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The Gujarat Town Planning and Urban Development Act, 1976
The Gujarat Town Planning and Urban Development Act, 1976
Sections
1. Short title, extent and commencement.
Section 12. Definitions.
Section 23. Declaration of development area.
Section 34. Exclusion of whole or part of development area from operation of the Act.
Section 45. Constitution of area development authority.
Section 56. Power to designate a local authority as area development authority.
Section 68. Expenses of area development authority.
Section 89. Development plan.
Section 910. Copy of draft development plan to be open for public inspection.
Section 1011. Manner of preparation of draft development plan.
Section 1112. Contents of draft development plan.
Section 1213. Publication of draft development plan.
Section 1314. Suggestions or objections to draft development plan to be considered.
Section 1415. Modifications made after publication of draft development plan.
Section 1516. Submission of draft development plan to the State Government for sanction.
Section 1617. Power of State Government to sanction draft development plan.
Section 1718. Extension or reduction of development plan.
Section 1819. Variation of final development plan.
Section 1920. Acquisition of land.
Section 2021. Revision of development plan.
Section 2122. Declaration of urban development area and constitution of urban development authority.
Section 2223. Powers and functions of urban development authority.
Section 2324. Expenses of urban development authority.
Section 2425. Application of certain provisions of the Act applicable to urban development authority.
Section 2526. Restriction on development after publication of draft development plan.
Section 2627. Application of permission for development.
Section 2728. Permission for retention or continuance or use of any building or work or any use of land.
Section 2829. Grant or refusal of permission.
Section 2930. Supplementary provision as to grant of permission.
Section 3031. Obligation to purchase land on refusal of permission or grant of permission in certain cases.
Section 3132. Lapse of permission.
Section 3233. Power of revocation and modification of permission to development.
Section 3334. Sanction for sub-division of plot or lay-out of private street.
Section 3435. Penalty for unauthorised development or use of continuance or retention of the use without permission.
Section 3536. Power to require removal of unauthorised development or use.
Section 3637. Removal of unauthorised, temporary development summarily.
Section 3738. Recovery of expenses incurred.
Section 3839. Development undertaken on behalf of Government and appropriate authority.
Section 3940. Making and contents of a town planning scheme.
Section 4041. Power of appropriate authority to resolve on declaration of intention to make scheme.
Section 4142. Making and publication of draft scheme.
Section 4243. Power of State Government to require appropriate authority to make scheme.
Section 4344. Contents of draft scheme.
Section 4445. Reconstitution of plots.
Section 4546. Disputed ownership.
Section 4647. Objections to draft scheme to be considered.
Section 4748. Power of State Government to sanction draft scheme.
Section 4849. Restrictions on use and development of land after declaration of a scheme.
Section 4950. Appointment of Town Planning Officer.
Section 5051. Duties of Town Planning Officer.
Section 5152. Contents of preliminary and final scheme.
Section 5253. Certain decisions of Town Planning Officer to be final.
Section 5355. Constitution of Board of Appeal.
Section 5556. Town Planning Officer to assist Board in advisory capacity and his remuneration.
Section 5657. Place where Board may sit.
Section 5758. Decision of questions of law and other questions.
Section 5859. Powers of Board to decide matter finally.
Section 5960. Board not to be Court.
Section 6061. Remuneration of assessors and payment of incidental expenses of Board to be added to costs of scheme.
Section 6162. Decision of Town Planning Officer to be final in certain matters and variation of scheme in view of decision in appeal.
Section 6263. Power of Town Planning Officer to split up draft scheme into separate sections.
Section 6364. Submission of preliminary scheme and final scheme to Government.
Section 6465. Power of Government to sanction or refuse to sanction the scheme and effect of sanction.
Section 6566. Withdrawal of scheme.
Section 6667. Effect of preliminary scheme.
Section 6768. Power of appropriate authority to evict summarily.
Section 6869. Power to enforce scheme.
Section 6970. Power to vary scheme on ground of error, irregularity or informality.
Section 7071. Variation of town planning scheme by another scheme.
Section 7172. Amendment of regulations.
Section 7273. Compensation when scheme varied.
Section 7374. Apportionment of costs of scheme withdrawn not sanctioned.
Section 7475. Right to appear by recognised agent.
Section 7576. Powers of Civil Courts in respect of certain matters.
Section 7676A. Preparation, sanction etc., of local area plan.
Section 76A77. Costs of scheme.
Section 7778. Calculation of increment.
Section 7879. Contribution towards costs of the scheme.
Section 7980. Certain amounts to be added to, or deducted from, contribution leviable from a person.
Section 8081. Transfer of right from original to final plot or extinction of such right.
Section 8182. Compensation in respect of property or right injuriously affected by scheme.
Section 8283. Exclusion of compensation in certain cases.
Section 8384. Provision for cases in which amount payable to owners exceeds amount due from him.
Section 8485. Provision for case in which value of developed plot is less than amount payable by owners.
Section 8586. Payment by adjustment of account.
Section 8687. Payment of net amount due to appropriate authority.
Section 8788. Power of appropriate authority to make agreement.
Section 8889. Recovery of arrears.
Section 8990. Powers of appropriate authority to borrow money for development plan or for making or executing a town planning scheme.
Section 9091. Fund of the appropriate authority.
Section 9192. Power of authority to borrow money.
Section 9293. Priority of payment for interests and repayment of loans.
Section 9394. Budget of authority.
Section 9495. Accounts and audit.
Section 9596. Annual reports.
Section 9697. Pension and Provident Fund.
Section 9798. Offences and penalties.
Section 9899. Levy of development charges.
Section 99100. Rates of development charges.
Section 100101. Assessment and recovery of development charges.
Section 101102. Constitution of Tribunals.
Section 102103. Appeal and revision.
Section 103104. Power of State Government to appoint its employees to any office or post under appropriate authority.
Section 104105. Bar of legal proceedings.
Section 105106. Registration of document, plans or maps in connection with town planning scheme not required.
Section 106107. Compulsory acquisition of land needed for the purpose of town planning scheme or development plan.
Section 107108. Vesting of property and right of appropriate authority ceasing to exist or ceasing to have jurisdiction.
Section 108109. State Government or person appointed by it may exercise powers, perform duty conferred or imposed on appropriate authority and disbursement of expenses in certain circumstances.
Section 109110. Special provision in case of dissolution or suppression of local authority.
Section 110111. Power of entry.
Section 111112. Service of notice, etc.
Section 112113. Public notice how to be made known.
Section 113114. Notices etc. to fix reasonable time.
Section 114115. Offences by companies.
Section 115116. Members and officers of appropriate authority to be public servants.
Section 116117. Effect of other laws.
Section 117118. Power to make rules.
