1. Short title and commencement.—(1) This Act may be called the Brahmaputra Board Act, 1980.
(2) It shall come into force on such date1
as the Central Government may, by notification in the
Official Gazette, appoint.
2. Declaration as to expediency of control by the Union.—It is hereby declared that it is expedient
in the public interest that the Central Government should take under its control the regulation and
development of the inter-State Brahmaputra river valley to the extent hereinafter provided.
3. Definitions.—In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,—
(a) “Board” means the Brahmaputra Board established under section 4;
(b) “Brahmaputra Valley” means the inter-State Brahmaputra river valley as demarcated under
section 11;
(c) “Fund” means the Brahmaputra Board Fund constituted under section 19;
(d) “Master Plan” means the Master Plan for the control of floods, bank erosion and improvement
of drainage in the Brahmaputra Valley prepared under section 12 and includes, where it is prepared in
parts, each such part;
(e) “member” means a member of the Board;
(f) “prescribed” means prescribed by rules made under this Act;
(g) “regulations” means regulations made by the Board under this Act;
(h) “rules” means rules made by the Central Government under this Act;
(i) “State Government”, in relation to a Union territory, means the administrator thereof
appointed under article 239 of the Constitution.