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The Punjab Town Improvement Act, 1922

The Punjab Town Improvement Act 1922

General1922101 sections8 chapters

The Punjab Town Improvement Act, 1922 establishes Improvement Trusts to oversee planned urban development, expansion, and sanitation across municipalities in Punjab. It applies to urban local areas, property owners, residents, local municipal committees, and state-appointed trustees. The Act empowers these trusts to frame improvement, housing accommodation, rehousing, and street expansion schemes, acquire land, demolish unsanitary structures, and construct public infrastructure. It matters because it provides a legal mechanism for systematic urban planning, slum clearance, organized housing development, and public health improvements in growing towns, ensuring managed urban growth while setting compensation procedures and dispute resolution tribunals for affected property owners.

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Chapter II Chapter II →

  1. 3Creation and incorporation of trust
  2. 4Appointment of trustees during supersession of Municipal Committees
  3. 5Term of office of Chairman
  4. 6Term of office of other trustees
  5. 7Resignation of trustees
  6. 8Filling of casual vacancies
  7. 9Remuneration of Chairman and trustees
  8. 10Removal of trustees
  9. 11Disabilities of trustees removed under section 10

Chapter III Chapter III →

  1. 12Meetings of trust
  2. 13Temporary association of members with the trust for particular purposes
  3. 14Constitution and functions of committees
  4. 15Meetings of committees
  5. 16Trustees and associated members of trust or committee not to take part in proceedings in which they are personally interested
  6. 17Constitution of Trust Services.
  7. 18Power of trust to fix number and salaries of its servants.
  8. 19Control by chairman.
  9. 20Delegation of certain of chairman’s functions
  10. 21Supply of information and documents to the Government

Chapter IV Chapter IV →

  1. 22Matters to be provided for by general improvement scheme or rebuilding scheme
  2. 23Street schemes and deferred street schemes
  3. 24Development and expansion schemes
  4. 25Housing accommodation scheme
  5. 26Rehousing scheme
  6. 27Rehousing of displaced resident house-owners
  7. 28Combination of schemes and matters which may be provided for in scheme
  8. 29Effect of prescribing a street alignment on powers of municipal committee
  9. 30Powers of trust to set back or forward buildings adjacent to the street alignment
  10. 31Prohibition of building beyond a street alignment
  11. 32Acquisition of property affected by deferred scheme
  12. 33Official representation
  13. 34Consideration of official representation
  14. 35Matters to be considered when framing improvement Schemes
  15. 36Preparation, publication and transmission of notice as to improvement schemes, and supply of documents to applicant
  16. 37Transmission to trust of representation by committee as to improvement scheme
  17. 38Notice of proposed acquisition of land
  18. 39Furnishing of information available in municipal records
  19. 40Abandonment of scheme, or application to State Government to sanction it
  20. 41Power to sanction, reject or return scheme
  21. 42Notification of sanction of scheme.
  22. 44Inclusion of different localities in combined scheme

Chapter V Chapter V →

  1. 45Transfer to trust of building or land vested in municipal committee for purposes of scheme.
  2. 46Transfer of private street to trust for purposes for scheme
  3. 47Provision of drain or water-work to replace another situated on land vested in the trust under section 45 or section 46.
  4. 48Power of trust to make and deal with public street.
  5. 49Power under the Municipal Act vested in the trust
  6. 50Limitation of powers of trust under section 49
  7. 51Power of the trust to facilitate movement of population
  8. 52Power to make surveys or contribute towards their cost
  9. 53Power of entry
  10. 54Reference of disputes to tribunal
  11. 55Vesting in committee of streets laid out or altered, and open spaces provided by the trust under a scheme.
  12. 56Abandonment of acquisition in consideration of special payment
  13. 57Agreement or payment under section 56 not a bar to acquisition under a fresh declaration.
  14. 58Tribunal to be constituted.
  15. 59Modification of the Land Acquisition Act, 1894.
  16. 61Remuneration of members of tribunal.
  17. 62Officers and servants of tribunals.
  18. 64Powers to make rules for tribunals
  19. 65Award to tribunal how to be determined
  20. 66Application of Act to acquisition by other local authorities

Chapter VII Chapter VII →

  1. 67Power of trust to borrow money
  2. 68Contribution by municipal committee
  3. 69Custody and investment of trust funds
  4. 70Procedure if the trust fails to make any payment in respect of loans of the trust
  5. 71Procedure if chairman of boards fails to make any payment due to Accountant-General
  6. 72Payment by State Government to be a charge on the property of the trust

Chapter VIII Chapter VIII →

  1. 73Power of State Government to make rules
  2. 74Power of the trust to make rules
  3. 75Printing and sale of copies of rules
  4. 76Power of State Government to cancel rules made under section 74

Chapter IX Chapter IX →

  1. 77Stamping signature on notices or bills
  2. 78Method of giving
  3. 79Service of notice
  4. 80Disobedience to Act or to notice
  5. 81Powers of trust to execute works on failure to comply with notice
  6. 82Liability of occupier to pay in default of owner
  7. 83Right of occupier to execute works in default of owners
  8. 84Procedure upon opposition to execution by occupier
  9. 85Recovery of cost of work by the occupier
  10. 86Recovery of expenses of removal by trust
  11. 87Relief to agents and trustees
  12. 88Application of section 222, Municipal Act
  13. 89Penalty for removing fence, etc., in street
  14. 90Power to prevent or demolish building in contravention of sections 30 and 31
  15. 91Penalty for obstructing contractor or removing mark

Chapter X Chapter X →

  1. 93Trustees, etc. deemed public servants
  2. 94Contributions by Trust towards leave allowances and pensions of servants of the Government.
  3. 95Authority for prosecutions
  4. 96Powers of chairman as to institution, etc., of legal proceedings and obtaining legal advice
  5. 97Indemnity to trust, etc
  6. 98Notice of suit against trustee, etc
  7. 99Mode of proof of trust records
  8. 100Restriction on the summoning of trust servants to produce documents
  9. 101Validation of Acts and proceedings
  10. 102General power of trust to pay compensation
  11. 103Ultimate dissolution of trust, and transfer or its assets and liabilities to the committee

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