Dam Safety Act

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THE DAM SAFETY ACT, 2021 ACT NO. 41 OF 2021 [13th December, 2021.] An Act to provide for surveillance, inspection, operation and maintenance of the specified dam for prevention of dam failure related disasters and to provide for institutional mechanism to ensure their safe functioning and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto. BE it enacted by Parliament in the Seventy-second Year of the Republic of India as follows:— (1) This Act may be called the Dam Safety Act, 2021. (2) It extends to the whole of India. (3) It shall come into force on such date [1] as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint. Footnotes ^ 30th December, 2021, vide notification No. S.O.5422(E), dated 30th December, 2021, see Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, sec. 3 (ii). It is hereby declared that it is expedient in the public interest that the Union should take under its control the regulation of uniform dam safety procedure for specified dam to the extent hereinafter provided. Save as provided under this Act, it applies to the owner of every specified dam, — (a) being a public sector undertaking or institution or a body owned or controlled by the Centr