The Assam Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management (Amendment) Act, 2007

XVII Registered No. 768/97 THE ASSAM GAZETTE tode GOVERNMENT OF ASSAM ORDERS BY THE GOVERNOR LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENT : : LEGISLATIVE BRANCH NOTIFICATION The 28th August, 2007 No. LGL. 59/2005/42. -- The following Act of the Assam Legislative Assembly which received the assent of the Governor is hereby published for general information. ASSAM ACT NO. XVII OF 2007 (Received the assent of the Governor on 24th August, 2007) THE ASSAM FISCAL RESPONSIBILITY AND BUDGET MANAGEMENT (AMENDMENT) ACT, 2007 AN ACT THE ASSAM GAZETTE, EXTRAORDINARY, AUGUST 29, 2007 further to amend the Assam Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management Act, 2005. Preamble Whereas it is expedient further to amend the Assam Fiscal Assam Act Responsibility and Budget Management Act, 2005, hereinafter XXVII referred to as the principal Act.

in the manner hereinafter of 2005 appearing; It is hereby enacted in the Fifty-eighth Year of the Republic of India as follows: - Short title, extent and commencement 1. (1) This Act may be called the Assam Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management (Amendment) Act. 2007. (2) It shall have the like extent as the principal Act. (3) It shall be deemed to have come into force on the first day of September, 2005, the day on which the principal Act came into force. save and except clause (iv) of section 2 of this Act which shall come into force at once. Amendment of 2. Section 4 In the principal Act, in section 4. in sub-section (3). - (i) for the existing clause (ii), the following shall be substituted, namely : "(ii) reduce revenue deficit annually at an average annual reduction rate consistent with the goal set out in clause (i):";

(ii) for the existing clause (vi), the following shall be substituted, namely : - "(vi) reduce fiscal deficit annually as a percentage of Gross State Domestic Product at an average reduction rate consistent with the goal set out in clause (v);": (iii) for the existing clause (viii), the following shall be substituted, namely : "(viii) State Government guarantee for the loans contracted by Public Sector Undertakings. Boards, Companies, Corporations, Cooperative Societies or Autonomous organizations under the State Government, shall be restricted at any point of time to fifty percent of State's own tax and non-tax revenue of the second preceding year, as reflected in the books of accounts as maintained by the Accountant General;" : (iv) after the existing proviso of clause - (viii), the following shall be inserted as clause (ix), namely :- "(ix) ensure to bring out special statement along with the annual budget giving in detail, number of employees in Government, Public Sector and Aided institutions and related salary." MOHD.

A. HAQUE, Secretary to the Government of Assam, Legislative Department. GUWAHATI- Printed and Published by the Dy. Director (P&S), Directorate of Ptg. & Sty .. Assam, Guwahati-21. (Ex-Gazette) No. 575-500-600-29-08-2007.