(1) Whosoever contravenes or abets the contravention of any of the provisions of section 17A, shall be punishable with simple imprisonment for a period which may extend to one year or fine which may not be less than Rs. 1.00 lakh or with both.
(2) An offence under this section shall be cognizable.]
8 [17C. Withdrawal of revised Regional Plan.— (1) Notwithstanding anything contained in section 17, if, at any time after a revised regional plan has been notified/ published in the Official Gazette (hereinafter in this section referred to as the “revised regional plan”), the Government is of the opinion that such revised regional plan is required to be withdrawn, the Government may direct the Chief Town Planner to withdraw the operation of the revised regional plan from such date, either prospective or retrospective, as the Government deems fit, and in its entirety or in part, as the case may be, and undertake the revision of the regional plan as existing immediately before the revised regional plan (hereinafter in this section referred to as the “existing regional plan”), in its entirety or in part, as the case may be, and thereupon the foregoing provisions of this Act relating to the preparation of the regional plan shall, as far as may be, apply to the revision of a regional plan under this section.
(2) The Chief Town Planner shall, thereafter, withdraw the operation of the revised regional plan from the date as directed by the Government, in entirety or in part, as the case may be, by publication of a notification in the Official Gazette and in two local newspapers.
(3) On and from the date of withdrawal of the revised regional plan by publication of the notification under the provisions of sub-section (2) of this section, all development programmes undertaken by any Department of the Government or by public and private institutions or by any other person shall conform to the provisions of the existing regional plan.]
CHAPTER IV Declaration of Planning areas and constitution of Planning and Development Authorities