Chapter VIIGeneral and Miscellaneous

28. Bar to other employment.

29. Transfer to other area.

30. Employment on other duties.

31. Liability of property owner to pay compensation.

32. Power to obtain information.

33. Power of entry.

34. Consumption of water.

35. No compensation for interruption of water supply.

36. Police Officers to aid.

37. Information on outbreak of fire.

38. Indemnity.

39. Powers to make rules.

40. Repeal and saving.

Statements of Objects and Reasons

I

Act 42 of 1964.—There are at present different forest laws in force in the five integrating parts of the Mysore State. As it is administratively difficult and inconvenient to enforce different laws in different parts, the present bill has been prepared to bring uniformity of forest laws throughout the State.

The more important provisions in the Bill are the following:—

Provision has been made in the Bill for control over forests and lands not being the property of the Government, in Chapter V on the lines of the provisions now in force in the Bombay and Madras areas. The object is to prevent private owners from recklessly exploiting the tree growth and forest produce with the sole idea of making immediate and huge profits, without regard to ensuring sustained yield for the benefit of the community in future. There is power to assume management of forests in certain circumstances. In Chapter X, provision has been made that all sandal trees which may grow in any land after the date of commencement of this Act will be the exclusive property of Government and exploitation of all sandalwood trees, the rights over which is alienated, should be done by the Forest Department only on behalf of the owner. These provisions are made to prevent smuggling of sandalwood. Special provisions relating to catechu, an important commercial produce, is made in Chapter XI.

(Published in the Karnataka Gazette PART IV—2-A, dated 26th July 1962 at page. 384.)

II

Amending Act 40 of 1994.—Fire Force is an emergency and essential service. It is therefore, necessary that the services of members of the Fire Force should be available to the people in an uninterrupted manner.

Section 123 of the Karnataka Police Act, 1964 provides penalty for a member of Police Force who intentionally causes or does any act which the knows that it is likely

to cause disaffection towards Government among the members of the Police Force. Such a provision is not found in the Karnataka Fire Force Act, 1964. Therefore, it is considered necessary to have an analogous provision in the Karnataka Fire Force Act, also. Hence the Bill.

(Obtained from L.A. Bill No. 21 of 1992)

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1[KARNATAKA]1 Act No. 42 of 1964

(First published in the 1[Karnataka Gazette]1 on the Twelfth day of November, 1964.)

THE 1[KARNATAKA]1 FIRE FORCE ACT, 1964.

(Received the assent of the Governor on the Fifth Day of November, 1964.)

(As amended by Karnataka Act 40 of 1994.)

An Act to provide for the maintenance of a Fire Force for the 1[State of Karnataka]1.

WHEREAS it is expedient to provide for the maintenance of a Fire Force for the 1[State of Karnataka]1;

BE it enacted by the 1[Karnataka State]1 Legislature in the Fifteenth Year of the Republic of India as follows:—

1. Adapted by the Karnataka Adaptations of Laws Order, 1973 w.e.f. 1.11.1973.