Nagaland Assembly passes ‘Nagaland Goods and Services Tax (Seventh Amendment) Bill, 2023’

Minister for Health & Family Welfare, P Paiwang Konyak giving the statement of objects and reasons for the Bill said that the Government of Nagaland presently does not have any legal provisions relating to the manner and procedures under which dead bodies that are unidentified and unclaimed, are to be dealt with.

There is also a lack of legal provisions to allow for voluntary donations of organs and dead bodies, in whole or in part, he said.

Keeping in view the increasing need for supply of bodies of deceased persons to hospitals and medical and teaching institutions for the purpose of medical education and research, including anatomical examinations and dissections, it is considered necessary to create legal provisions for the same, said Konyak.

The Bill seeks to empower the authorized officers appointed by the State Government to take possession of the unclaimed dead bodies in hospitals, prisons or public places and also for enabling a person before his death, to express an intention, in writing in the presence of two or more witnesses, to donate his body or any part thereof after his death for the purposes aforesaid, the Minister said.

During the day, the Assembly also passed The Nagaland Goods and Services Tax (Seventh Amendment) Bill, 2023 moved by Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio on Tuesday.

Rio said that the Goods and Services Tax (GST) has been implemented with effect from July 1, 2017 and it consists of the Central Goods and Services Tax and the State Goods and Services Tax.

The Central Government has amended the Central GST Act, 2017 through the Finance Act No. 8 of 2023 while State Governments have to affect the corresponding amendment in the State GST Act, he said. The Nagaland GST (Seventh Amendment) Bill, 2023 will make the Nagaland GST Act, 2017 more comprehensive, Rio said.

Konyak and Rio introduced the Bills on September 12 and were listed for consideration and passage today.

Speaker Sharingain Longkumer put the Bills to motion, which were passed by voice vote.

 

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