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PUNJAB GOVT. GAZ. (EXTRA), DECEMBER 29, 2017
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PART I
GOVERNMENT OF PUNJAB
DEPARTMENT OF LEGAL AND LEGISLATIVE AFFAIRS, PUNJAB
NOTIFICATION
The 29th December, 2017
. No. 34-Leg./2017.-The following Act of the Legislature of the State of Punjab received the assent of the Governor of Punjab on the 15th day of December, 2017, is hereby published for general information:-
THE PUNJAB RURAL DEVELOPMENT (AMENDMENT)
ACT, 2017
(Punjab Act No. 24 of 2017)
AN
ACT
further to amend the Punjab Rural Development Act, 1987. BE it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Punjab in the
Sixty-eighth Year of the Republic of India as follows:-
I (1)
(Amendment) Act, 2017.
(2) It shall come 'nto force on and with effect from the date of it s
This Act may be called the Punjab Rural Development
publication in the Official Gazette.
2. Inthe Punjab Rural Develo pment Act, 1987 (hereinafter refe rred to as
the principal Act), in section 5, i n sub-section (1), for the words "
rupees two",
the words "rupees three" shall be substituted.
ection 7, at the end of claus e (x), the word "and"
3. Inthe principal Act, ins lause shall be inserted, namely:-
shall be omitted and thereafter, the following c
"(x-a) to provide relief to d ebt stressed farmers of th
4. (1)
(Punjab Ordinance No. 6 of 2 (Second Amendment) Ordinan are hereby repealed. e State; and".
The Punjab Rural Deve lopment (Amendment)
Ordinance, 2017
017) and the Punjab Rural Development ce, 2017 (Punjab Ordi nance No. 8 of 2017) anything done or any action taken
; i such repeal, .
(2) Notwithstanding y the Ordinances referred to in under the principal Act, as amende
d b
Short title and
commencement.
Amendment of
section 5 of
Punjab Act 6 of
1987.
Amendment of section 7 of Punjab Act 6 of
1987.
Repeal and saving.
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sub-section (1), shall be deemed to have been done or taken under the principal Act, as amended by this Act.
VIVEK PURI,
Secretary to Government of Punjab, Department of Legal and Legislative Affairs. 1406/12-2017/Pb. Govt. Press, S.A.S. Nagar
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