The Itki Tuberculosis Sanatorium (Regulation of Building) Act, 1951

{
    "id": 15929,
    "slug": "the-itki-tuberculosis-sanatorium-regulation-of-building-act-1951",
    "title": "The Itki Tuberculosis Sanatorium (Regulation of Building) Act, 1951",
    "short_title": "The Itki Tuberculosis Sanatorium (Regulation of Building) Act, 1951",
    "act_number": "(Bihar Act 23 of 1951)",
    "act_year": 1951,
    "act_type": "STATE",
    "location": "Bihar",
    "law_status": "unknown",
    "enactment_date": null,
    "description": "The Itki Tuberculosis Sanatorium (Regulation of Building) Act, 1951",
    "preamble": "",
    "section_label": "Section",
    "sections": [
        {
            "number": "1",
            "title": "1. Short title, extent and commencement.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 0
        },
        {
            "number": "2",
            "title": "2. Definitions.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) \"Building\" means any house, hut, shed or other roofed structure, for whatsoever purpose and of whatsoever material constructed, and every part thereof, and includes a tent, or other portable and merely temporary shelter;\n(b) \"Commissioner\" means the Commissioner of the Chota Nagpur Division or any other officer empowered in this behalf by the State Government to discharge the functions of the Commissioner under this Act;\n(c) \" Prescribed\" means prescribed by Rules made under this Act;\n(d) \"Sanatorium area\" means the area comprised within a radius of three miles from the Itki Tuberculosis Sanatorium and includes such area or areas as may be notified under sub-section(2) of Section 1;\n[(dd) \"Sanatorium Fund\" means the Sanatorium Fund constituted under Section 14A;]\n(e) \"Sanatorim Local Authority\" means the Sanatorium Local Authority constituted under Section 3;\n(f) Superintendent\" means the Superintendent of the Itki Tuberculosis Sanatorium; and\n(g) The expression \"to erect or re-erect\", in relation to any building include. -\n(i) any material alteration or enlargement of any building;\n(ii) the structural conversion into a place for human habitation of any building not originally constructed for human habitation;\n(iii) the structural conversion into more than one place for human habitation of a building originally constructed as one such place;\n(iv) the structural conversion of two or more places of human habitation into a greater number of such places;\n(v) such alteration of the internal arrangement of a building as effects an alteration in its drainage or sanitary arrangements or materially affects its stability or security;\n(vi) the addition of any rooms, buildings, outhouses or other structures to a building; and\n(vii) the reconstruction of the whole or any part of the external walls of a building.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": true,
            "sort_order": 1
        },
        {
            "number": "3",
            "title": "3. Constitution of Sanatorium Local Authority.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(i) the date from which it shall take effect;\n(ii) the persons who shall be its members; and\n(iii) the term of office of its members other than the ex officio members,if any.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 2
        },
        {
            "number": "4",
            "title": "4. Prohibition or erection or re-erection of buildings without sanction of Sanatorium Local Authority.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 3
        },
        {
            "number": "5",
            "title": "5. Application for such sanction.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) specify the purpose for which it is intended to use the building;\n(b) furnish such information and be accompanied by such plans as may be required by the Rules made under this Act.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 4
        },
        {
            "number": "6",
            "title": "6. Refusal or grant of sanction.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) the free passage or way to be left in front of the building;\n(b) the open space to be left about the building to secure free circulation of air and the prevention of fire and to facilitate scavenging;\n(c) the ventilation of the building, the minimum cubic area of the rooms and the number and height of the storeys of which the building may consist;\n(d) the provision and position of drains, latrines, urinals, and cesspools or other receptacles for rubbish or filth;\n(e) the level and width of the foundation, the level of the lowest floor and the stability of the structure;\n(f) the line of frontage with neighbouring buildings if the building abuts on a street;\n(g) the means of egress from the building in case of fire;\n(h) the materials to be used for, and the methods of construction of, external and partition walls, rooms floors, fire places and chimneys;\n(i) the height and slope of the roof above the upper-most floor on which human beings are to live or cooking is to be done;\n(j) any other matter affecting the ventilation and sanitation of the buildings.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 5
        },
        {
            "number": "7",
            "title": "7. Lapse of sanction.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 6
        },
        {
            "number": "8",
