(1) This Act may be called the Puducherry Khadi and Village Industries Board Act, 1980.
(2) It extends to the whole of the Union territory of Puducherry.
+(3) It shall come into force on such date as the Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint.
Definitions
2. In this Act, unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or context,-
(a) "Board" means the Puducherry Khadi and Village Industries Board established under section 3;
(b) "Chairman" means the Chairman of the Board;
(c) "Commission" means the Khadi and Village Industries Commission established under section 4 of the Khadi and Village Industries Commission Act, 1956 (Central Act 61 of 1956);
(d) "Government" means the Administrator of the Union territory of Puducherry appointed by the President under article 239 of the Constitution;
(e) "khadi" means any cloth woven on hand looms in India from cotton, silk or woolen yarn, hand-spun in India or from a mixture of any two, or all of such yarns and includes ready-made garments made out of such cloth;
(f) "member" means a member of the Board and includes its Chairman;
(g) "non-statutory Board" means the Khadi and Village Industries Board constituted by the Government by an executive order and functioning in the Union territory on the date of commencement of this Act;
(h) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this Act;
(i) "Secretary" means the Secretary of the Board appointed under section 5;
+ This Act came into force w.e.f 15.05.1981 vide Notification published in GO.Ms No. 49 dt. 6.5.1981 of the Development Department, Puducherry.
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(j) "Standing orders" means standing orders issued under section 32;
(k) "Vice-Chairman" means the Vice-Chairman of the Board;
(l) "village industries" means, -
(i) all or any of the industries specified in the Schedule to the Khadi and Village Industries Commission Act, 1956 (Central Act 61 of 1956); and
(ii) any industry specified in this behalf by the Government by notification in consultation with the Board;
and includes any other industry deemed to be specified in the said Schedule by reason of a notification under section 3 of the said Act; and
(m) "Union territory" means the Union territory of Puducherry.
CHAPTER – II Establishment and constitution of the Board Establishment of the Board
3. There shall be established, by notification in the Official Gazette, a Board, to be called the Puducherry Khadi and Village Industries Board, which shall be a body corporate, having perpetual succession and a common seal with power to acquire, hold and dispose of property and to contract and may, by the said name, sue and be sued.
Constitution of the Board