The Bihar State Housing Board Act, 1982

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    "slug": "the-bihar-state-housing-board-act-1982",
    "title": "The Bihar State Housing Board Act, 1982",
    "short_title": "The Bihar State Housing Board Act, 1982",
    "act_number": "Bihar Act 57 of 1982",
    "act_year": 1982,
    "act_type": "STATE",
    "location": "Bihar",
    "law_status": "unknown",
    "enactment_date": null,
    "description": "The Bihar State Housing Board Act, 1982",
    "preamble": "",
    "section_label": "Section",
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        {
            "number": "1",
            "title": "1. Short title, extent and commencement.",
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        {
            "number": "2",
            "title": "2. Definitions.",
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            "content": "(1) \"adjoining area\" means such area as may be specified to be an adjoining area under Section 29;\n(2) \"appointed day\" in relation to any area, means the day on which this Act comes into force in that area;\n(3) \"Board\" means the Bihar State Housing Board constituted under Section 3;\n(4) \"Board premises\" means any premises belonging to or vesting in, the Board or taken on lease by the Board or any premises which is entrusted to the Board under this Act for management and use for the purposes of this Act;\n(5) \"building\" means a house, outhouse, stable, shed, hut (other than a hut made of mud appurtenant to or situated in a cultivated field in any area outside the limit of a city, municipality, town area or notified area) or other enclosure or structure, whether or masonry, bricks, wood, mud, metal or any other material whatsoever, and whether used as a human dwelling or otherwise and includes any verandah, platform, plinth, staircase, doorstep or wall including compound wall other than a boundary wall of a garden or of agricultural land not appurtenant to a house but does not include a tent or other such portable temporary shelter;\n(6) \"building materials\" means such commodities or articles as are specified to be building materials for the purposes of this Act by the State Government by notification in the Official Gazette;\n(7) \"bye-laws\" means bye-laws made under Section 116;\n(8) \"Chairman\" means the Chairman of the Board;\n(9) \"Managing Director\" means the Managing Director of the Board;\n(10) \"Committee\" means any committee appointed under Section 13;\n(11) \"competent authority\" means any person or authority authorised by the Government by notification to perform the functions of the competent authority under Chapter IX for such area as may be specified in the notification;\n(12) \"Government\" means the State Government;\n(13) \"housing or improvement scheme\" means a scheme framed under this Act and includes any one of the types of schemes referred to in Section 28;\n(14) \"land\" includes benefits to arise out of land, and things attached to the earth or permanently fastened to anything attached to the earth;\n(15) \"member\" means the member of the Board, and includes the Chairman of the Board;\n(16) \"municipality\" means any area to which the Bihar and Orissa Municipal Act, 1922 (B. & O. Act VII of 1922) applies and includes any area comprised within the limits of a Municipal Corporation established and constituted under any law for the time being in force; and a notified area constituted under Chapter XIV of the Bihar and Orissa Municipal Act, 1922 (B. O. Act VII of 1922);\nExplanation.\n(17) \"owner\" includes the person for the time being receiving or entitled to receive, whether on his own account or as agent, trustee, guardian, manager or receiver for another person or for any religious or charitable purpose the rents or profits of the property in connection with which the word is used;\n(18) \"premises\" means any land or building or part of a building and includes-\n(i) the garden, grounds and outhouses, if any, appertaining to such building or part of a building;\n(ii) any fittings affixed to such building or part of a building for the more beneficial enjoyment thereof; and\n(iii) roadside land adjoining park, garden, roads, drains, water lines, sewer lines or area or vacant plot adjoining thereto;\n(19) \"prescribed\" means prescribed by Rules made under this Act;\n(20) \"Regulations\" means the Regulations made under this Act;\n(21) \"Rules\" means the Rules made under this Act;\n(22) \"Secretary\" means the person for the time being appointed by the State Government to discharge the functions of the Secretary to the Board;\n(23) \"State\" means the State of Bihar;\n(24) \"Tribunal\" means the tribunal constituted under section 52;\n(25) \"Unit\" means a Housing Unit established under section 21;\n(26) \"Year\" means the financial year; and\n(27) excepting clauses (6) and (17) references to a \"City\" or \"Municipality\" shall be construed as including references to areas lying within a distance of five kilometres beyond the limits of such City or Municipality.\nChapter II\nEstablishment of The Board",
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        {
            "number": "3",
            "title": "3. Creation and incorporation of the Board.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "4",
            "title": "4. Constitution of the Board.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) a Chairman appointed by the State Government,\n(b) a Managing Director appointed by the State Government,\n(c) a Secretary appointed by the State Government, who shall be the Member-Secretary of the Board,\n(d) Secretary to Government of Bihar, Housing Department or the representative- ex-officio .\n(e) Finance Commissioner or a representative nominated by him who will not be an officer below the rank of Special Secretary or Additional Secretary- ex-officio ,\n(f) Special Secretary to Government of Bihar, Planning Department- ex-officio ,\n(g) Chief Engineer, Public Health Engineering Department- ex-officio ,\n(h) Chief engineer, Housing Board- ex-officio ,\n(i) Chief Town Planner, Bihar- ex-officio ,\n(j) four non-official members, having knowledge of Housing problems in the State and special qualification in this respect, appointed by the State Government.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "4A",
            "title": "4A. Constitution of an Executive Committee.",
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            "content": "(i) One non-official member nominated by the State Government out of the non-official members of the Board.\n(ii) Chief Engineer of the Housing Board; and\n(iii) Two members nominated by the State Government out of the remaining ex-officio members of the Board.",
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        {
            "number": "5",
            "title": "5. Disqualification for appointment as a member of the Board.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) has been convicted by a criminal court for an offence involving moral turpitude, unless, such conviction has been set aside.\n(b) is an applicant to be adjudicated a bankrupt or insolvent or is an un-certificated bankrupt or undischarged insolvent.\n(c) holds any office or place of profit under the Board.\n(d) has, directly or indirectly, by himself or by any partner, employer or employee and share or interest in any contract or employment or with, by or on behalf of, the Board.\n(e) is a director, or a secretary, manager or other salaried officer or any incorporated company which has any share or interest in contract or employment with, by or on behalf of the Board, or\n(f) is of unsound mind:\n(i) any sale, purchase, lease or exchange of immovable property or any agreement for the same,\n(ii) any agreement for the loan of money or any security for the payment of money only,\n(iii) any newspaper in which any advertisement relating to the affairs of the Board is inserted, and\n(iv) the occasional sale to the Board to a value not exceeding two thousand rupees in any one year, of any article in which he or the incorporated company regularly trades.",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "6",
