Rajasthan act 14 of 1963 : The Rajasthan Cattle Fairs Act,1963

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LAW DEPARTMENT

NOTIFICATION

Jaipur, June 15, 1963

N0. F 7 (20)—L/62.-The following Act of the Raj asthan State

legislature received the assent of the Governor on the 11th day of June,

1963, and is published for general information :-

THERAJASTHANSTATE CATTLE FAIRSACT, 1963.

(Act No. 14 0f1963)

[Received the assent of the Governor on the 11th day

Of June, 1963]

An

Act

to provide for the management and control of State Cattle Fairs.

Be it enacted by the Raj asthan State Legislature in the Fourteenth

Year of the Republic of India as follows:-

1. Short title, extent and commencement - (1) This Act may be

called the Raj asthan State Cattle Fairs Act, 1963.

(2) It extends to the whole of the State of Rajasthan.

(3) It shall come into force at once.

W VIE—El?! W Rajasthan Gazette EXTRAORDINARY WW WIRE, [Published by Authority GTE: 27, W, 2125 W1885— 513111963 Jyaistha 27, Monday, Shak Samvat 1885-- June 17, 1963 QIT‘T 4 (EB) W911? W W 2% affirm LAW DEPARTMENT NOTIFICATION Jaipur, June 15, 1963 No. F 7 (20)—L/62.-The following Act of the Raj asthan State legislature received the assent of the Governor on the 11th day of June, 1963, and is published for general information :- THE RAJASTHAN STA TE CATTLE FAIRS ACT, 1963. (Act No. 14 of 1963) [Received the assent of the Governor on the 11th day of June, 1963] An Act to provide for the management and control of State Cattle Fairs. Be it enacted by the Raj asthan State Legislature in the Fourteenth Year of the Republic of India as follows:- 1. Short title, extent and commencement - (1) This Act may be called the Raj asthan State Cattle Fairs Act, 1963. (2) It extends to the whole of the State of Rajasthan. (3) It shall come into force at once.

2. Definitions-- In this Act, unless the context requires otherwise- (i) "State Cattle Fair” means a fair mentioned in Schedule 1, (ii) 'fair area' means the area of a State Cattle Fair defined by the State Government; (iii) 'fair period' means the period mentioned against a fair in Schedule 1' (iv) 'Officer-in-charge' means any Officer appointed by the State Government to perform the duties of an Officer-in-charge in respect of all or any of the State Cattle Fairs. 3. Control of State Cattle Fairs -- The management and control of the State Cattle Fairs shall vest in the State Government and shall be made and exercised in accordance with the provisions of this Act and rules made thereunder. 4. No other fair to be held in the fair area. -- No cattle fair other than the State Cattle Fair shall be held within a radius of twenty miles of the fair area within three months next preceeding and two months next succeeding the fair period: provided that where the State Government is of opinion that it is necessary or expedient in the public interest to do so, the State Government may exempt any cattle fair from the operation of this Act. 5. Appointment of a Fair committee -- The State Government shall appoint in the prescribed manner a Fair Committee to assist the Officer-in-charge in the performance of his duties. 6. Levy of fair tax. -- Every person shall, in respect of any cattle purchased by him in the fair area during the fair period, pay to the State Government in the prescribed manner a fair tax at the rates given in Schedule II.

7. Power to impose tolls and fees.—- The State Government may impose within the fair area during the fair period the following levies in the prescribed manner, namely :- (i) tolls on vehicles entering such area for business purposes, and #(ii) octroi on goods brought for sale within such area. # octroi on goods brought for sale within such area omitted by law (a) department Notification No. F7 (4) L/68 Dated 13th September 1968. 8. Exclusion of jurisdiction of Local authorities.—- No local authority shall impose or levy any tax or fee in the fair area during the fair period. 9. Allotment of sites.—- (1) The Officer-in-charge may allot sites in the fair area for the fair period to any person or class of persons for any purpose and may fix rents for the sites in the prescribed manner. (2) In particular and without prejudice to the generality of the power conferred by sub-section (1), the Officer-in-charge may allot sites for the following:- (i) religious societies of the persuasion, if any, with which the State Cattle Fair is connected; (ii) social and other societies and organisations; (iii) officials of the State Government or local authorities.

