly; or a political party which is treated as a recognised political party in accordance with paragraph 6 of Election Symbols (Reservation and Allotment) Order, 1968;\n(i) \"prescribed\" means prescribed by rules made under this Act;\n(j) \"public man\" means a person who holds or has held in the State, the Office of-\n(i) a Minister or the Chief Minister of the State of Goa ; or\n(ii) a member of the Legislative Assembly of the State of Goa; or\n(iii) the President or the Vice-President or the Chairman or the Vice-Chairman or the Secretary, or the Managing Director (by whatever name called) of-\n(A) a local authority; or\n(B) a Government Company as defined in section 617 of the Companies Act, 1956 (Central Act 1 of 1956); or\n(C) a statutory body or Corporation or Board established by or under a statute and owned or controlled by the Government of Goa, including a Co-operative society; or\n(D) any other Corporation or Board or Society owned or controlled by the Government of Goa; or\n(iv) a member of a local authority or the Syndicate or Executive Committee of a University established by the Goa University Act, 1984 (Act 7 of 1984) or a member or Director (by whatever name called) of a body or corporation or Board or Society referred to in item (C) and item (D) of sub-clause (iii); or\n(v) a member [other than an ex officio member] , of the State Transport Authority or any Regional Transport Authority; or\n(vi) the President, Secretary or Treasurer or any other office bearer of a registered trade union; or\n(vii) the Chairman or Vice-Chairman or President or Vice-President or Secretary or Treasurer or any other office bearer of a political party at the District or State level; or\n(viii) the Chairman or Manager or Secretary or Correspondent having control over the administration of a Private School, whether under individual or corporate management, which receives or has received aid or grant from the Government order the Goa, Daman and Diu School Education Act, 1984 (Act 5 of 1984) and the rules made thereunder, or\n(ix) the Chairman or Manager or Secretary or Correspondent having control over the Administration of a Private College whether under a unitary or corporate management which is affiliated to a University in the State of Goa and which received aid or grant from the Government; or\n(x) the Chairman or Manager or Secretary or Correspondent having control over the administration of a Private Engineering College or Private Polytechnic whether under a unitary or corporate management, affiliated to a University in the State of Goa or State Board of Technical Examination, Goa as the case may be [and which received aid or grant from the Government] .\nExplanation.\n(a) \"co-operative society\" means a co-operative registered or deemed to have been registered under the Maharashtra Co-operative Societies Act, 1960 as in force in the State of Goa;\n(b) \"society\" means a society registered in the State under the Societies Registration Act, 1860 (Central Act 21 of 1860);\n(c) \"registered trade union\" means a trade union registered under the Trade Union Act, 1926 (Central Act 16 of 1926);\n(d) \"public servant\" means a public servant as defined in section 21 of the Indian Penal Code (Central Act 45 of 1860);\n(e) \"State\" means the State of Goa;",
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"content": "(a) accepts or obtains from any person for himself or for any other person, any gratification whatsoever, other than legal remuneration, as a motive or reward for doing or for bearing to do any official act or showing or forbearing to show, in the exercise of his official functions, favour or disfavour to any person or for rendering any service or disservice to any person, with the Government or any Board, authority, body, Corporation, Company or Society referred to in sub-clauses (iii), (iv) and (v) of clause (j) of section 2 or with any public man or public servant as such; or\n(b) accepts or obtains from any person for himself or for any other person, any gratification whatsoever as a motive or reward for inducing, by corrupt or illegal means or by the exercise of personal influence, any public man or public servant to do or to forbear to do any official act, or in the exercise of the official functions of such public man or public servant, to show favour or disfavour to any person, with the Government or any Board, authority, body, Corporation, Company or Society referred to in sub-clauses (iii), (iv), (v) and (vi) of clause (j) of section 2 or with any public man or public servant as such; or\n(c) by corrupt or illegal means or by otherwise abusing his position as a public man obtains for himself or for any other person any valuable thing or pecuniary advantage; or\n(d) abusing his position as a public man wilfully does any act in contravention of any provision of any law for the time being in force intending to show undue favour or cause injury to any person; or\n(e) accepts or obtains for himself or for any other person, any valuable thing without consideration or for a consideration which he knows to be inadequate, from any person whom he knows to have been, or to be, or to be likely to be concerned in any proceeding or business transacted or about to be transacted by such public man or having any connection with the official functions of himself or of any public servant or from any person whom he knows to be interested in or related to the person so concerned; or\n(f) himself, or any member of his family or any other person on his behalf is in possession, or has at any time during the period of his office, been in possession, for which the public man cannot satisfactorily account, of pecuniary resources or property disproportionate to his known sources of income; or\n(g) abusing his position as a public man shows any act of favouritism or nepotism in the discharge of his official functions by obtaining any monetary gain for himself or for his family;\nExplanation I.\nExplanation II.\nExplanation III.\nExplanation IV.",
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"content": "(a) \"I, A. B. ............ having been appointed as member of the Commission under the Goa Public Men's Corruption (Investigations and Inquiries) Act, 1988, do swear in the name of God/solemnly affirm that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the Constitution of India as by law established and that I will duly and faithfully and to the best of my ability, knowledge and judgement perform the duties of my office without fear or favour, affection or ill will\"; and\n(b) \"I, ... do swear in the name of God/solemnly affirm that I will not directly or indirectly communicate or reveal to any person or persons any matter which shall be brought under my consideration or shall become known to me as a member of the Commission except as may be required for due discharge of my duties as such member\".\n(a) preside over the sittings of the Commission; and\n(b) in consultation with the other members exercises administrative control over the Secretary and other officers and employees of the Commission.",