            "title": "6. Terms of office of Chairman and non-official members.",
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        {
            "number": "7",
            "title": "7. Terms of pay and allowances of the Chairman and the Managing Director.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "8",
            "title": "8. Leave of absence of the Chairman and Managing Director and appointment of Acting Chairman.",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "9",
            "title": "9. Removal of the Chairman and other non-official members.",
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            "content": "(a) if he has, without the permission of the Board, been absent for more than three consecutive meetings of the Board, or\n(b) if he has been absent from the meetings of the Board for any period exceeding that permitted under Section 10, or\n(c) if he being a legal practitioner, acts or appears on behalf of any person other than the Board in any civil, criminal or other legal proceedings in which the Board is interested, either as a party or otherwise, or\n(d) if he has, in the opinion of the Government contravened the provisions of Section 14, or\n(e) if he, in the opinion of the Government, is unsuitable or has become incapable of acting as a member, or has so abused his position as a member as to render his continuance as such member detrimental to the public interest.",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        {
            "number": "10",
            "title": "10. Filling of casual vacancies in certain case.",
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            "content": "Chapter III\nConduct of Business of the Board and its Committees.\n11.\n(a) in the case of the meeting of the Board, a Director, not being the managing Director, authorised by the Chairman of the Board in writing, shall preside at such meeting but if the Director so authorised is absent or if, no such authorisation has been made, the Board may elect a Director to preside at that meeting; and\n(b) in the case of the meeting of the Executive Committee a member authorised in writing by the Chairman of that Committee shall preside at the meeting but if the member so authorised is absent or if no such authorisation has been made, the Committee may elect any of its members to preside at that meeting.\n11A.\n(ii) The minutes of every meeting of the Executive Committee shall be laid before the Board at the next following meeting of the Board.",
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        {
            "number": "12",
            "title": "12. Temporary association of persons with the Board for particular purposes.",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "13",
            "title": "13. Appointment and functions of the Committee.",
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            "sort_order": 12
        },
        {
            "number": "14",
            "title": "14. Members of the Board or Committee or persons associated with the Board not to take part in proceedings in which they are personally interested.",
            "chapter": "part in",
            "content": "(a) has, directly or indirectly by himself or by any partner, employee or employees any such share or interest as is described in sub-section (2) of Section 5 in respect of any matter, or\n(b) has acted professionally, in relation to any matter, on behalf of any person having therein any such share or interest as aforesaid, shall not vote or take part in any proceedings of the Board or any Committee relating to such matter.\n(i) he shall at a meeting relating to such area of the Board or any Committee inform the person presiding of the nature of such interest, and\n(ii) he shall not take part in any proceedings relating to such area at a meeting of the Board or any Committee.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "15",
            "title": "15. Acts of the Board or Committee not to be invalidated by any infirmity, etc.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) of any vacancy or defect in the constitution of the Board or the Committee; or\n(b) of any defect or irregularity in the appointment of a person acting as a member thereof; or\n(c) of any defect or irregularity in such act or proceeding not affecting the merits of the case.\nChapter IV\nOfficers and Employees",
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        {
            "number": "16",
            "title": "16. Appointment of officers and employees.",
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            "content": "(b) The Secretary to the Board shall perform the following functions:-\n(i) Submission of matters for considerations or orders of the Board,\n(ii) Communication of orders and resolutions of the Board.\n(iii) Control over the general administration of the Board, and\n(iv) Functions prescribed by the State Government from time to time,\n(i) the Board may, with the previous approval of the State Government sanction the creation of any post the maximum scale of which exceeds rupees one thousand five hundred and eighty per month provided appointment to such a post will be made in consultation with the Public Service Commission of the State, and prior approval of the Government.\n(ii) the Board shall have power to create posts in its establishment the maximum pay-scale of which does not exceed rupees one thousand five hundred and eighty per month:\n(iii) (a) The Managing Director may appoint temporarily for a period not exceeding three months, such officers or employees, as may, in his opinion, be required for the purposes of this Act, and the employment of whom for any particular work has not been prohibited by any resolution of the Board. The Managing Director shall not appoint or extend the services of any such officer beyond three months without the prior approval of the Board and the prior sanction of the Government.\n(b) every appointment made under clause (a) shall be reported by the Managing Director to the Board at its next meeting.",
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        {
            "number": "17",
            "title": "17. Conditions of service of officers and employees of the Board.",
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            "content": "",
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        },
        {
            "number": "18",
            "title": "18. Promotions and punishment of the Officers and employees of Board.",
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            "content": "(a) by Managing Director in the case of posts, the maximum monthly pay scale of which does not exceed [eight hundred and forty rupees] and the employees holding such posts;\n(b) by the Board after consultation with the Public Service Commission of the State, in the case of post, the maximum monthly pay-scale of which exceeds eight hundred and forty rupees but does not exceed [one thousand five hundred and eighty rupees] and Officers and employees holding such posts;\n(c) by the Board after consultation with the Public Service Commission of the State and with the previous sanction of the Government in the case of posts, the maximum salary of which exceeds [one thousand five hundred eighty rupees] and Officers and employees holding such posts:\n(a) to the Board, if the order was passed by the Managing Director, and\n(b) to the Government, if the order was passed by the Board:",
