Chapter I PRELIMINARY

Short title, extent and commencement.

1. (1) This Act may be called the Mizoram Urban and Regional Development Act, 2025;
2. (2) It extends to the whole of the State of Mizoram; Provided that in the Autonomous Districts of Chakma, Mara and Lai constituted under sub-paragraph
3. (2) of paragraph 1 of the Sixth Schedule to the Constitution of India, the provisions of this Act shall apply only upon a specific request to the State Government is made by the Autonomous District Council.
4. (3) It shall come into force on the date of publication in the Official Gazette.

Definitions. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires.-

1. (a) “Act” means ‘the Mizoram Urban and Regional Development Act, 2025’;
2. (b) “agriculture” includes horticulture, farming, growing of crops, fruits, vegetables, flowers, grass, fodders, trees or any kind of cultivation of soil, breeding and keeping of livestock including cattle, donkeys, mules, pig, fish, poultry and bees and use of any land which is ancillary to the farming of land or other agricultural purpose of a garden to be used along with such building and agricultural shall be constructed accordingly;
3. (c) “amenities” include roads and streets, open spaces, parks, recreational grounds, playgrounds, water and electric supply, street lighting, sewerage, drainage, public works and other utilities, service and conveniences;
4. (d) “appropriate authority” means the Planning Committee or as assigned by the Government;
5. (e) “building” means construction for whatsoever purpose and of whatsoever materials constructed in every part thereof, whether used as human habitation or not, and may include plinth, walls, chimney, drainage, works fixed platforms, verandah, balcony, works cornice or projection or part of a building or delimiting or intended to be enclosed or delimit any land or space.
6. (f) “Chief Town and Country Planner” means the officer appointed by the State Government as the Chief Town & Country Planner, to perform the duties specified in this Act. The officer so appointed shall possess the prescribed degree in Town Planning from a recognized university/ institution.
7. (g) “Court” means a principal Civil Court of original jurisdiction and includes any other Civil Court empowered by the Government of Mizoram to perform the functions of the court under this Act within the pecuniary local limits of its jurisdiction;
8. (h) “Department” means Town and Country Planning Office, Urban Development and Poverty Alleviation Department.
   • (i) “development area” means the planning area or the spatial region, as the case may be for, the purpose of this Act;
9. (j) “development” with its grammatical variations, means the carrying out of building, engineering, mining, or other operations, in, on, or over or under land on the making of any material change, in any building or land, or in the use of any building or land, and includes re-development and Layout plan and Sub division of any land; and to 'develop' shall be construed accordingly;
10. (k) “development plan” means the development plan prepared under section 11 of the act.
11. (l) “District” means a district in a State;
12. (m) “final plot” means a plot reconstituted from an Original Plot and allotted in a Town Planning Scheme as a final plot;
13. (n) “land” includes benefits to arise out of land and things attached to the earth or permanently fastened to anything attached to the earth;
14. (o) “Local Area Plan” means a plan contemplated under section 36 of this Act;
15. (p) “Local Authority “ means such body which is defined under article 12 or Constituted under article 243Q of the Constitution of India which may include any Village Council, Town Committee, Municipality or Municipal Board, Municipal Corporation and any other Authority constituted or designated under any law for the time being in force which would entrust the control or management of local funds and development and which is determined by the Government may determine by notification in the Official Gazette;
16. (q) “occupier” includes any person for the time being paying or liable to pay to the owner rent or any portion of the rent for the land or the building in respect to which the word is used, or for damages on account of the occupation of such land or building and also includes a rent-free tenant;
17. (r) “owner”, in relation of any land or building or of any part of any land or building, includes the person for the time being receiving the rent or entitled, whether on his own account or as an agent or trustee for any person or society or for any religious or charitable purpose or as a receiver or who would receive such rent or profits if the land or the building or any part of the land or the building were let to a tenant and also includes a mortgagee in possession thereof; “planning area” or “planning region” means any such area which is declared under section 3 of this Act.
18. (t) “planning interventions” means the provisions made in the Development Plan or the Town Planning Scheme or the Local Area Plan or in matters of the above namely, i. any policy made in respect of Development Plan or the Town Planning Scheme or the Local Area Plan; and ii. any direction made by the State Government or the Appropriate Authority in respect thereto;
19. (u) “plot” means a portion of land, in the Town Planning Scheme or the Local Area Plan or in any other scheme, held in single or joint ownership with its own independent access from a street or such thoroughfare;
    • (v) “population” means the population as ascertained at the last preceding census of which the relevant figures have been published;
20. (w) “Preliminary Scheme” means a preliminary scheme relating to a Town Planning Scheme prepared under this Act;
    • (x) “prescribed” means prescribed by rules made under this Act;
21. (y) “property” means the plot or any floor of a building occupied or owned by a persons;
22. (z) “Revenue Act” means The Mizoram (Land Revenue) Act, 2013 (Act No. 5 of 2013) or as amended from time to time;
23. (aa) “regulation” means a regulation made under this Act by the Government and includes zoning and other regulations made as a part of a Development Plan or a Town Planning Scheme or a Local Area Plan;
24. (ab) “rule” means rules made under this Act;
25. (ac) “Slum” implies an area within a planning area or region, where living conditions have been identified as being unfit for human habitation as regards the safety, in regard to health or morality of the inhabitants therein;
26. (ad) “State Government” means for the purpose of this Act, the Government of Mizoram;
27. (ae) “Town Planning Scheme” means a scheme prepared and notified by a Competent Authority under Sections 21 through 35 of this Act.
28. (af) “unauthorized development” means the development where, irrespective of ownership, no permission of a building or a part thereof is obtained from the authority competent to give such permission, or having obtained permission, the development is in contravention of the relevant law or of such permission;