THE KANNADA LANGUAGE COMPREHENSIVE DEVELOPMENT (AMENDMENT) ACT, 2024
KARNATAKA ACT NO. 07 OF 2024
Arrangement of Section
Sections:
1. Short title and commencement
2. Amendment of section 7
3. Amendment of section 17
STATEMENT OF OBJECTS AND REASONS
Amendment Act 07 of 2024:- It is considered necessary to amend Kannada Bhasha Samagra Abhivruddhi Adhiniyama, 2022 (2023 ra Karnataka Adhiniyama 13) to appoint the Director, Directorate of Kannada and Culture as the Member and the Secretary, Kannada Development Authority to be the convener of the State Level Committee and to make a provision that 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.
Hence, the Bill.
[L.A. Bill No.1 of 2024, File No.SAMVYASHAE 01 SHASANA 2024]
[Article 345 of the Constitution of India.]
[Published in Karnataka Gazette Extra-ordinary No.113 in part-IVA dated:26.02.2024]
KARNATAKA ACT NO. 07 OF 2024
(First Published in the Karnataka Gazette Extra-ordinary on the 26th day of February, 2024)
THE KANNADA LANGUAGE COMPREHENSIVE DEVELOPMENT (AMENDMENT) ACT, 2024
(Received the assent of the Governor on the 25th day of February, 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”.
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