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        },
        {
            "number": "19",
            "title": "19. Service Regulations.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) fixing the salary and allowances of the Chairman, Managing Director, Secretary, Chief Engineer, Chief Accounts Officer and other officers and employees of the Board;\n(b) fixing the amount and nature of the security to be furnished by an officer or employee of the Board from whom it may be deemed expedient to require security;\n(c) for regulating the grant of leave of absence, leave allowances and acting allowances to the officers and employees of the Board:\n(d) for establishing and maintaining a Provident and Annuity Fund, for compelling all or any of the officers or employees of the Board other than any employee of the Central or State Government in respect of whom a contribution is paid under Section 105 to subscribe to such fund at such rates and subject to such conditions as may be prescribed, and for supplementing such subscription out of the funds of the Board; and\n(e) for determining the conditions under which the officer and employees of the Board or any of them shall on retirement receive gratuities or compassionate allowances and the amount of such gratuities and compassionate allowances:",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "20",
            "title": "20. Statement of strength and remuneration of staff.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) the number, designations and grades of the officers and employees other than employees who are paid by the day or whose pay is charged to temporary work, whom it considers necessary and proper to employ for the purposes of the Act,\n(b) the amount and nature of the salary, fees and allowances to be paid to each such officer and employee, and\n(c) the contributions payable under Section 105 in respect of each such officer and employee.",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "21",
            "title": "21. Housing Units.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 20
        },
        {
            "number": "22",
            "title": "22. Control and delegation by Managing Director.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) the Managing Director shall not delegate his powers under Sections 24 and 65 to incur expenditure and to approve estimates for any single work or scheme, the value of which exceeds fifty thousand rupees;\n(b) the Managing Director shall not delegate his power under Section 16 to make appointments on posts the maximum monthly pay-scale of which exceeds three hundred seventy-five rupees; and\n(c) the Managing Director with the prior approval of the Board may delegate any of his powers, duties and functions under Section 18.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 21
        },
        {
            "number": "23",
            "title": "23. Power to set aside resolution or order of the Board.",
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            "content": "Chapter V\nExecution of Contracts",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 22
        },
        {
            "number": "24",
            "title": "24. Execution of contracts and approval of estimates.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) by the Managing Director-amount not exceeding rupees fifty thousand,\n(b) by the Board-amount exceeding rupees fifty thousand but administrative approval for schemes as per expenditure exceeding rupees two hundred lakhs shall not be accorded without the prior approval of the State Government.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 23
        },
        {
            "number": "25",
            "title": "25. Delegation of Board's power to sanction contracts.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 24
        },
        {
            "number": "26",
            "title": "26. Further provisions as to execution of contracts.",
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            "content": "Chapter VI\nFunctions and Powers of The Board",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 25
        },
        {
            "number": "27",
            "title": "27. Powers and duties of the Board to undertake housing improvement schemes and their expenditure.",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 26
        },
        {
            "number": "28",
            "title": "28. Types of Schemes.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) The Integrated Subsidised Housing Scheme for industrial worker and the economically weaker sections of the community;\n(b) The Low Income Group Housing Scheme;\n(c) The Middle Income Group Housing Scheme;\n(d) The Rental Housing Scheme;\n(e) The Land Acquisition and Development Scheme;\n(f) The Slum Clearance and Improvement Scheme;\n(g) The Rural Housing Scheme; and\n(h) A general town improvement Scheme and such other Schemes as may be entrusted to it by the State or Central Government.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 27
        },
        {
            "number": "29",
            "title": "29. Matters to be provided by housing or improvement Schemes.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) the acquisition by purchase, exchange, or otherwise of any property necessary for or affected by the execution of the Scheme;\n(b) the laying or re-laying out of any land comprised in the Scheme;\n(c) the distribution or re-distribution of sites belonging to owners of the property comprised in the Scheme;\n(d) the closure or demolition of dwellings or portions of dwelling unfit for human habitation,\n(e) the demolition of obstructive buildings or portion of buildings;\n(f) the construction and re-construction of building;\n(g) the sale, lease or exchange of any property comprised in the scheme;\n(h) the construction and alteration of roads, streets, back lane, bridges, culverts, and causeways;\n(i) the draining, water-supply and lighting of the streets included in the Scheme;\n(j) the provision of open parks, playing fields and open spaces for the benefit of any area comprised in the scheme or adjoining area and the enlargement of existing parks, playing fields open spaces and approaches;\n(k) the provision of sanitary area arrangements record the area comprised in the Scheme, including the conservation and prevention of injury or contamination to rivers or other sources and means of water-supply;\n(l) the provision of accommodation for any class of inhabitants;\n(m) the advance of money for the purposes of Scheme;\n(n) the provision of facilities for communication and transport;\n(o) the collection of such information and statistics as may be necessary for the purposes of this Act;\n(p) the reclamation or reservation of land for markets, gardens, playing fields and afforestations;\n(q) the provision of schools, parks, swimming pools, restaurants, shops, markets, fuel depots, laundries, hair dressing saloons and other amenities in the scheme; and\n(r) any other matter for which in the opinion of the Government is expedient to make provision with a view to provide house accommodation and to the improvement of any area comprised in the scheme, or of any adjoining area or the general efficiency of the Scheme.\nExplanation.",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 28
