The Gujarat Scheduled Castes Development Corporation Act, 1985

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    "title": "The Gujarat Scheduled Castes Development Corporation Act, 1985",
    "short_title": "The Gujarat Scheduled Castes Development Corporation Act, 1985",
    "act_number": "Gujarat Act No. 10 of 1985",
    "act_year": 1985,
    "act_type": "STATE",
    "location": "Gujarat",
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    "enactment_date": null,
    "description": "The Gujarat Scheduled Castes Development Corporation Act, 1985",
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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) \"agriculture\" includes dairy farming, poultry farming, breeding of livestock, pisciculture, sericulture and forestry; and the term \"agricultural\" shall be construed accordingly;\n(b) \"Chairman\" means the Chairman of the Corporation;\n(c) \"Corporation\" means the Gujarat Scheduled Castes Development Corporation established under section 3;\n[(d) \"director\" means a director of the Corporation and includes the Chairman and Vice-Chairman;]\n(e) \"managing director\" means a director appointed as managing director under sub-section (3) of section 5;\n(f) \"marketing\" means all activities relating to the transport, grading, pooling, marketing and sale of agricultural or industrial produce, whether in the primary form or in semi-processed or processed form;\n(g) \"prescribed\" means prescribed by rules made under this Act;\n(h) \"processing\" means all activities relating to the processing of agricultural produce or industrial produce so as to make it marketable or fit for consumption and it includes purchase and storage of raw material, purchase of equipment, and purchase, installation and running of machinery required for processing and storage of finished produce;\n(i) \"regulation\" means a regulation under section 27;\n(j) \"Scheduled Castes\" means such castes or communities or parts of, or groups within, such castes or communities as are deemed to be Scheduled Castes in relation to the State of Gujarat under article 341 of the Constitution of India;\n(k) \"society\" means a society registered under the Societies Registration Act, 1860 (XXI of 1860), or a co-operative society registered under the Gujarat Co-operative Societies Act, 1961 (IX of 1932).\n(l) \"Scheduled Castes Organisation\" means a firm registered under the Indian Partnership Act, 1932, or a society, wherein all or a majority of the partners or, as the case may be, all or a majority of members whereof belong to Scheduled Castes.\n(m) \"small-scale industry\" means cottage industry or an industry in which capital investment does not exceed such amount as may be prescribed;\n(n) \"supply and storage\" means supply and storage of agricultural or industrial inputs and establishment, maintenance and running of storages, cold storages and warehouses;\n[(o) \"Vice-Chairman\" means the Vice-Chairman of the Corporation.]\nChapter II\nEstablishment and Constitution of the Corporation",
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            "number": "3",
            "title": "3. Establishment and Incorporation of the Corporation.",
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            "number": "4",
            "title": "4. Headquarters of the Corporation.",
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            "number": "5",
            "title": "5. Constitution of Corporation.",
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        {
            "number": "6",
            "title": "6. Term of office and conditions of appointment of director.",
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        {
            "number": "7",
            "title": "7. Filling up casual vacancies.",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "8",
            "title": "8. Disqualifications for office of director.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) is, or at any time has been, adjudicated insolvent or has suspended payment of his debts or has been compounded with his creditors; or\n(b) is of unsound mind and stands so declared by a competent court; or\n(c) is or has been, convicted of any offence which, in the opinion of the State Government, involves moral turpitude or convicted under the Protection of Civil Rights Act, 1955 (XXII of 1955), or\n(d) is, or has been, removed or dismissed from the service of any State Government or the Central Government or a Corporation owned or controlled by any State Government or the Central Government.",
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        {
            "number": "9",
            "title": "9. Director not to participate in certain cases.",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "10",
            "title": "10. Removal and resignation of director.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) is, or has become, subject to any disqualification mentioned in section 8;\n(b) is absent without leave of the Corporation from more than three consecutive meetings thereof without cause sufficient, in the opinion of the Corporation, to exonerate his absence;\n(c) has acted in contravention of the provisions of section 9; or\n(d) has been guilty of misconduct in the discharge of his duties.",
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        {
            "number": "11",
            "title": "11. Managing Director.",
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            "content": "(a) be the Chief Executive Officer of the Corporation,\n(b) be responsible for the operational management of the Corporation and implementation of the general policy approved by the Corporation,\n(c) perform such duties as the Corporation may, by regulations or otherwise, assign to him,\n(d) receive such salary and allowances and be governed by such terms and conditions of service as may be approved by the State Government in consultation with the Corporation.",
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        {
            "number": "12",
            "title": "12. Officers and other employees Corporation.",
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            "sort_order": 11
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        {
            "number": "13",
            "title": "13. Meetings of Corporation.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "14",
            "title": "14. Acts and proceedings presumed to be valid notwithstanding any defect.",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 13
        },
        {
            "number": "15",
            "title": "15. No disqualification in certain cases.",
