THE ARUNACHAL PRADESH JAN VISHWAS

(AMENDMENT OF PROVISIONS) ACT, 2026

(Act No. 2 of, 2026)

Act

A Bill to amend certain enactments for decriminalising and rationalising offences and to

further enhance trust based governance for ease of living and doing business.

Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of Arunachal Pradesh in the seventy-seventh

year of the Republic of India as follows,-

Short title, extent and commencement: (1) This Act may be called the Arunachal

Pradesh Jan Vishwas (Amendment of Provisions) Act, 2026.

(2) It shall extend to whole of Arunachal Pradesh.

(3) It shall come into force on the date of its publication in the Official Gazette.

Amendment of certain enactments: The enactments mentioned in column (4) of the

Schedule are hereby amended to the extent and in the manner mentioned in column (5)

thereof.

Savings: The amendment by this Act of any enactment shall not affect any other enactment

in which the amended enactment has been applied, incorporated or referred to;

and this Act shall not affect the validity, invalidity, effect or consequences of anything

already done or suffered, or any right, title, obligation or liability already acquired, accrued or

incurred or any remedy or proceeding in respect thereof, or any release or discharge of, or from

any debt, penalty, obligation, liability, claim or demand, or any indemnity already granted, or the

proof of any past act or thing;

nor shall this Act affect any principle or rule of law, or established jurisdiction, form or

course of pleading, practice or procedure, or existing usage, custom, privilege, restriction,

exemption, office or appointment, notwithstanding that the same respectively may have been in

any manner affirmed, or recognised or derived by, in or from any enactment hereby amended;

nor shall the amendment by this Act of any enactment revive or restore any jurisdiction,

office, custom, liability, right, title, privilege, restriction, exemption, usage, practice, procedure

or other matter or thing not now existing or in force.

The Arunachal Pradesh Gazette

EXTRAORDINARY

PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY

No. 78, Vol. XXXIII, Naharlagun, Monday, March 16, 2026, Phalguna 25, 1947 (Saka)

GOVERNMENT OF ARUNACHAL PRADESH

LAW, LEGISLATIVE AND JUSTICE DEPARTMENT

CIVIL SECRETARIAT

ITANAGAR

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NOTIFICATION

The 13th March, 2026

No. LAW/LEGN-8/2026.—The following Act of the Arunachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly

which was passed in the Fifth Session of the Eighth Legislative Assembly and received the

assent of the Governor of Arunachal Pradesh is hereby published for general information.

(Received the assent of the Governor on 11th March, 2026)

(See Section 2)

Sl.

Year

Act No.

Short title

Amendment

No.

of the Act

1978

3 of 1979

The Arunachal

1. In sub-section (2) of Section 116 of the Act,

Pradesh

for the words and expression “five hundred

Co-operative

rupees” the words and expression

Societies

“fifty thousand rupees” shall be

Act, 1978

substituted.

2. For Section 117, the following shall be

substituted;-

“117. For the purpose of this Act, the

following shall be an offence, if-

(a) any member of a society transfer any

property or interest in the property in

contravention of sub-section (2)

of Section 48 or any person knowingly

acquires, or abets in the acquisition of,

such property;

(b) any employer and every Director,

Manager, Secretary or other or agent

acting on behalf of such employer who

without sufficient cause, fails to comply

with sub-section(2) of Section 50; or

member thereof fails to invest funds of

such society in the manner required by

Section 71;or

(d) any person, collecting share money for a

society information does not within a

reasonable period deposit the same in

the Apex Bank, or an Urban Co-operative

Bank, or Postal Savings Bank; or

(e) any person, collecting share money for a

society information makes use of the

funds so raised for conducting any

business or trading in the name of a

society to be registered or otherwise; or

(f) a Committee of a society, or an officer

member thereof fails to comply with the

provisions of sub-section (2), (3) or (4)

of Section 76 ; or.