        },
        {
            "number": "30",
            "title": "30. No housing or improvement scheme to be inconsistent with the Master Plan.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(b) If any dispute arises whether a housing or improvement Scheme made under this Act contains anything inconsistent with any matter included in a Master Plan sanctioned under the Bihar Town Planning and Improvement Trust Act, 1951 (Bihar Act XXXV of 1951), the decision of the Government shall be final.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 29
        },
        {
            "number": "31",
            "title": "31. Preparation and submission of annual programme, budget and establishment schedule.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(i) a programme;\n(ii) a budget for the next year; and\n(iii) a schedule of the staff already employed and to be employed during the next year to the Government in such form as may be prescribed;\n(a) the prescribed particulars in respect of housing Schemes which the Board proposes to execute whether in part or whole during the next year;\n(b) the particulars of any undertaking or work which the Board proposes to organise or execute, as the case may be, during the next year for the purposes of production of building materials; and\n(c) such other particulars as may be prescribed.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 30
        },
        {
            "number": "32",
            "title": "32. Sanction of programme and establishment schedule.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 31
        },
        {
            "number": "33",
            "title": "33. Publication of programme.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 32
        },
        {
            "number": "34",
            "title": "34. Supplementary programme and budget.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 33
        },
        {
            "number": "35",
            "title": "35. Variation in programme and budget.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 34
        },
        {
            "number": "36",
            "title": "36. Sanctioned housing Scheme to be executed.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 35
        },
        {
            "number": "37",
            "title": "37. Transfer to Board for purposes of housing or improvement scheme or land vested in Local Authority.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 36
        },
        {
            "number": "38",
            "title": "38. Compensation in respect of land vested in the Board.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 37
        },
        {
            "number": "39",
            "title": "39. Power of Board to divert or close public street vested in it.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 38
        },
        {
            "number": "40",
            "title": "40. Reference to Tribunal in case of dispute.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 39
        },
        {
            "number": "41",
            "title": "41. Bar to application of certain laws of a Local Authority regarding closure.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 40
        },
        {
            "number": "42",
            "title": "42. Repairs of streets vested in the Board.",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 41
        },
        {
            "number": "43",
            "title": "43. Transferring streets laid out or altered and open space provided by the Board under a housing or an improvement scheme.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) any such road or street laid out or altered by the Board has been duly levelled, metalled, flagged channeled, sewered, and drained in the manner provided in the Scheme sanctioned by the Board or the Government;\n(b) lamp posts necessary for the lighting of street have been provided by the Board; and\n(c) water and other sanitary conveniences have duly been provided in such streets.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 42
        },
        {
            "number": "44",
            "title": "44. Prevention or restriction of traffic in street vested in the Board during progress of work.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
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        },
        {
            "number": "45",
            "title": "45. Other duties of the Board.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(1) to plan and co-ordinate all housing activities in the State and to ensure expeditious and efficient implementation of housing or improvement Schemes in the State;\n(2) to provide technical advice and scrutinise all projects under housing or improvement Schemes sponsored or assisted by the Central or State Government;\n(3) to maintain, allot, lease and otherwise use plots, buildings, and other properties of the Board or the Government, and to collect rents from the properties under the control and management of the Board, and repay loans to the State and Central Governments;\n(4) to set up a research section for the purpose of expediting the construction of and cheapening the cost of buildings;\n(5) to organise and run workshops and stores for manufacture, sale, stock pilling and supply of building materials, required for housing or improvement schemes:\n(6) to undertake comprehensive survey of problems of housing, and\n(7) to do all things for-\n(a) unification, simplification and standardisation of building materials;\n(b) encouraging pre-fabrication and mass production of house components;\n(c) organising or undertaking the production of building materials for residential or non-residential housing, and\n(d) securing a steady and sufficient supply of work mentioned in the work of construction of building.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 44
        },
        {
            "number": "46",
            "title": "46. Reconstitution of Plots.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) for the formation of a reconstituted plot by the alteration of the boundaries of an original plot;\n(b) with the consent of the owners, that two or more original plots each of which is held in ownership separately or jointly shall, with or without alteration of boundaries be held in ownership in common as a reconstituted plot;\n(c) for the allotment of plot to any owner dispossessed of land in furtherance of the housing Scheme; and\n(d) for the transfer of ownership of a plot from one person to another with the consent of such persons.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 45
        },
        {
            "number": "47",
            "title": "47. Supervision and centage charge.",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        {
            "number": "48",
            "title": "48. Power to exempt.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Chapter VII\nAcquisition and Disposal of Land",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "49",
            "title": "49. Power to acquire land.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
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        {
            "number": "50",
            "title": "50. Power to purchase or lease by agreement.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 49
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        {
            "number": "51",
            "title": "51. Power to dispose of land.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Chapter VIII\nConstitution of Tribunal and its Functions",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 50
