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The Odisha Gazette
EXTRAORDINARY PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY No. 434 Dated. 25 February, 2014
DEPARTMENT OF LAW The 25th February, 2014 NOTIFICATION
No. 2096 I-Legis-20/2013/L- The following Act of the Odisha Legislative Assembly having been assented to by the Governor on the 15th February, 2014 is hereby published for general information :–
ODISHA ACT 3 OF 2014
AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR EFFECTIVE MEASURES TO TACKLE THE MENACE OF WITCH HUNTING AND TO PREVENT THE PRACTICES OF WITCH CRAFT IN THE STATE OF ODISHA AND FOR MATTERS CONNECTED THEREWITH AND INCIDENTAL THERETO.
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BE it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Odisha in the Sixtyfourth Year of the Republic of India as follows: -
1.(1) This Act may be called the Odisha Prevention of Witch-hunting
Act, 2013.
- (2)It extends to the whole of the State of Odisha.
- (3)It shall come into force on such date as the State Government may, by notification,appoint.