Section 118119. Power to make regulations.
Section 119120. Dissolution of appropriate authority.
Section 120122. Control by State Government.
Section 122123. No Town Planning Scheme or development plan for area for which housing schemes is sanctioned under Housing Board Act.
Section 123124. Repeal and saving.
Section 124
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"content": "(i) \"agriculture\" includes-\n(a) horticulture;\n(b) farming;\n(c) raising of crops, fruits, vegetables, grass, fodder, trees or any other kind of cultivation;\n(d) breeding and keeping of live-stock, including horses, donkeys, mules, pigs, fish, poultry and bees; and\n(e) the use of land for any purpose which is ancillary to its cultivation or to any other agricultural purpose, but does not include the use of land as a garden which is an appendage to a building and the expression \"agricultural\" shall be construed accordingly;\n(ii) \"amenity\" includes roads, streets, open spaces, parks, playgrounds, recreational grounds, water and electric supply, street lighting, sewerage, drainage, public works and other utility services and conveniences;\n(iii) \"appropriate authority\" , in relation to a development area, means an area development authority or an urban development authority, as the case may be;\n(iv) \"area development authority\" means an area development 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payable;\n(b) an owner living in or otherwise using his land or building;\n(c) a rent free tenant;\n(d) a licencee in occupation of any land or building;\n(e) any person who is liable to pay to the owner damages or compensation for the use and occupation of any land or building;\n(xvii) \"operational construction\" means any construction whether temporary or permanent, which is necessary for the operation, maintenance, development or execution of any of the following services, namely :-\n(a) railways;\n(b) national highways;\n(c) national waterways;\n(d) major ports;\n(e) airways and aerodromes;\n(f) posts and telegraphs, telephones, wireless, broadcasting and other like forms of communication;\n(g) regional grid for electricity;\n(h) any other service which the State Government may, if it is of the opinion that the operation, maintenance, development or execution of such service is essential to the life of the community, by notification, declare to be a service for the purposes of this clause.\n(i) new residential buildings (other than gate lodges, quarters for limited essential operational staff and the like), roads and drains in railway colonies, hotels, clubs, institutes and schools, in the case of railways; and\n(ii) a new building, new structure or new installation or any extension thereof, in the case of any other service, shall not be deemed to be construction within the meaning of this clause;\n(xviii) \"owner\" , in relation to any property, includes any person who is, for the time being receiving or entitled to receive, whether on his own account or on account of or on behalf of, or for the benefit of, any other person or as an agent, trustee, guardian, manager or receiver for any other person or for any religious or charitable institution, the rents or profits of the property; and also includes a mortgagee in possession thereof;\n(xix) \"plot\" means a portion of land held in one ownership and numbered and shown as one plot in a town planning 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"content": "(a) the relevant provisions of this Act and all notifications, rules, regulations, orders, directions and powers issued, made or conferred, thereunder shall cease to apply to the said area or, as the case may be, part thereof;\n(b) the State Government shall, after consultation with the area development authority or authorities concerned frame, a scheme determining the portion of the balance of the fund of the area development authority or authorities which shall vest in the State Government and the local authority or authorities concerned and in what manner the properties and liabilities of the area development authority or authorities shall be apportioned between the State Government and the local authority or authorities concerned and on the scheme being notified, the fund, properties and liabilities of the area development authority or authorities, shall vest and be apportioned accordingly.",
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"content": "(i) six members of the local authority appointed by it out of whom one shall be designated as the Chairman;\n(ii) the Chief Town Planner or his representative to be nominated by the State Government;\n[(iii) one official of the State Government to be nominated by the State Government, ex-officio;]\n(iv) Chief Officer or, as the case may, be Secretary of the local authority.]\n[6A. Power to designate Government company as an Area Development Authority.\n[6B. Powers of Collector to suspend execution of order, etc. of appropriate authority.\n7. [Powers and functions of] area development authority.\n(i) to undertake the preparation of development plans under the provisions of this Act for the development area;\n(ii) to under take the preparation [and execution] of town planning schemes [or Local Area Plan] under the provisions of this Act, if so directed by the State Government;\n(iii) to carry out surveys in the development area for the preparation of development plans or town planning schemes;\n(iv) to control the development activities in accordance with the development plan in the development area;\n[(iv-a) to levy and collect such scrutiny fees for scrutiny of documents submitted to the appropriate authority for permission for development as may be prescribed by regulations;]\n(v) to enter into contracts, agreements or arrangements with any person or organisation as the area development authority may deem necessary for performing its function;\n(vi) to acquire, hold, manage and dispose of property, movable or immovable, as it may deem necessary;\n(vii) to execute works in connection with supply of water, disposal of sewerage and provision of other services and amenities;\n[(vii-a) to levy and collect such fees for the execution of works referred to in clause (vii) and for provision of other services and amenities as may be prescribed by regulations;]\n(viii) to exercise such other powers and perform such other functions as are supplemental, incidental or consequential to any of the foregoing powers and functions or as may be directed by the State Government.",
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"content": "(a) proposals for designating the use of the land for residential, industrial, commercial, [educational] agricultural and recreation purposes [or such others purposes] ;\n(b) proposals for the reservation of land for public purposes, such as schools, colleges and other educational institutions, medical and public health institutions, markets, social welfare and cultural institutions, theatres and places for public entertainment, public assembly, museums, art galleries, religious buildings, playgrounds, stadiums, open spaces, dairies and for such other purposes as may, from time to time, be specified by the State Government;\n(c) proposals for designation of areas for zoological gardens, green belts, natural reserves [water body water course] and sanctuaries;\n(d) transport and communications, such as roads, highways, parkways, railways, waterways, canals and airport, including their extension and development;\n(e) proposals for water supply, drainage, sewage disposal, other public utility amenities and services including supply of electricity and gas;\n(f) reservation of land for community facilities and services;\n(g) proposals for designation of sites for service industries, industrial estates and any other industrial development on an extensive scale;\n(h) preservation, conservation and development of areas of natural scenery and landscape [and of heritage building and heritage precincts] ;\n(i) preservation of features, structures or places of historical, natural, architectural or scientific interest and of educational value;\n(j) proposals for food control and prevention of river pollution;\n(k) proposals for the reservation of land for the purpose of Union, any State, local authority or any other authority or body established by or under any law for the time being in force;\n(l) the filling up or reclamation of low lying, swampy or unhealthy areas or levelling up of land;\n(m) provision for controlling and regulating the use and development of land within the development area, [including imposition of charges at such rate as may be provided for grant of Floor Space Index (FSI) or height, and also imposition of] conditions and restrictions in regard to the open space to be maintained for buildings, the percentage of building area for a plot, the location, number, size, height, number of stories and character of buildings and density of built up area allowed in specified area, the use and purposes to which a building or specified areas of land may or may not be appropriated, the sub-divisions of plots, the discontinuance of objectionable uses of land in any area in any specified period, parking spaces, loading and unloading space for any building and the sizes of projections and advertisement signs and hoardings and other matters as may be considered necessary for carrying out the objects of this Act;\n(n) provision for preventing or removing pollution of water or air caused by the discharge of waste or other means as a result of the use of land;\n(o) such other proposals for public or other purposes as may from time to time be approved by the area development authority or as may be directed by the State Government in this behalf.",
