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The Haryana Housing Board Act, 1971

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The Haryana Housing Board Act, 1971 provides for the establishment and operation of a dedicated Housing Board to plan, execute, and manage public housing schemes within the region. It regulates the compulsory acquisition and purchase of land, construction of residential developments, allocation of properties, levy of betterment charges, and eviction of unauthorized occupants from public premises. The law applies to residents, landowners, tenants of board-managed properties, municipal bodies, and public authorities operating in the area. This legislation matters because it enables structured urban growth, facilitates affordable housing development, safeguards public land, and sets legal mechanisms for property management and dispute resolution.

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  1. 1. Short title, extent and commencement
  2. 2. Definitions
  3. 3. Establishment and constitution of Board
  4. 4. Non-applicability of East Punjab Act 3 of 1949
  5. 5. Leave of absence of Chairman
  6. 6. Disqualifications
  7. 7. Terms of office and conditions of service
  8. 8. Filling of vacancies
  9. 9. Proceedings presumed to be good and valid
  10. 10. Temporary absence of members
  11. 11. Officers and servants of Board
  12. 12. Provident Fund
  13. 13. General disqualifications of officers and servants
  14. 14. Appointment of Committees
  15. 15. Meetings of the Board
  16. 16. Association of persons with Board
  17. 17. Power to make contract
  18. 18. Execution of contract
  19. 19. Delegation of Board's powers to sanction contracts
  20. 20. Duty of Board to undertake housing schemes
  21. 21. Matter to be provided for by housing schemes
  22. 22. No housing scheme to be made for area included in improvement scheme or be inconsistent with town planning scheme
  23. 23. Preparation and submission of annual programme, budget and establishment schedule
  24. 24. Sanction to programme, budget and establishment schedule
  25. 25. Publication of sanctioned programme
  26. 26. Supplementary programme and budget
  27. 27. Variation of programme by Board after it has been sanctioned
  28. 28. Sanctioned housing scheme to be executed
  29. 29. Publication of housing scheme in the Chandigarh Gazette
  30. 30. Transfer to Board for purpose of housing scheme of land vested in a local authority
  31. 31. Compensation in respect of land vested in Board
  32. 32. Power of Board to turn or close public street vested in it
  33. 33. Reference to Government in case of dispute under section 31 and 32
  34. 34. Vesting in the local authority of streets laid out or altered and open spaces provided by Board under housing scheme
  35. 35. Other duties of Board
  36. 36. Board to assume management of requisitioned lands
  37. 37. Reconstitution of plots
  38. 38. Scheme entrusted to Board by Administrator
  39. 39. Power to purchase, lease or acquire land
  40. 40. Betterment charges
  41. 41. Notice to person liable for betterment charges
  42. 42. Agreement for payment of betterment charges
  43. 43. Recovery of betterment charges
  44. 44. Power to dispose of land
  45. 45. Disputes regarding reconstitution of plots
  46. 46. Tribunal
  47. 47. Duties of Tribunal
  48. 48. Powers of and procedure before Tribunal
  49. 49. Decision of Tribunal to be final
  50. 50. Appeal to the High Court
  51. 51. Power to evict persons from Board premises
  52. 52. Power to recover rent or damages as arrears of land revenue
  53. 53. Rent to be recovered by deduction from salary or wages in certain cases
  54. 54. Appeal
  55. 55. Finality of orders and bar of jurisdiction of Civil Courts
  56. 56. Board's Fund
  57. 57. Application of the Housing Board Fund.
  58. 58. Expenditure in case of urgency etc.
  59. 59. Subventions and loans to Board.
  60. 60. Power of Board to borrow.
  61. 61. Accounts and audit.
  62. 62. Concurrent and special audit of account.
  63. 63. Transfer of assets and liabilities.
  64. 64. Report.
  65. 65. Statements and returns.
  66. 66. Power of entry.
  67. 67. Notice of suit against Board.
  68. 68. Triennial valuation of assets and liabilities of Board.
  69. 69. Members, officers and servants of Board to be Public servants.
  70. 70. Indemnity.
  71. 71. Power of Administrator to give direction to Board.
  72. 72. Default in performance of duty.
  73. 73. Power to make rules.
  74. 74. Regulations.
  75. 75. Power to make bye-laws.
  76. 76. Penalty for contravention of bye-laws.
  77. 77. Penalty for obstructing etc.
  78. 78. Authority for prosecution.
  79. 79. Registration of documents executed on behalf of Board
  80. 80. Dissolution of Board
  81. 81. Removal of difficulties
  82. 15 (part). Meetings of the Board

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