[CHAPTER VI-A
LEVY, ASSESSMENT AND RECOVERY OF DEVELOPMENT CHARGE.
(1) Subject to the provisions of this Act, the Planning Authority or the Development Authority (hereinafter in this Chapter collectively referred to as "the Authority"), shall levy within the area of its jurisdiction development charge on the institution of use or change of use of any land or building, or development of any land or building, for which permission is required under this Act, at the rates specified by or under the provisions of this Chapter :
Provided that, where land appurtenant to a building is used for any purpose independent of the building, development charge may be levied separately for the building and the land.
(2) The development charge shall be leviable on any person who institutes or changes the use of any land or undertakes or carries out any development :
[Provided that,-
(i) no such development charge shall be leviable under the provisions of this Chapter in respect of use or change of use of any land or building, or development of any land or building, or both, for which a development permission has had already been granted or deemed to have been granted by the Planning Authority or the Development Authority either by way of commencement certificate or by way of any other mode of permission for development granted under this Act or any other law for the time being in force or by way of approval subject to condition in the form of a written notice (Intimation of Disapproval) by the Commissioner under section 346 of the Bombay Municipal Corporation Act, (Bom. III of 1888), before the 10th day of August 1992, being the date of commencement of the Maharashtra Regional and Town Planning (Amendment) Act, 1992 (Mah. XVI of 1992) , (hereinafter in this section referred to as "the said date"), irrespective of whether or not the institution of use or change of use or actual development work of land or building or both, has been effected or commenced or completed, as the case may be, and whether or not the completion certificate for any such use, change of use or development is granted by the Planning Authority or Development Authority, before the said date ;
(ii) where the development permission for land development, including permission for sub-division of a land, land development or land reclamation not involving any building or construction operations has had already been granted by the Planning Authority or the Development Authority before the said date, no development charge in respect of such land shall be leviable for the land development activities, irrespective of whether or not development of such land (not involving any building or constructions operations) has actually been commenced or completed before the said date. However, if at a later date, a permission for construction operations is granted, the development charge in respect of such land shall be leviable only for the building or construction activities :
Provided further that, nothing in this chapter shall apply to demolition of any existing building, structure or erection, or part of such building, structure or erection.]