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Non supply of metal has brought infrastructural projects and industrial development to a standstill. The enactment now provides for the following:- (1) Prescribing conditions for declaring areas as safer zone, based on the scientific studies and practices. (2) Provision for declaring the existing stone crushers as safer zone if they satisfy the conditions stipultated in this proposed Act/rules. (3) The onus of identifying and procuring of land lies on the applicant. (4) Empasis is given on arresting the pollution from the crushers by mandating safeguards to protect the environment rather than prescribing distance only, as the basis of declaring “safer zone”. (5) The permission from the Karnataka State Pollution Control Board is made compulsory before issue of license. (6) Establishment of the District Stone Crushers licensing and regulation Authority to issue license and regulate the business of stone crushing without delay. Hence the Bill. [L.A. Bill No. 24 of 2013, File No. Samvyashae 56 Shasana 2013] [Entry 23 and 24 of List II of the Seventh Schedule to the Constitution of India.] --- 3 KARNATAKA ACT NO. 8 OF 2012 (First published in the Karnataka Gazette Extra-ordinary on the fifth day of January, 2012) THE KARNATAKA REGULATION OF STONE CRUSHERS ACT, 2011 (Received the assent of the Governor on the third day of January, 2012) (As Amended by Act 64 of 2013) An Act to provide for the Regulation of Stone Crushers in the State of Karnataka. Whereas the Hon’ble High Court of Karnataka by its order dated: 10.7.1998 in Writ Petition No.17078/1997 has directed the State Government to formulate a policy regulating the carrying on the business related to the crushing of stones by prescribing reasonable conditions including guidelines and licenses and their renewals. And whereas it is considered necessary to enact a legislation providing for licenses and their renewals in the State of Karnataka and for certain other matters. Be it enacted by the Karnataka State Legislature in the sixty-second year of Republic of India as follows:-