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Persons with Disabilities (Equal Opportunities, Protection of Rights and Full Participation) Act, 1995 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1995

.....in the Forty-sixth Year of the Republic of India as follows :- CHAPTER 1 : PRELIMINARY SECTION 1 : Short title, extent and commencement (1) This Act may be called the Persons with Disabilities (Equal Opportunities, Protection of Rights and Full Participation) Act, 1995. (2) It extends to the whole of India except the State of Jammu and Kashmir. (3) It shall come into force on such date3 (a) [a] 7-2-1996-See Gax. of Ind.. 7-9-1996. Pt. II, S. 3(i), Ext., p. 1 (No. 84). as the Central Government may, by notification, appoint. SECTION 2 : Definitions In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires.- (a) "appropriate Government" means,- (i) in relation to the Central Government or any establishment wholly or substantially financed by that Government, or a Cantonment Board constituted under the Cantonment Act, 1924 the Central Government: (ii) in relation to a State Government or any establishment wholly or substantially financed by that Government, or any local authority, other than a Cantonment Board, the State Government: (iii) in respect of the Central Co-ordination Committee and the Central Executive Committee, the Central Government: (iv) in respect of the State.....

The Persons with Disabilities (Equal Opportunities, Protection of Rights and Full Participation) Act, 1995 Complete Act

State: Kerala

Year: 1995

.....OF RIGHTS AND FULL PARTICIPATION) ACT, 1995 THE PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES (EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES, PROTECTION OF RIGHTS AND FULL PARTICIPATION) ACT, 1995 No.1 OF 1996 [1stJanuary,1996] An Act to give effect to the Proclamation on the Full Participation and Equality of the people with Disabilities in the Asian and Pacific Region. WHEREAS the Meeting to Launch the Asian and Pacific Decade of Disabled Persons 1993-----2002 convened by the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and Pacific held at Beijing on 1st to 5th December, 1992, adopted the Proclamation on the Full participation and Equality of people with Disabilities in the Asian and Pacific Region; AND WHEREAS India is a signatory to the said Proclamation; AND WHEREAS it is considered necessary to implement to Proclamation aforesaid. BE it enacted by Parliament in the Forty-sixth Year of the Republic of India as follows:--- CHAPTER 1 PRELIMINARY 1. Short title. Extent and commencement.- (1) This Act may be called the Persons With Disabilities (Equal Opportunities. Protection of Rights and Full Participation) Act, 1995. (2) It extends to the whole of India except the State of Jammu and Kashmir. .....

Persons with Disabilities (Equal Opportunities, Protection of Rights and Full Participation) Act, 1995 Chapter 8

Title: Non-discrimination

State: Central

Year: 1995

.....for the blind or for persons with low vision; (e) devising appropriate symbols of disability; (f) warning signals at appropriate places. Section 46 - Non-discrimination in the built environment The appropriate Governments and the local authorities shall, within the limits of their economic capacity and development, provide for-- (a) ramps in public buildings; (b) adaptation of toilets for wheel chair users; (c) braille symbols and auditory signals in elevators or lifts; (d) ramps in hospitals, primary health centres and other medical care and rehabilitation institutions. Section 47 - Non-discrimination in Government employment (1) No establishment shall dispense with, or reduce in rank, an employee who acquires a disability during his service: Provided that, if an employee, after acquiring disability is not suitable for the post he was holding, could be shifted to some other post with the same pay scale and service benefits: Provided further that if it is not possible to adjust the employee against any post, he may be kept on a supernumerary post until a suitable post is available or he attains the age of superannuation, whichever is earlier. (2).....

Persons with Disabilities (Equal Opportunities, Protection of Rights and Full Participation) Act, 1995 Section 44

Title: Non-discrimination Intransport

State: Central

Year: 1995

Establishments in the transport sector shall, within the limits of their economic capacity and development for the benefit of persons with disabilities, take special measures to-- (a) adapt rail compartments, buses, vessels and aircrafts in such a way as to permit easy access to such persons; (b) adapt toilets in rail compartments, vessels, aircrafts and waiting rooms in such a way as to permit the wheel chair users to use them conveniently.

Persons with Disabilities (Equal Opportunities, Protection of Rights and Full Participation) Act, 1995 Section 45

Title: Non-discrimination on Theroad

State: Central

Year: 1995

The appropriate Governments and the local authorities shall, within the limits of their economic capacity and development, provide for-- (a) installation of auditory signals at red lights in the public roads for the benefit of persons with visually handicap; (b) causing curb cuts and slopes to be made in pavements for the easy access of wheel chair users; (c) engraving on the surface of the zebra crossing for the blind or for persons with low vision; (d) engraving on the edge of railway platforms for the blind or for persons with low vision; (e) devising appropriate symbols of disability; (f) warning signals at appropriate places.