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"content": "(a) a statement indicating broadly the uses to which lands in the area covered by the plan are proposed to be put and any survey carried out for the preparation of the draft development plan;\n(b) maps, charts and statements explaining the provisions of the draft development plan;\n(c) the draft regulations for enforcing the provisions of the draft development plan;\n(d) procedure explaining the manner in which permission for developing any land may be obtained from the area development authority or, as the case may be, the authorised officer;\n(e) a statement of the stage of development by which it is proposed to meet any obligation imposed on the area development authority by the draft development plan;\n(f) an approximate estimate of the cost involved in acquisition of land reserved for public purposes.",
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"number": "14",
"title": "14. Suggestions or objections to draft development plan to be considered.",
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"title": "15. Modifications made after publication of draft development plan.",
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"number": "16",
"title": "16. Submission of draft development plan to the State Government for sanction.",
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"title": "17. Power of State Government to sanction draft development plan.",
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"content": "(i) sanction the draft development plan and the regulation so received, within the prescribed period, for the whole of the area covered by the plan or separately for any part thereof, either without modification, or subject to such modification, as it may consider proper; or\n(ii) return the draft development plan and the regulations to the area development authority or, as the case may be, to the authorised officer, for modifying the plan and the regulations in such manner as it may direct :\n(iii) refuse to accord sanction to the draft development plan and the regulations and direct the area development authority or the authorised officer to prepare a fresh development plan under the provisions of this Act.\n(b) Where a development plan and regulations are returned to an area development authority, or, as the case may be, the authorised officer under sub-clause (ii) of clause (a), the area development authority, or, as the case may be, the authorised officer, shall carry out the modifications therein as directed by the State Government and then submit them as so modified to the State Government for sanction; and the State Government shall thereupon sanction them after satisfying itself that the modification suggested have been duly carried out therein.\n(c) Where the State Government has published the modification considered necessary in a draft development plan as required under the proviso to sub-clause (ii) of clause (a), the State Government shall, before according sanction to the draft development plan and the regulations, take into consideration the suggestions or objections that may have been received thereto, and thereafter accord sanction to the drafts development plan and the regulations in such modified form as it may consider fit.\n(d) The sanction accorded under [clause (a), clause (b)] or clause (c) shall be notified by the State Government in the Official Gazette and the draft development plan together with the regulations so sanctioned shall be called the final development plan.\n(e) The final development plan shall come into force on such date as the State Government may specify in the notification issued under clause (d):",
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"content": "(a) the variation proposed in the final development plan,\n(b) the amendment, if any, in the regulations, and\n(c) the approximate cost, if any, involved in the acquisition of land, which by virtue of the variation would be reserved for a public purpose, alongwith a notice, inviting suggestions or objections from any person with respect to the variation within a period of two months from the date of publication of the variation.\n(i) where the variation is made on the proposal of an area development authority, from that authority, and\n(ii) in any other case, from the State Government , if such expenditure is rendered abortive by reason of the variation of the plan.",
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"title": "20. Acquisition of land.",
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"content": "(a) by an agreement, or;\n(b) in lieu of any development right by granting the owner against the area of land surrendered free of cost and free from all encumbrances;\n(c) under the provisions of the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013.]",
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"title": "21. Revision of development plan.",
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"content": "Chapter III\nDeclaration of Urban Development Areas and Constitution of Urban Development Authorities",
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"content": "(i) a Chairman to be appointed by the State Government;\n(ii) such persons, not exceeding [four in number] who are members of the local authority or authorities functioning in the urban development area, as may be nominated by the State Government;\n(iii) [Three officials] of the State Government, to be nominated by that Government, ex-officio ;\n(iv) the Presidents of the district panchayats functioning in the urban development area, or, as the case may be, part thereof, ex-officio ;\n(v) the Chief Town planner or his representative, ex-officio ;,\n(vi) the Chief Engineer or Engineers (Public Health) of the local authority or authorities functioning in the urban development area or his or their nominee or nominees, ex-officio ;\n[(vi-a) the Municipal Commissioner of the Municipal Corporation, if any, functioning in the urban development area, ex-officio ;]\n(vii) a member secretary to be appointed by the State Government who shall also be designated as the Chief Executive Authority of the Urban Development Authority.",
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"content": "(i) to undertake the preparation of development plans under the provisions of this Act, for the urban development area;\n(ii) to undertake the preparation [and execution] of town planning schemes [or local Area Plan] under the provisions of this Act, if so directed by the State Government;\n[(ii-a) to undertake the preparation and execution of Local Area Plan under the provisions of this Act, if so directed by the State Government;]\n(iii) to carry out surveys in the urban development area for the preparation of development plans or town planning schemes;\n(iv) to guide, direct and assist the local authority or authorities and other statutory authorities functioning in the urban development area in matters pertaining to the planning, development and use of urban land;\n(v) to control the development activities in accordance with the development plan in the urban development area;\n[(v-a) to levy and collect such security fees for scrutiny of documents submitted to the appropriate authority for permission for development as may be prescribed by regulations;]\n(vi) to execute works in connection with supply of water, disposal of sewerage and provision of other services and amenities;\n[(vi-a) to levy and collect such fees for the execution of works referred to in clause (vi) and for provision of other services and amenities as may be prescribed by regulations;]\n(vii) to acquire, hold, manage and dispose of property, movable or immovable, as it may deem necessary;\n(viii) to enter into contracts, agreements or arrangements, with any local authority, person or organisation as the urban development authority may consider necessary for performing its functions;\n(ix) to carry any development works in the urban development area as may be assigned to it by the State Government from time to time.;\n(x) to exercise such other powers and perform such other functions as are supplemental, incidental or consequential to any of the foregoing powers and functions or as may be directed by the State Government.\n[(ix-a) to levy and collect such fees or charges for,the execution of works and for. pro vision of other services and amenities as specified in the Local Area Plan.]\n[23A. Entrustment of powers and functions to Government company.",
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"number": "24",
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"number": "25",
"title": "25. Application of certain provisions of the Act applicable to urban development authority.",
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"content": "Chapter IV\nControl of Development and use of Land Included in Development Plans",
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"number": "26",
"title": "26. Restriction on development after publication of draft development plan.",
