THE ODISHA LOKAYUKTA (AMENDMENT) ACT, 2019

TABLE OF CONTENTS

PREAMBLE :

SECTIONS :

1. Short title and Commencement

2. Amendment of Section 44

3. Amendment of Section 57

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EXTRAORDINARY

PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY

No.1752, CUTTACK, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2019 / BHADRA 22, 1941

LAW DEPARTMENT

NOTIFICATION

The 13th September, 2019

No.9572–I-Legis-10/2019/L.— The following Act of the Odisha Legislative Assembly

having been assented to by the Governor on the 10th September, 2019 is hereby

published for general information

ODISHA ACT 5 OF 2019

THE ODISHA LOKAYUKTA (AMENDMENT) ACT, 2019

AN

ACT

TO AMEND THE ODISHA LOKAYUKTA ACT, 2014

Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Odisha in the Seventieth Year of

the Republic of India, as follows:—

Short

title

and

commencement.

1. (1) This Act may be called the Odisha Lokayukta

(Amendment) Act, 2019.

(2) It shall deemed to have come into force on the 7th day

of July, 2018.

Amendment

of

section 44.

2. In the Odisha Lokayukta Act, 2014 (hereinafter referred

to as the principal Act), for section 44, the following section

shall be deemed to have been substituted, namely:—

“44. On and from the date of commencement of this

Act, every public servant shall make a declaration of his

assets and liabilities in such form and in such manner as may

be prescribed.”

Odisha Act 12 of

2018.

Amendment

of

section 57.

3.In the Principal Act, in section 57, in sub-section (2), for

clauses (k) and (I), the following clause shall be substituted,

namely:—

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“(k) the form and manner of declaration of assets and

liabilities by public servants under section 44:

Provided that the rules may be made under this clause

retrospectively from the date on which the provisions of this

Act came into force;”.

By Order of the Governor

SASHIKANTA MISHRA

Principal Secretary to Government

Printed and Published by the Director, Printing, Stationery and Publication, Odisha, Cuttack-10

Ex. Gaz. 1083-173+280