Persons with Disabilities (Equal Opportunities, Protection of Rights and Full Participation) Act, 1995 Section 46

Title: Non-discrimination in the Builtenvironment

State: Central

Year: 1995

The appropriate Governments and the local authorities shall, within the limits of their economic capacity and development, provide for-- (a) ramps in public buildings; (b) adaptation of toilets for wheel chair users; (c) braille symbols and auditory signals in elevators or lifts; (d) ramps in hospitals, primary health centres and other medical care and rehabilitation institutions.

Persons with Disabilities (Equal Opportunities, Protection of Rights and Full Participation) Act, 1995 Section 27

Title: Appropriate Governments and Local Authorities to Make Schemes and Programmes for Non-formal Education, Etc.

State: Central

Year: 1995

The appropriate Governments and the local authorities shall by notification make schemes for-- (a) conducting part-time classes in respect of children with disabilities who having completed education up to class fifth and could not continue their studies on a whole-time basis; (b) conducting special part-time classes for providing functional literacy for children in the age group of sixteen and above; (c) imparting non-formal education by utilising the available manpower in rural areas after giving them appropriate orientation; (d) imparting education through open schools or open universities; (e) conducting class and discussions through interactive electronic or other media; (f) providing every child with disability free of cost special books and equipments needed for his education.

The Persons with Disabilities Act, 1995 Complete Act

State: Meghalaya

Year: 1995

..... 17. The State Coordination Committee shall meet at least once in every six months and shall observe such rules of procedure in regard to the transaction of business at its meetings as may be prescribed. 18. (1) Subject to the provisions of this Act, the function of the State Coordination Committee shall be to serve as the state focal point on disability matters and facilitate the continuous evolution of a comprehensive policy towards solving the problems faced by persons with disabilities. (2) In particular and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing function the State Coordination Committee may, within the State perform all or any of the following functions, namely.- (a) Review and coordinate the activities of all the Departments of Government and other Governmental and non-Govemmental Organizations which are dealing with matters relating to persons with disabilities., (b) Develop a State policy to address issues faced by persons with disabilities; (c) Advise the State Government on the formulation of policies. Programmes, legislation and projects with respect to disability; (d) Review, in consultation with the donor agencies, their funding from the.....

Punjab Apartment and Property Regulation Act, 1995 Complete Act

State: Punjab

Year: 1995

.....and circulated a Model Draft Bill, fey the guidance of the State Government to enact such a legislation speedily. Hence this Bill. Scope of the Act. The Act of 1995 has been enacted with a view to regulate the promotion of the construction, transfer and management of apartments on ownership basis, to regulate colonies and property transactions and to provide for registration of promoters and estate agents and enforcement of obligations on promoters and estate agents and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto. Before the enactment of 1995 Act, the Punjab Regulation of Colonies Act, 1975 occupied the field. However, it was felt that the private colonizers were operating in the State with the sole motive of making profits without regard to the interest and rights of individual buyers of plots/flats. In order to check, control and regulate the activities of private colonisers and protect the interest of the consumers keeping in view the National Housing Policy, the Legislature enacted the 1995 Act. National Housing Policy. - About the necessity for promoting a national housing policy to overcome the acute shortage of housing in our country, this Court had occasion.....

Wakf Act, 1995 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1995

.....to the commencement of that provision in such State or area. SECTION 02: APPLICATION OF THE ACT Save as otherwise expressly provided under this Act, this Act shall apply to all wakfs whether created before or after the commencement of this Act : Provided that nothing in this Act shall apply to Dargah Khawaja Saheb, Ajmer to whichthe Dargah Khawaja Saheb Act, 1955 (?? of 1955)applies. SECTION 03: DEFINITIONS In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires- (a) "beneficiary" means a person or object for whose benefit a wakf is created and includes religious, pious and charitable objects and any other objects of public utility sanctioned by the Muslim law; (b) "benefit" does not include any benefit which a mutawalli is entitled to claim solely by reason of his being such mutawalli; (c) "Board" means a Board of Wakf established under sub-section (1), or as the case may be, under sub-section (2) of section 13-and shall include a common Wakf Board established under section 106-; (d) "Chief Executive Officer" means the Chief Executive Officer appointed under sub-section (1) of section 23-; (e) "Council" means the Central Wakf Council established under section 9-; (f).....