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"content": "(i) for the carrying out of any work for the maintenance, improvement or other alteration of any building, being works which affect only the interior of the building or which do not materially affect the external appearance thereof;\n(ii) for the carrying out any work in compliance with any order or direction made by any authority under any law for the time being in force;\n(iii) for the carrying out of any work by any authority in exercise of its powers under any law for the time being in force;\n(iv) for the carrying out of-\n(a) any operational construction undertaken by the Central Government or a State Government;\n(b) any work for the purpose of inspecting, repairing or renewing any drains, sewers, mains, pipes, cables, telephone or other apparatus or the breaking open of any street or other land for such purpose;\n(v) for any excavation, including excavation of wells made in the ordinary course of an agricultural operation;\n(vi) for the construction of a road intended to give access to land solely for agricultural purposes;\n(vii) for the normal use of land which has been used temporarily for other purposes;\n(viii) in case of land normally used for one purpose and occasionally used for any other purpose, for the use of land for that other purpose on occasions;\n(ix) for use, for any purpose incidental to the use of a building for human habitation or any other building or land attached to such building.",
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"number": "27",
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"number": "28",
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"number": "29",
"title": "29. Grant or refusal of permission.",
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"content": "(i) grant the permission with or without any condition; or\n(ii) grant the permission, subject to any general or special orders made by the State Government in this behalf; or\n(iii) refuse to grant the permission.",
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"number": "30",
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"number": "31",
"title": "31. Obligation to purchase land on refusal of permission or grant of permission in certain cases.",
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"content": "(a) in a case where permission for such use is refused, that the land has become incapable of reasonable beneficial use in its existing state,\n(b) in a case where permission for such use is granted subject to conditions, that the land cannot be rendered capable of reasonable beneficial use by carrying out the conditions of the permissions, he may, within the time and in the manner prescribed by regulations made by the appropriate authority, serve on the appropriate authority a notice (hereinafter referred to as a purchase notice) requiring the appropriate authority to purchase his interest in the land in accordance with the provisions of this section.",
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"number": "32",
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"number": "33",
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"number": "34",
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"number": "35",
"title": "35. Penalty for unauthorised development or use of continuance or retention of the use without permission.",
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"content": "(a) without the permission required under Section 27; or\n(b) which is not in accordance with any permission granted or is in contravention of any condition subject to which such permission has been granted;\n(c) after such permission has been duly revoked; or\n(d) in contravention of any modification made in such permission, shall, on conviction, be punished with fine which may extend to [fifty thousand rupees] , and in the case of a continuing offence with a further fine which may extend to [one thousand rupees] for every day during which the offence continues after conviction for the first offence.",
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"number": "36",
"title": "36. Power to require removal of unauthorised development or use.",
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"content": "(a) to restore the land or building to its condition existing before the said development took place, in cases specified in clause (a) or clause (c) of sub-section (1) of Section 35;\n(b) to secure compliance with the conditions or with the permission as modified, as the case may be, in cases specified in clause (b) or clause (d) of sub-section (1) of Section 35;\n(c) to discontinue such use of building or land or work :\n(a) the demolition or alteration of any building or work;\n(b) the carrying out on land of any building or other operations.\n(a) prosecute the owner for not complying with the notice and, where the notice requires the discontinuance of any use of land or building any other person also who uses the land or building or causes or permits the land or building to be used in contravention of the notice; and\n(b) where the notice requires the demolition or alteration of any building or work or the carrying out of any building or other operations, itself cause the restoration of the building to its condition before the development took place and secure compliance with the conditions of the permission or with the permission as modified by taking such steps as the appropriate authority may consider necessary, including demolition or alteration of any building or work or carrying out of any building or other operations, and recover the amount of any expenses incurred by it in this behalf from the owner as arrears of \\land revenue.",
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"number": "37",
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"number": "38",
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"number": "39",
"title": "39. Development undertaken on behalf of Government and appropriate authority.",
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"content": "(i) either make necessary modifications in the proposals for development to meet the objections raised by the appropriate authority; or\n(ii) submit the proposals for development together with the objections raised by the appropriate authority to the State Government for decision.\nChapter V\nTown Planning Schemes",
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"number": "40",
"title": "40. Making and contents of a town planning scheme.",
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"content": "(i) in the course of development;\n[(ii) likely to be used for residential or commercial or industrial or for building purposes; or]\n(iii) already built upon.\n(a) the laying out or relaying out of land, either vacant or already built upon;\n(b) the filling up or reclamation of low-lying, swampy or unhealthy areas, or levelling up of land;\n(c) lay-out of new streets or roads, construction, diversion, extension, alteration, improvement and closing up of streets and roads and discontinuance of communications;\n(d) the construction, alteration and removal of buildings, bridges and other structures;\n(e) the allotment or [earmarked] of land for roads, open spaces, gardens, recreation grounds, schools, markets, green-belts, dairies, transport facilities, public purposes of all kinds;\n(f) drainage, inclusive of sewerage, surface or sub-soil drainage and sewage disposal;\n(g) lighting;\n(h) water supply;\n(i) the preservation of objects of historical or national interest or natural beauty, and of buildings actually used for religious purposes;\n(j) the reservation of land to the extent of ten per cent, or such percentage as near thereto as possible of the total area covered under the scheme, for the purpose of providing housing accommodation to the members of socially and economically backward classes of people [and of such other class of people as may be determined by the State Government] ;\n[(jj) (a) the allotment of land from the total area covered under the scheme, to the extent of.-\n(i) fifteen per cent for roads,\n(ii) five per cent for parks, play grounds, gardens and open space,\n(iii) five per cent for social infrastructure such as school, dispensary, fire brigade, public utility place as earmarked in the [Draft Town Planning Scheme and also for industrial development, and]\n(iv) fifteen per cent for sale by appropriate authority for residential, commercial or industrial use depending upon the nature of development:\n(b) the proceeds from the sale of land referred to in para (iv) of subclause (a) shall be used for the purpose of providing infrastructural facilities;\n(c) the land allotted for the purposes referred to in paragraphs (ii) and (iii) of sub-clause (a) shall not be changed by variation of schemes for the purposes other than public purpose;] ]\n(k) the imposition of conditions and restrictions in regard to the open space to be maintained around buildings, the percentage of building area for a plot, the number, size, height and character of building allowed in specified areas, the purposes to which buildings or specified areas may or may not be appropriated, the sub-division of plots, the discontinuance of objectionable uses of lands in any area in specified periods, parking spaces and loading and unloading space for any building and the sizes or locations of projections and advertisement signs;\n(l) the suspension, so far as may be necessary, for the proper carrying out of the scheme, of any rule, bye-law, regulation, notification or order made or issued under any Act of the State Legislature or any of the Acts which the State Legislature is competent to amend:\n(m) such other matters not inconsistent with the objects of this Act as may be prescribed.",
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"number": "41",