        },
        {
            "number": "52",
            "title": "52. Constitution of a Tribunal for certain purposes.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 51
        },
        {
            "number": "53",
            "title": "53. Officers and servants of the Tribunal.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 52
        },
        {
            "number": "54",
            "title": "54. Payments by Board on account of Tribunal.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 53
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        {
            "number": "55",
            "title": "55. Power to make Rules for Tribunal.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 54
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        {
            "number": "56",
            "title": "56. Appeals from award of Tribunal.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 55
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        {
            "number": "57",
            "title": "57. Enforcement of the Award or order of the Tribunal.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Chapter IX\nEviction From and Recovery of Rent and Damages Relating to Board Premises",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 56
        },
        {
            "number": "58",
            "title": "58. Exclusion of the Bihar Buildings (Lease, Rent and Eviction) Control Act 1947 [Bihar Act III of 1947] .",
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            "content": "(a) shall not apply nor shall be deemed to have ever applied to any land or building belonging to or vesting in the Board under or for the purposes of this Act;\n(b) shall not apply nor shall be deemed to have ever applied as against the Board to any tenancies or other like relationship created by the Board in respect of such land or buildings;\n(c) but shall apply to any-land or building based to the Board:",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 57
        },
        {
            "number": "59",
            "title": "59. Summary procedure for eviction and recovery of rents.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) that the person authorised to occupy Board premises and has-\n(i) not paid rent lawfully due from him in respect of such premises for a period of not less than three months; or\n(ii) sub-let, without the permission in writing of the Board, the whole or any part of such premises, or\n(iii) committed, or is committing any act contrary to the provisions of clause (o) of Section 108 of the Transfer of Property Act, 1882 (Act 4 of 1882); or\n(iv) made or is making material alteration to, alteration in, such premises without the previous written permission of the Board, or\n(v) otherwise acted in contravention of any of the terms, expressed or implied, under which he is authorised to occupy such premises, or\n(b) that any person is in unauthorised occupation of any Board premises.\n(a) the grounds on which the order of eviction or of recovery of arrears of rent or damages is proposed to be made; and\n(b) the date by which cause against the proposed order may be shown, such date being not earlier than fifteen days from the date of issue of the notice provided that the competent authority may on application allow further time on such terms as to payment of the amount claimed in the notice otherwise, as it deems fit.\n(a) summoning and enforcing the attendance of any person and examining him on oath;\n(b) requiring the discovery and production of documents; and\n(c) any other matter which may be prescribed, be deemed to be a Civil Court within the meaning of Sections 345 and 346 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (Act 2 of 1974), and any proceeding in such inquiry shall be deemed to be a judicial proceeding within the meaning of Sections 193 and 228 of the Indian Penal Code (Act 45 of 1860).\nExplanation.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 58
        },
        {
            "number": "59A",
            "title": "59A. Recovery of rent, premium or any kind of dues, or damages.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "59B.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 59
        },
        {
            "number": "60",
            "title": "60. Appeal.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 60
        },
        {
            "number": "61",
            "title": "61. Recovery of rent through deduction from salary or wages.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Explanation.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 61
        },
        {
            "number": "62",
            "title": "62. Bar of jurisdiction of Courts.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Chapter X\nFinance",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 62
        },
        {
            "number": "63",
            "title": "63. Debts and expenditure, etc., till the Board is established.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Explanation.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 63
        },
        {
            "number": "64",
            "title": "64. Board's Fund.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 64
        },
        {
            "number": "65",
            "title": "65. Application of the Fund.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 65
        },
        {
            "number": "66",
            "title": "66. Expenditure in case of urgency.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 66
        },
        {
            "number": "67",
            "title": "67. Appropriation from one head to another.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 67
        },
        {
            "number": "68",
            "title": "68. Subventions and loans to the Board.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 68
        },
        {
            "number": "69",
            "title": "69. Powers of the Board to borrow and lend.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 69
        },
        {
            "number": "70",
            "title": "70. Establishment and maintenance of sinking funds.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 70
        },
        {
            "number": "71",
            "title": "71. Power to discontinue payments into sinking fund.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 71
        },
        {
            "number": "72",
            "title": "72. Investment of sinking Fund.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) Government securities, or\n(b) securities guaranteed by the Central or State Government, or\n(c) debentures issued by any local authority, or\n(d) debentures issued by the Board; or\n(e) fixed deposit in the State Bank of India or in any Bank specified in column 2 of the first schedule to the Banking Companies (Acquisition and Transfer of Undertaking) Act, 1970 (Act V of 1970) as amended from time to time in the name of the Housing Board to be held by it in trust for the repayment of the loan for which the sinking fund was established.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 72
        },
        {
            "number": "73",
            "title": "73. Payment by cheque.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) by the Managing Director and Secretary to the Board or\n(b) in the event of the illness or occasional absence by any reason or leave Of the Managing Director by any member or any authority empowered by Managing Director in his place and in the event of illness, or occasional absence or leave of the Secretary, by Chief Accounts Officer appointed by the State Government.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 73
