(Vide
para 4.7)
BILLS PASSED BY BOTH HOUSES
OF PARLIAMENT DURING THE
PERIOD FROM 01.04.1998 to
31.12.1998
LS = Lok Sabha
RS = Rajya Sabha
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Sl. Name of the Act Introduction Date(s) of President’s
No.
Consideration Assent and
Act
Number
L.S. R.S.
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CHEMICALS
AND FERTILIZERS
1. The National Institute of Pharmaceutical 28.5.98 4.6.98
11.6.98 June 26, 98
Education And Research Act, 1998. (LS) 13 of 1998
(To declare
the Institution as an Institution
of National Importance)
FINANCE
*2. The Appropriation (No.2) Act, 1998 12.6.98 12.6.98 June
7, 98
(LS) 15
of 1998
3. The Finance (Amendment) 29.5.98 4.7.98 6.7.,98 July 7, 98 Act,
1998
(To enhance special custom duty and
Foreign (LS) 16 of 1998
Travel Tax in relation to non-neighbouring
countries to mobilise additional financial
resources to meet the shortfall in revenues.)
4. The appropriation (No. 3) Act, 1998 14.7.98 14.7.98
20.7.98 July 22, 98
(LS) 20
of 1998
5. The Finance (No. 2) Act, 1998 1.6.98 15.7.98 23.7.98 August
1, 98
(LS) 16.7.98 21 of 1998
17.7.98
6. The Export-Import Bank of India 30.7.98 2.12.98 15.12.98 January
2, 99
(Amendment) Act, 1998. (LS) 1
of 1999
(To
raise the authorized capital of the Exim
Bank from five hundred crores of rupees to
One thousand crores of rupees and enhance
the maximum limit upto which the Central
Government may increase the said capital,
by notification in Official Gazette, from
five hundred crores of rupees to two
thousand crores of rupees)
7. The High Denomination Bank Notes 2.12.98 9.12.98 17.12.98 January 2,
99
(Demonetisation) Amendment Act,
1998. (LS) 10.12.98 3
of 1999
(To introduce Rs. 1000/- note)
8. The Appropriation (No. 4) Act, 1998. 21.12.98 21.12.98 23.12.98 January 8, 99
(LS) 10
of 1999
9. The Customs (Amendment) Act, 1998 21.12.98 22.12.98 23.12.98 January 8, 99
(To make amendment in Section 75A of (LS) 8
of 1999
the Customs Act to provide that
interest
Will be paid if draw back is Delayed
beyond two months Instead of existing
three Months.)
10. The Income Tax (Second Amendment), 21.12.98 22.12.98 23.12.98 January 8. 99
Act, 1998. (LS) 11
of 1999
(To give further thrust to company’s
export-
drive and remove the sluggishness in
commercial vehicle sector.)
HOME AFFAIRS
11. The Lotteries (Regulation) 27.5.98 4.7.98 6.7.98 July 7. 98 Act, 1998
(To regulate the lotteries and to provide (LS) 7.7.98 17
of 1998
for matters connected therewith and
incidental thereto).
12. The Governor’s (Emoluments, Allowances 4.8.98 4.8.98
4.8.98 August 20, 98
and Privileges) (Amendment) Act,
1998. (LS) 27
of 1998
(To enhance the emoluments of the
Governors).
13. The President’s Emoluments and Pension 4.8.98 4.8.98
4.8.98 August 20, 98
(Amendment) Act, 1998. (LS) 25
of 1998
(To enhance the emoluments and
pension
of the President/Ex-Presidents).
INDUSTRY
14. The Interest on Delayed Payments to 27.7.98 28.7.98 31.7.98 August 10, 98
Small Scale And Ancillary Industrial (LS) 29.7.98 23
of 1998
Undertakings (Amendment) Act, 1998.
(To enhance rate of interest payable
by major
Industries whenever they Default or
delay
Payment to small and ancillary industrial
Undertakings and other related matters).
LABOUR
15. The Employees Provident 7.8.98 9.6.98 1.6.98 June 22, 98
Funds and Miscellaneous (RS)
10.6.98 10
of 1998
(To
promote saving and ensure availability of
higher retrial benefits, raising of minimum rate
of provident fund contribution from 8.33 percent
to 10 percent and the maximum rate from 10
percent to 12 percent of the monthly wages).
16. The Payment of Gratuity 24.7.98 10.6.98 1.6.98 June
22, 98
(Amendment) Act, 1998
(RS) 2.6.98 11
of 1998
(To
enhance the ceiling of one lakh rupees on
the maximum amount of gratuity payable under
sub section (3) of section4 to three
lakhs and
fifty thousand rupees).
17. The Beedi Workers Welfare
3.6.98 27.7.98 31.7.98 August
20, 98
Cess (Amendment) Act, 1998. (LS) 24
of 1998
(To
sustain the welfare activities for Beedi
Workers by enhancing the rate of Cess
on manufactured beedis).
LAW,
JUSTICE AND COMPANY AFFAIRS
18. The Representation of the 1.6.98 10.6.98 2.6.98 June
22, 98
People (Amendment) Act, 1998.
