The East Punjab Enumeration of Dwellings Act, 1948
The East Punjab Enumeration of Dwellings Act, 1948
The East Punjab Enumeration of Dwellings Act, 1948 provides a legal framework for identifying, marking, and counting residential buildings across the state. It empowers the government to appoint an Enumeration Commissioner and field officers to conduct housing surveys. Local authority members and staff must assist with these efforts, and residents are legally required to grant reasonable access to their homes and allow official numbers or marks to be painted or affixed. Failing to cooperate, making false returns, or altering official marks carries a financial penalty. By creating official public records of dwellings, the law ensures systematic data collection to support governance and public planning.
- 0. Preamble
- 2. Interpretation
- 3. Appointment of enumeration staff
- 4. Status of enumeration officers as public servants
- 5. Power to call upon certain persons to give information
- 6. Occupier to permit access and affixing of numbers or marks
- 7. Penalties
- 9. Operation of other laws not barred
- 10. Jurisdiction
- 11. Records of enumeration to be public documents
- 12. Power to make rules
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