Faridabad Complex (Regulation and Development) Act, 1971

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    "title": "Faridabad Complex (Regulation and Development) Act, 1971",
    "short_title": "Faridabad Complex (Regulation and Development) Act, 1971",
    "act_number": "Haryana Act 42 of 1971",
    "act_year": 1971,
    "act_type": "STATE",
    "location": "Haryana",
    "law_status": "unknown",
    "enactment_date": null,
    "description": "Faridabad Complex (Regulation and Development) Act, 1971",
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            "number": "1",
            "title": "1. Short title, extent, and commencement.",
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            "content": "Object & Reasons 6\nStatement of Objects and Reasons - Haryana Act 42 of 1971.\nStatement of Objects and Reasons - Haryana Act 23 of 1988.\nStatement of Objects and Reasons - Haryana Act 14 of 1989.\nStatement of Objects and Reasons - Haryana Act 9 of 1991.\nStatement of Objects and Reasons - Haryana Act 3 of 1992.\nStatement of Objects and Reasons - Haryana Act 4 of 1994.",
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            "number": "2",
            "title": "2. Definitions.",
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            "content": "(a) \"Administration\" means the Administration of the Faridabad Complex established under Section 3 of this Act;\n(b) \"advertisement\" means any word, letter, model, sign, placard, board, notice, device or representation in any manner whatsoever wholly or in part, intended for the purpose of advertisement, announcement or direction, and includes any structure used or adapted for the display of advertisements;\n(c) \"amenity\" includes the construction and maintenance of roads, water-supply, street lighting, drainage, sewerage, public building, horticulture, land scaping and any other public utility service provided in the Faridabad Complex;\n(d) \"building\" means any construction or part of construction which is intended to be used for residential, commercial, industrial or any other purpose, whether in actual use or not, and includes any out-house, stable, cattle shed and garage;\n(e) \"Chief Administrator\" means a person appointed as such under Section 4 of this Act;\n(f) \"controlled area\" means an area declared under section 29 of this Act to be controlled area;\n(g) \"erect or re-erect any building\" has the same meaning as is assigned to this expression in [the Haryana Municipal Act, 1973]\n[(h) 'Faridabad Complex\" means the municipalities, revenue estate and Sabha areas specified in Schedule I to this Act and other areas as the State Government may, from time to time by notification, include;]\n(i) \"occupier\" means a person (including a firm or other body of individuals, whether incorporated or not) who occupies a site or building and includes his successors and assigns;\n(j) \"prescribed\" means prescribed by rules made under this Act;\n(k) \"site\" means any land on which building is proposed to be erected or re-erected or which is transferred by the Chief Administrator under section 53 of this Act;\n(l) \"workshop\" means any building or place in which or within the compound of which may manual labour is employed or utilized in aid of, or incidental to, any process for the following purposes, --\n(i) the making of any article or part thereof;\n(ii) the altering, repairing, ornamenting or finishing of any article; or\n(iii) the adapting for sale of any article; and\n(m) the words and expressions not defined in this Act shall have the same meanings as are assigned to them in [the Haryana Municipal Act, 1973.]\nChapter II\nEstablishment of the Faridabad Complex Administration",
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            "number": "3",
            "title": "3. Incorporation.",
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            "number": "4",
            "title": "4. Appointment of officers.",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "5",
            "title": "5. Power to apply provisions of [Haryana Act 24 of 1973.]",
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            "content": "",
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            "number": "6",
            "title": "6. Advisory Committee.",
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            "content": "",
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            "number": "7",
            "title": "7. Appointment of the staff.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "8",
            "title": "8. Service rules.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 7
        },
        {
            "number": "9",
            "title": "9. Application of the provisions of Punjab Act 4 of 1922.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 8
        },
        {
            "number": "10",
            "title": "10. Withdrawal from the operation of this Act and its effect.",
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            "content": "Chapter III\nDelegation of powers",
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        },
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            "number": "11",
            "title": "11. Delegation of certain powers.",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
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            "number": "12",
            "title": "12. Bye-laws.",
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            "content": "(a) custody of the common seal and the purposes for which it shall be used;\n(b) persons by whom receipt shall be granted on behalf of the Administration for money received under this Act;\n(c) the conditions on which registers, documents, maps and plans of the Administration may be inspected by the public and supply of copies thereof and fees payable for such inspection or for the supply for such copies;\n(d) the appointments, duties, pay, leave and pension, suspension, removal and dismissal of its officers and servants;\n(e) any other matter with the approval of the State Government.",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "13",
            "title": "13. Contracts.",
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            "content": "Chapter IV\nFunds and Property",
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        },
        {
            "number": "14",
            "title": "14. Constitution of Administration Fund.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(1) all balances and credits of the Municipal Committees and Gram Panchayats [of the municipalities and Sabha areas respectively specified in Schedule 1 of this Act] ; and\n(2) all sums received by, or on behalf of the Administration under this Act.",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "15",