"title": "41. Power of appropriate authority to resolve on declaration of intention to make scheme.",
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"number": "42",
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"number": "43",
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"number": "44",
"title": "44. Contents of draft scheme.",
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"content": "(a) the area, ownership and tenure of each original plot;\n(b) the particulars of land allotted or reserved under clause (e) of sub-section (3) of Section 40 with a general indication of the uses to which such land is to be put and the terms and conditions subject to which such land is to be put to such uses;\n(c) the extent to which it is proposed to alter the boundaries of original plots;\n(d) an estimate of the net cost of the scheme to be borne by the appropriate authority;\n(e) a full description of all the details of the scheme under sub-section (3) of Section 40 as may be applicable;\n(f) the laying out or relaying out of land either vacant or already built upon;\n(g) the filling up or reclamation of low-lying, swampy or unhealthy areas or levelling up of land; and\n(h) any other prescribed particulars.",
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"number": "45",
"title": "45. Reconstitution of plots.",
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"content": "(a) to form a final plot by the reconstitution of an original plot by the alteration of its boundaries, if necessary;\n(b) to form a final plot from an original plot by the transfer of any adjoining lands;\n(c) to provide with the consent of the owners that two or more original plots which are owned by several persons or owned by persons jointly be held in ownership in common as a final plot, with or without alteration of boundaries;\n(d) to allot a final plot to any owner dispossessed of land in furtherance of the scheme; and\n(e) to transfer the ownership of a plot from one person to another.",
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"number": "46",
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"number": "47",
"title": "47. Objections to draft scheme to be considered.",
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"number": "48",
"title": "48. Power of State Government to sanction draft scheme.",
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"content": "[48A. Vesting of land in appropriate authority.\n(i) sanctioned draft scheme were a preliminary scheme, and\n(ii) in sub-section (1), for the words \"comes into force\", the words, brackets and figures \"the date on which the draft scheme is sanctioned under subsection (2) of Section 48\" were substituted.]",
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"number": "49",
"title": "49. Restrictions on use and development of land after declaration of a scheme.",
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"content": "(b) where an application for permission under clause (a) is received by the appropriate authority, it shall send to the applicant a written acknowledgment of its receipt and after making such inquiry as it deems fit and in consultation with the Town Planning Officer, if any, may either grant or refuse such permission or grant it subject to such conditions as it may think fit to impose;\n(c) if the appropriate authority does not communicate its decision to the applicant within three months from the date of acknowledgments of its receipt, such permission shall be deemed to have been granted to the applicant;\n(d) if any person contravenes the provisions of clause (a) or of any condition imposed under clause (b), the appropriate authority may direct such person by notice in writing to stop any development in progress, and after making an inquiry in the prescribed manner remove, pull down, or alter any building or other development or restore the land or building in respect of which such contravention is made to its original condition;\n(e) any expenses incurred by the appropriate authority under clause (d) shall be a sum due to it under this Act from the person in default;\n(f) the provisions of Section 35 shall so far as may be, apply in relation to the unauthorised development or use of land included in a town planning scheme;\n(g) the restrictions imposed by this section shall cease to operate in the event of the State Government refusing to sanction the draft scheme or the preliminary scheme or in the event of the withdrawal of the scheme under Section 66 or in the event of the declaration of intention lapsing under sub-section (3) of Section 42;\n(h) any diminution in the value of an original plot occasioned by any contravention of the provisions of clause (a) or of any condition imposed under clause (b) shall, notwithstanding anything contained in Sections 77, 78 and 79 be taken into account in fixing the market value of such plot.",
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"number": "50",
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"number": "51",
"title": "51. Duties of Town Planning Officer.",
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"number": "52",
"title": "52. Contents of preliminary and final scheme.",
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"content": "(i) after giving notice in the prescribed manner and in the prescribed form to the persons affected by the scheme, define and demarcate the areas allotted to, or reserved for, any public purpose, or for a purpose of the appropriate authority and the final plots;\n(ii) after giving notice as aforesaid, determine in a case in which a final plot is to be allotted to persons in ownership in common, the shares of such persons;\n(iii) provide for the total or partial transfer of any right in an original plot to a final plot or provide for the transfer of any right in an original plot in accordance with the provisions of Section 81;\n(iv) determine the period within which the works provided in the scheme shall be completed by the appropriate authority.\n(i) fix the difference between the total of the values of the original plots and the total of the values of the plots included in the scheme in accordance with the provisions of clause (f) of sub-section (1) of Section 77;\n(ii) determine whether the areas used, allotted or reserved for a public purpose or purposes of the appropriate authority are beneficial wholly or partly to the owners or residents within the area of the scheme;\n(iii) estimate the portion of the sums payable as compensation on each plot used, allotted or reserved for a public purpose or for the purpose of the appropriate authority which is beneficial partly to the owners or residents within the area of the scheme and partly to the general public, which shall be included in the costs of the scheme;\n(iv) calculate the contribution to be levied under sub-section (1) of Section 79, on each plot used, allotted or reserved for a public purpose or for the. purpose of the appropriate authority which is beneficial partly to the owners or residents within the area of the scheme and partly to the general public;\n(v) determine the amount of exemption, if any from the payment of contribution that may be granted in respect of plots exclusively occupied for religious or charitable purposes;\n(vi) estimate the increment to accrue in respect of each plot included in the scheme in accordance with the provisions of Section 78;\n(vii) calculate the proportion of the contribution to be levied on each plot in the final scheme to the increment estimated to accrue in respect of such plot under sub-section (1) of Section 79;\n(viii) calculate the contribution to be levied on each plot included in the final scheme;\n(ix) determine the amount to be deducted from, or added to, as the case may be, the contribution leviable from a person in accordance with the provisions of Section 79;\n(x) estimate with reference to claims made before him, after notice has been given by him in the prescribed manner and in the prescribed form, the compensation to be paid to the owner of any property or right injuriously effected by the making of the town planning scheme in accordance with the provisions of Section 82;\n(xi) draw in the prescribed form the preliminary and the final scheme in accordance with the draft scheme :\n(ii) If there is any difference of opinion between the Town Planning Officer and the appropriate authority as to whether a variation made by the Town Planning Officer is of substantial nature or not, the matter shall be referred by the appropriate authority to the State Government whose decision thereon shall be final.",
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"number": "53",
"title": "53. Certain decisions of Town Planning Officer to be final.",
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"content": "[54. Appeal.\n(b) all appeals pending on the said date before any Board of Appeal shall stand transferred to the Board of Appeal so constituted.]",
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"number": "55",
"title": "55. Constitution of Board of Appeal.",
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"content": "(b) The Board of Appeal shall consist of three Members, one of whom shall be its President and two persons, possessing such qualifications and experience as may be prescribed, as assessor.\n(c) The President shall be a person who is or has been a District Judge or a Judge of the City Civil Court, Ahmedabad.\n(d) The terms of appointment of the President of the Board of Appeal and conditions of service shall be such as may be prescribed.]",
