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PART I GOVERNMENT OF PUNJAB DEPARTMENT OF LEGAL AND LEGISLATIVE AFEAIRS, PUNJAB NOTIFICATION The 12th June, 2017 No.6-Leg./2017.- The followingAct of the Legislature of the State ofPunjab received the assent of the President of India on the 22nd day of September, 2015, is hereby published for general intormation: THE PUNJAB PREVENTION OF DAMAGE TO PUBLIC AND PRIVATE PROPERTY ACT, 2014. (Punjab Act No. 4 of 2017) AN ACT to provide for the prevention of dan1age to public and private property and for the matters connected therewith or incidental thereto. 17 BE it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Punjab in the Sixty-fifth year ofthe Republic of India, as follows: () This Act may be called the Punjab Prevention of Damage to Public Short title and and Private Property Act, 2014. (2) It shall come into force on and with effect from the date ofits publication in the official Gazette. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, (a) *competent authority" means an authority, constituted under Section 7by the State Government; (b) damaging act" includes an act, agitation, strike, hartal, dharna, bandh or demonstration or march or procession or blockade of rail or road traffic by an individual, group ofindividuals, organization, any party whether social, religious or political, by which any damage or loss or destruction is caused to any public or private property; (c) "organizer" shal include any person or persons or office bearers ofany organization, union or party, who arange, instigate, conspire, commencement. Definitions. 18 PUNJAB GOVT. GAZ. (EXTRA), JUNE I2, 2017 (JYST 22, 1939 SAKA) advise or guide for doing any damaging act: (d)"public property" means any property, whether iminovable or moveable(including any imachinery). which is owned by, or in the possession of, or under the control of () () the Central Government; or any State Government; or (i) any local authority; or (v) (iv) any corporation or institution established by, or under a Central or State Act; or any company as defined in sub-section (20) of section 2 of the Companies Act, 2013 (Act No. 18 of 2013); or (vi) any board established by, or under a Central or State Act: O (vii) any society registered under a Central or State Act; or (vii) any trust registered under a Central or State Act; or (ix) any institution, concern or undertaking, which the Central Government or the State Government nay, by notification in the Ofricial Gazette specify in this behaltf: Provided that the Central Government or the State Government shall not specify any institution, concern or undertaking under this sub-clause, unless such institution, concern or undertaking is financed wholly or substantially by the funds, provided directly or indirectly by the Central Government or by the State Governent or by one or more State Governments or partly by the Central Government and partiy by one or more State Governments; (e) "private property" means any property, whether movable or immovable (including any machinery), other than the public property, which is owned by or in the possession of, or under the control of, any person or organization or institution or entity; () i"section' means section of this Act; and (g) State Government" means the Government of the State ol