The Bombay Building (Control on Erection, Re-Erection and Conversion) Act, 1948

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    "title": "The Bombay Building (Control on Erection, Re-Erection and Conversion) Act, 1948",
    "short_title": "The Bombay Building (Control on Erection, Re-Erection and Conversion) Act, 1948",
    "act_number": "Bombay Act No. 31 of 1948",
    "act_year": 1948,
    "act_type": "STATE",
    "location": "Gujarat",
    "law_status": "unknown",
    "enactment_date": null,
    "description": "The Bombay Building (Control on Erection, Re-Erection and Conversion) Act, 1948",
    "preamble": "",
    "section_label": "Section",
    "sections": [
        {
            "number": "6",
            "title": "6. Savings.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(1) any right, obligation or liability already acquired, accrued or incurred before the commencement of this Act, or\n(2) any penalty, forfeiture or punishment incurred in respect of any offence committed before the commencement of this Act, or\n(3) any legal proceeding or remedy in respect of any such right, obligation, liability, penalty, forfeiture or punishment or anything done or suffered before the commencement of this Act, and any such legal proceeding or remedy may be instituted, continued or enforced and any such penalty, forfeiture or punishment may be imposed, as if this Act had not been passed.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "1",
            "title": "1. Short title, [extent and application] .",
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        },
        {
            "number": "2",
            "title": "2. Definitions.",
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            "content": "(i) \"building\" means a house, out-house, stable, shed, hut and every other structure, involving use of bricks, cement, asbestos cement sheets, iron, steel or any other material which the [State] Government may by notification in the Official Gazette specify.\nExplanation.\n(ii) \"Controller\" means the person appointed as such under section 3;\n[(ii-a) \"conversion of a building\" means to use or permit to be used for the purpose of an industrial undertaking, any building to which this Act applies, which was erected, re-erected, or used, or intented to be used, for any other purpose; and \"to convert\" shall be construed accordingly:\n(iii) \"erection or re-erection of a building\" include any alteration to, or enlargement of, or addition to, any building ; and the expression \"erect or re-erect a building\" shall be construed accordingly;\n(iv) \"prescribed\" means prescribed by the rules made under this Act;",
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            "is_definition": true,
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        },
        {
            "number": "3",
            "title": "3. Appointment of Controllers of Buildings.",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "4",
            "title": "4. Application for permission to erect or re-erect buildings, or to continue to erect or re-erect building [or for conversion] .",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) grant the permission subject to such conditions, if any, as may be specified in the order; or\n(b) refuse to grant such permission\n5. [Revocation or modification of permission by State Government.].",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 4
        },
        {
            "number": "6",
            "title": "6. Right of appeal.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 5
        },
        {
            "number": "7",
            "title": "7. Bar of compensation.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) any order of the Controller under sub-section (2) of section 4; or\n(b) any order passed by the [State] Government under section [* * 6; or]\n(c) anything which is in good faith done or intended to be done under this Act.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 6
        },
        {
            "number": "8",
            "title": "8. Saving of other enactments.",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 7
        },
        {
            "number": "9",
            "title": "9. Penalties.",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 8
        },
        {
            "number": "10",
            "title": "10. Offence by companies, etc.",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 9
        },
        {
            "number": "11",
            "title": "11. Power of entry, etc.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) enter and inspect any land on which he has reason to believe that the work of [erection or re-erection or conversion] of a building is being commenced, continued or carred out in contravention of the provisions of this Act;\n(b) ask any person such questions as he deems necessary for carrying out the purposes of this Act;\n(c) ask any person at whose expense the work of erection or re-erection [or conversion of a building] is commenced, continued or carried out or any person engaged in the carrying out of such work to produce or furnish such books or documents or other information being documents or information in his possession, relating to such work;\n(d) seize any material which he has reason to believe have been collected, purchased or otherwise obtained for the work of erection or re-erection of a building in contravention of the provisions of this Act and subject to the provisions of sub-section (3) of section 9 dispose of them in the prescribed manner.",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 10
        },
        {
            "number": "12",
            "title": "12. Protection of persons acting under this Act.",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 11
        },
        {
            "number": "13",
            "title": "13. Savings.",
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            "content": "(a) alterations in a building [not being a conversion and] not involving increase in the existing plinth area or roof area or in the total height of the building:\n(b) re-erection of a dilapidated part of a building [not being a conversion and] not involving re-erection of the whole building or, in the case of a storeyed building, of the whole storey;\n(c) [* * *] furnaces, fire-places, flues, chimneys, washing places, drainage lines, latrines, urinals, septic tanks or manholes and inspection chambers for drains;\n(d) storage tanks or wells;\n(e) boundary walls, compound walls and fencings;\n(f) the erection [re-erection or conversion of a building] -\n(i) which is undertaken or carried out on behalf of the Government of a local authority or in pursuance of a contract with the Government or a local authority, or\n(ii) the cost of which, or any part of the cost of which, the Government or a local authority has agreed to pay.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 12
        },
        {
            "number": "14",
            "title": "14. Power to make rules.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(i) the form of application and the information to be supplied under subsection (1) of section 4;\n(ii) the manner in which persons authorized under sub-section (1) of section 11 shall exercise their powers and dispose of the materials seized under clause (d) of the said sub-section.\n[14A. Delegation of Controller's powers to Housing Board constituted under Gujarat Act VIII of 1961.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 13
        },
        {
            "number": "15",
            "title": "15. Repeal.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
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        }
    ],
    "metadata": {
        "Act ID": "guj018",
        "Act Number": "Bombay Act No. 31 of 1948",
        "Enactment Date": "",
        "Act Year": "1948",
        "Short Title": "The Bombay Building (Control on Erection, Re-Erection and Conversion) Act, 1948",
        "Type": "STATE",
        "Location": "Gujarat"
    },
    "updated_at": "2026-09-29 21:55:19"
}