        },
        {
            "number": "74",
            "title": "74. Duty of Managing Director and others before signing cheque.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 74
        },
        {
            "number": "75",
            "title": "75. Keeping of capital account and revenue account.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 75
        },
        {
            "number": "76",
            "title": "76. Accounts and audit.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 76
        },
        {
            "number": "77",
            "title": "77. Concurrent and special audit of accounts.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Chapter XI\nPenalties and Procedures",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 77
        },
        {
            "number": "78",
            "title": "78. Penalty for unauthorised construction without approval or construction in violation of provision of Rules/Regulations.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 78
        },
        {
            "number": "79",
            "title": "79. Penalty for failure to comply with requisition made by auditor.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) with fine which may extend to one hundred rupees, and\n(b) in case of a continuing failure, with fine which may extend to fifty rupees for each day, after the first day, during which the failure continues.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 79
        },
        {
            "number": "80",
            "title": "80. Penalty for obstructing contractor or removing mark.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) obstructs or molests any person with whom Managing Director has entered into a contract on behalf of the Board, in the performance or execution by such person of his duty or of any thing which he is empowered or required to do by virtue of or in consequence of this Act or any Rule or Regulation made thereunder, or\n(b) removes, any mark set up for the purpose of indicating any level or direction necessary to the execution or works authorised by this Act or any Rule or Regulation made or scheme sanctioned thereunder, he shall on correction be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to three months or with fine which may extend to five hundred rupees or with both.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 80
        },
        {
            "number": "81",
            "title": "81. Penalty for breach of the provisions of this Act.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) with fine which may extend to two hundred rupees, and\n(b) in case of a continuing contravention, with fine which may extend to one hundred rupees for each day after the first day during which the contravention continue.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 81
        },
        {
            "number": "82",
            "title": "82. Compensation to be paid by offenders for damage caused by them.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 82
        },
        {
            "number": "83",
            "title": "83. Penalty for contravention of bye-laws.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 83
        },
        {
            "number": "83A",
            "title": "83A. In addition to and without prejudice to the rights available to the Board under the provisions of this Act or any other law or Rules in force the Board shall be entitled to the following by way of damages.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 84
        },
        {
            "number": "84",
            "title": "84. Penalty for obstructing exercise of powers.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 85
        },
        {
            "number": "85",
            "title": "85. Punishment for acquiring share or interest in contract, etc. with the Board.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 86
        },
        {
            "number": "86",
            "title": "86. Offence by Companies.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Explanation.\n(a) \"Company\" means a body corporate and includes a firm or other association of individuals, and\n(b) \"director\" in relation to a firm, means a partner in the firm.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 87
        },
        {
            "number": "87",
            "title": "87. Procedure.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 88
        },
        {
            "number": "88",
            "title": "88. Duties of police officers.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) to co-operate with Managing Director for carrying into effect and enforcing the provisions of this Act or any Rule made thereunder.\n(b) to communicate without delay to the proper officer or servant of the Board any information which he receives of a design to commit or of the commission of any offence against the Act or any Rule made thereunder, and\n(c) to assist the Managing Director or any officer or servant of the Board reasonably demanding his aid for the lawful exercise of any power vesting in the Managing Director or in such officer or servant under this Act or any Rule made thereunder.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 89
        },
        {
            "number": "89",
            "title": "89. Arrest of offenders.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 90
        },
        {
            "number": "90",
            "title": "90. Power of the Managing Director as to institution, composition etc. of legal proceedings and obtaining legal advice.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) institute, defend or withdraw from legal proceeding under this Act or any Rules or Regulations made thereunder;\n(b) compound any offence against this Act or any Rules or Regulations made thereunder which under any law for the time being in force or the Rule prescribed by the Government, may lawfully be compounded;\n(c) admit, compromise or withdraw any claim made under this Act or any Rules or Regulations made thereunder;\n(d) obtain such legal advice and assistance as he may, from time to time think it necessary or expedient to obtain or as may be desired by the Board to obtain for any of the purposes referred to in the foregoing clauses of this section, or for securing the lawful exercise or discharge of any power or duty vested in or imposed upon the Board or any officer or servant of the Board.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 91
        },
        {
            "number": "91",
            "title": "91. Protection of action taken in good faith.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 92
        },
        {
            "number": "92",
            "title": "92. Notice of suit against Board, etc.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 93
        },
        {
            "number": "93",
            "title": "93. Proof of consent, etc. of Board or Managing Director, Officers or employees of the Board.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) the Board or the Managing Director, or\n(b) any officer or servant of the Board, a written document signed in case (a) by the Managing Director, and in case (b) by the said officer or servant, conveying or setting forth such approval, sanction, consent, concurrence, declaration, opinion or satisfaction, shall be sufficient evidence of such approval, sanction, consent, concurrence, declaration, opinion, or satisfaction.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 94
        },
        {
            "number": "94",
