Declaration of controlled area

Declaration of controlled area.

1. (1) If the State Government is of opinion that it is necessary so to do for the purpose of securing the planned development of the New Capital, it may, by notification in the Official Gazette, declare the area comprised in the periphery of, and within a distance of not more than sixteen kilometres from, the outer limits of the New Capital, to be a controlled area for the purposes of this Act.
2. (2) The State Government shall also cause the substance of the declaration to be published in such language as the State Government may deem fit, in the Official Gazette and in such number of local newspapers as the State Government may decide and also by beat of drum in the villages comprised in the controlled area.