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Karnataka Ground Water (Regulation for Protection of Sources of Drinking Water) Act, 1999 Preamble 1

Title: Karnataka Ground Water (Regulation for Protection of Sources of Drinking Water) Act, 1999

State: Karnataka

Year: 1999

THE KARNATAKA GROUND WATER (REGULATION FOR PROTECTION OF SOURCES OF DRINKING WATER) ACT, 1999 [Act, No. 44 of 2003]1 [17th October, 2003] PREAMBLE An Act to regulate the exploitation of ground water for the protection of public sources of drinking water and matters connected therewith and incidental thereto. Whereas it is expedient to regulate the exploitation of ground water for the protection of public sources of drinking water and to provide for matters connected therewith and incidental thereto. Be it enacted by the Karnataka State Legislature in the fiftieth year of the Republic of India as follows. ________________________ 1. First published in the Karnataka Gazette Extra-ordinary on the Twenty seventh day of October, 2003.

Karnataka Ground Water (Regulation for Protection of Sources of Drinking Water) Act, 1999 Complete Act

Title: Karnataka Ground Water (Regulation for Protection of Sources of Drinking Water) Act, 1999

State: Karnataka

Year: 1999

Preamble 1 - KARNATAKA GROUND WATER (REGULATION FOR PROTECTION OF SOURCES OF DRINKING WATER) ACT, 1999 Chapter I Section 1 - Short title extent and commencement Section 2 - Definitions Chapter II Section 3 - Permission to sink well etc Section 4 - Declaration of water Scarcity area Section 5 - Regulation of extraction of water from wells in water scarcity area Section 6 - Declaration of over-exploited watershed Section 7 - Prohibition for sinking wells in over-exploited watershed Section 8 - Prohibition of extraction of water from an existing well for certain period Section 9 - Closing down of existing well Section 10 - Power of entry upon any land for obtaining information Section 11 - Power to stop contravention of the provisions of section 3, 5, 7, 8 or 9 Section 12 - Payment of compensation Section 13 - Bar to claim compensation Chapter III Section 14 - Appeals Section 15 - Protection of action taken in good faith Section 16 - Penalty Section 17 - Offences by companies Section 18 - Overriding effect of Act Section 19 - Method of service of notices etc Section 20 - Power to make rules Section 21 - Power to remove difficulties

Karnataka Municipal Corporations Act, 1976 Section 397

Title: Prohibition Against Use of Burial and Burning Grounds Dangerous to Health or Overcrowded with Graves

State: Karnataka

Year: 1976

(1) If the Commissioner is of opinion,- (a) that any registered or licensed place for the disposal of the dead or any place provided for such disposal by the Corporation or by the Government is in such a state or situation as to or to be likely to become dangerous to health of persons living in the neighbourhood thereof; or (b) that any burial ground is overcrowded with graves, and if in the case of a public or burning ground or other place as aforesaid another convenient place duly authorised for the disposal of the dead exists or has been provided for the persons who would ordinarily make use of such place, he may with the consent of the corporation and the previous sanction of the Government, give notice that it shall not be lawful after a period to be named in such notice, to bury, burn or otherwise dispose of any corpse at such place. (2) Every notice given under sub-section (1) shall be affixed to some part of such place. (3) After the expiry of the period named in such notice it shall not be lawful to bury, burn or otherwise dispose of a corpse at such place except with the permission of the Commissioner.

The Orissa Tenancy Act, 1913 Complete Act

State: Orissa

Year: 1913

.....Puri and Balasore in the State of Orissa, except any area or part of an area which is constituted as a Municipality under the Bengal Municipal Act, 1884 (Bengal Act III of 1884), and which is specified in this behalf by notification issued by the State Government. Section 2 - Repeal The enactments specified in Schedule I are hereby repealed in the area to which this Act extends. Section 3 - Definitions (1) In this Act, unless there is something repugnant in the subject or context (1) "agricultural year" means the year commencing on the first day of Baisakh of the Oriya year; Provided that the first agricultural year shall be deemed to commence on the first day of Baisakh following the date of the commencement of this Act; (2) "bazyaftidar" means a person holding lands the title to hold which upon special terms was declared invalid by the Cuttack Land Revenue Regulation, 1805 (XII of 1805), the Bengal Land Revenue Assessment (Resumed Lands) Regulation, 1819 (II of 1819) or the Bengal Revenue-free Lands Regulation, 1825 (XIV of 1825) and which have been assessed, in the course of a settlement of land-revenue, at a rent fixed for the term of that settlement; and.....