            "title": "15. Vesting of immovable property.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 14
        },
        {
            "number": "16",
            "title": "16. Liabilities of Municipal Committees and Gram Panchayats.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "17",
            "title": "17. Application of Fund.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) such sum as may be required for the payment of any amount falling due on any loan legally contracted by it;\n(b) such sums as may be required by the State Government for contribution towards the cost of the State Government establishment for the purpose of advising, assisting and supervising the work of the Administration :\n(c) such sums as may be required to meet the charges of its own establishment including such subscription and contribution as may be approved by the Chief Administrator or the State Government and the maintenance of the Police Establishment;\n(d) such sums as may be required to pay the expenses incurred in auditing the accounts of the Administration and such portion of the cost of any public expenditure by the Central or State Government as may be held by the State Government to be equitably payable by the Administration in return for services rendered to it;\n(e) such sums as may be due to the State Government in respect of cost of maintenance by the State Government on behalf of the Administration of water works, drainage, sewerage or other works.\n(a) the construction, maintenance, improvement, cleaning and repair of all public streets, bridges, town walls, town-gates, embankments, drains, privies, latrines, urinals, tanks and water courses and the preparation of compost manure;\n(b) the watering and lighting of such streets or any of them;\n(c) the constitution, establishment and maintenance of schools, hospitals, dispensaries and other institutions for the promotion of education or for the benefit of the public health, and of the rest-houses, sarais, poor-houses, markets (stalls), encamping grounds, pounds and other works of public utility, and the control and administration of public institutions of any of these descriptions;\n(d) grants-in-aid to schools, hospitals, dispensaries, poor-houses, leper-asylums and other educational or charitable institutions;\n(e) the training of teachers and establishment of scholarships;\n(f) the giving of relief and the establishment and maintenance of relief works in time of the famine or scarcity;\n(g) the supply, storage and preservation from pollution of water for the use of men or animals;\n(h) the planting and preservation of trees, and the establishment and maintenance of public parks and gardens;\n(i) the taking of census, the registration of births, marriages and deaths, public vaccination and any sanitary measure;\n(j) the holding of fairs and industrial exhibitions;\n(k) the preparation and maintenance of a record of rights of immovable property; and\n(l) all acts and things which are likely to promote the safety, health, welfare or convenience of the inhabitants or expenditure whereof may be declared by the Administration, with the sanction of the State Government, to be an appropriate charge on the Administration Fund.",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "18",
            "title": "18. Budget.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 17
        },
        {
            "number": "19",
            "title": "19. Custody and investment of funds.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 18
        },
        {
            "number": "20",
            "title": "20. Application of [Sections 61 to 65 of the Haryana Act 24 of 1973.]",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Chapter V\nTaxes and Fees",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 19
        },
        {
            "number": "21",
            "title": "21. Taxes which may be imposed.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) a tax payable by the owner, on buildings and lands not exceeding fifteen per centum on the annual value thereof;\n(b) a tax on persons practising any profession or art or carrying on any trade or calling in the Faridabad Complex.\n(c) a tax payable by the owner on all or any class of vehicles other than motor vehicles, animals used for riding, draught or burden and dogs, when such vehicles, animals and dogs are kept within the Faridabad Complex;\n(d) a tax payable by the employer on menial servants;\n(e) a tax payable by the occupier of any building in respect of which the Administration has in the exercise of the powers conferred by [sections 162 to 169 of the Haryana Municipal Act, 1973] undertaken the house scavenging;",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "22",
            "title": "22. Procedure for the imposition of taxes.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) issuing a public notice defining the nature and rate of tax or fee to be imposed or the increase in the rate of tax or fee and affixing the notice at the Administration office and other conspicuous places easily accessible to the residents;\n(b) causing a public notice to be published in at least two well circulated newspapers.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 21
        },
        {
            "number": "23",
            "title": "23. Direction of State Government to impose or modify taxes.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 22
        },
        {
            "number": "24",
            "title": "24. Savings of taxes already imposed.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 23
        },
        {
            "number": "25",
            "title": "25. Power to exempt.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) provided that all or any persons may be allowed to compound for taxes imposed under section 21;\n(b) abolish, suspend or reduce in amount any tax imposed under section 21;\n(c) exempt in whole or in part from payment of any such tax, any person or class of persons or any property or description of property.]",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 24
        },
        {
            "number": "26",
            "title": "26. Power of the State Government to suspend the levy of tax or fee.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "27. [Application of certain sections of Haryana Municipal Act, 1973.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 25
        },
        {
            "number": "28",