(iv) market places and shops; (V) urinals; latrines and rubbish heaps; (vi) bathing places; (vii) recreation and entertainment; (viii) agricultural; industrial and other exhibitions and demonstrations; and (ix) for other purposes of the State Cattle Fair. 10. Power to make rules. -- (l) The State Government may make rules generally for carrying out the purposes of this Act and in particular for providing for - (i) establishment of a State Cattle Fair Fund; (ii) expenditure to be defrayed from such Fund and for utilising the surplus; (iii) sanitation and control of diseases in the fair area; (iv) appointment of the Fair Committees under section 5; (v) manner of imposition; assessment and collection of taxes and fees levied by this Act including the manner or recovery thereof by distress and sale; (vi) manner of allotment of sites and of fixing rents under section 9; (vii) proceedings and terms of compromise under section 18; and (viii) any other purpose for which rules are required to be or may be made.

(2) All rules made under this Act shall be laid as soon as may be after they are so made, before the House of the State Legislature, while it is in session, for a period of not less than fourteen days which may be comprised in one session or in two successive sessions and if, before the expiry of the session in which they are so laid or of the session immediately following, the House of the State Legislature makes any modification in any of such rules or resolves that any such rule should not be made, such rule shall thereafter have effect only in such modified form or be of no effect, as the case may be; so however that any such modification or annulment shall be without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done thereunder. 11. power to make regulations.—-_ Subject to the rules made under section 10, the Officer-in-charge may make regulations to provide generally against the outbreak or spread of fire and particularly for the following purposes, namely:- (i) safety of buildings and structures put up in the fair area; (ii) prescribing conditions on which huts and other structures may be constructed including limits to the height of such huts or structures and the area on which they are to be built and distance between them, (iii) providing for the supply of water; (iv) restricting the use of fire for cooking or for any other purpose. 12. Outbreak of fire. -- In the event of an outbreak of fire, the Officer-in—charge may order the demolition of any structure, if in his judgment its demolition is necessary or expedient for preventing the fire from spreading, and no suit or other proceeding shall be instituted for an act done or purporting to be done in good faith under this section.

13. Power to remove unauthorised construction.-- The Office-in-charge may remove any unauthorised construction and the cost of such removal may be recovered from any person making the construction, as arrears of land revenue. 14. Ejectment of allottees. -- The Officer-in-charge may order the ejectment from the site allotted to any person who contravenes any provision of the Act or any rule or regulation made under this Act. 15. Summary proceedings against person about to leave the fair area.-- (1) If the officer-in-charge shall at any time have reason to believe that any person, from whom any sum recoverable under the provisions of this Act is due, or is about to become due, is about to remove himself from the fair area, the Officer-in-charge may cause a bill for the sum due or about to become due to be presented to such person and demand immediate payment thereof. (2) If, on presentation of such bill, the said person does not forthwith pay the sum due, or about to become due by him, the amount shall be leviable by distress and sale in the prescribed manner of animals or other movable property in the possession of such person. 16. Penalties.—- Any person who_ (a) holds, collect, or otherwise takes part in, any fair in contravention of section 4; (b) uses as a latrine, urinal or rubbish dump any place not allotted for the purpose; (0) does not pay or evades the payment of any fee or tax payable under this act or rules made thereunder; or (d) contravenes any of the provisions of this Act or any rules or regulations made thereunder ;

shall be punishable, on conviction, with a fine which may extend shall be punishable, on conviction, with a fine which may extend to Rs. 500/— and where the offence is a continuing one, with a further fine which may extend to Rs. 25/— for every day, after the date of first conviction, during which such offence continues. 17. Cognizance of offences. -- (1) No court shall take cognizance of any offence under this Act except on a complaint made in writing by the Officer- in-charge. (2) Any offence under this Act may be tried in summary way. 18. Composition of offences.—- The Officer-in-charge may compromise with any person who in the opinion of the Officer-in-charge has committed an offence punishable under this Act or any rules or regulations made thereunder and on such compromise no proceedings shall be taken against such person in respect of such offence. Provided that the State Government may by rules regulate the proceedings of such compromise and the terms thereof. 19. Power to amend Schedule 1.-- The State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, amend Schedule I by way of any addition or omission therein. 20. Act to over-ride other laws.-- The provisions of this Act shall have effect, notwithstanding anything inconsistent therewith contained in any other law for the time being in force.

