This Act sets a limit on the State Government’s power to give guarantees and requires yearly reporting to the Legislative Assembly.
GOVERNMENT OF GUJARAT LEGISLATIVE AND PARLAMENTARY AFFAIRS DEPARTMENT GUJARAT ACT NO. XXII OF 1963 The Gujarat State Guarantees Act, 1963 (As modified upto the 30th September, 2007) THE GUJARAT STATE GUARANTEES ACT, 1963 .................................... CONTENTS PREAMBLE PAGE NO. SECTIONS. 1. Short title. 1 2. Fixation of limit up to which the State may give guarantees. 1 GUJARAT ACT NO. XXII OF 19631.* [THE GUJARAT STATE GUARANTEES ACT, 1963] [6th May, 1963] Amended by Guj. 34 of 1963. Amended by Guj. 25 of 1964. Amended by Guj. 14 of 1966. Amended by Guj. 19 of 1969. Amended by Guj. 8 of 1972. Amended by Guj. 2 of 1975. Amended by Guj. 8 of 1977. Amended by Guj. 7 of 1978. Amended by Guj. 9 of 1980. Amended by Guj. 18 of 1985. Amended by Guj. 6 of 1989. Amended by Guj. 15 of 1991. Amended by Guj. 16 of 1994. Amended by Guj. 6 of 1998. Amended by Guj. 1 of 2000. Amended by Guj. 17 of 2000. Amended by Guj. 5 of 2001. An Act to fix the Limit up to which the executive power of the State shall extend to the giving of guarantees. It is hereby enacted in the Fourteenth Year of the Republic of India as follows:- 1. This act may be called the Gujarat State Guarantees Act, 1963. Short title 2. (1) The limit upto which the executive power of the State Government shall Fixation of limit extend to the giving of guarantees (including the guarantees given upto which the State may give before the commencement of this Act) as provided in clause (1) of guarantees. article 293 of the Constitution shall be the sum of 2[Rs. 2,00,00,00,00,000] 3[(2) The State Government shall, within a period of six months from the end of the financial year in which any guarantees are given, lay before the Legislative Assembly of the State,– (a) a statement of guarantees which may have been given during that year, and (b) an account of the total sums which during that year may have been either issued out of the Consolidated Fund of the State to meet with liabilities arising out of the guarantees so given or paid in or towards repayment of the sums so issued : Provided that if the Legislative Assembly of the State is not in session or is not sitting on the date on which the said period of six months expires, the said period of six months shall be deemed to expire on the first day on which the Legislative Assembly first sits after the aforesaid date.] -------------------- 1. For Statement of Objects and Reasons, See Gujarat Government Gazette, Extraordinary, Part V, Dates the 2nd February, 1963, Page-22. * This Act was Assented to by the Governor on the 2nd May, 1963. 2. These letters and figures were substituted for the letters and figures “Rs. 160,00,00,00000” by Guj. 5 of 2001, s. 2 and which was substituted for the letters and figures Rs. 140,00,00,00,000 by Guj. 17 of 2000 s. 2. 3. Sub-section (2) was substituted by Guj. 8 of 1977, s. 2.