THE BRUHAT BENGALURU MAHANAGARA PALIKE (AMENDMENT) ACT, 2022
KARNATAKA ACT NO. 29 OF 2022
(First published in the Karnataka Gazette Extra-ordinary on the 11th
day of October, 2022)
(Received the assent of the Governor on the 11th day of October, 2022)
An Act further to amend the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike Act,
2020.
Whereas it is expedient to amend the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike
Act, 2020 (Karnataka Act 53 of 2020) for the purposes hereinafter appearing;
Be it enacted by the Karnataka State Legislature in the seventy third year of
the Republic of India as follows:-
1. Short title and commencement.- (1) This Act may be called the Bruhat
Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (Amendment) Act, 2022.
(2) It shall be deemed to have come into force with effect from the 10th day of
June, 2022.
2. Amendment of section 7.- In the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike
Act, 2020 (Karnataka Act 53 of 2020) (hereinafter referred to as the Principal Act)
in section 7, in sub section (3),-
(i) after clause (c), the following shall be inserted, namely:-
“(d) Such number of seats which shall as nearly as may be, one third of the
total number of seats to be filled by direct election in the Corporation shall
be reserved for persons belonging to the Backward Classes.”; and
(ii) in the proviso, for the words, figure and brackets “under sub-section (2)
and the Backward Classes under this sub-section shall not exceed one third of the
total number of seats in the Corporation”, the words “and the Backward Classes
under this sub-section shall not exceed fifty percent of the total number of seats in
the Corporation” shall be substituted.
3. Amendment of section 8.- In the Principal Act, in section 8, in subsection
(3), in the first proviso, for the words, figure and brackets “under subsection
(3) and the Backward Classes under this sub-section shall not exceed one
third of the total number of seats in the Corporation”, the words, figures and
brackets “and the Backward Classes under sub-sections (2) and (3) shall not
exceed fifty percent of the total number of seats in the Corporation” shall be
substituted.
4. Repeal and savings.- (1) The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike
(Amendment) Ordinance, 2022 (Karnataka Ordinance 05 of 2022) is hereby
repealed.
(2) Notwithstanding such repeal, anything done or any action taken under
the Principal Act, as amended by the said Ordinance, shall be deemed to have
been done or taken under the Principal Act, as amended by this Act.
The above translation of the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike
(Amendment) Act, 2022 (Karnataka Act 29 of 2022) shall be authoritative text
in English language under clause (1) of Article 348 of the Constitution of India.
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