SCHEDULE I 10. SQV‘er’NH Tejaji Cattle Fair Shri J aswant Exhibition and Cattle Fair. Rarn Devaji Cattle Fair Mallinath ji Cattle Fair Merta Cattle Fair Mela Kartik Chandra Bhaga, Jhalrapatan, Mela Baisakh Gau- matisagar, Jhalrapatan Shiv Ratri Cattle Fair Gogameri Cattle Fair. Pushkar Cattle Fair Bullocks - He buffaloes - Horses - Mules. - Donkeys - Sheep and Goat - Camels - Parbatsar City (Distt. Nagaur). Bharatpur (Distt. Bharatpur) Nagaur (Distt. Nagaur). Tilwara (Distt. Barrner). Merta City (Distt. Nagaur). Jhalrapatan (Distt. Jhalawar). Jhalrapatan (Distt. J halawar) Karauli (DisttKarauli) Gogameri (Distt. Hanum an garh) . Pushkar (Distt. Aj mer). SCHEDULE II Rupees five per head. Rupees two and fifty naye Paise per head. Rupees six per head. Rupees two and fifty naye Paise per head. Rupees two per head. Fifty naye Paise per head. Rupees eight per head. Savan Shukla 15 to Bhadra krishna 15 Ashwin Shukla 5 to Ashwin Shukla 14. Magha Shukla 1 to Magha Shukla 15 Chaitra Krishan 11 to Chaitra Shukla 11 Chaitra Shukla 1 to Chaitra Shukla 15 Kartik Shukla 11 to Mangsir Krishna 5. Baisakh Shukla 13 to Jyaistha Krishna 5. Magha Shukla 15 to Phalgun Krishna 7 Sayan Shukla 15 to Bhadon Shukla 15. Kartik Shukla 8 to Mangsir Krishna 2.

Government of Rajasthan Animal Husbandry Department No. l-‘.V. 24(1)Dev./2(ll3/l/ Date: 1‘0 NOV 20??- NOTIFICATION ln exercise ol the powers ctIIItLIrL‘Ll b) seLlion l9 ol Rajasthan State Cattle Fails Act [96 I (Act No.14 oi 196 I) the State Government hereby makes the following amendment In Schedule l appended to the said Act namely. — Amendment In Schedule I apanded to the said Act in column number 3 against serial number 13. tor the existing expression ‘Kartik Shukla l to Kartik Shukla 10’, the expression ‘Kartik Shukla I to Margshish Krishna 2’shall be substituted. By Order of the Governor, flhy (N. L. Gupta) Deputy Secretary to the Government ('opy forwarded for information & necessary action to:- The Pr. Secretary to Gox ernor/ChiefMinister. I. 2. The Special Assistant to Minister for Animal Husbandry. 3. The PS. to Addl. Chief Secretary. Animal Husbandry, Rajasthan, Jaipur. 4. The Accountant General. Rajasthan, Jaipur. 5. The P. S. to Secretary. Animal Husbandry. Rajasthan. Jaipur. o. The Registrar. Rttiasthun High Court. Jaipur/ .lodhpur. All Head of Departments. .‘4 8. The Director ot‘Animal Husbandry. Rajasthan. Jaipur. 9. The Director. Public Relations Department, Rajasthan, Jaipur. It). The Secretary. Rajasthan Legislative Assembly, Jaipur. l I. Collector. Ajmer. 12. The Superintendent. Govt. Central Press, Jaipur for publication in the Rajasthan Raj patra. 13. Guard File. Deputy Secretary to the Government

2. Definitions—- In this Act, unless the context requires otherwise-

(i) ”State Cattle Fair” means a fair mentioned in Schedule 1;

(ii) 'fair area' means the area of a State Cattle Fair defined by

the State Government;

(iii) 'fair period' means the period mentioned against a fair in

Schedule 1'

(iv) 'Officer-in-charge' means any Officer appointed by the

State Government to perform the duties of an Officer-in-charge in

respect of all or any of the State Cattle Fairs.

3. Control of State Cattle Fairs -- The management and control

of the State Cattle Fairs shall vest in the State Government and shall be

made and exercised in accordance with the provisions of this Act and rules

made thereunder.

4. No other fair to be held in the fair area. -- N0 cattle fair other

than the State Cattle Fair shall be held within a radius of twenty miles of the

fair area within three months next preceeding and two months next

succeeding the fair period:

provided that where the State Government is of opinion that it is

necessary or expedient in the public interest to do so, the State Government

may exempt any cattle fair from the operation of this Act.

5. Appointment of a Fair committee -- The State Government

shall appoint in the prescribed manner a Fair Committee to assist the

Officer-in-charge in the performance of his duties.

6. Levy of fair tax. -- Every person shall, in respect of any cattle

purchased by him in the fair area during the fair period, pay to the State

Government in the prescribed manner a fair tax at the rates given in

Schedule II.

7. Power to impose tolls and fees.—- The State Government may

impose within the fair area during the fair period the following levies in the

prescribed manner, namely :-

(i) tolls on vehicles entering such area for

business purposes, and

#(ii) octroi on goods brought for sale within such

area.

