Tamil Nadu Panchayats Building Rules, 1997 - Exemptions - Amendment – Issued.
Rural Development and Panchayat Raj (PR.II) Department G.O.(Ms.) No.166 Dated 28.10.2008.
Read:
1. G.O.Ms.No.255, Rural Development (C4) Department, dated 18.8.1997.
2. From the Commissioner of Rural Development and Panchayat Raj, Letter No.47227/08/PRI 3-1, dated 15.9.2008.
* * * ORDER:
The appended Notification will be published in the Tamil Nadu Government Gazette Extraordinary, dated the 28.10.2008 (BY ORDER OF THE GOVERNOR) K.ASHOK VARDHAN SHETTY, PRINCIPAL SECRETARY TO GOVERNMENT.
Part III-Section 1(a) General Statutory Rules, Notifications, Orders, Regulation, etc., issued by Secretariat Departments.
------ NOTIFICATIONS BY GOVERNMENT ------ RURAL DEVELOPMENT AND PANCHAYAT RAJ DEPARTMENT Amendment to the Tamil Nadu Panchayat Building Rules, 1997 [G.O.Ms. No. 166, Rural Development and Panchayat Raj (PR.II), 28th October 2008.]
No. SRO A-43(a)/2008.
In exercise of the powers conferred by clause (xxxiii) of sub-section (2) of section 242 of the Tamil Nadu Panchayats Act, 1994 (Tamil Nadu Act 21 of 1994), the Governor of Tamil Nadu hereby makes the following amendment to the Tamil Nadu Panchayat Building Rules, 1997:
AMENDMENT In the said Rules, after rule 35, the following rules shall be added, namely:- "36. Exemption.- The following buildings shall be exempted from the operation of these rules:-
(i) Any building which is the property of the State or Central Government;
(ii) Any building constructed, reconstructed, altered or added to or intended to be constructed, reconstructed, altered or added to by the Government in accordance with such plan and in such manner as may be approved or directed in pursuance of any statutory provisions in that behalf;
(iii) Any building constructed, reconstructed, altered or added to or intended to be constructed, reconstructed, altered or added to, to function solely as a temporary hospital for the reception and theatre for persons suffering from infectious disease.
37. Grant of exemption.- (1) (a) The Government or any other authority empowered by the Government by a notification published in the Tamil Nadu Government Gazette, may either suo motu or on application, exempt from the operation of all or any of the provision of these rules, for reasons to be recorded in writing, any building or any specified class of buildings, provided that such application is made within sixty days from the date of receipt of the order of the executive authority against which such application is made to the Government or the authority empowered by the Government, as the case may be;
(b) The Government, may either suo motu or on appeal against any orders of the authority empowered by them, pass such orders, as deemed fit, provided such an appeal is made within thirty days from the date of receipt of the order of the authority empowered by the Government:
Provided that it is open to the Government or the authority empowered by the Government, as the case may be, to condone any delay for reasons to be recorded in writing, if applications under clause (a) above or appeals under this clause are not made to Government or the authority empowered by the Government, as the case may be, within the prescribed time.
(2) Any exemption granted under this rule shall not be deemed to be approval or permission for construction or reconstruction of any building required by or under the Tamil Nadu Panchayats Act, 1994. " K.ASHOK VARDHAN SHETTY, PRINCIPAL SECRETARY TO GOVERNMENT.