State Act

THE SONOWAL KA CHARI AUTONOMOUS COUNCIL ACT, 2005

(2) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, - (a) ‘ bye-law’ means the bye-law framed by the General Council; (b) ‘Constitution’ means, the Constitution of India; (c) ‘ Constituency’ means, a constituency referred to in section 48 ; (d) ‘Council Area’ means the Sonowal Kachari Autonomous Council Area ; (dd) “Core Areas” means the compact and contiguous areas predominantly inhabited by Sonowal Kachari community and having more than 50% Schedule Tribes populations as a whole in the area and not necessarily in the individual villages. (e) ‘ Executive Council’ means the executive body of the General Council of the Sonowal Kachari Autonomous Council constituted under section 3 (3) and 24 ; (f) ‘ Elector’ in relation to a constituency means a person whose name is entered in the electoral roll of that constituency ; (g) ‘ General Council Fund’ and ‘ Village Council Fund’ means the funds constituted under section 61 ; (h) ‘Government’ means the State Government of Assam; (i) ‘Governor’ means the Governor of Assam ; (j) ‘General Council ‘means the General Council of the Sonowal Kachari Autonomous Council referred to in section 3 ; (k) ‘Gaon Panchayat’, ‘ Anchalik Panchayat’ and ‘Zila Parishad’ have the same meaning defined in the Assam Panchayat Act, 1994 ; (l) ‘Member’ means a member of the Village Council or the General Council or the Executive Council, as the case may be ; (m) ‘Municipality’ has the same meaning as in the Assam Municipal Act, 1956; (n) ‘Notification’ means the notification issued under this Act ; (o) ‘Official Gazette’ means the Official Gazette of Assam ; (p) ‘prescribed’ means prescribed by rules made under this Act; (q) Satellite area” means the area or areas consisting of non contiguous cluster of villages predominantly inhabited by Sonowal Kachari community and having more than 50% Schedule Tribes population as a whole in the cluster and not necessarily in the individual villages; (r) ‘ Village Council’ means the Village Councils referred to in section 4 ; and (s) ‘Village Council Area’ means the area declared to be the area of a Village Council by the Government by notification in the Official Gazette.