The Jammu and Kashmir State Town Planning Act, 1963
The Jammu and Kashmir State Town Planning Act, 1963
The Jammu and Kashmir State Town Planning Act, 1963 establishes a legal framework for planned urban development and infrastructure improvement across the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir. It empowers the government to constitute Development Boards responsible for framing, sanctioning, and implementing comprehensive town planning schemes. The law regulates land acquisition, plot reconstitution, building construction permissions, street layouts, public amenities, and housing for displaced residents. It applies to property owners, developers, and local authorities within designated scheme areas. By penalizing unauthorized developments and enabling betterment charges on appreciated land values, the Act ensures orderly growth, public welfare, and organized civic infrastructure.
- 1. Short title, extent and commencement
- 2. Definitions
- 3. Matters that may be dealt with in a scheme
- 4. Reconstituted plots
- 5. Power of Government to require the Board to make scheme
- 6. Contents of draft scheme
- 7. Procedure to be followed in the preparation and approval of scheme
- 8. Sanctioning of scheme by Government
- 9. Variation or revocation of scheme
- 10. Permission to be taken for construction, etc. after publication of notification
- 11. Power of entry
- 12. Penalties
- 13. Order of demolition of building
- 14. Power to stop building operations
- 15. Offences by companies
- 16. Power of Government to levy betterment charge
- 17. Assessment of betterment charge
- 18. Settlement of betterment charge by arbitrators
- 19. Payment of betterment charge
- 20. Service of notices, etc
- 21. Public notice how to be made known
- 22. Notices, etc. to fix reasonable time
- 23. Sanction of prosecution
- 24. Protection of action taken in good faith
- 25. Power to delegate
- 26. Modification of Land Acquisition Act
- 27. Notification under section 5 to have effect as declaration under sections 11 and 19 of Land Acquisition Act
- 28. Sections 15, 23 and 24 of Land Acquisition Act superseded
- 29. Power of Government to make rules.
- 30. Repeal and saving.
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