(RS) 12
of 1998
( The authorities as specified
therein are
required to make available such persons as
required or requested for by the Regional
Commissioner or the Chief Electoral
officer for performance of any
duties in
connection with the Elections).
19. The High Court and Supreme Court Judges 28.5.98 4.7.98
6.7.98 July 7. 98
(Conditions of Service) (LS) 18
of 1998
(Amendment) Act, 1998.
(To
enhance the salaries of Judges of High
Court and Supreme Court).
20. The High Court and Supreme Court Judges 10.12.98 12.12.98 21.12.98 January 8. 99
(Salaries and Conditions of Service) (LS) 16.12.98 7 of 1999
(Amendment) Act, 1998.
(To
revise and increase pension, HRA etc.
and also to remove restriction on carry
forward of leave in the case of High Court
Supreme Court Judges).
PARLIAMENTARY
AFFAIRS
21. The Salary, Allowances Pension of Members 4.8.98 4.8.98
4.8.98 August 20, 98
of Parliament (Amendment) Act, 1998. (LS) 26
of 1998
(To enhance the salary, allowances
etc. of
Members of Parliament).
22. The
Salaries and Allowances of Officers 4.8.98 4.8.98 4.8.98 August 20, 98
of Parliament (Amendment) Act, 1998. (LS) 28 of 1998
(To enhance the emoluments of the
Chairman, Rajya Sabha).
23. The Leaders and Chief Whips of 17.12.98 18.12.98 21.12.98 January 7,
99
Recognised Parties and Groups in (LS) 5
of 1999
Parliament (Facilities), Act, 1998
(To extend certain facilities to the
Leaders
and Chief Whips of Recognised
Parties
and Groups in Parliament).
PETROLEUM
AND NATURAL GAS
24. The Oilfields (Regulation and
Development) 27.07.98 2.12.98 8.12.98 December
21, 98
(Amendment) Act, 1998 (LS) 9.12.98 29
of 1998
(To empower the Central government
to notify
more than one rate of royalty in respect of
mineral oil produced from different classes of
leased areas, to grant partial or full exemption
from payment of royalty in respect of off shore
areas and matters connected therewith or
incidental thereto)
POWER
25. The Electricity Regulatory 3.6.98 9.6.98 12.6.98 July
2, 98
Commissions Act, 1998
(LS) 14
of 1998
(To establish a Central Electricity
Regulatory
Commission and State Electricity
Regulatory
Commissions and to rationalise
electricity
tariff and matters connected
therewith or
incidental thereto).
26. The Electricity Laws (Amendment) Act,
1998 16.7.98 20.7.98 27.7.98 August
10, 98
(LS)
22.7.98 28.7.98 22
of 1998
23.7.98
(To recognise transmission activity independent
of generation and distribution of power).
RAILWAYS
27. The Appropriation (Railways) No. 2 9.6.98 9.6.98 12.6.98 June
22, 98
Act, 1998. (LS) 8
of 1998
28. The Appropriation (Railways) No. 3 7.7.98 7.7.98 13.7.98 July
17, 98
Act, 1998. (LS) 19
of 1998
29. The Railway Claims Tribunal (Amendment) 2.12.98 7.12.98 17.12.98 January
2, 99
Act, 1998. (LS) 4
of 1999
(To make an enabling provision in
the Act for
revision of the Pay Scales of
Chairman,
Vice-Chairman and Members of Railway
Claims Tribunal with Retrospective
effect and
To preclude and difficulty In future
as well).
30. The Appropriation (Railways) No. 4 18.12.98 18.12.98 23.12.98 January
9, 99
Act, 1998. (LS) 9
of 1999
SURFACE
TRANSPORT
31. The Merchant Shipping 1.6.98
10.6.98 3.6.98 June
22, 98
(Amendment) Act, 1998
(LS) 9
of 1998
(To provide provisions for dealing
with
complaints from Indian Seamen in
Foreign Vessels and Foreign seamen
on
Foreign Vessels on the Indian
Territorial waters).
TEXTILES
32. The Cotton Ginning and Pressing Factories 31.7.98 3.12.98 17.12.98 January
2, 99
(Repeal) Act, 1998. (RS)
8.12.98 2
of 1999
(To repeal the Cotton Ginning and
Pressing
Factories Act, 1925 to ensure
quality processing
of cotton and charging remunerative price
for
the service provided for).
URBAN
AFFAIRS AND EMPLOYMENT
33. The Delhi Development Authority
(Validation 14.8.97 22.12.98
3.12.98 January 8, 99
of Disciplinary Powers) Act,
1998. (RS) 6
of 1999
(To provide for validation of
disciplinary power
exercised by the Vice- Chairman and officers
of the Delhi Development Authority).
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*
The Bill was not considered in the Rajya Sabha. However, in term of Article 109(5) of the Constitution, the Bill
was deemed to have been passed by both Houses of Parliament after receipt of
its message in the Rajya Sabha.
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