West Bengal Revenue Intelligence (Collection And Monitoring of Information) Act, 1996
No: 18 Dated: Jul, 30 1996
THE WEST BENGAL REVENUE INTELLIGENCE (COLLECTION AND MONITORING OF INFORMATION) ACT, 1996
West Bengal Act XVIII of 1996
An Act to provide for the collection, compilation, analysis, preservation and monitoring of information and statistics with respect to commercial activities of trade, industry and agriculture in West Bengal and for the use of such information and statistics in framing or implementing the fiscal policy of the State of West Bengal.
Whereas it is expedient to provide for the collection, compilation, analysis, preservation and monitoring of information and statistics with respect to commercial activities of trade, industry and agriculture in West Bengal and for the use of such information and statistics in framing or implementing the fiscal policy of the State of West Bengal;
It is hereby enacted as follows :-
1. Short title, extent and commencement. - (1) This Act may be called the West Bengal Revenue Intelligence (Collection and Monitoring of Information) Act, 1996.
(2) It extends to the whole of West Bengal.
(3) If shall come into force on such date as the State Government may, by notification, appoint.
2. Definitions. - In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, -
(a) "appropriate authority" means -
(i) the Central Government, or
(ii) the State Government, or
(iii) an undertaking of the Central Government or the State Government, or
(iv) any local authority, or
(v) any bank or other financial institution, or
(vi) the railway administration within the meaning of the Indian Railways Act, 1890, or
(vii) the Board of Trustees for a port within the meaning of the Major Port Trusts Act, 1963, or
(viii) the authority exercising any powers or jurisdiction in, or relating to, any port to which the Indian Ports Act, 1908, for the time being applies, or
(ix) Indian Airlines, or Air-India International, within the meaning of the Air Corporations Act, 1953;
(b) "commercial activity" means any activity in relation to trade, industry or agriculture of a trading or industrial concern relating to purchase, sale, manufacture, or processing, of goods, and includes import of goods into West Bengal or despatch of goods to any place outside West Bengal;
(c) "Director" means the Director of Revenue Intelligence appointed under clause (a) of sub-section (1) of section 3;
(d) "notification" means a notification published in the Official Gazette,
(e) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this Act.
3. Authorities and their jurisdiction. - (1)(a) For carrying out the purposes of this Act, the State Government may appoint a person to be the Director of Revenue Intelligence, together with such other persons to assist him as it thinks fit, and may specify the area or areas over which they shall exercise jurisdiction:
Provided that the State Government may authorise the Director to appoint such persons to assist him as he thinks fit and to specify the area or areas over which they shall exercise jurisdiction.
(b) The State Government may appoint any person, not being the Director, appointed under clause (a), to be a Revenue Intelligence Officer.
(2) Persons appointed under sub-section (1) shall exercise such powers as may be conferred, and perform such duties as may be required, by or under this Act.
(3) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in sub-section (1), the Director may transfer any case or matter from any person appointed under sub-section (1) to assist him to any other person so appointed, whether such other person has jurisdiction over the area to which the case or matter relates or not, provided he is otherwise competent to deal with such case or matter in exercise or performance of the powers or duties referred to in sub-section (2).
(4) All persons appointed under sub-section (1) shall be deemed to be public servants within the meaning of section 21 of the Indian Penal Code.