SECRETARIAT OF THE KERALA LEGISLATURE

NOTIFICATION

No. 6360/Legn.2/2011/Leg. Dated, Thiruvananthapuram, 20th December, 2011.

The Kerala Irrigation and Water Conservation (Amendment) Bill, 2011

together with the Statement of Object and Reasons and the Financial

Memorandum is published, under Rule 69 of the Rules of Procedure and

Conduct of Business in the Kerala Legislative Assembly.

P. D. RAJAN,

Secretary,

Legislative Assembly.

Kerala Gazette No. 51 dated 27th December 2011.

PART II

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Thirteenth Kerala Legislative Assembly

Bill No. 65

THE KERALA IRRIGATION AND WATER CONSERVATION

(AMENDMENT) BILL, 2011

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BILL

further to amend the Kerala Irrigation and Water Conservation Act, 2003.

Preamble.—WHEREAS, it is expedient further to amend the Kerala Irrigation

and Water Conservation Act, 2003 (31 of 2003) for the purposes hereinafter

appearing;

BE it enacted in the Sixty-second Year of the Republic of India, as

follows:—

1.

Short title and commencement.—(1) This Act may be called the Kerala

Irrigation and Water Conservation (Amendment) Act, 2011.

(2) It shall come into force at once.

2.

Amendment of section 58.—In sub-section (1) of section 58 of the

Kerala Irrigation and Water Conservation Act, 2003 (31 of 2003) after clause (j),

the following clause shall be inserted namely:—

“(k)

A Police Officer not below the rank of an Inspector General of

Police to be nominated by the Government”.

STATEMENT OF OBJECTS AND REASONS

The Kerala Dam Safety Authority in its 15th meeting proposed the

Government to include a Police Officer not below the rank of an Inspector

General of Police as member in the Kerala Dam Safety Authority by considering

the increased threat on the safety of Dams. Government have accepted the

proposal and decided to make provision in the Kerala Irrigation and Water

Conservation Act, 2003 (31 of 2003) to nominate a Police Officer not below the

rank of an Inspector General of Police as a member in the Kerala Dam Safety

Authority, by amending sub-section (1) of section 58 of the said Act.

2.

The Bill seeks to achieve the above object.

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FINANCIAL MEMORANDUM

Clause 2 of the Bill provides for the nomination of a Police Officer not

below the rank of an Inspector General of Police as a member of the Dam Safety

Authority. Expenditure on account of Travelling Allowance, or Dearness

Allowance, sitting fee will be required in the case of inclusion of a new member

ie, an Inspector General of Police to the Kerala Dam Safety Authority. The Bill,

if enacted and brought into operation would involve expenditure from the

Consolidated Fund of the State. Though the expenditure can be considered as

nominal the actual expenditure that may have to be incurred on this account

cannot be estimated with any reasonable degree of accuracy at this stage.

P. J. JOSEPH.