Rajasthan Enterprises Single Window Enabling and Clearance Act, 2011
No: 7 Dated: Mar, 27 2011
THE RAJASTHAN ENTERPRISES SINGLE WINDOW ENABLING AND CLEARANCE ACT, 2011
(Act No. 7 of 2011)
[Received the assent of the Governor on the 25th day of March, 2011]
An Act to provide for accelerated and time-bozmd grant of various licences, permissions and approvals and t0 enable an alternative Single window clearance mechanism to be triggered in case of failure of competent authorities to act in time, to support an investor friendly environment in the State of Rajasthan and fo matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.
Be it enacted. by the Rajasthan State Legislature in the Sixty-second Year of the Republic of India, as follows:-
1. Shorttitle, extent and c0mmencement.-(1) This Act may be called the Rajasthan Enterprises Single Window Enabling and Clearance Act, 2011.
(2) It extends to the whole of the State of Rajasthan.
(3) This section shall be deemed to have come into force on and from 261h December; 2010 and other provisions of this Act shall come into force on such date as the Government may, by notification,- appoint and different dates may be appointed for different provisions, in or in relation to, different-
(a) districts in the State; and
(b) format of the application form—
and any reference in any such provision to the commencement of this Act shall be construed as a reference to the coming into force of that provision in such districts, or in relation to such format of the application form.
2. Definitions.—In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires;
(a) "Bureau of Investment Promotion” means the Bureau of Investment Promotion as declared under section 4;
(b) "Competent Authority" means any department or agency of the Government, Local Authority, Statutory Body, State owned Corporation, Gram Panchayat, Municipahty, or any other authority or Agency constituted or established under any Rajasthan .law or finder administrative control of the Government, which is entrusted with the powers and responsibilities to grant or issue permissions for setting up or commencement of operations of an enterprise in the State;
(c) "District Empowered Committee" means the District Empowered Committee constituted under section 3;
(d) "enterprise“ means an industrial undertaking or a business concern or any other establishment, by whatever name catled, engaged in the manufacture or production of goods, in any manner, or engaged in providing 01‘ rendering of any service or services;
(e) "Government” means the State Government of Rajasthan;
(f) “investor" means any person who invests capital in any new enterprise or in an existing enterprise for expanding, modernizing or diversifying for securing income or profit or common social good;
(g) "Nodal Agency" means the Nodal Agencies referred to in section 5;
(h) "notification” means a notification published in the Rajasthah Gazette and the word 'notified‘ shall be construed accordingly;
(i) "permission" means grant or issue of permissiom no—objection Certificate, dearance, allotment, consent, approy‘ai, registration, enrolment, licence and the like, by any Competent Authority in connection with the setting; up of an enterprise in the State of Rajasthan and shail include all such permissions as are required under any Rajasthan 1am- until the enterprise commences its operation;
(j) "prescribed" means prescribed by the rules made under this Act;
(k) "State" means the State ofRajttsthan; and
(l) "State Empowered Committee" means the State Empowered Committee constituted under section 3