            "title": "28. Assessment procedure.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Chapter VI\nDeclaration and Publication of Plans of Controlled Area",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 26
        },
        {
            "number": "29",
            "title": "29. Declaration of controlled area.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) the division of any site into plots for the erection or re-erection of any building and the manner in which such plots may be transferred to intending purchasers or lessees;\n(b) the allotment or reservation of land for roads, open spaces, gardens, recreation grounds, schools, markets and other public purposes;\n(c) the development of any site into a colony and the restrictions and conditions subject to which such development may be undertaken or carried out;\n(d) the erection or re-erection of buildings on any site and the restrictions and conditions in regard to the open spaces to be maintained in or around buildings and the height and character of buildings;\n(e) the alignment of buildings on any site;\n(f) the architectural features of the elevation or frontage of buildings to be built on any site;\n(g) the amenities to be provided in relation to any site or buildings on such site whether before or after the erection or re-erection of buildings on such site and the person or authority by whom such amenities are to be provided;\n(h) the prohibition or restrictions regarding erection or re-erection of shop, workshops, warehouses or factories or buildings of a specified architectural feature or buildings designed for particular purposes in any locality;\n(i) the maintenance of walls, fences, hedges or any other structural or architectural construction and the height at which they shall be maintained;\n(j) the restrictions regarding the use of any site for purposes other than the erection or re-erection of buildings;\n(k) any other matter which is necessary for the proper planning of any controlled area and for preventing buildings being erected or re-erected haphazardly in such area.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 27
        },
        {
            "number": "30",
            "title": "30. Erection or re-erection of buildings etc. in controlled area.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 28
        },
        {
            "number": "31",
            "title": "31. Prohibition on use of land in controlled area.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 29
        },
        {
            "number": "32",
            "title": "32. Application of permission or licence and the grant or refusal thereof.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) grant the permission or licence subject to such conditions, if any, as may be specified in the order, or\n(b) refuse to grant such permission or licence; provided that the order of refusal shall not be passed unless the applicant has been afforded an opportunity of being heard.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 30
        },
        {
            "number": "33",
            "title": "33. Power of entry.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 31
        },
        {
            "number": "34",
            "title": "34. Appeal.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 32
        },
        {
            "number": "35",
            "title": "35. Control by Government.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 33
        },
        {
            "number": "36",
            "title": "36. Offences and penalties.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(i) erects or re-erect any building or makes or extends any excavation or lays out any means of access to a road in contravention of the provisions of this Act or the rules framed thereunder, or\n(ii) uses any land in contravention of the provisions of sub-section (1) of section 31.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 34
        },
        {
            "number": "37",
            "title": "37. Offence by Companies.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(i) \"company\" means any body corporate and includes a firm or other association of individuals, and\n(ii) \"director\" in relation to a firm means a partner in the firm.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 35
        },
        {
            "number": "38",
            "title": "38. Composition of offences.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 36
        },
        {
            "number": "39",
            "title": "39. Trial of offences.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 37
        },
        {
            "number": "40",
            "title": "40. Sanction of prosecution.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 38
        },
        {
            "number": "41",
            "title": "41. Officers to be public servants.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 39
        },
        {
            "number": "42",
            "title": "42. Chief Administrator to carry out functions of the Director.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 40
        },
        {
            "number": "43",
            "title": "43. Bar to erection of buildings in contravention of building rules.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) the materials to be used for external or partition walls, roofs, floors, stair-cases, lifts, fire-places, chimneys and other parts of a building and their position or location or the method of construction;\n(b) the height and slope of the roofs and floors of any building which is intended to be used for residential or cooking purposes;\n(c) the ventilation in or the space to be left about, any building or part thereof to secure a free circulation of air or for the prevention of fire;\n(d) the number and height of storeys of any building;\n(e) the means to be provided for the ingress or egress to and from any building;\n(f) the minimum dimensions of rooms intended for use as living rooms, sleeping rooms, or rooms for the use of cattle;\n(g) the ventilation of rooms, the position and dimensions of rooms or projections beyond the outer face of external walls of a building and of doors or windows;\n(h) any other matter in furtherance of the proper regulation of erection, completion and occupation of buildings;\n(i) the certificates necessary and incidental to the submission of building plans, amended plans and completion reports;\n(j) architectural features of the elevation or frontage of any buildings;\n(k) erection of detached or semi-detached buildings or both and the area of the land appurtenant to such building;\n(l) the number of residential buildings which may be erected on any site in any locality;\n(m) prohibition regarding erection of shops, workshops, warehouses, factories or buildings of a specified architectural character or buildings designed for particular purposes in any locality;\n(n) maintenance of height and position of walls, fences, hedges or any other structural or architectural construction;\n(o) restrictions regarding the use of site for purposes other than erection of buildings.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 41