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"number": "56",
"title": "56. Town Planning Officer to assist Board in advisory capacity and his remuneration.",
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"number": "57",
"title": "57. Place where Board may sit.",
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"number": "58",
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"number": "59",
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"number": "60",
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"number": "61",
"title": "61. Remuneration of assessors and payment of incidental expenses of Board to be added to costs of scheme.",
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"number": "62",
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"number": "63",
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"number": "64",
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"number": "65",
"title": "65. Power of Government to sanction or refuse to sanction the scheme and effect of sanction.",
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"content": "(a) in the case of preliminary scheme, within a period of two months from the date of its receipt, and\n(b) in the case of a final scheme, within a period of three months from the date of its receipt, by notification, sanction the preliminary scheme or the final scheme or refuse to give sanction, provided that in sanctioning any such scheme, the State Government may make such modifications as may, in its opinion, be necessary for the purpose of correcting an error, irregularity or informality.\n(a) the place at which the scheme shall be kept open for inspection by the public, and\n(b) a date [***] in which all the liabilities created by the scheme shall come into force:",
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"number": "66",
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"number": "67",
"title": "67. Effect of preliminary scheme.",
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"content": "(a) all lands required by the appropriate authority shall, unless it is otherwise determined in such scheme, vest absolutely in the appropriate authority free from all encumbrances;\n(b) all rights in the original plots which have been re-constituted into final plots shall determine and the final plots shall become subject to the rights settled by the Town Planning Officer.\n[67A. Manner of resolution of grievances after sanctioning scheme.\n(i) the Secretary, Urban Development and Urban Housing Department, shall be the Chairman; (ii) the Chief Town Planner, - Member Secretary, ex-officio ; and (iii) any other member, appointed by the Chairman. (3) The decision of the Committee in this regard shall be deemed to be the part of the scheme sanctioned under Sec. 65.]\n(ii) the Chief Town Planner, - Member Secretary, ex-officio ; and\n(iii) any other member, appointed by the Chairman.",
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"number": "68",
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"number": "69",
"title": "69. Power to enforce scheme.",
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"content": "(a) remove, pull down, or alter any building or other work in the area included in the scheme which is such as contravenes the scheme or in the erection or carrying out of which any provision of the scheme has not been complied with;\n(b) execute any work which it is the duty of any person to execute under the scheme in any case where it appears to the appropriate authority that delay in the execution of the work would prejudice the efficient operation of the scheme.",
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"number": "70",
"title": "70. Power to vary scheme on ground of error, irregularity or informality.",
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"content": "(a) appoint a Town Planning Officer and thereupon the provisions of this Chapter Shall, So Far As May Be, Apply To Such Draft Variation As If It Were A Draft Scheme Sanctioned By The State Government, Or\n(b) make the variation with or without modification, or\n(c) refuse to make the variation.\n[70A. Variation of Town Planning Scheme for land allotted for public purpose.",
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"number": "71",
"title": "71. Variation of town planning scheme by another scheme.",
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"number": "72",
"title": "72. Amendment of regulations.",
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"content": "(b) if within one month from the date of publication of the draft amendment, any person communicates in writing to the appropriate authority any suggestions or objections relating to such amendment, the appropriate authority shall consider such suggestions or objection and may, at any time before submitting the draft amendment to the State Government as hereinafter provided, modify such amendment as it thinks fit;\n(c) the appropriate authority shall within a period of two months from the date of its publication, submit the draft amendment alongwith the suggestions or objections to the State Government and shall at the same time apply for its sanction;\n(d) after receiving such application and after making such inquiry as it may think fit, the State Government may sanction the amendment submitted with or without modifications as it deems necessary or refuse to sanction the amendment;\n(e) if the amendment is sanctioned by the State Government, the final town planning scheme shall be deemed to have been varied in accordance with the amendment.",
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{
"number": "73",
"title": "73. Compensation when scheme varied.",
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{
"number": "74",
"title": "74. Apportionment of costs of scheme withdrawn not sanctioned.",
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"number": "75",
"title": "75. Right to appear by recognised agent.",
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{
"number": "76",
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"content": "(a) summoning and enforcing the attendance of any person and examining him on oath;\n(b) requiring the discovery and production of any document;\n(c) receiving evidence on affidavits;\n(d) issuing commissions for the examination of witnesses or documents.\n[Chapter V-I]\nSpecial Provisions for Local Area Plan",
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"number": "76A",
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"content": "(a) define and provide for the complete road and street pattern for the present and in the future and indicate the traffic circulation;\n(b) lay down in detail the projected road and street furniture;\n(c) access, make projection for the future requirements of amenities, services and utilities such as transport, electricity, water, drainage, plantation and land scape;\n(d) prescribe in detail the foot print, height and building envelope, control over architectural features including elevation and frontage, numbers of stories, size of buildings, courtyard, pickup and drop off points, entry points to the basement, parking and such other requirement to integrate the building envelope in the vicinity;\n(e) indicate the phasing of the program of development and the cost of development and the share to be paid by each owner or the beneficiary;\n(f) access the cost of works to be provided by the appropriate authority and the contribution of fees to be paid by different owners;\n(g) make such provisions as are necessary which are enumerated in clause (m) of sub-section (2) of Section 12;\n(h) indicate in the plan and other document, the land which shall vest with the appropriate authority.\n(a) for the purpose of making the Local Area Plan call a meeting or meetings of the persons affected by the Local Area Plan, by a public notice and notices to the individuals whose addresses are known, and explain the contents of the Local Area Plan for inviting their objections and suggestions or> the said proposal.\n(b) consider the objections and suggestions received under sub-clause (a), and modify the plan as it thinks fit and publish it in the Official Gazette, inviting objections and suggestions from the person affected by the Local Area Plan within a period of thirty days.\n(a) sanction such local area plan with or without modification or subject to such conditions as it may think fit to impose; or\n(b) return the plan to the appropriate authority with directions as it may think fit; or\n(c) refuse to accord sanction.]\nChapter VI\nFinance",
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"number": "77",