(g) any officer or member of a society who

is in possession of information, books

and records, fails to furnish such

information or produce books and

papers, or give assistance to a person

appointed or authorised by the State

Government or the Registrar under

Sections 79, 82, 84, 86 or 98 or 107; or.

(h) any officer of a society fails to hand over

the custody of books, records cash

security and other property belonging to

the society of which he is an officer to a

person appointed under Section 79 or

107; or

(i)

a committee of a society with a working

Capital of fifty thousand rupees or more,

or any officer or a member thereof, fails

without any reasonable excuse to give

any notice, sent any return or document,

do or allow to be done anything, which

the committee, officer or member is by

this Act required to give, send, do or

allow to be done or comply with orders

made under Section 80; or.

(j)

a committee of a society or an officer or

member thereof willfully neglects or

refuses to do any act, or to furnish any

information required for the purposes of

this Act, by the Registrar, or other

person duly authorised by him in writing

in this behalf; or

(k) a committee of a society or an officer or

member thereof willfully makes a false

return or furnished false information or

fails to maintain proper accounts; or

(l)

any member, officer, agent or servant of a

society fails to comply with the

requirements of sub-section (4)

of Section 82; or

(m) any officer or a member of a society

willfully fails to comply with any

decision, award or order passed under

Section 97; or

(n) a member of a society fraudulently

disposes of property over which the

society has prior claim or a member or

officer or employee or any person

disposes of his property by sale,

transfer, mortgage, gift or otherwise with

the fraudulent intention of evading the

dues of the society; or

(o) any officer of a society willfully

recommends or sanctions for his own

personal use or benefit of a person in

whom he is interested a loan in the

name of any other person; or

(p) any officer or member of a society

destroys, mutilates, tampers with or,

otherwise alters, falsifies or secrets or is

privy to the destruction, mutilation,

alteration, falsification or secreting of any

books, papers or securities or makes or

is privy to the making or any false or

fraudulent entry in any register, book of

account or document belonging to the

society; or.

(q) any officer or member of a society or any

person does any act declared by the

rules to be an offence.

Explanation: for the purpose of this Section

an officer or a member referred to in the

Section shall include past officer and past

member, as the case may be”.

3. For Section 118 of the Act, the following

shall be substituted-

“118. Punishments for offences under

Section 117, every society, officer or past

officer, member or past member or past

employee of a society, or any other person

who commits an offence under Section 117

shall be punished;

(a) In clause (a), for the words and

expression “five hundred rupees” the

words and expression “one lakh rupees”

shall be substituted.

(b) In clause (b), the words and expression

“with imprisonment for a term which may

extend to one month, or” shall be

deleted and for the words and

expression “five hundred rupees” the

words and expression “seventy-five

thousand rupees” shall be substituted.

expression “five hundred rupees” the

words and expression “fifty thousand

rupees” shall be substituted.

(d) In clause (d), for the words and

expression “five hundred rupees” the

words and expression “fifty thousand

rupees” shall be substituted.

(e) In clause (e), for the words and

expression “one thousand rupees” the

words and expression “one lakh rupees”

shall be substituted.

(f) In clause (f), for the words and

expression “two hundred fifty rupees” the

words and expression “twenty five

thousand rupees” shall be substituted.

(g) In clause (g), for the words and

expression “five hundred rupees” the

words and expression “fifty thousand

rupees” shall be substituted.

(h) In clause (h), for the words and

expression “five hundred rupees” the

words and expression “fifty thousand

rupees” shall be substituted.

(i) In clause (i), for the words and

expression “five hundred rupees” the

words and expression “fifty thousand

rupees” shall be substituted.

(j) In clause (j), for the words and

expression “with imprisonment for a term

which may extend to one month, or”

shall be deleted and for the words and

expression “five hundred rupees” the

words and expression “seventy-five

thousand rupees” shall be substituted.

