(1) For the purpose of providing, maintaining or continuing any amenity in an urban estate, the State Government may levy such fees or taxes as it may con sider necessary (which shall be in addition to any fee or tax for the time being leviable under any other law) in respect of any site or building on the transferee or occupier thereof.
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(2) If the State Government considers it necessary or expedient so to do, having regard to the fact that the transferee or occupier is a religious or charitable institution or that he does not enjoy the amenity for which any fee or tax is levied, the State Government may, by general or special order, exempt wholly or partly any class of such transferees or occupiers from the payment of fees or taxes levied under sub-section '(1).
I Pow~r to aPI?ly 8.(1) The Chief Administrator may, from time certam prOVl- . b t'fi t' d 'th th' 1sions of Punjab to tIme y no 1 ca Ion an WI . e prevIOUS approva Act 3 of 1911 to of the State Government, apply to an urban estate or an urban estate. any part thereof, with such adaptations and modifications not affecting the substance as may be specified in \ 1964 : Ph. Act 22] URBAN ESTATES (DEVELOPMENT 635 & REGULATION) the notification all or any of the provisions of the Punjab Municipal Act, 1911, specified in the Schedule to this Act in so far as such provisions are not incon sistent with the provisions of this Act.
(2) On the issue of a notification under sub-section
(1), the Chief Administrator shall, in relation to an urban estate or any part thereof, as the case may be, exercise the same powers and perform the same func tions under the provisions applied by such notification as a Municipal Committee or its President or Executive Officer or any other functionary of the Committee would exercise and perform if the urban estate were a Municipality of the first class.
(3) While exercising the powers or performing the functions under the provisions of the Punjab Munici pal Act, 1911, applied to an estate by a notification under sub-section (1), the Chief Administrator shall be sub ject to the control of the State Governm·ent and not to that of the Commissioner or Deputy Commissioner.
(4) The State Government may from time to time by notification omit any provision of the Punjab Muni cipal Act, 1911, from the Schedule or add thereto any other provision of that Act and thereupon the Schedule shall be deemed to have been amended accordingly.
(5) Every notification made under sub-section (1) shall be laid before each House of the State Legislature for a period of ten days as soon as possible.