Preamble

Preamble. An Act to provide for the establishment and maintenance in the State of Bombay of a Scarcity Relief Fund for meeting expenditure on preventive and remedial measures connected with scarcity conditions or on relief of distress caused by serious drought, food or other natural calamities in the State WHEREAS in the pre-Reorganisation State of Bombay, excluding the transferred territories, and in the Vidarbha region and in the Saurashtra area of the State, the Bombay Famine Relief Fund Act, 1936, the Central Provinces and Berar Famine Relief Fund Act, 1937 and the Saurashtra Famine Relief Fund Act, 1951 are respectively, in force ; AND WHEREAS there is no corresponding law in force in the Hyderabad and Kutch areas of the State ; AND WHEREAS it is expedient to provide for the establishment and maintenance in the State of a common Fund called the Maharashtra State Scarcity Relief Fund for meeting expenditure on preventive and remedial measures connected with scarcity conditions or on relief of distress caused by serious drought, flood or other natural calamities in any part of the State ; It is hereby enacted in the Ninth Year of the Republic of India as follows :-