West Bengal Act IX of 1951 THE WEST BENGAL CONSOLIDATED FUND (CHARGED EXPENDITURE) ACT, 1951. (Passed by the TV est Bengal Legislature.) [Assent of the Governor was first published in the Calcutta Gazette, Extraordinary, of the 31st March, 1951.] An Act to declare certain expenditure to be expenditure charged upon the Consolidated Fund of the State. -WHEREAS it is expedient to declare the contributions payable under certain enactments, and the grants to ne made to certain local authorities by the State Government to be expenditure charged upon the Consolidated Fund of the State; It is hereby enacted as follows :-
1. (1) This Act may be called the West Bengal Short title Consolidated Fund (Charged Expenditure) Act, 1951. and commence-
(2) It shall be deemed to have come into force on the meat. :first day of April, 1950.
2. The contribution payable by the State Government Certain under each enactment specified in the first column of the contribu- First Schedule to this Act, or so much of such contribution bong to be as is specified in the corresponding entry in the third charged. column of the said Schedule, is hereby declared to be expenditure charged upon the Consolidated Fund of the State.
3. (1) In respect of ,each enactment specified in the Second Schedule to this Act, the State Government shall, in such manner, and by such date as it may determine, make in each year from the Consolidated Fund of the State, a grant approximately equal, in the opinion of the State Government, to the net sum which, by virtue of the provisions of clause (1) of article 266 of the Constitution of India, is paid in that year to the Consolidated Fund of the State under that enactment.
(2) All grants payable under the provisions of subsection (1) are hereby declared to be expenditure charged upon the Consolidated Fund of the State.
(3) The State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, include in, or exclude from, the Second Schedule any appropriate enactment.
(4) The reference in sub-section (1) to the Second Schedule shall be construed as a reference to such Schedule .as for the time being amended under sub-section (3). Price—Indian, annas 2; English, 3d. Certain grants to be made and charged. 2 The West Bengal Consolidated Fund (Charged Expenditure) Act, 19,51. (The First and the Second Schedules.) [West Ben. Act IX of 1951.] THE FIRST SCHEDULE. (See section 2.) Short title. Section. Contribution payable. 1 2 3 Bengal Acts. The Howrah Bridge Act, 1926 11 The whole. Ben. Act The Bengal Motor Vehicles Tax Act, IV of 1926,
1932. 10 The whole. Ben. Act I of 1932. The Albert Victor Leper Hospital Act, 7
1935. The whole. Ben. Act IX of
1935. THE SECOND 'SCHEDULE. (See section 3.) Central Acts. The Howrah Offences Act, 1857. The Cattle-trespass Act, 1871. The Bengal Tenancy Act, 1885. Bengal Acts. The Cess Act, 1880. The Bengal Local Self-Government Act of 1885. The Bengal Ferries Act, 1885, The Calcutta Hackney Carriage Act, 1919. The Bengal Village Self-Government Act, 1919. The Bengal Food Adulteration Act, 1919. The Calcutta Municipal Act, 1923. The Bengal (Rural) Primary Education Act, 1930. The Bengal Municipal Act, 1932. WBGP-51/52-765A-4,500 XXI of
1857. I of 1871. VIII of
1885. Ben. Act IX of
1880. Ben, Act I of 1885. Ben. Act III of 1885, Ben. Act I of 1919. Ben. Act V of
1919. Ben. Act VI of
1919. Ben. Act. III of
1923. Ben. Act VII of
1930. Ben. Act XV of
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