            "title": "8. Punishment for illegal erection or re-erection.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) before such erection or re-erection has been sanctioned by the Sanatorium Local Authority, or\n(b) without complying with any condition imposed under Section 6, or\n(c) when sanction has been refused by the Sanatorium Local Authority, or after the sanction has ceased to be available by virtue of the provision contained in Section 7,",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 7
        },
        {
            "number": "9",
            "title": "9. Power to stop erection or re-erection of buildings, etc.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) to stop the erection or re-erection of any building, or\n(b) to demolish any building or part thereof within such time as may be specified in the notice, if in the opinion of such Authority, the erection, re-erection or demolition of such building or part thereof, constituted, or is likely to constitute, an offence under Section 8.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 8
        },
        {
            "number": "10",
            "title": "10. Appeals and Revision.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 9
        },
        {
            "number": "11",
            "title": "11. Powers of Sanatorium Local Authority to direct structural alterations in existing buildings.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 10
        },
        {
            "number": "12",
            "title": "12. Prohibition of accommodation of tuberculosis patients for gain in unlicensed buildings.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 11
        },
        {
            "number": "11",
            "title": "13. Penalty for non-compliance of direction under Section 11 or for contravention of provisions of Section 12.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 12
        },
        {
            "number": "14",
            "title": "14. Compensation.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) refusing permission to erect or re-erect any building; or\n(b) granting such permission subject to certain conditions.\n[14A. Sanatorium Fund.\n(a) all moneys received by or on behalf of the Sanatorium Local Authority under the provisions of this Act or of any other law for the time being in force or under any contract;\n(b) all fees payable under this Act;\n(c) all moneys received by or on behalf of the Sanatorium Local Authority from the Government or private individuals by way of grant or gift or otherwise; and\n(d) all interests and profits arising from any investment of, or from any transaction in connection with, any money belonging to the Sanatorium Local Authority.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 13
        },
        {
            "number": "14B",
            "title": "14B. Custody of the Sanatorium Fund.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 14
        },
        {
            "number": "14C",
            "title": "14C. Purposes to which Sanatorium Fund is applicable.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(i) the erection and maintenance of offices and other buildings required for purposes of the Sanatorium Local Authority;\n(ii) the payment of the salaries and allowances of its own officers and servants; and\n(iii) all acts and things which are necessary for carrying out the purposes of this Act, or which are likely to promote the safety, health, welfare or convenience of the inhabitants of the Sanatorium area, or expenditure which may be declared by the State Government to be an appropriate charge on the Sanatorium Fund.]",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 15
        },
        {
            "number": "15",
            "title": "15. Power to make Rules.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) the Rules of business of the Sanatorium Local Authority;\n[(aa) the determination of the strength of officers and servants to be employed by the Sanatorium Local Authority and the salaries and allowances to be paid to such officers and servants;]\n(b) the manner in which applications for sanction to erect or re-erect buildings shall be made to the Sanatorium Local Authority and the information and plans to be furnished either alongwith with such applications or subsequently;\n(c) the type or description of building which may or may not, and the purpose for which a building may or may not, be erected or re-erected in any specified area or areas;\n(d) the minimum cubic capacity of any room or rooms in a building which is to be erected or re-erected;\n(e) the manner in which the cost referred to in sub-section (2) of section 9, may be recovered;\n(f) the form in which and the time within which appeals under section 10 may be preferred;\n(g) the fees which may be charged in respect of any application made, appeal preferred, or proceeding taken, under this Act; and\n(h) the particulars to be furnished with an application for a license under sub-section (2) of Section 12 and the inspection fee which should accompany such application under sub-section (3) of the said Section.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 16
        },
        {
            "number": "16",
            "title": "16. Application of the Bihar and Orissa Local Self-Government Act of 1885 and certain other enactments.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 17
        }
    ],
    "metadata": {
        "Act ID": "bh378",
        "Act Number": "(Bihar Act 23 of 1951)",
        "Enactment Date": "",
        "Act Year": "1951",
        "Short Title": "The Itki Tuberculosis Sanatorium (Regulation of Building) Act, 1951",
        "Type": "STATE",
        "Location": "Bihar"
    },
    "updated_at": "2026-09-29 21:55:19"
}