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KSS Act

Overview
  • 1Short title and commencement
  • 2Definitions
  • 3Right to obtain service within stipulated time limit
  • 4Notification of services, designated officers, competent officers, appellate authority and stipulated time limits
  • 5Providing services within the stipulated time
  • 6Monitoring the status of the application
  • 7E-governance of services through mutual understanding
  • 8Payment of compensatory cost to the citizen
  • 9Liability to pay compensatory cost
  • 10Appointment of competent officer
  • 11Procedure governing fixing of liability
  • 12Right of appeal by the public servant
  • 13Appeal by the aggrieved citizen
  • 14Developing culture to deliver services within fixed period
  • 15Deemed service condition
  • 16Supplement
  • 17Protection of action taken in good faith
  • 18Bar of jurisdiction
  • 19Power to make rules
  • 20Power to remove difficulties
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KSS Act 17

Section 17 · Protection of action taken in good faith

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- No suit, prosecution or other legal proceeding shall lie against any person for anything which is in good faith done or intended to be done under this Act or any rule made thereunder.

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