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Section 52

The Sikkim Urban and Regional Planning and Development Act,1998State Act of Sikkim · Act 7 of 1998

(1) Where any development of land as described in section 50 is being carried out b~t has not been completed, the Authority may serve on the owner and the person carrying out the development, a notice requiring the development of land to be 29 Removal or discontinuance of unauthorised temporary development summarily.

Power to require removal of authorised development discontinued from the time of the service of such notice.

(2) Where such notice has been served, the provisions of ciause (b) of subsection (4) and sub-section (5) of section 51 shall apply with such modifications as may be necessary :

Provided that provisions of clause (a) of sub-section (4) of section 51 shall not apply, in spite of filing an application for permission for development or an appeal as provided in clause (b) of sub-section (3) of section 51, and the notice shall continue to have full effect.

(3) Any person, who continues to carry out the development of land, whether for himself or on behalf of the owner or any other person, after such notice has been served, shall be punishable with simple inprisonment for a term which may extend to three years, or with a fine which may extend to ten thousand rupees, or with both and when the non-compliance is a continuing one, with a further fine which may extend to five hundred rupees for each day after the date of the service of the notice during which non-compliance has continued or continues.

(4) If such notice is not complied with forthwith, the Authority or such officer of the Authority who may be authorised in this behalf, may require any police officer to remove such person and all assistants and workmen from the land at any time after the service of such notice and such police officer shall comply with the requisition accordingly.

(5) After the requisition under sub-section (4) has been complied with, the Authortiy or such officer of the Authority who may be authorised on this behalf, may if he thinks fit, depute, by a written order, a police officer or any officer or employee of the Authority to watch the land in order to ensure that the development is not continued. The Authority shall be empowered to seal the unauthorised development.

(6) Where a police officer or an employee of the Authority has been deputed under sub-section (5) to watch the land, the cost of such deputation shall be paid by the person at whose instance such development is being continued or to whom notice under sub-section (1) was given and shall be recoverable from such person as arrears of land revenue.

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ActThe Sikkim Urban and Regional Planning and Development Act,1998
Section52
JurisdictionState of Sikkim
StatusIn force as published by the source

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