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Repeal. SCHEDULE * * * * STATEMENTS OF OBJECTS AND REASONS I Act 27 of 1975.- There are four different enactments in the different areas of the State relating to prohibition of beggary. It is considered necessary to have a uniform law on the subject to the whole of the State of Mysore. Hence the Bill. (Published in the Karnataka Gazette (Extraordinary) Part IV-2A dated 27-2-1973 as No. 209 at page 20.) II Amending Act 7 of 1982.- In order that the provisions of the Prohibition of Beggary Act are more effectively implemented it was considered necessay to have a more compact Central Relief Committee. It is also proposed to have a small committee to administer the Central Relief Fund. It was also considered necessary to provide for the enhancment of the period of detention in a relief center for contravention of the provisions of the Act from six months to one year. An ordinance was promulgated to provide for the above matters. This Bill seeks to replace the Ordinance. 3 (Published in the Karnataka Gazette (Extraordinary) Part IV-2A dated 3-2-1982 as No. 76 at page 4.) III Amending Act 12 of 1988.- Section 19 of the Karnataka Prohibition of Beggary Act, 1975 is intended to be amended to give powers to Chairman of Central Relief Committee to transfer the Beggars from one Institution to another receiving centre, relief centre, in the State. Section 22 of the Act is intended to be amended to give powers to Chairman, Central Relief Committee instead of the Government to enable inter-state transfer of of beggars between relief centres. Hence, the Bill. (Published in the Karnataka Gazette (Extraordinary) Part IV-2A dated 23-1-1988 as No. 57 at page 3.) IV Amending Act 26 of 2003.- It is considered necessary to amend the Karnataka Prohibition of Beggary Act, 1975.- (i) to require that the Bond executed by any person under sub-section (4) or by surety under surety under sub-section (5) of section 11 shall be for a sum of rupees one thousand and two thousand respectively. (ii) to specify that the period of detention of a beggar under section 12 may extend to three years instead of twelve months with a minimum period of one year. (iii)to specify that the period of detention of inform, disabled and dicrepit beggars and persons suffering from any incurable disease, under section 13 may extend to three years instead of twelve months with a minimum period of one year. (iv) to empower the Government to direct any person having custody of the fund of the local authority to pay the balance amount due to the central Relief Fund and to provide that if the amount is not paid in complaince with such order to recover it as an arrears of land revenue. Hence the Bill. (Vide L.A. Bill No. 15 of 2002, File No. SAMVYASHAE 02 SHASANA 2002) * * * * 4 KARNATAKA ACT NO. 27 OF 1975 (First published in the Karnataka Gazette on the Nineteenth day of June, 1975) THE KARNATAKA PROHIBITION OF BEGGARY ACT, 1975 (Received the assent of the Governor on the sixth day of June 1975). (As Amended by Acts 7 of 1982 , 12 of 1988 and 26 of 2003) An Act to prohibit persons from resorting to begging and to provide for the detention, training and employment of beggars, for the custody, trial and punishment of beggar offenders and for the relief and rehabilitation of such persons in the State of Karnataka. WHEREAS it is necessary and expedient to prohibit persons from resorting to begging and to provide for the detention, training and employment of beggars, for the custody, trial and punishment of beggar offenders and for the relief and rehabilitation of such persons in the State of Karnataka; BE it enacted by the Karnataka State Legislature in the Twenty-sixth Year of the Republic of India as follows:- CHAPTEER I PRELIMINARY