        },
        {
            "number": "44",
            "title": "44. Power to require proper maintenance of site or building.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Chapter VII\nMiscellaneous Provisions",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 42
        },
        {
            "number": "45",
            "title": "45. Preservation and planting of trees.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) cutting down, toppling, lopping and wilful destruction of trees, except with the previous permission of the Chief Administrator; and\n(b) the planting and replanting of any trees or kinds of trees in any site or location therein as may be specified in the Trees Preservation Order.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 43
        },
        {
            "number": "46",
            "title": "46. Control of advertisement.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) for regulating the dimensions, appearance and position of advertisements which may be displayed, the sites on which such advertisement may be displayed, and the manner in which they are to be affixed to land or building;\n(b) for requiring the permission of the Chief Administrator to be obtained for the display of advertisements;\n(c) for enabling the Chief Administrator to require the removal of any advertisement which is being displayed in contravention of such order or discontinuance of the use for the display of advertisements on any site which is being used for that purpose in contravention of such Order;\n(d) for fees to be charged for advertisements at places specified in such Order.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 44
        },
        {
            "number": "47",
            "title": "47. Penalties.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 45
        },
        {
            "number": "48",
            "title": "48. Penalty.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 46
        },
        {
            "number": "49",
            "title": "49. Appeal.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) by a notice from the Chief Administrator requiring a street to be drained, levelled, paved, flagged, metalled or provided with proper means of lighting or being declared a street to be a public street or requiring the alteration or demolition of a building; or\n(b) by an order made by the Chief Administrator under the powers exercisable by him under [Section 116 for section 123 or section 128 or section 131 of the Haryana Municipal Act, 1973, as made applicable by section 56 of this Act] ;",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 47
        },
        {
            "number": "50",
            "title": "50. Penalty for making immovable encroachment.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 48
        },
        {
            "number": "51",
            "title": "51. Bar of jurisdiction of courts.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 49
        },
        {
            "number": "52",
            "title": "52. Protection of action taken in good faith.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 50
        },
        {
            "number": "53",
            "title": "53. Registration and licensing of Architects, Engineers and Plumbers etc.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 51
        },
        {
            "number": "54",
            "title": "54. Other powers of the Chief Administrator.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 52
        },
        {
            "number": "55",
            "title": "55. Power to borrow money.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 53
        },
        {
            "number": "56",
            "title": "56. Power to apply certain provisions of other Acts in Faridabad.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 54
        },
        {
            "number": "57",
            "title": "57. Power to make rules.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) manner of integration of the employees of the Municipal Committees under sub-section (1) of section 7;\n(b) recruitment of additional staff under sub-section (3) of section 7;\n(c) terms and conditions of the staff under section 8;\n(d) publication of bye-laws under sub-section (3) of section 12;\n(e) regarding the priority to be given to the duties of the Administration and the application of the Administration Fund under sub-section (2) of section 17;\n(f) investment of fund under sub-section (2) of section 19;\n(g) form and contents of the plan under sub-section (8) of section 29;\n(h) imposition of tax under section 21;\n(i) conditions and fees for the grant of licence under sub-section (1) of section 31;\n(j) charging of renewal fees under sub-section (2) of section 31;\n(k) making an application under sub-section (1) of section 32;\n(l) maintenance of registers under sub-section (4) of section 32;\n(m) to regulate the erection of buildings under sub-section (2) of section 43.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 55
        },
        {
            "number": "58",
            "title": "58. Power to remove difficulties.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "[Schedule I\n[Section 2(h)]\n(i) Municipality of Faridabad Township.\n(ii) Municipality of Faridabad Old.\n(iii) Municipality of Ballabgarh.\n(iv) Revenue Estate of Ballabgarh not included in the Municipality of Ballabgarh.\n(i) Atmadpur.\n(ii) Annangpur.\n(iii) Palla.\n(iv) Sarai Khaja.\n(v) Wazirpur.\n(vi) Mevla Maharajpur.\n(vii) Fateh Pur Chandila.\n(viii) Budina.\n(ix) Daulatabad.\n(x) Ajronda.\n(xi) Saran.\n(xii) Mujesar.\n(xiii) Ranhera.\n(xiv) Unchagaon.\n(xv) Jharsainthi.\n(xvi) Sehi.]\nSchedule III\n(Section 53)",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        }
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    "metadata": {
        "Act ID": "hl229",
        "Act Number": "Haryana Act 42 of 1971",
        "Enactment Date": "",
        "Act Year": "1971",
        "Short Title": "Faridabad Complex (Regulation and Development) Act, 1971",
        "Type": "STATE",
        "Location": "Haryana"
    },
    "updated_at": "2026-09-29 21:55:19"
}