Arunachal Pradesh Property (Prevention of Damage and Loss) Act, 2020

No: 2 Dated: Mar, 16 2020

THE ARUNACHAL PRADESH PROPERTY (PREVENTION OF DAMAGE AND lOSS) ACT, 2020

(ACT NO.2 OF 2020)

    An Act to provide for the prevention of damage to property, compensation for damage & loss to any property and for the matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.

    BE it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arunachal Pradesh in the seventy first year of the Republic of India as follows:-

CHAPTER-I

PRELIMINARY

1. Short title and commencement: (i) This Act may be called the Arunachal Pradesh Property (Prevention of Damage and Loss) Act, 2020.

(ii) It shall extend to the whole of the State of Arunachal Pradesh.

(iii) It shall come into force on such date as the State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint.

2. Definitions: In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires:

(1) "Act" means Arunachal Pradesh Property (Prevention of Damage and Loss) Act, 2020;

(2) "Abetment" shall have the same meaning as in section 107 of the Indian Penal Code;

(3) "Appellate Authority" means an authority constituted under sub section (1) of section 18;

(4) "Compensation" means quantum of damage or loss to any property as determined under sub section (3) of section 17;

(5) "Competent Authority" means an authority constituted under sub-section (1) of section 17;

(6) "Direct action" means the use of strikes, demonstration or other public forms of protests rather than negotiation to achieve a demand;

(7) "Declared direct action" means any act of declaring direct action as defined in clause (6) of section 2 and includes announcement of such action firmly, clearly or publicly;

(8) "Government" means the Government of Arunachal Pradesh;

(9) "Mischief" shall have the same meaning as in section 425 of the Indian Penal Code;

(10) "Political party" means a political party recognized by the Election Commission under the Election Symbols (Reservation and Allotment) Order, 1968 ;

(11) "Prescribed" means prescribed by Rules published in the State Gazette;

(12) "Property" means any property, movable or immovable or machinery owned by or in possession of, or under the control of any person including -

(i) the Central Government; or

(ii) the State Government; or

(iii) any Local Authority; or

(iv) any corporation or institution established by, or under a Central or State Act; or

(v) any company as defined in sub-section 20 of section 2 of the Companies Act, 2013 (Act No. 18 of 2013); or

(vi) any board established by, or under a Central or State Act; or

(vii) any society including cooperative society registered under a Central or State Act; or

(viii) any trust registered under a Central or State Act; or

(ix) any institution, concern or undertaking, which the Central Government or the State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, specify in this behalf; and

(x) any private person, body or institution.

(13) "Section" means section of this Act.

Explanation : - For the purposes of clause (v), "company" means any body corporate and includes a trust, a firm, a society or other association of individuals.