Cantonments Act, 1924 Section 147

Title: Power to Require Closing of Burial or Burning Ground

State: Central

Year: 1924

.....shall be annexed to the notice. (3) Where the2[Central Government] sanctions the issues of any such notice, it shall require anew burial or burning ground to be provided at the expense of the cantonment fund, or, if the community concerned is willing to provide a new burial or burning ground, the2[Central Government] shall require a grant to be made from the cantonment fund towards the cost of the same. (4) No corpse shall be buried or burnt in any burial or burning ground in respect of which a notice issued under this section is for the time being in force. ________________________ 1. Substituted by Act 24 of 1936, section 69, for "Cantonment Authority" 2. Substituted by the A.O. 1937, for "L.G.".

Cantonments Act, 2006 Section 152

Title: Power to Require Closing of Burial or Burning Ground

State: Central

Year: 2006

.....of, persons living in the neighbourhood, it may with the previous sanction of the Central Government by notice in writing, require the owner or person in charge of such ground to close the same from such date as may be specified in the notice. (2) Where the Central Government sanctions the issue of any notice under subsection (1) it shall declare the conditions on which the burial or burning ground may be reopened, and a copy of such declaration shall be annexed to the notice. (3) Where the Central Government sanctions the issues of any such notice, it shall require a new burial or burning ground to be provided at the expense of the cantonment fund, or, if the community concerned is willing to provide a new burial or burning ground, the Central Government shall require a grant to be made from the cantonment fund towards the cost of the same. (4) No corpse shall be buried or burnt in any burial or burning ground in respect of which a notice issued under this section is for the time being in force.

New Delhi Municipal Council Act 1994 Section 302

Title: Power to Require Closing of Burning and Burial Grounds

State: Central

Year: 1994

(1) Where the Chairperson, after making or causing to be made local inquiry is of opinion that any burning or burial ground has become offensive to, or dangerous to the health of, persons residing in the neighbourhood, he may, with the previous sanction of the Council, by notice in writing, require the owner or person in charge of such ground to close the same from such date as may be specified in the notice. (2) No corpse shall be burnt or buried at the burning or burial ground in respect of which a notice has been issued under this section.

Karnataka Panchayat Raj Act, 1993 Section 95

Title: Prohibition Against Burying or Burning, in Unauthorised Places

State: Karnataka

Year: 1993

No person shall in any panchayat area bury, burn or otherwise dispose of or cause or suffer to be buried, burnt or otherwise disposed of any corpse in any place within hundred meters of a dwelling place or any source of drinking water supply other than a place registered under section 92 or licensed under section 93, or provided by the Grama Panchayat.

Karnataka Panchayat Raj Act, 1993 Section 92

Title: Registration of Burial and Burning Grounds

State: Karnataka

Year: 1993

(1) Every owner or person having the control of any place used at the commencement of this Act, as a public place for burying, burning or otherwise disposing of the dead in a panchayat area, shall, if such place be not already registered under any law applicable thereto, apply to the Grama Panchayat to have such place registered under this Act. (2) If it appears to such Grama Panchayat that there is no owner or person having control of such place, the Grama Panchayat shall assume such control, and register such place or may close it.

Bengal Land Revenue Sales Act, 1868 Complete Act

State: West Bengal

Year: 1868

.....and the Commissioner shall be competent, in every case of appeal so preferred, to annul any sale of an estate or share of an estate made under this Act or Act 11 of 1859, which shall appear to him not to have been conducted according to the provisions of the said Act, awarding at the same time to the purchaser a payment from the proprietor of compensation for his loss, if the sale shall have been occasioned by neglect of the proprietor, such compensation not to exceed the interest at the highest rate of the current Government securities on the amount of deposit or balance of purchase-money during the period of its being retained in the Collectors office; and the order of the Commissioner, shall in such cases be final. Section 3 Time for revenue sales extended 55.Wrods "From the date when this Act comes into operation," rep. by Act 1 of 1903. * * * * * The word "thirty" shall be substituted for the word "fifteen" in section 6 of the said Act 11 of 1859 66.Words 'and the words "or more than thirty" in the same section shall be omitted therefrom, and the said section shall be read as if the same had not been inserted therein' rep. by Act 1 of 1903. * * * *. Section 4 Time for.....