(1) After the preparation of the Map and the Register, the Planning Authority or the Development Authority shall publish a public notice of the preparation of the Map and the Register and of the place or places where copies of the same may be inspected, inviting objections in writing from any person with respect to the Map and the Register within thirty days of the publication of such notice.
122 The West Bengal Town and Country (Planning and Development) Act, 1979.
XIII of 1979.]
(Chapter V.—Preparation of present Land Use Map.— Section 30.)
(2) After the expiry of the period of thirty days mentioned in sub-section (1), an officer designated by the Planning Authority or the Development Authority shall, after allowing a reasonable opportunity of hearing to objects, if any, submit a report to the concerned authority.
(3) The concerned authority shall consider the report submitted under sub-section (2) and may make such modifications in the Map or the Register or both as it considers proper and adopt the Map and the Register with such modifications, if any.
(4) Where a local authority or a statutory authority has been declared as the Planning Authority or the Development Authority for any area and it has prepared a similar Map or Register in respect of an area before the application of this Act to that area, the Map or the Register already prepared shall be deemed to be a Map or a Register, as the case may be, under section 28.
(5) As soon as may be, after the adoption of the Map and the Register under sub-section (3), the Planning Authority or the Development Authority, as the case may be, shall publish a public notice of such adoption of the Map and the Register and the place or places where copies of the same may be inspected and shall submit copies of the Map and the Register to the State Government.
(6) A copy of such notice shall also be published in the Official Gazette. Such publication in the Official Gazette in respect of the Map and the Register shall be conclusive evidence that the Map and the Register have been duly prepared and adopted.