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Power to remove difficulties. * * * * STATEMENT OF OBJECTS AND REASONS I Act 31 of 1994.- Government have recently taken far-reaching steps to safeguard the Social, Educational and Economic interest of the Minorities, besides attaching continuous attention towards the implementation of fifteen point programme for the Welfare of Minorities. The State Minorities Commission is presently conducting a Socio-Economic and Educational Survey of Minorities first of its kind in the Country. In order to see the allround progress it is considered necessary to confer Statutory Status on the State Minorities Commission. Hence the Bill. ( Obtained from L.A. Bill No. 18 of 1994) II Amending Act 35 of 2011.- It is considered necessary to amend the Karnataka State Minorities Commission Act, 1994 (Karnataka Act No. 31 of 1994) to provide for,- (1) nomination of the members of the Commission who posses a minimum degree from a recognised University; (2) membership of atleast one each from Christian, Jain, Buddhist and Sikh community out of the eight other members; (3) payment of allowances to the members instead of salary and allowances; (4) additional function to the Commission to make recommendation for implementing the Prime Ministers new 15 Point Programme. Hence the Bill. [L.A. Bill No. 28 of 2011, File No.Samvyashae 44 Shasana 2010] [Entry 5 of List II of the Seventh Schedule to the Constitution of India.] III Amending Act 13 of 2016.- It is considered necessary to amend the Karnataka State minorities commission Act, 1994,- (i) to provide for the representation of parsis, a minority community in the constitution of the commission; and (ii) to confer powers of civil court to the commission. Hence the Bill . [L.A. Bill No.03 of 2016, File No. Samvyashae 09 Shasana 2015] [entry 32 of List II of the Seventh Schedule to the Constitution of India.] KARNATAKA ACT No. 31 OF 1994 (First published in the Karnataka Gazette Extraordinary dated Third October, 1994) THE KARNATAKA STATE MINORITIES COMMISSION ACT, 1994 (Received the assent of the Governor on Thirtieth day of September, 1994) (As amended by Karnataka Act 35 of 2011 and 13 of 2016) An Act to constitute a State Commission for minorities and to provide for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto. WHEREAS it is expedient to constitute a State Commission for minorities and to provide for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto ; BE it enacted by the Karnataka State Legislature in the forty-fifth year of the Republic of India, as follows :- CHAPTER I PRELIMINARY