THE KANNADA LANGUAGE COMPREHENSIVE DEVELOPMENT (AMENDMENT) ACT, 2024 KARNATAKA ACT NO. 07 OF 2024 An Act to amend the Kannada Language Comprehensive Development Act, 2022 (Karnataka Act 13 of 2023). Whereas it is expedient to amend the Kannada Language Comprehensive Development Act, 2022 (Karnataka Act 13 of 2023), for the purposes hereinafter appearing; Be it enacted by the Karnataka State Legislature in the seventy fifth year of the Republic of India, as follows:- 1. Short title and commencement.- (1) This Act may be called the Kannada Language Comprehensive Development (Amendment) Act, 2024. (2) It shall come into force on such date as the State Government may by notification in the Official Gazette appoint. 2. Amendment of section 7.- In the Kannada Language Comprehensive Development Act, 2022 (Karnataka Act 13 of 2023), (herein after referred to as the Principal Act) in section 7, in sub-section (2), in clause (a), for item (vii), the following shall be substituted , namely:- "(vii) The Director, Directorate of Kannada and Culture - Member (vii-a) The Secretary, Kannada Development Authority shall be the convener of the Committee." 3. Amendment of section 17.- In section 17 of the Principal Act, for sub-section (6), the following shall be substituted , namely:- “(6) The name boards of Commercial, Industrial and Business Undertakings, Trusts, Counseling Centre’s, Hospitals, Laboratories, Amusement Centers and Hotels etc., functioning with the approval and sanction of the Government or Local Authorities, shall ensure that their name board displays 60% in Kannada language and Kannada shall be displayed in the upper half of the name board”. |
