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Repeal of Ordinance 1 of 2012 THE ANDHRA PRADESH PROMOTION OF SOCIAL AUDIT AND PREVENTION OF CORRUPT PRACTICES ACT, 2012 ACT No. 3 OF 2012. [ 12th April , 2012] AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE TRIAL OF OFFENCES COMMITTED BY PERSONS INDULGING IN CORRUPT PRACTICES DURING IMPLEMEN- TATION OF GOVERNMENT SCHEMES AND PROGRAMMES INCLUDING THOSE AS BROUGHT OUT BY SOCIAL AUDIT AND FOR MATTERS CONNECTED THEREWITH OR INCIDENTAL THERETO. Whereas Government is implementing many development schemes and programmes, either fully or partly funded from the State’s Exchequer, meant for the economic betterment of the poor; And whereas social audit is being conducted by the Government as a means to empower the people and to facilitate a public scrutiny of the implementation of the Government development schemes and programmes in the utilization of funds in the prescribed manner; And whereas several irregularities in the execution of the above schemes and programmes are being brought to the notice of the Government causing a great concern; And whereas due to the large number of such irregularities being brought out in the social audits, it has become necessary to curb such activities by suitably punishing the persons responsible for such offences; And whereas it has become expedient to establish Special Mobile Courts for the trial of offences found to have been committed in the social audit and to facilitate expeditious disposal of these cases; Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Andhra Pradesh in the Sixty third Year of the Republic of India as follows: