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| SCW Act 1999 |
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THE STATE COMMISSION FOR WOMEN ACT, 1999
(Act No. V of 1999) |
| (13th April, 1999)) |
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| CHAPTER III |
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| Functions of the Commission |
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10. Functions of the Commission.—
(1) The Commission shall perform all or any of the following functions, namely:-
(a) investigate and examine all matters relating to the safeguards provided
for women under the Constitution and other laws;
(b) present to the Government, annually and at such other times as the
Commission may deem fit, reports upon the working of those safeguards;
(c) make in such reports, recommendations for the effective implementation
of those safeguards for improving the condition of women by the State;
(d) review, from time to time, the existing provisions of the Constitution of
Jammu and Kashmir and other laws affecting women and recommend
amendments thereto so as to suggest remedial legislative measures to
meet any lacunae, inadequacies or shortcomings in such legislations;
(e) take up the cases of violation of the provisions of the Constitution and
other laws relating to women with the appropriate authorities;
(f) looking into complaints and take suo moto notice of matters relating to-
(i) deprivation of women’s rights;
(ii) non-implementation of laws enacted to provide protection to
women and also to achieve the objective of equality and
deployment;
(iii) non-compliance of policy decisions, guidelines or instructions
aimed at mitigating hardships and ensuring welfare and providing
relief to women/ and take up the issues arising out of such
matters with appropriate authorities;
(g) call for special studies or investigations into specific problems or situations
arising out of discrimination and atrocities against women and identify the
constraints so as to recommend strategies for their removal;
(h) undertake promotional an educational research so as to suggest ways of
ensuring due representation of women in all sphere and identify factors
responsible for impeding their advancement, such as, lack of access to
housing and basic services, inadequate support services and technologies
for reducing drudgery and occupational health hazards and for increasing
their productivity;
(i) Participate and advise on the planning process of socio-economic
development of women;
(j) evaluate the progress of the development of women under the State;
(k) inspect or cause to be inspected a jail, remand home, women’s institution
or other place of custody where women are kept as prisoners or otherwise
and take up with the concerned authorities for remedial action, if found
necessary;
(l) fund litigation involving issues affecting a large body of women;
(m) make periodical reports to the Government on any matter pertaining to
women and in particular various difficulties under which women toil;
(n) any other matter which may be referred to it by the Government.
(2) The Government shall cause all the reports referred to in clause (b) of sub-section (1) to be laid before each House of the Sate Legislature along with a memorandum explaining the action taken or proposed to be taken on the recommendation and the reasons for the non-acceptance, if any, of any of such recommendations.
(3) The Commission shall, while investigating any matter referred to in clause )a) or sub-section (i) of clause (f) of sub-section (1 have all the powers of a civil court trying a suit and, in particular, in respect of the following matters, namely:-
(a) summoning and enforcing the attendance of any person from any part of
India and examining him on oath’
(b) Requiring the discovery and production of any document;
(c) Receiving evidence on affidavits;
(d)Requisitioning any public record or copy thereof from any court or office;
(e) issuing commissions for the examinations of witnesses and documents;
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(f) any other matter which may be prescribed. |
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