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"content": "(a) if he is a member of the Parliament or of the Legislature of any State, resign such membership; or\n(b) if he holds any office of trust or profit, resign from such office; or\n(c) if he is carrying on any business, resign from the management and conduct of business (short of divesting himself of ownership); or\n(d) if he is practising any profession, suspend practice of such profession.\n(a) the commencement of this act in the case of first appointment after such commencement; or\n(b) the date on which the vacancy has arisen, in the case of any subsequent appointment;",
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"content": "(a) the member may, by writing under his hand addressed to the Governor, resign his office;\n(b) the member may be removed from office in the manner provided in section 7.\nExplanation.\n(a) by the amount of that pension, except pension received as freedom fighter;\n(b) if he has, before such appointment, received in lieu of a portion of the pension due to him in respect of such previous service the commuted value thereof, by the amount of that portion of the pension; and\n(c) if he has, before such appointment, received a retirement gratuity in respect of such previous service, by the pension equivalent of that gratuity:",
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"content": "(a) the complaint is frivolous or vexatious or is not made in good faith; or\n(b) there are no sufficient grounds for proceeding further, or\n(c) other remedies are available to the complainant and in the circumstances of the case it would be more proper for the complainant to avail of such remedies;\n(a) any witness; or\n(b) any other person, who claims that he is to be represented in person or by counsel to take such part in the proceedings as the Commission may, in the interest of justice, think fit.",
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"title": "14. Issue of search warrant, etc.",
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"content": "(a) has reason to believe that any person-\n(i) to whom a summons or notice under this Act has been issued, will not produce or cause to be produced any property, document, or thing which will be necessary or useful for, or relevant to, any investigation or other proceeding to be conducted by it;\n(ii) is in possession of any money, bullion or other valuable article or thing and such money, bullion, or other valuable article or thing represents either wholly or partly income or property which has not been disclosed to the authorities for the purpose of any law or rule in force which requires such disclosure to be made; or\n(b) considers that the purposes of any investigation or other proceedings to be conducted by it will be served by a general search or inspection;\n(i) enter and search any building or place where it has reason to suspect that such property, document, money, bullion or other valuable article or thing is kept;\n(ii) break open the lock of any door, box, locker, safe, almirah or other receptable for exercising the powers conferred by sub-clause (i) where the keys thereof are not available;\n(iii) search any person who is reasonably suspected of concealing about his person any article for which search should be made;\n(iv) seize any such property document, money, bullion or other valuable article or thing found as a result of such search;\n(v) place marks of identification on any property or document or make or cause to be made extract or copies therefrom; or\n(vi) make a note or an inventory of any such property, document, money, bullion or other valuable article or thing.",
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"number": "15",
"title": "15. Evidence.",
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"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;\n(e) issuing commissions for the examination of witnesses or documents;\n(f) such other matters as may be prescribed.\n(a) as might prejudice the interests of the State of Goa or the security or defence or international relations of India (including India's relations with the Government of any other country or with any international organisation);\n(b) as might involve the disclosure of proceedings of the Cabinet of the State Government or any Committee of that Cabinet;",
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"title": "18. Public man to vacate office if directed by Commission.",
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"content": "(i) if he is the Chief Minister or a Minister or a Member of the Legislative Assembly of the State, resign his office;\n(ii) if he is any other person specified in sub-clauses (iii), (iv), (v), (viii), (ix) and (x) of clause (j) of section 2, be deemed to have vacated his office.",
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"number": "19",
"title": "19. Initiation of prosecution.",
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"number": "20",
"title": "20. Secrecy of information.",
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"content": "(a) for the purpose of the investigation or in any report to be made thereon or for any action or proceedings to be taken on such report; or\n(b) for the purpose of any proceedings for an offence under the Official Secrets Act, 1923 (Central Act 19 of 1923), or any offence of giving or fabricating false evidence under section 193 of the Indian Penal Code (Central Act 45 of 1860), or for purpose of trial of any offence under section 19 or for purpose of any proceedings under section 21; or\n(c) for such other purposes as may be prescribed.\n21.",
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"number": "22",
"title": "22. Protection of action taken under the Act.",
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"number": "23",
"title": "23. Power to delegate.",
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"number": "24",
"title": "24. Conferment of additional function on Commission.",
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"title": "25. Public man to submit property statements.",
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"number": "26",
"title": "26. Bar to inquiries.",
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"number": "27",
"title": "27. Costs.",
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"number": "28",
"title": "28. Disposal of deposit.",
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"title": "29. Pendency of case not to bar proceedings under this Act.",
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"number": "30",
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"number": "32",
"title": "32. Powers to make rules.",
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"content": "(a) the form in which complaints may be made under section 11;\n(b) the conditions of service of the member of the Commission;\n(c) the powers of civil court which may be vested in the Commission;\n(d) the deposit, forfeiture, refund or disposal of sums referred to in section 11;\n(e) any other matter which has to be, or may be, prescribed under this Act.",
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"Short Title": "The Goa Public Men's Corruption (Investigations and Inquiries) Act, 1988",
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