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Section 79

The Punjab Housing Development Board Act, 1972State Act of Punjab · Act 6 of 1973

(1) The Board shall, before such date and in such form and at such intervals as may be prescribed, submit to the State Government reports on such matters as may be prescribed.

(2) The State Government shall, as soon as may be, cause the report submitted by the Board to be laid before the House of the State Legislature.

80. The Board shall also submit to the State Government such statistics, returns, particulars, statements, documents or papers in regard to any proposed or existing scheme or relating to any matter or proceedings connected with the working of the Board at such times and in such form and manner as may be prescribed or as the State Government may from time to time direct.

81. The Chairman or any person either generally or specially authorised by the Chairman in this behalf may with or without assistants or workmen, enter into or upon any land in order-

(a) to make any inspections, survey, measurement, valuation or inquiry;

(b) to take levels;

(c) to dig or bore into the sub-soil;

(d) to set boundaries and intended lines of work;

(e) to make such levels, boundaries and lines of work and cutting trenches; or

(f) to do any other thing, whenever it is necessary to do so, for any of the purposes of this Act or any rules made or scheme sanctioned thereunder:

Provided that- Reports.

Other Statements and Returns.

Power of entry.

(i) no such entry shall be made between sunset and sunrise;

(ii) no dwelling house and no public building which is used as a dwelling place, shall be so entered, except with the consent of the occupier thereof without giving the said occupier at least twenty-four hours' previous written notice of the intention to make such entry;

(iii) sufficient notice shall in every instance be given, even when any premises may otherwise be entered without notice, to enable the inmates of any apartment occupied by women to remove themselves to some part of the premises where their privacy may not be disturbed; and

(iv) 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 premises entered.

82. No person shall institute any suit against the Board or against any officer or employee of the Board or any person acting under the order of the Board, for anything done or purporting to have been done in pursuance of this Act, without giving to the Board, officer or employee or person concerned two months' previous notice in writing of the intended suit and of the cause thereof, nor after six months from the date of the act complained of.

83. The Board shall at the end of every five years have a valuation of assets and liabilities made by a valuer appointed with the approval of the State Government:

Provided that it shall be open to the State Government to direct a valuation to be made at any time it may consider necessary.

Where this provision sits

ActThe Punjab Housing Development Board Act, 1972
Section79
JurisdictionState of Punjab
StatusIn force as published by the source

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