Assam State Vigilance Commission Act, 2010

No: 1 Dated: Jan, 07 2013

THE ASSAM STATE VIGILANCE COMMISSION ACT, 2010

ASSAM ACT NO. I OF 2013

    An Act to provide for the constitution of the Assam State Vigilance Commission to inquire or cause inquiries to be conducted into offences alleged to have been committed under the Prevention of Corruption AcC 1988 by certain categories of public servants of the State Government, corporations established by or under any State Act, Government companies, societies and local authorities owned or controlled by the State Government and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto;

    It is hereby enacted in the Sixty-first Year of the Republic of India as follows:-

CHAPTER -I

Preliminary

1. Short title, extent and commencement:-(1) This Act may be called the Assam State Vigilance Commission Act, 2010.

(2) It extends to the whole of Assam.

(3) 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 -

(a) "State Chief Vigilance Commissioner” means the Assam State Vigilance Commissioner appointed under sub-section (1) of section 4;

(b) “Commission” means the Assam State Vigilance Commission constituted under sub-section (1) of section 3;

(c) “Vigilance and Police Establishment” means the Vigilance Department or the Police charged with the inquiry and investigation of an offence under the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 or an offence with which a public servant may, under the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973, be charged at the same trial;

(d) “Government company” means a Government company within the meaning of the Companies Act, 1956

(e) “prescribed” means prescribed by rules made under this Act;

(f) “State Government” means the Government of Assam;

(g) “Vigilance Commissioner” means a Vigilance Commissioner appointed under sub section (1) of section 4