GUJARAT PREVENTION OF ANTI-SOCIAL ACTIVITIES (AMENDMENT) ACT, 2000
GUJARAT ACT NO. 14 of 2000.
(First Published, after having received the assent of the Governor in the Gujarat Government Gazette, on the 31st March, 2000);
An Act further to amend Gujarat Prevention of Anti-social Activities Act, 1985.
It is hereby enacted in the Fifty-first Year of the Republic of India as follows:-
Short title.
1. This Act may be called the Gujarat Prevention of Anti-social Activities (Amendment) Act, 2000.
Amendment of section 2 of Guj. 16 of 1985.
Guj 16 of 1985.
2. In the Gujarat Prevention of Anti-social Activities Act, 1985 (hereinafter referred to as “the principal Act”), in section 2,-
(1) after clause (b), the following clauses shall be inserted, namely:-
Bom. IV of 1887.
“(bb) “common gaming house keeper” means a person who, having been convicted of an offence punishable under section 4 of the Bombay Prevention of Gambling Act, 1887, within a period of three years from the date of such conviction either by himself or as a member or leader of a gang habitually commits or attempts to commit or abets the commission of an offence punishable under that section;
Bom. LXXII of 1954.
(bbb) “cruel person” means a person, who either by himself or as a member or leader of a gang habitually commits or attempts to commit or abets the commission of an offence punishable under section 8 of the Bombay Animal Preservation Act, 1954;”.
Amendment of section 3 of Guj. 16 of 1985.
3. In the principal Act, in section 3, in sub-section (4), for the words “as a boot-legger”, the words “as a boot-legger or common gaming house keeper or cruel person” shall be substituted. |