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"content": "(a) all sums payable by the appropriate authority under the provisions of this Act, which are not specifically excluded from the costs of the scheme;\n(b) all sums spent or estimated to be spent by the appropriate authority in the making and execution of the scheme :\n(c) all sums payable as compensation for land reserved or designated for any public purpose or for the purposes of the appropriate authority which is solely beneficial to the owners of land or residents within the area of the scheme;\n(d) such portion of the sums payable as compensation for land reserved or designated for any public purpose or for the purpose of the appropriate authority which is beneficial partly to the owners of land or residents within the area of the scheme and partly to the general public, as is attributable to the benefit accruing to the owners of land or residents within the area of the scheme from such reservation or designation;\n(e) all legal expenses incurred by the appropriate authority in the making and in the execution of the scheme;\n(f) any amount by which the total amount of the values of the original plots exceeds the total amount of the values of the plots included in the final scheme, each of such plots being estimated at its market value at the date of the declaration of intention to make a scheme, with all the buildings and works thereon at the said date and without reference to improvements contemplated in the scheme other than improvements due to alteration of its boundaries.\n[(g) twenty per cent of the amount of the cost of infrastructure provided in the area adjacent to the area of the scheme as is necessary for the purpose of and incidental to the scheme.]",
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"number": "78",
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"number": "79",
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"content": "(i) (a) where the cost of the scheme does not exceed half the increment, the cost shall be met wholly by a contribution, and\n(b) where it exceeds half the increment, to the extent of half the increment it shall be met by a contribution and the excess shall be borne by the appropriate authority;\n(ii) where a plot is subject to a mortgage with possession or to a lease, the Town Planning Officer shall determine in what proportion the mortgagee or lessee on the one hand and the mortgagor or lessor on the other hand shall pay such contribution;\n(iii) no such contribution shall be levied on a plot used, allotted or reserved for a public purpose of the appropriate authority which is solely beneficial to the owners of land or residents within the area of the scheme; and\n(iv) the contribution levied on a plot used, allotted or reserved for a public purpose or for the purpose of the appropriate authority which is beneficial partly to the owners of land or residents within the area of the scheme and partly to the general public shall be calculated in proportion to the benefit estimated to accrue to the general public from such use, allotment or reservation.",
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"number": "80",
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"number": "81",
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"number": "82",
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"number": "83",
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"number": "84",
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"number": "85",
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"number": "86",
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"number": "87",
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"number": "88",
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"number": "89",
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"number": "90",
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"number": "91",
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"content": "(a) all moneys received by the authority by way of grants, loans, [advances, fees, development charges or otherwise;]\n(b) all moneys derived from its undertakings, projections and other sources;\n(c) such amount of contributions from local authorities as the State Government may specify from time to time to be credited to the fund of the authority.\n(a) expenditure incurred in the administration of this Act;\n(b) cost of acquisition of land for the purposes of this Act;\n(c) expenditure for any development of land in the development area;\n(d) expenditure for such other purposes as the State Government may direct.\n[91A. Establishment of consolidated infrastructure fund.",
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"number": "92",
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"content": "(a) meeting expenditure debitable to the capital amount;\n(b) repaying any loan previously taken under this Act.",
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"number": "93",
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"number": "94",
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"number": "95",
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"number": "96",
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"number": "97",
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"number": "98",
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"number": "99",
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"number": "100",
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"content": "(i) Industrial;\n(ii) Commercial;\n(iii)\tResidential; and\n(iv)\tMiscellaneous.\n(b) In classifying the lands or buildings under any of the purposes mentioned in clause (a), the predominant purpose for which such lands and buildings are used shall be the main basis.\n(a) in the case of land, at a rate to be specified per hectare, and\n(b) in the case of a building, at a rate to be specified per square meter of the floor area of the building :",
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"number": "101",
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"content": "(b) All development charges payable in respect of any land or building by any person shall, together with interest due upto the date of realisation, be recoverable from such person or his successor-in-interest in such land or building as arrears of land revenue.",
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"number": "102",
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"number": "103",
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"content": "(a) in the case of an order or decision of assessment of development charges,-\n(i) confirm, reduce, enhance, or annul such assessment;\n(ii) set aside such assessment and direct the authority to make a fresh assessment after such further inquiry as may be directed; or\n(iii) pass such order as it may think fit, or\n(b) in the case of any other order or decision, confirm, cancel or vary such order or decision.\nChapter VIII\nMiscellaneous",
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"number": "104",
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"number": "105",
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"number": "106",
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"number": "107",
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"number": "108",
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"number": "109",
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"number": "110",
"title": "110. Special provision in case of dissolution or suppression of local authority.",
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"content": "(a) the parson appointed under such Act to exercise the powers and perform the functions of the local authority shall be demand to be the development authority under this Act, and he may exercise all the powers and perform all the duties of an area development authority under this Act during the period of his appointment;\n(b) in the event of the person appointed as aforesaid exercising the powers and performing the duties of an area development authority under this Act, any properties which, under the provisions of this Act, vest in the local authority as an area development authority shall, during the period of the dissolution or supersession of the local authority, vest in the State Government and such property shall, at the expiry of the said period vest in such authority as the State Government may, by notification, direct.",
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"number": "111",
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"content": "(a) taking any measurement or survey or taking levels of such land or building;\n(b) setting out and marking boundaries and intended line of development;\n(c) marking such levels, boundaries and lines by placing marks and cutting trenches;\n(d) examining works under construction and ascertaining the course of sewers and drains;\n(e) ascertaining whether any land is being or has been developed in contravention of any provision of this Act or rules or regulations thereunder:\n(i) in the case of any building used as a dwelling house, or upon any enclosed part of garden attached to such a building, no such entry shall be made except between the hours of sunrise and sunset or without giving its occupier at least 24 hours' notice in writing of the intention to enter;\n(ii) sufficient opportunity shall in every instance be given to enable women, if any, to withdraw from such land or building;\n(iii) due regard shall always be had, so far 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 land or building entered.",
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"number": "112",