            "title": "94. Mode of proof of documents of the Board.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 95
        },
        {
            "number": "95",
            "title": "95. Copies from assessment books to be furnished by Local Authorities to Board.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 96
        },
        {
            "number": "96",
            "title": "96. Power of Managing Director to direct removal of unauthorised erection etc., within street alignment, etc.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 97
        },
        {
            "number": "97",
            "title": "97. General power of the Board to pay compensation.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 98
        },
        {
            "number": "98",
            "title": "98. Public notices how to be made known.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 99
        },
        {
            "number": "99",
            "title": "99. Newspapers in which advertisements or notice are to be published.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 100
        },
        {
            "number": "100",
            "title": "100. Stamping signature on notices or bills.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 101
        },
        {
            "number": "101",
            "title": "101. Service how to be effected.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) by giving or tendering such document to such person, or\n(b) if such person is not found, by leaving such document at his last known place of abode or by giving or tendering the same to some adult member or servant of his family, or\n(c) if his address elsewhere is known, by forwarding such document to him by registered post under cover bearing the said address; or\n(d) if none of the means aforesaid be available, by causing a copy of such document to be affixed on some conspicuous part of the building or land, if any, to which the document relates; or\n(e) such person may be informed through advertisement in one important Hindi or English dailes of Bihar.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 102
        },
        {
            "number": "102",
            "title": "102. Power to make surveys, or contribute towards their cost.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) cause the survey of any land to be made, whenever it considers that a survey is necessary or expedient for carrying out any of the purposes of this Act, or\n(b) contribute towards the cost of any survey made by any other local authority.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 103
        },
        {
            "number": "103",
            "title": "103. Power of entry.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) to make any inspection, survey, measurement valuation or enquiry.\n(b) to take levels.\n(c) to dig or, bore into the sub-soil.\n(d) to set out boundaries and intended lines of work.\n(e) to mark such levels, boundaries and lines by placing marks and cutting trenches, or\n(f) to do any other thing, whenever it is necessary to do so for any of the purposes of this Act or any Rule or Regulation made or scheme sanctioned thereunder or any scheme which the Board intends to frame thereunder:\n(a) no such entry shall be made between sunset and sunrise.\n(b) no dwelling house, and no public building or hut which is used as dwelling place, shall be so entered, except with the consent of the occupier thereof, without giving the said occupier at least twenty-four hours previous written notice of the intention to make such entry,\n(c) sufficient notice shall in every instance, be given even when any premises may otherwise be entered without notice to enable the inmates of any apartment appropriated to women to remove themselves to some part of the premises where their privacy will not be disturbed,\n(d) due regard shall always be had so far as may be compatible with the exigencies of the purpose for which the entry is made to the social and religious usages of the occupants of the premises entered.\nChapter XII\nMiscellaneous",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 104
        },
        {
            "number": "104",
            "title": "104. Members, officers and employees of the Board, Committees and Tribunals deemed to be public servants.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 105
        },
        {
            "number": "105",
            "title": "105. Contributions by the Board towards leave, allowances and pension of servants of the Central or State Government employed under this Act.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 106
        },
        {
            "number": "106",
            "title": "106. The Board and Managing Director to exercise powers and functions under the Bihar and Orissa Municipal Act, 1922.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(i) the powers and functions of the Municipal Commissioners under the Bihar and Orissa Municipal Act 1922 (B. O. Act 7 of 1922) shall be exercised and discharged, by the Board, and\n(ii) the powers and functions of the Chairman of Municipality under the said Act shall be exercised and discharged by the Managing Director.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 107
        },
        {
            "number": "107",
            "title": "107. Supply of documents and information to the Government.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 108
        },
        {
            "number": "108",
            "title": "108. Submission of administration report to Government.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 109
        },
        {
            "number": "109",
            "title": "109. Powers of Government to give directions to the Board and Local Authorities.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 110
        },
        {
            "number": "110",
            "title": "110. Supersession of the Board.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) the Chairman, and all the members of the Board shall, as from the date of supersession, vacate their offices as such,\n(b) all the powers and duties which may, by or under the provisions of this Act, be exercised or performed by or on behalf of the Board and the Chairman shall during the period of supersession, be exercised and performed by such authority or person as the Government may direct,\n(c) all funds and other property vested in the Board shall during the period of supersession vest in the authority or person referred to in clause (b), and\n(d) all liabilities legally subsisting and enforceable against the Board shall be enforceable against the authority or person referred to in clause (b) to the extent the funds and properties vested in it or him.\n(a) extend the period of supersession for such further period as they may consider necessary; or\n(b) reconstitute the Board in the manner provided in Section 4.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 111
        },
        {
            "number": "111",
            "title": "111. Dissolution of the Board.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) the Chairman and all the members of the Board shall from the date of dissolution, vacate their offices as such;\n(b) all the powers and duties which may, by or under the provisions of this Act, be exercised and performed by or on behalf of the Board and the Chairman shall from the date of dissolution be exercised and performed by the Government or such authority or person as they may appoint in this behalf;\n(c) all funds and other property vested in the Board shall vest in the Government; and\n(d) all liabilities, legally subsisting and enforceable against the Board shall be enforceable against the Government to the extent of the funds and properties vested in them.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 112
