Any person aggrieved by the orders of the Executive Council made under any of the provisions of this Chapter may, within thirty days from the date of the order, appeal to the Board of Councillors.

Power of State Government to make building rules and to classify municipal areas for the purpose of application of building rules Power of State Government to make building rules and to classify municipal areas for the purpose of application of building rules:

1. (1) The State Government may make rules to provide for-
   • (a) the regulation or restriction of the use of sites for buildings, and
   • (b) the regulation or restriction of building.
2. (2) Without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing power, such rules may provide for all or any of the following matters-
   • (a) information and plans to be submitted together with application under any of the provisions of this Chapter;
   • (b) requirements of sites;
   • (c) means of access;
   • (d) development of land into land sub-division and layout;
   • (e) land use classification and uses;
   • (f) open spaces, area and height limitation;
   • (g) parking spaces;
   • (h) requirements of parts of building plinth, habitable room, kitchen, pantry, bathroom and water closet, loft, ledge, mezzanine floor, store-room, garage, roof, basement, chimney, lighting and ventilation of room, parapet, wells, septic tanks, and boundary wall;
     • (i) provisions of lifts;
   • (j) exit requirements including doorways, corridors passageways, staircases, ramps and lobbies;
   • (k) fire protection requirements including materials and designs for interior decoration;
   • (l) special requirements of occupancies for residential building, educational building, institutional building, assembly building, business building, mercantile building, industrial building, storage building and hazardous building (including those for assembly, movement, parking, loading, unloading, public conveniences, water supply and vendors' plazas);
   • (m) structural designs;
   • (n) quality of materials and workmanship;
   • (o) alternative materials, methods of design, construction and tests;
   • (p) building services including electric supply, air-conditioning or heating, and telephone and telex;
   • (q) plumbing services;
   • (r) signs and outdoor display structures; compliance with the provisions of the Urban Land (Ceiling and Regulation) Act, 1976 (33 of 1976) relating to land and building;
   • (t) compliances with the provisions of any other Act, Regulation or Rules for the time being in force in Mizoram, as the State Government may direct;
   • (u) any other matter considered necessary in relation to building activities.
3. (3) The State Government may by notification exempt a municipal area or a group of municipal areas as classified under section 7 from the operation of all or any of the provisions of this Chapter or of the rules made under this section.
4. (4) While such exemption as aforesaid remains in force in any municipal area or group of municipal areas, the State Government may make rules consistent with the provision of this Chapter under this section for application to such municipal area or group of municipal areas.