# octroi on goods brought for sale within such area

omitted by law (a) department Notification N0. F7 (4)

L/68 Dated 13th September 1968.

8. Exclusion of jurisdiction of Local authorities.-- No local

authority shall impose 0r levy any tax or fee in the fair area during the fair

period.

9. Allotment of sites.—- (1) The Officer-in-charge may allot sites

in the fair area for the fair period to any person or class of persons for any

purpose and may fix rents for the sites in the prescribed manner.

(2) In particular and without prejudice to the generality of the

power conferred by sub-section (1), the Officer-in-charge may allot sites for

the following:-

(i) religious societies of the persuasion, if any,

with which the State Cattle Fair is connected;

(ii) social and other societies and organisations;

(iii) officials of the State Government or local

authorities.

(iv) market places and shops;

(V) urinals, latrines and rubbish heaps;

(Vi) bathing places;

(Vii) recreation and entertainment;

(viii) agricultural, industrial and other exhibitions

and demonstrations; and

(ix) for other purposes of the State Cattle Fair.

10. Power to make rules. -- (1) The State Government may make

rules generally for carrying out the purposes of this Act and in particular for

providing for -

(i) establishment of a State Cattle Fair Fund;

(ii) expenditure to be defrayed from such Fund

and for utilising the surplus;

(iii) sanitation and control of diseases in the fair

area;

(iv) appointment of the Fair Committees under

section 5;

(V) manner of imposition, assessment and

collection of taxes and fees levied by this Act including

the manner or recovery thereof by distress and sale;

(Vi) manner of allotment of sites and of fixing

rents under section 9;

(Vii) proceedings and terms of compromise under

section 18; and

(viii) any other purpose for which rules are

required to be or may be made.

(2) All rules made under this Act shall be laid as soon as may be

after they are so made, before the House of the State Legislature, while it is

in session, for a period of not less than fourteen days which may be

comprised in one session or in two successive sessions and if, before the

expiry of the session in which they are so laid or of the session immediately

following, the House of the State Legislature makes any modification in any

of such rules or resolves that any such rule should not be made, such rule

shall thereafter have effect only in such modified form or be of no effect, as

the case may be; so however that any such modification or annulment shall

be without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done thereunder.

11. power to make regulations.—-_ Subject to the rules made under

section 10, the Officer-in-charge may make regulations to provide generally

against the outbreak or spread of fire and particularly for the following

purposes, namely:-

(i) safety of buildings and structures put up in the fair area;

(ii) prescribing conditions on which huts and other structures

may be constructed including limits to the height of such huts or

structures and the area on which they are to be built and distance

between them;

(iii) providing for the supply of water;

(iv) restricting the use of fire for cooking or for any other

purpose.

12. Outbreak of fire. -- In the event of an outbreak of fire, the

Officer—in—charge may order the demolition of any structure, if in his

judgment its demolition is necessary or expedient for preventing the

fire from spreading, and no suit or other proceeding shall be instituted

for an act done or purporting to be done in good faith under this

section.

13. Power to remove unauthorised c0nstructi0n.-- The

Office-in-charge may remove any unauthorised construction and the cost of

such removal may be recovered from any person making the construction; as

arrears of land revenue.

14. Ejectment 0f allottees. -- The Officer-in-charge may order the

ejectment from the site allotted to any person who contravenes any provision

of the Act or any rule or regulation made under this Act.

15. Summary proceedings against person about to leave the fair

area.-- (1) If the officer-in-charge shall at any time have reason to believe

that any person; from whom any sum recoverable under the provisions of

this Act is due; or is about to become due; is about to remove himself from

the fair area; the Officer-in-charge may cause a bill for the sum due or about

to become due to be presented to such person and demand immediate

payment thereof.

(2) If; on presentation of such bill; the said person does not

forthwith pay the sum due; or about to become due by him; the amount shall

be leViable by distress and sale in the prescribed manner of animals or other

movable property in the possession of such person.

16. Penalties.—- Any person who_

(a) holds; collect; or otherwise takes part in; any fair in

contravention of section 4;

(b) uses as a latrine; urinal or rubbish dump any place not

allotted for the purpose;

(c) does not pay or evades the payment of any fee or tax

payable under this act or rules made thereunder; or

(d) contravenes any of the provisions of this Act or any rules

or regulations made thereunder ;

shall be punishable; on conviction; with a fine which may extend

shall be punishable; on conviction; with a fine which may extend to Rs.

