Duties of the Authority

(1) The Authority shall meet once in a month and meeting shall be called by the member secretary. If for any reason it is necessary, the member secretary may with the approval of the chairman, convene the meeting at any time. One third of the total members shall form the quorum for the meetings. (2) The duties of the Authority shall be,- (i) to cause Joint Inspection of stone crushers and obtain report by the concerned officers of Mines and Geology, Revenue, Forest departments and KSPCB to verify the conditions stipulated for declaring the safer zone; (ii) to declare the safer zone, which are conforming the norms; (iii) to issue Certificate of compliance of safer zone in such form as may be prescribed to the applicants having stone crusher located in declared safer zone; (iv) to issue License in the form as may be prescribed; (v) to supervise licensed premises and report any violations to the chairman; (vi) to suspend/cancel the license for non-compliance of the conditions; (vii) to invite any of the officers of any other departments of Government to assist the Authority on any specific issues like computation of compensation, provide technical advice etc. (viii) to follow the orders and guidelines issued by the Government from time to time; and (ix) to Inspect or authorize an officer to inspect each stone crushers periodically at least once a year. For section 12 of the Principal Act, the following shall be substituted, namely:- "12.Victim Relief Fund.- (1) The Authority shall have and maintain a separate fund called Victim Relief Fund, to which all money received by it as application fee, licence fee, fines and penalties levied shall be credited. It shall be, applied and disbursed in accordance with such rules as may be prescribed. (2) The Chairman and the member secretary of the Authority shall jointly operate the Victim Relief Fund in accordance with the procedure as may be prescribed. (3) The Victim Relief Fund shall be kept in any of the Nationalized Banks in such manner as may be prescribed. (4) The Authority shall receive complaints or applications or claim from the victims regarding the health hazards caused by the stone crushers within a period of three months from the date of cause of action and decide the relief or amount of compensation to be granted to the victim or their legal representatives within a period of three months from the date of receipt of such application. The Authority while determining the amount of relief or compensation shall invite one representative of the registered association of stone crusher and one representative of the stone crusher labourers. The Authority is at liberty to condone the delay of filing complaint or application or claim for good and sufficient reasons. (6) The Authority may also direct the license holder to pay such amount to such of the victims as determined under sub-section (4) in addition to the amount paid by it, within the time specified by the Authority in its order. Failing which, the amount specified in the order shall be recovered as arrears of Land Revenue and license shall be cancelled. Provided that the order so passed shall be communicated to all parties concerned, immediately."