GOVERNMENT OF MAHARASHTRA

LAW AND JUDICIARY DEPARTMENT

Maharashtra Act No. XL of 1963

THE MAHARASHTRA DELETION OF THE TERM
“FAMINE” (FROM LAWS APPLICABLE
TO THE STATE) ACT, 1969

(As modified upto the 31st October 2012)

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THE MAHARASHTRA DELETION OF THE TERM
“FAMINE” (FROM LAWS APPLICABLE
TO THE STATE) ACT, 1963
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CONTENTS

PREAMBLE.

SECTIONS.

1. Short  title.

2. Amendment of  enactments,  etc.,   for   deletion of references

to “famine”.

3. Amendments to Bom LXXXIII of 1958 and power to adapt other

State laws by Notification.

THE SCHEDULE.

MAHARASHTRA  ACT No. XL OF  19631

[THE MAHARASHTRA DELETION OF THE TERM  “FAMINE” (FROM LAWS
APPLICABLE  TO THE STATE) ACT, 1963]

[ 11TH NOVEMBER 1963 ]

An Act to delete the term “famine” from all laws in the

State of Maharashtra.

WHEREAS,  the  Agricultural  situation  in  the  State  is
constantly  watched  by  the  State  Government,  and  relief
measures as warranted by the situation are provided as soon as
signs of scarcity conditions are apparent, so that there is now
no scope for famine conditions to develop;

Bom.
LXX-
XIII
of
1958.

AND  WHEREAS  the  term  “famine”  in  the  Bombay  State
Famine Relief Fund Act, 1958 and other laws on the subject in
their  application  to  the  State  has  now  become  obsolete,  and
requires therefore to be deleted therefrom; It is hereby enacted
in the Fourtheenth Year of the Republic of India as follows:—

1. This  Act  may  be  called  the  Maharashtra  Deletion  of  the

Short  title.

Term “famine” (From Laws applicable to the Stae) Act, 1963.

2. From the commencment of this Act, in the All enactments
relating  to  any  of  the  matters  enumerated  in  Lists  II  and  III
in  the  Seventh  Schedule  to  the  Constitution  of  India,  in  their
application  to  the  State  of  Maharashtra  (hereinafter  referred
to  as  “  State  Laws”),  and  in  all  instruments  and  other
documents,  the  word  “  famine”  shall  be  deemed  to  have  been
deleted.

3. (1) The  enactment specified in column 1 of the Schedule
is hereby amended in the manner, and to the extent, shown in
column 2 thereof

(2) Before the expiration of one year from the commencement
of  this  Act,  the  State  Government  may,  by  notification  in  the
Official  Gazette,    delete  the  work  “famine”  from  any  State  law
and  where  the  context  requires,  substitute  for  the  work
“famine”  the  word  “scarcity”  and  make  such  consquential
amendments as the rules of grammar may require.

Amend-
ments  of
enact-
ments,
etc,.  for
deletion  of
references
to  “famine”.

Amend-
ments  of
Bom.
LXXXIII  of
1958  and
power  to
adopt  other
State  laws
by  notifica-
tion.

1For  Statement  of  Objects  and  Reasons,  see  Maharashtra  Government  Gazette,  1963,  Part  V,

pages  198.

MaharashtraDeletion of the Term “famine” (From Laws

[1969 : Mah.XL

applicable to the State) Act, 1963

The Schedule.
(See section 3.)

Act.

(1)

Amendments

(2)

The  Bombay  State  Famine
Relief Fund Act, 1958 (Bom.
LXXXIII  of  1958).

(1) In  the  Long  title,  —

(a) for the words “Famine Relief Fund”
the  words  “Scarcity  Relief  Fund”
shall  be  substituted:

(b) for  the  words  “  Famine  or  acute
Scarcity” the word “Scarcity” shall
be  substituted.

(2) In  the  preamble,  in  the  third

paragraph, —

(a) for the words “Bombay State Famine
Relief  Fund” 
the  words
“ Maharashtra State Scarcity Re-
lief  Fund”  shall  be  sbstituted;

(b) for  the  words  “famine  or  acute
Scarcity”  the  words  “Scarcity”
shall  be  substituted.

(3) In  section  1,  in  sub-section  (1),  for
the word “Famine” the word “Scarcity”
shall  be  substituted.

(4) In  Section  2,  for  the  word  “Famine”
the  word  “Scarcity”  shall  be  substi-
tuted.

(5) In Section 3 and in the marginal note
thereto, for the word “Famine” the word
“Scarcity”  shall  be  substituted.

(6) In  Section  4,  for  the  words  “Famine
Relief Fund established under this Act”
the  words  “Fund  established  under
this  Act”  shall  be  substituted.

(7) In  section  5,  for  the  Words  “famine
or  acute  scarcity”,  at  both  the  places
where they occur, the word “scarcity”
shall  be  substituted.

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