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Act to override other laws STATEMENT OF OBJECTS AND REASONS It is considered necessary to regulate transfer and posting of Deputy Range Forest Officers, Forest Guards and Forest Watchers of Forest Department thereby achieving the following objectives, namely:- (a) Provide equal opportunity to lower level field staff in selecting place of their choice during transfers; and (b) Improve administrative efficiency and discipline in the staff. Hence, the Bill. [L.A. Bill No.34 of 2016, File No. Samvyashae 32 Shasana 2015] [entry 41 of List II of the Seventh Schedule to the Constitution of India] 2 KARNATAKA ACT NO 09 OF 2017 (First Published in the Karnataka Gazette Extra-ordinary on the Fourth day of January, 2017) THE KARNATAKA STATE CIVIL SERVICES (REGULATION OF TRANSFERS AND POSTINGS OF FOREST OFFICERS AND OTHER OFFICIALS) ACT, 2016 (Received the assent of the Governor on the Thirty First day of December, 2016) An Act to provide for regulation of transfers and postings of forest officers and other officials of the Department of Forest in critical and other areas. Whereas, it is expedient to provide for regulation of transfer of forest officers and other officials of the Department of Forest in critical and other areas and for the matters connected therewith or incidental thereto; Be it enacted by the Karnataka State Legislature in the sixty-seventh year of the Republic of India as follows;