(1) EveryLocal Plaruring Authority shall constihrte for the benefit ofits &hole time paid members and of its officers and other employees, in such manner and subject to such conditions as maybeprescribed by rules, such pension and provident funds as it may dcem fit.
(2) Where any such pension or provident fund has beeo constituted, the State Government' State Urban and CountryPlanning Board may declare that theprovisions or the Govemment Provident Funds Act, 1925. shall apply to such fuld as if it were a Government Provident Fund.
Pension and provideut funds.
jg CHAPI'ER_X Supplemental and Miscellaneous Provisions
49. ( I ) The Director Town Planning./ ChiefTown Plannel as the Secretary to State Urban Development & Planning Authority or any other Oflicer of Local Planning Authority or any person authorized by the State Governmen, State Urban and Country Planning Board or any Local Planning Authority in this behalf may enter into or upon any land or building with or without assistants or workmen for the purpose of-
(a) making any enquiry inspection, measurement or survey or taking levels of such land or building :
ft) setting out boundaries and intended lines of work;
(c) marking such levels, boundaries and lines by placing market and cutting tenches;
(d) examining works under construction and ascertaining the course of sewers and drains ;
(e) digging or boring into fte sub-soil;
(0 ascertaining whether any land is being or has been developed in contravention of any provision of this Act or rules on regulations thereunder ;
(g) doing any other acts necessary for the efncient administration of this Acq Provided that -
(i) in the case of any building used as a dwelling house or upon any enclosed part or garden attached to such a building no such entry shall be made (unless \Yith the consent of the occupier thereof) without giving such occupier at least 24 hours notice in writing ofthe intention to enter:
(ii) sufficient opportunity shall in every instalrce be given to enable women (if any) to withdraw from such land or buildinq' Power on entry.
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(it) due regard shall always be had, so far as may be compatible with the exigencies of the purpose for which the entry is made, to the social and religious usages of the occupants of the land or building entered.
(2) The power of the Director Towlr Planning/ Chief Town Planner, as the Secretary State Urban Development & Planning Authority under sub-section ( I ) shatl extend to the whole ofthe State and the power ofany other officer ofany Local PIanning Authonty under sub-section (l) shall extend only to its plaffing area and such other area which the State Govemment/ State Urban and Country Planning Board may have directed to be included in a Development Plan.
(3) Any person rvho obstructs the entry of a person empowered or authorized under this section to enter into or upon any land or building or molests such person after such enky shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to six months Or with fine which may extend to five thousand rupees, or with both.