The West Bengal Fiscal Responsibility And Budget Management (Amendment) Act, 2024

Registered No. WB/SC-247 	 No. WB(Part-III)/2024/SAR-5 
Notkata 6apttt 
Extraordinary 
Published by Authority 
PHALGUNA 30] 	 WEDNESDAY, MARCH 20, 2024 	 [SAKA 1945 
PART III—Acts of the West Bengal Legislature. 
GOVERNMENT OF WEST BENGAL 
LAW DEPARTMENT 
Legislative 
NOTIFICATION 
No. 336-L.-20th March, 2024.—The following Act of the West Bengal Legislature, having been assented to by 
the Governor, is hereby published for general information:— 
West Bengal Act II of 2024 
THE WEST BENGAL FISCAL RESPONSIBILITY AND 
BUDGET MANAGEMENT (AMENDMENT) ACT, 2024. 
[Passed by the West Bengal Legislature.] 
Short title and 
commencement. 
[Assent of the Governor was first published in the Kolkata Gazette, 
Extraordinary, of the 20th March, 2024.] 
An Act to amend the West Bengal Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management 
Act, 2010. 
WHEREAS it is expedient to amend the West Bengal Fiscal Responsibility and 
Budget Management Act, 2010, for the purpose and in the manner hereinafter 
appearing; 
It is hereby enacted in the Seventy-fifth Year of the Republic of India, by the 
Legislature of West Bengal, as follows:- 
1. (1) This Act may be called the West Bengal Fiscal Responsibility and Budget 
Management (Amendment) Act, 2024. 
West Ben. Act 
XIV of 2010. 
2 	 THE KOLKATA GAZETTE, EXTRAORDINARY, MARCH 20, 2024 	 [PART III 
The West Bengal Fiscal Responsibility and 
Budget Management (Amendment) Act, 2024. 
(Section 2.) 
Amendment of 
section 4 of West 
Ben. Act XIV of 
2010. 
(2) It shall come into force at once. 
2. In the West Bengal Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management Act, 2010, 
in section 4, in sub-section (2), after the sixth proviso, the following proviso shall be 
inserted: 
"Provided also that the maximum fiscal deficit as percentage of Gross State 
Domestic Product (GSDP) shall be 3.5% during 2023-24 only.". 
    
By order of the Governor, 
DR. MD  SALIM ANSARI, 
Pr. Secy.-in-charge to the Govt. of West Ben gal, 
Law Department. 
Published by Law Department, Government of West Bengal and 
Printed at Saraswaty Press Ltd.(Govemment of West Bengal Enterprise), Kolkata 700 056. 

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