Bare Act
The Andhra Pradesh (Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and Backward Classes) Regulation of Issue of Community Certificates Act, 1993
This Act regulates the official issuance, verification, and cancellation of community certificates in Andhra Pradesh. It applies to individuals seeking Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, or Backward Classes status to claim reservations. The law matters because it safeguards affirmative action, ensuring that reserved college admissions, government jobs, and political offices go only to genuine beneficiaries. To prevent fraud, it penalizes individuals who secure fake certificates and officials who intentionally issue them with fines and jail time. Additionally, the state government can cancel false certificates, recover disbursed financial aid, and strip offenders of wrongfully obtained jobs, academic degrees, or elected offices.
- 1. Short title, extent and commencement
- 2. Definitions
- 3. Application of a community certificate
- 4. Community Certificate to be issued by competent authority
- 5. Cancellation of the false community certificate
- 6. Burden of Proof
- 7. Appeal and review
- 8. Power of revision by Government
- 9. Competent authority to exercise the powers of the Civil Courts
- 10. Penalties
- 11. Offences and penalties for false certificates
- 12. Penalty for securing on appointment of election to political offices etc, on the basis of false community certificates
- 13. Penalty for issuing a false community certificate
- 14. Penalty for abetters
- 15. Offences to be tried summarily
- 16. Offences under the Act to be cognizable
- 17. Bar of Jurisdiction of Civil Courts
- 18. Protection of acts done in good faith
- 19. Act to override other laws
- 20. Power to make rules
- 21. Transitional Provision
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