Short title, extent and commencement

i. The act may be called the Tripura Urban Planning and Development Act, 2018. ii. It shall extend to the whole of the State of Tripura. iii. It shall come into force on the date of publication in the Official Gazette. xxxiii. “Regulations” means regulations made by the Board, or the Authority under this Act; xxxiv. “Road reservation in relation to a scheduled road” means the land whether metaled or un-metaled, which vests in the State Government or the Central Government or a local Authority for the purposes of such road and the boundaries of which are demarcated by pillars, posts or wires or in any other manner; xxxv. “Rules” means rule made under this Act; xxxvi. “Scheduled Road” means a road specified in the Schedule to this Act which is wholly situated within the State of Tripura and where any road so specified is not so wholly situated, the portion of such road which is situated in the State of Tripura and includes a “by-pass” and shall also include any road which the State Government may, by notification add to the Scheduled to this Act; xxxvii. “Scheme” means any town and development scheme framed under this Act; xxxviii. “Section” means the Section of this Act; xxxix. “State Government” means the Government of Tripura represented by the Urban Development Department for the purpose of this act xl. “Townships” means any area of one acre or more within or outside Urban local Body notified under this act by state government, in consultation with the concerned local body if it falls within the notified area of the local body, having planned development with all the urban amenities for either industrial, commercial, institutional or residential purpose or for mixed purpose. xli. “Transferee” means a person, including a firm or other body of individual whether incorporated or not, to whom a site or building is sold, list or transferred under this Act and includes his successors and assignees; and xlii. “Tribunal of Appeal” means the tribunal of Appeal appointed as such under Section 105. xliii. Urban means an area within the limits of the Urban Local Bodies or such an area outside the limits of Urban local Bodies notified to be Townships from time to time by the State Government xliv. Urban Local bodies (ULB) mean Municipal Corporation, Municipal Council or a Nagar Panchayat under Tripura Municipal Act 1994 or any other area or township notified under this act or any other relevant act.