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Provision for offences and penalties. The Karnataka Legislative Assembly was not in session and as the matter was urgent an Ordinance was promulgated. This Bill seeks to replace the said Ordinance. (Published in the Karnataka Gazette (Extraordinary) Part IV-2A as No. 120 dated 25- 2-1980 at page 31-33.) II Amending Act 44 of 1986.- As per clause (c) of sub-section (1) of section 4 of the Karnataka Command Area Development Act, 1980 the Additional Secretary to Government, Planning Department (Command Area Development) is one of the members of the Authority. However, by Government Order No. DPAR 358 SGO 83, dated 29th November, 1983 the subject relating to Command Area Development was transferred from the Planning Department to the Public Works, Command Area Development and Electricity Department. Hence, it is necessary to amend the clause (c) of sub-section (1) of section 4 of the Karnataka Command Areas Development Act, 1980 to substitute "The Additional Secretary to Government (CAD), Public Works, Command Area Development and Electricity Department". (Published in the Karnataka Gazette (Extraordinary) Part IV-2A as No. 629 dated 19- 8-1986 at page 3.) III Amending Act 33 of 1987.- It is necessary to amend section 4 of the Command Areas Development Act, 1980 to include Chief Secretaries of the concerned Zilla Parishads as Members of the Command Areas Development Authority. (Obtained from file L.C. Bill No. 4 of 1987 in file LAW 53LGN 87.) IV Amending Act 32 of 1995.- It is considered necessary to amend the Karnataka Command Areas Development Act, 1980 to include the following as members of the Authority:- (1) The Engineers-in-Chief of the respective Command Area Authority in addition to the Chief Engineers ; (2) To enable the Joint Directors of Agriculture and Joint Registrars of Co-operative Societies to represent as nominees of the Director of Agriculture or the Registrar of Co- operative Societies as the case may be, to attend the meetings of the Authority. (Obtained from L.A. Bill No. 28 of 1995 in file LAW 10 LGN 94). V Amending Act 25 of 2003 .- The Annual Reports prepared by the Authority every year is placed before each House of the Legislature, as provided in the Act. But, there is no specific provision to place the CADA accounts audited and certified by the Controller of State Accounts before each of the Houses of the State Legislature. It is, therefore, considered necessary to amend section 24 of the Act to 6 provide for placing the accounts audited before each House of the State Legislature alongwith the Annual Reports, as soon as it is received by the State Government. Hence the Bill. (L.C. Bill No. 2 of 2003) VI Amending Act 34 of 2012.- It is considered necessary to amend the Karnataka Command Areas Development Act, 1980, to provide for,- (1) appointment of an Engineer-in-Chief or Chief Engineer or Superintending Engineer as the Administrator of the Authority and the Director of Command Area Development Authority and the Chief Executive Officer; (2) establishment of a Directorate for all Command Area Development Authorities; and (3) entrusting the work of supervising and co-ordinating with all authorities and make recommendations to and advice the Government on policy matters on the activities of the authorities. Hence, the Bill. [L.A. Bill No.21 of 2012, File No. Samvyashae 18 Shasana 2012] [Entries 32 and 41 of List II of the Seventh Schedule to the Constitution of India.] --- 7 KARNATAKA ACT NO. 6 OF 1980 (First published in the Karnataka Gazette Extraordinary on the Twenty-fifth day of March 1980) THE KARNATAKA COMMAND AREAS DEVELOPMENT ACT, 1980 (Received the assent of the President on the eighteenth day of March, 1980) (As Amended by Act 44 of 1986, 33 of 1987, 32 of 1995, 25 of 2003 and 34 of 2012) An Act to make provisions for the development of areas benefitted by irrigation projects in the State of Karnataka; WHEREAS it is expedient to make provisions for comprehensive and systematic development of the areas in which lands benefitted by irrigation projects are situated and matters incidental thereto; BE it enacted by the Karnataka State Legislature in the Thirty-first year of the Republic of India as follows :- CHAPTER I PRELIMINARY