(k) In clause (k), for the words and

expression “two thousand rupees” the

words and expression “two lakh rupees”

shall be substituted.

(l) In clause (l), for the words and

expression “one hundred rupees” the

words and expression “twenty five

thousand rupees” shall be substituted.

(m) In clause (m), for the words and

expression “five hundred rupees” the

words and expression “fifty thousand

rupees” shall be substituted.

(n) In clause (n) for the words and

expression, “one thousand rupees” the

words and expression “one lakh rupees”

shall be substituted.

(o) In clause (o), after the words and

expression “or with fine”, the words and

expression, “that may extend to two lakh

rupee” shall be inserted.

In clause (p), after the words and

expression “or with fine”, the words and

expression “which shall not be less than

fifty thousand rupees” shall be inserted.

In clause (q), for the words and expression

“two hundred and fifty rupees, the words

and expression “twenty five thousand

rupees” shall be substituted.

1979

4 of 1979

In Section 40 of the Act,-

(1) (1) for the words and expression

“two thousand rupees” the words and

expressions “fifty thousand rupees” shall

be substituted.

(2) after the words and expressions

“imprisonment for a term which may extend

to three years and with fine” the following

proviso shall be inserted,-

“Provided that, no person shall be punished

with imprisonment under this Section if the

manufacture, repair or sell of any weight or

measures was carried out after the expiry

of previously valid licence and the person

was prevented by sufficient cause from

renewing his licence as per sub-section (3)

of Section 16”.

2016

4 of 2016

In Section 22, -

(a) the words and expression “with

imprisonment for a term not exceeding

six months, or” shall be deleted; and

(b) for the words and expression

“ten thousand rupees or with both” the

words and expression “fifty thousand

rupees” shall be substituted; and

two hundred” the words and expression

“two thousand rupees” shall be

substituted.

(d) for the words and expression “two

thousand rupees per day” the words and

expression “twenty thousand rupees per

day, subject to overall maximum fine of

one lakh rupees” shall be substituted.

(2) In Section 23-

(a) the words and expression “with

imprisonment for a term which may

extend to three months, or” shall be

deleted; and

(b) for the words and expression “two

thousand rupees or with both” the words

and expression “fifty thousand rupees,

and recovery of any benefit that the

person may have obtained on account of

the said false statement” shall be

substituted;

The

Arunachal

Pradesh

Weights

and Measures

(Enforcement)

Act, 1979

The

Arunachal

Pradesh

(Tourism

Trade

Registration

and

Regulation)

Act, 2016

(3) In Section 24-

(a) the words and expression “with

imprisonment for a term which may

extend to six months, or” shall be

deleted; and

(b) for the words and expression “ten

thousand rupees or with both”, the words

and expression “twenty-five thousand

rupees” shall be substituted;

(4) In Section 26-

(a) the words and expression “a malpractice

or” and the words and expression “with

imprisonment for a term which may

extend to three month, or” shall be

deleted: and

(b) for the words and expression “ten

thousand rupees or with both”, the words

and expression “fifty thousand rupees”

shall be substituted

(5) In Section 27,

(a) for the words and expression “Non-

Arunachalee” the words and expression

“A person not ordinarily a resident of

Arunachal Pradesh” shall be

substituted; and

(b) for the words and expression “under

Section 188 of Indian Penal Code” the

words and expression “with a fine not

exceeding five thousand rupees” shall

be substituted.

2019

8 of 2019

In the Second Schedule appended to the

Act, in the penalty prescribed in column (3),

against the entry for the offenses of

violation of -

(a) Section 310 of the Act, the words and

expression “imprisonment which may

extend to one month or rupees 1000 or

both” shall be deleted.

The

Arunachal

Pradesh

Municipal

Corporation

Act, 2019

Saugat Biswas, IAS

Commissioner to the

Government of Arunachal Pradesh,

Itanagar.

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Secy. (LA)-20+Commissioner (Law)-20-3-2026.