State Act

The West Bengal Backward Classes Development And Finance Corporation Act, 1995

This Act was repealed on a date we do not have by the West Bengal Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and Other Backward Classes Development and Finance Corporation Act, 2017 (West Bengal Act XXX of 2017), s.33(1); it may still apply to matters that began before then.

2. In this Act, unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or context,— (a) “backward classes” means such classes as the State Government may, by notification, specify from time to time; (b) “the Corporation” means the West Bengal Backward Classes Development and Finance Corporation established under section 3; (c) “marketing” includes all activities in connection with the transport, grading, pooling, marketing and sale of industrial produce, whether in the primary form or in semi-processed or processed form; (d) “notification” means a notification published in the Official Gazette; (e) “prescribed” means prescribed by rules made under this Act; (f) “traditional occupation” means a community based occupation followed by the backward classes.