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            "content": "Chapter III\nFunctions and Powers of the Corporation",
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        },
        {
            "number": "16",
            "title": "16. Functions and powers of Corporation.",
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            "content": "(i) to plan and promote, on its own or in collaboration with or through such Scheduled Castes organisations or other agencies as may be approved by the Corporation, any programme of agricultural development, marketing, processing, supply and storage of agricultural produce, small-scale industry, building construction, transport and such other activities as may be approved in this behalf by the State Government;\n(ii) to undertake, on its own or in collaboration whether through such Scheduled Castes Organisations or other agencies as may be approved by the Corporation, any activity in relation to any of the matters specified in clause (i), for furthering the objects of the Corporation;\n(iii) to give on hire agricultural or industrial machinery or equipments to the members of the Scheduled Castes Organisations;\n(iv) to give grants and subsidies and to guarantee loans taken by the members of Scheduled Castes Organisations;\n(v) to encourage employment opportunities for the member of the Scheduled Castes;\n(vi) to undertake any other activity which the State Government may entrust to the Corporation;\n(vii) to grant loans or obtain covered loans to members of the Scheduled Castes;\n(viii) to borrow money subject to such conditions as the State Government may specify;\n(ix) to issue bonds and debentures;\n(x) to draw, make, accept, endorse, discount, execute and issue promissory notes, bills of exchange, hundis, bills, warrants, debentures and other negotiable instruments;\n(xi) to invest or deposit surplus funds of the Corporation in Government securities or in such other manner as the State Government may, by general or special order, direct; and\n(xii) to discharge such other functions as may be prescribed or as are supplemental, incidental or consequential to any of the functions conferred on it by or under this Act.\nChapter IV\nFinance, Accounts and Audit",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 15
        },
        {
            "number": "17",
            "title": "17. State Government to provide initial capital.",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 16
        },
        {
            "number": "18",
            "title": "18. Fund of Corporation.",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 17
        },
        {
            "number": "19",
            "title": "19. Accounts.",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 18
        },
        {
            "number": "20",
            "title": "20. Audit.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Chapter V\nMiscellaneous",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 19
        },
        {
            "number": "21",
            "title": "21. Advisory Committee.",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 20
        },
        {
            "number": "22",
            "title": "22. Recovery of money due to Corporation.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 21
        },
        {
            "number": "23",
            "title": "23. Dissolution.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 22
        },
        {
            "number": "24",
            "title": "24. Consequence of dissolution of Corporation.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(i) all directors shall, from the date of dissolution, vacate their offices,\n(ii) all powers and duties of the Corporation shall, during the period of dissolution, be exercised and performed by such person as the State Government may appoint in this behalf,\n(iii) all funds and other property vested in the Corporation shall, during the period of dissolution, vest in the State Government.",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 23
        },
        {
            "number": "25",
            "title": "25. Protection of action taken in good faith.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 24
        },
        {
            "number": "26",
            "title": "26. Indemnity to directors.",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 25
        },
        {
            "number": "27",
            "title": "27. Power of Corporation to make regulations.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) the time and places of meetings of the Corporation and the procedure to be followed in relation to such meetings including the quorum necessary for the transaction of business;\n(b) duties which the managing director shall perform;\n(c) the duties, conduct, salaries, allowances and conditions of service of officers and other employees of the Corporation;\n(d) the delegation of powers and functions to the officers and other employees of the Corporation;\n(e) the establishment and maintenance of provident and other benefit funds for the officers and employees of the Corporation;\n(f) any other matter which is, or may be, necessary for the efficient conduct of affairs of the Corporation.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 26
        },
        {
            "number": "28",
            "title": "28. Power of State Government to make rules.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) the terms and conditions of service of the directors and the fees and allowances payable to them;\n(b) functions, in addition to those specified in sub-section (2) of section 16, to be discharged by the Corporation and the conditions and restrictions subject to which those functions shall be discharges;\n(c) the form and manner in which accounts shall be maintained and the balance sheet and income and expenditure accounts shall be prepared;\n(d) the form in which certificate shall be issued by the managing director, the period within which and the authority before whom an appeal shall be filed, and the procedure to be followed by the appellate authority under section 22;\n(e) any other matter which is required to be, or may be, prescribed.",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 27
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    "metadata": {
        "Act ID": "guj181",
        "Act Number": "Gujarat Act No. 10 of 1985",
        "Enactment Date": "",
        "Act Year": "1985",
        "Short Title": "The Gujarat Scheduled Castes Development Corporation Act, 1985",
        "Type": "STATE",
        "Location": "Gujarat"
    },
    "updated_at": "2026-09-29 21:55:19"
}