        },
        {
            "number": "112",
            "title": "112. The Board to be a local authority under Act 1 of 1894 and Act 9 of 1914.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 113
        },
        {
            "number": "113",
            "title": "113. Execution and registration of contracts, etc.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Chapter XIII\nRules and Regulations",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 114
        },
        {
            "number": "114",
            "title": "114. Power to make Rules.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) the salary, allowances and conditions of service of the Chairman and Managing Director under Section 7;\n(b) the manner and form in which contracts shall be entered into under Section 26;\n(c) the form of the annual budget to be laid before the Board under Section 31 and the other particulars to be contained therein;\n(d) the manner of publication of housing schemes included in the budget under Section 33;\n(e) the other matters to be decided by the Tribunal under Section 52;\n(f) the procedure to be followed by the tribunal under Section 55;\n(g) the form of notices under Sections 59 and 60 and any other manner in which they may be served;\n(h) the manner in which damages under Section 59 may be assessed;\n(i) the conditions subject to which the Board may borrow any sum under Section 69;\n(j) all matters relating to sinking fund established and maintained under Section 70;\n(k) all matters relating to capital and revenue accounts maintained under Section 75;\n(l) the manner of preparation, maintenance and publication of accounts under Section 76;\n(m) the manner in which the Board shall be superseded and reconstituted under Section 110; and\n(n) other matter which is or may be prescribed under this Act.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 115
        },
        {
            "number": "115",
            "title": "115. Power to make Regulations.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) all matters expressly required or allowed by this Act to be prescribed by Regulations;\n(b) the association of persons with the Board under Section 12;\n(c) the appointment of persons to be members of Committee under Section 13;\n(d) the delegation of powers or duties of the Board to Committees or to the Managing Director;\n(e) the duties, and conduct of officers and employees of the Board and of other persons employed by the Board under this Act for carrying out any of the purposes of this Act;\n(f) the welfare and recreation of the staff of the Board and the contribution to be made therefor;\n(g) the fees payable for the copies of documents, estimate and plans furnished by any of its officers and employees under this Act;\n(h) the management, use and regulation of dwelling constructed under any housing or improvement scheme; and;\n(i) the efficient conduct of the affairs of the Board.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "116",
            "title": "116. Power to make Bye-laws.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 117
        },
        {
            "number": "117",
            "title": "117. Power of Government to cancel Rules, Regulations and Bye-laws made under Sections 114, 115 and 116.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 118
        },
        {
            "number": "118",
            "title": "118. Power to remove difficulties.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 119
        },
        {
            "number": "119",
            "title": "119. Repeal and saving.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "The Schedule\n(See Section 49)",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 120
        },
        {
            "number": "3",
            "title": "1. Amendment of Section 3 of the said Act.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 121
        },
        {
            "number": "15",
            "title": "2. In Section 15 of the said Act,",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 122
        },
        {
            "number": "17",
            "title": "3. Amendment of Section 17 of the said Act.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(i) for the existing sub-section (1) the following sub-section shall be deemed to be substituted, namely:-\n(i) Whenever the Government so directs in the interest of the expeditious execution of a housing or improvement scheme under the Bihar State Housing Board Ordinance, 1974 the Collector, though no such award has been made, may on the expiration of fifteen days from the publication of the notice mentioned in sub-section (1) of Section 3 take possession of any land needed for this purpose of the said Act and such land shall thereupon vest absolutely in the Government free from all encumbrances,\"\n(ii) in sub-section (3) after the word and figures \"Section 24\" the words, figures and letter \"or Section 24-A\" shall be deemed to be inserted;\n(iii) sub-section (4) shall be deemed to be omitted.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 123
        },
        {
            "number": "17",
            "title": "4. After Section 17 of the said Act,",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 124
        },
        {
            "number": "23",
            "title": "5. In Section 23 of the said Act,",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 125
        },
        {
            "number": "24",
            "title": "6. For clause seventhly of Section 24 of the said Act,",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 126
        },
        {
            "number": "24",
            "title": "7. After Section 24 of the said Act,",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(1) When any interest in any land acquired under this Act has been acquired after the date with reference to which the market value is to be determined, no separate estimate of the value of such interest shall be made so as to increase the amount of compensation to be paid for such land.\n(2) If, in the opinion of the Court, any building is in a defective state from a sanitary point of view or is not in a reasonably good state of repair, the amount of compensation shall not exceed the sum which the Court considers the building would be worth if it were put into a sanitary condition or into a reasonably good state of repair, as the case may be, minus the estimated cost of putting it into such condition or state.\n(3) If, in the opinion of the Court, any building which is used or is intended or is likely to be used for human habitation, is not reasonably capable of being made fit for human habitation the amount of compensation shall not exceed the value of the materials of the building, minus the cost of demolishing the building.\"",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 127
        },
        {
            "number": "49",
            "title": "8. Amendment of Section 49 of the said Act.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
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        }
    ],
    "metadata": {
        "Act ID": "bh339",
        "Act Number": "Bihar Act 57 of 1982",
        "Enactment Date": "",
        "Act Year": "1982",
        "Short Title": "The Bihar State Housing Board Act, 1982",
        "Type": "STATE",
        "Location": "Bihar"
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    "updated_at": "2026-09-29 21:55:19"
}