Punjab act 015 of 2020 : The Punjab Good Conduct Prisoners (Temporary Release) Amendment Act, 2020 (Punjab Act No. 15 of 2020)

Department
  • Department of Home Affairs

PUNJAB GOVT. GAZ. (EXTRA), OCTOBER 12, 2020

(ASVN 20, 1942 SAKA)

Regd. No. NW/CH-22 Regd. No. CHD/009 / 18-2020

EXTRAORDINARY

Published by Authority

CHANDIGARH, MONDAY, OCTOBER 12, 2020

(ASVINA 20, 1942 SAKA)

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LEGISLATIVE SUPPLEMENT

Contents Pages

Part - I Acts

The Punjab Good Conduct Prisoners (Temporary Release) Amendment Act, 2020

(Punjab Act No. 15 of 2020)

Part - II Ordinances

Nil

Part - III Delegated Legislation

Nil

Part - IV Correction Slips, Republications and Replacements

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PART I

GOVERNMENT OF PUNJAB

DEPARTMENT OF LEGAL AND LEGISLATIVE AFFAIRS, PUNJAB

NOTIFICATION

The 12th October, 2020

No.18-Leg./2020.- The following Act of the Legislature of the State of Punjab received the assent of the Governor of Punjab on the 30th day of September, 2020, is hereby published for general information:-

THE PUNJAB GOOD CONDUCT PRISONERS (TEMPORARY

RELEASE) AMENDMENT ACT, 2020

(Punjab Act No. 15 of 2020)

AN

ACT

further to amend the Punjab Good Conduct Prisoners (Temporary Release) Act, 1962.

BE it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Punjab in the Seventy- first Year of the Republic of India, as follows:-

1. (1) This Act may be called the Punjab Good Conduct Prisoners (Temporary Release) Amendment Act, 2020.

(2) It shall come into force on and with effect from the date of its publication in the Official Gazette.

2. In the Punjab Good Conduct Prisoners (Temporary Release) Act, 1962, in section 3, in sub-section (2-A), after the second proviso, the following proviso shall be added, namely:-

"Provided further that during disasters under the Disaster Management Act, 2005, or epidemics under the Epidemic Diseases Act, 1897, the State Government may, by a special notification published in the Official Gazette, allow temporary release beyond the maximum period of sixteen weeks during a calendar year, and may also waive the condition of temporary release being availed of on quarterly basis."

Short title and

commencement.

Amendment of

section 3 of

Punjab Act 11 of

1962.

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3. (1) The Punjab Good Conduct Prisoners (Temporary Release) Amendment Ordinance, 2020 (Punjab Ordinance No.1 of 2020) is hereby repealed.

(2) Notwithstanding such repeal, anything done or any action taken under the principal Act, as amended by the Ordinance referred to in sub-section (1), shall be deemed to have done or taken under the principal Act, as amended by this Act.

S.K. AGGARWAL,

Secretary to Government of Punjab, Department of Legal and Legislative Affairs. 2124/10-2020/Pb. Govt. Press, S.A.S. Nagar

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Repeal and saving.

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