Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (Amendment) Act, 2022
[Karnataka Act 29 of 2022] [11th October, 2022]

CONTENTS

1. Short title and commencement

2. Amendment of section 7

3. Amendment of section 8

4. Repeal and savings

 

An Act 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 sub-section (3), in the first proviso, for the words, figure and brackets “under sub-section (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The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (Amendment) Ordinance, 2022 (Karnataka Ordinance 05 of 2022) is hereby repealed.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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1. Received the assent of the Governor on the 11th day of October, 2022)