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"content": "(a) where the document is to be served on a Government department, railway, local authority, statutory authority, company, corporation, society or other body, if the document is addressed to the head of the Government department, General Manager of the railway, secretary or principal officer of local authority, statutory authority, company, corporation, society or other body at its principal or branch office, or the local or registered office, as the case may be, and is either-\n(i) sent by registered post to such office, or\n(ii) delivered at such office;\n(b) where the person to be served is a partnership, if the document is addressed to the partnership at its principal place of business, identifying it by the name or style under which its business is carried on and is either-\n(i) sent by registered post to such place of business, or\n(ii) delivered at the said palce of business; and\n(c) in any other case, if the document is addressed to the person to be served and-\n(i) is given or tendered to him, or\n(ii) if such person cannot be found, is affixed on some conspicuous part of his last known place of residence or business, or is given or tendered to some adult member of his family or is affixed on some conspicuous part of the land or building to which it relates, or\n(iii) is sent by registered post to that person.\n(a) if the document so addressed is sent, or delivered in accordance with clause (c) of sub-section (1), or\n(b) if the document so addressed or a copy thereof so addressed is delivered to some person on the land or building.",
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"number": "113",
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"number": "114",
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"number": "115",
"title": "115. Offences by companies.",
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"content": "(a) \"company\" means any 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.",
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"number": "116",
"title": "116. Members and officers of appropriate authority to be public servants.",
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"content": "[116A. Variation in matters contained in clause (m) of sub-section (2) of Section 12.",
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"number": "117",
"title": "117. Effect of other laws.",
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"content": "[******]\n(b) when permission for such development has not been obtained under this Act, such development shall not be deemed to be lawfully undertaken or carried out by reason only of the fact that permission, approval or sanction required under such other law for such development has been obtained.\n[117A. Application of provisions of Section 65 of Gujarat Land Revenue Code, 1879.",
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"number": "118",
"title": "118. Power to make rules.",
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"content": "(i) the manner of declaration of a development area under sub-section (1) of Section 3;\n(ii) the term of office and conditions of service of the members of an area development authority under sub-section (5) of Section 5;\n(iii) the manner in which the draft development plan is to be prepared and submitted to the State Government by the authorised officer under subsection (2) of Section 9;\n(iv) the distinguishing colours to be used in the draft development plan under Section 11;\n(v) the manner of publication of, and the manner in which notice for inviting suggestions or modifications to, the draft development plan under Section 13;\n(vi) the manner in which a notice for inviting suggestions or objections to modifications in draft development plan shall be published under [***] the proviso to sub-clause (ii) of Clause (a) of sub-section (1) of Section 17;\n(vii) the period within which the draft development plan and the regulations shall be sanctioned under sub-clause (i) of Clause (a) of sub-section (1) of Section 17;\n(viii) the term of office and conditions of service of the members of an urban development authority under sub-section (5) of Section 22, read with subsection (5) of Section 5;\n(ix) the form in which, the particulars to be contained and the documents to be accompanied in an application to be made for permission for development under Section 27;\n(x) the form of the permission to be granted under Section 29;\n(xi) the manner of making inquiry under sub-section (5) of Section 29;\n(xii) the time and the manner in which compensation shall be claimed under sub-section (2) of Section 33;\n(xiii) the time within which the owner is to give notice of refusal to accept the compensation under sub-section (3) of Section 33;\n(xiv) the particulars to be submitted alongwith the layout plan for the subdivision of a plot or the making or laying out of a private street on such plot under sub-section (1) of Section 34;\n(xv) the period within which the appropriate authority shall sanction or refuse to sanction the plan under sub-section (2) of Section 34;\n(xvi) the manner of making inquiry under sub-section (4) of Section 34;\n(xvii) the manner of making an application for withdrawal of notice under sub-section (3) of Section 36;\n(xviii) the document and plans to be accompanied with the intimation for carrying out any development work by Government under sub-section (1) of Section 39;\n(xix) the manner of publication of declaration of intention to make a scheme under sub-section (2) of Section 41;\n(xx) the manner of publication of a draft scheme under sub-section (1) of Section 43;\n(xxi) the manner in which and the method by which, compensation shall be payable under sub-section (3) of Section 45;\n[(xxi-a) the circumstances in which the period for inviting objections to the draft scheme may be reduced to fifteen days under section 47;]\n(xxii) the form of permission to be granted by the appropriate authority under Clause (a) of sub-section (1) of Section 49;\n(xxiii) the manner of inquiry for unauthorised development under Clause (d) of sub-section (1) of Section 49;\n(xxiv) the qualification for the appointment of a Town Planning Officer under sub-section (1) of Section 50;\n(xxv) the procedure to be followed by the Town Planning Officer for sub-dividing the town planning scheme under Section 51;\n(xxvi) the manner and the form of notice to be served by the Town Planning Officer under sub-section (1) of Section 52;\n(xxvii) the manner and the form of notice to be given by the Town Planning Officer under Clause (i) of sub-section (1), or under Clause (x) of subsection (3) of Section 52;\n(xviii) the form in which the preliminary and the final scheme shall be drawn under Clause (xi) of sub-section (3) of Section 52;\n(xxix) the form in which the decision of the Town Planning Officer shall be communicated to the party concerned under Section 54;\n(xxx) [the terms of appointment and conditions of service of president; 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"number": "119",
"title": "119. Power to make regulations.",
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"content": "(a) regulations subject to which it shall exercise its powers and perform its functions under this Act;-\n(b) regulations providing for the delegation of its powers and functions to its Chairman. Vice-Chairman, member-secretary or any of its officers;\n(c) regulations for regulating its procedure and the conduct of its business at its meeting;\n[(c-i) regulations prescribing fees to be levied and collected under Clause (iv-a) of sub-section (1) of Section 7;]\n[(c-ii) regulations prescribing fees to be levied and collected under Clause (vii-a) of sub-section (1) of Section 7;]\n[(c-iii) regulations prescribing fees to be levied and collected under Clause (v-a) of sub-section (1) of Section 23;]\n[(c-iv) regulations prescribing fees to be levied and collected under Clause (vi-a) of sub-section (1) of Section 23;]\n[(c-v) regulations prescribing scrutiny fees under Section 27 or, as the case may be, sub-section (1) of Section 28;]\n(d) regulations prescribing the manner in which its order under sub-section (1) of Section 29 shall be communicated to the applicant seeking permission under that section;\n(e) regulations prescribing the time within which and the manner in which a purchase notice shall be served on the appropriate authority under subsection (1) of Section 31;\n[(e-i) regulations prescribing scrutiny fees under sub-section (1) of Section 34 or, as the case may be, Clause (a) of sub-section (1) of Section 49;]\n(f) regulations providing for any other matter which has to be or may be prescribed by regulations.",
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"number": "120",
"title": "120. Dissolution of appropriate authority.",
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"content": "(a) all properties, funds and dues which are vested, or realisable by the appropriate authority shall vest in, or be realisable by, the State Government;\n(b) all liabilities which are enforceable against such authority shall be enforceable against the State Government; and\n(c) for the purposes of carrying out any development in any area which has not been fully carried out by the authority before its dissolution and for the purpose of releasing properties, funds and dues referred to in Clause (a), the functions of such authority shall be discharged by the State Government.\n121.",
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"number": "122",
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"number": "123",
"title": "123. No Town Planning Scheme or development plan for area for which housing schemes is sanctioned under Housing Board Act.",
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"number": "124",
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"Act Number": "President's Act No. 27 of 1976",
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"Act Year": "1976",
"Short Title": "The Gujarat Town Planning and Urban Development Act, 1976",
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