500/— and where the offence is a continuing one; with a further fine which

may extend to Rs. 25/— for every day; after the date of first conviction;

during which such offence continues.

17. Cognizance of offences. -- (1) No court shall take cognizance of any

offence under this Act except on a complaint made in writing by the Officer-

in-charge.

(2) Any offence under this Act may be tried in summary way.

18. Composition of offences.—- The Officer-in-charge may

compromise with any person who in the opinion of the Officer-in-charge has

committed an offence punishable under this Act or any rules or regulations

made thereunder and on such compromise no proceedings shall be taken

against such person in respect of such offence.

Provided that the State Government may by rules regulate the

proceedings of such compromise and the terms thereof.

19. Power to amend Schedule 1.-- The State Government may; by

notification in the Official Gazette; amend Schedule I by way of any

addition or omission therein.

20. Act to over-ride other laws.-- The provisions of this Act shall

have effect; notwithstanding anything inconsistent therewith contained in

any other law for the time being in force.

SCHEDULE I

10.

S Q V ‘ e r ’ N H

Tejaji Cattle Fair

Shri Jaswant Exhibition

and Cattle Fair.

Ram Devaji Cattle Fair

Mallinath ji Cattle Fair

Merta Cattle Fair

Mela Kartik Chandra Bhaga, Jhalrapatan,

Mela Baisakh Gau-

matisagar, Jhalrapatan Shiv Ratri Cattle Fair

Gogameri Cattle Fair.

Pushkar Cattle Fair

Bullocks -

He buffaloes -

Horses -

Mules. -

Donkeys -

Sheep and Goat - Camels -

Parbatsar City (Distt. Nagaur).

Bharatpur

(Distt. Bharatpur)

Nagaur (Distt. Nagaur). Tilwara (Distt. Barmer).

Merta City (Distt. Nagaur).

Jhalrapatan (Distt. Jhalawar). Jhalrapatan (Distt.

Jhalawar) Karauli (DisttKarauli)

Gogameri (Distt. Hanumangarh) .

Pushkar (Distt. Aj mer).

SCHEDULE II

Rupees five per head. Rupees two and fifty naye Paise per head.

Rupees six per head. Rupees two and fifty naye Paise per head.

Rupees two per head. Fifty naye Paise per head.

Rupees eight per head.

Savan Shukla 15 to Bhadra krishna 15

Ashwin Shukla 5 to Ashwin Shukla 14.

Magha Shukla 1 to Magha Shukla 15

Chaitra Krishan 11 to

Chaitra Shukla 11

Chaitra Shukla 1 to Chaitra Shukla 15

Kartik Shukla 11 to

Mangsir Krishna 5.

Baisakh Shukla 13 to

Jyaistha Krishna 5.

Magha Shukla 15 to Phalgun Krishna 7

Savan Shukla 15 to Bhadon Shukla 15.

Kartik Shukla 8 to Mangsir Krishna 2.

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Government of Rajasthan Animal Husbandry Department

No. 1-‘.\". 24(1)Dev./2013/l/ Date: 1‘0 NOV 2015

NOTIFICATION

[n exercise ol‘ the power. conferred by section 19 of Rajasthan State Cattle Fairs Act, [963 (Act No.14 of 1963). the State Government hereby makes the following amendment in Schedule I appended to the said Act. namely:-

Amendment

In Schedule I appended to the said Act. in column number 3 against serial number 13. tor the existing expression‘Kartik Shukla l to Kartik Shukla 10’, the expression‘Kanik Shukla I to Margshish Krishna Z’Shall be substituted.

By Order of the Governor,

‘V

(N. L. Gupta) Deputy Secretary to the Government

(,‘opy forwarded for information & necessary action to:-

The Pr. Secretary to Goyernor/ChiefMinister. The Special Assistant to Minister for Animal Husbandry. The PS. to Add]. ChiefSecretary, Animal Husbandry. Rajasthan, Jaipur. The Accountant General. Rajasthan, Jaipur. The P. S. to Secretary. Animal Husbandry. Rajasthan. Jaipur.

6. The Registrar. Raiasthun High Court. Jaipur/ .lodhpur.

All [lead of Departments.

The Director ot‘Animal H usbandr)’. Rajasthan. Jaipur. 9. The Director. Public Relations Department, Rajasthan, Jaipur.

10. The Secretary. Rajasthan Legislative Assembly, Jaipur.

l I. Collector. Ajmer.

' J ‘ L b J I Q — '

l2. The Superintendent. Govt. Central Press, Jaipur for publication in the Rajasthan

Rajpatra.

13. Guard File.

Deputy Secretary to the Government