The West Bengal Town and Country (Planning and Development) (Amendment) Act, 2023

Registered No. WB/SC-247 No. WB(Part-IIT)/2025/SAR-9

Kolkata

Extraordinary

Published by Authority

VAISAKHA 10] WEDNESDAY, APRIL 30, 2025 [SAKA 1947

PART III—Acts of the West Bengal Legislature.

GOVERNMENT OF WEST BENGAL

LAW DEPARTMENT Legislative

NOTIFICATION

No. 488-L.—30th April, 2025.—The following Act of the West Bengal Legislature, having been assented to by the Governor, is hereby published for general information:—

West Bengal Act XVIII of 2023

THE WEST BENGAL TOWN AND COUNTRY (PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT) (AMENDMENT) ACT, 2023.

[Passed by the West Bengal Legislature.]

[Assent of the Governor was first published in the Kolkata Gazette, Extraordinary, of the 30th April, 2025.]

An Act to amend the West Bengal Town and Country (Planning and Development)

Act, 1979, WuEREAS it is expedient to amend the West Bengal Town and Country (Planning West Ben.

and Development) Act, 1979, for the purposes and in the manner hereinafter appearing; Actof 1979.XIII It is hereby enacted in the Seventy-fourth Year of the Republic of India, by the

Legislature of West Bengal, as follows:—

Short title and commencement. 1. (1) This Act may be called the West Bengal Town and Country (Planning and Development) (Amendment) Act, 2023.

THE KOLKATA GAZETTE, EXTRAORDINARY, APRIL 30, 2025 [Parr III

The West Bengal Town and Country (Planning and Development) (Amendment) Act, 2023.

(Sections 2, 3.)

1. (2) It shall come into force on such date as the State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint.

In section 2 of the West Bengal Town and Country (Planning and Development) Act, 1979 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act),— (1) clause (2a) shall be omitted; (2) clause (9) shall be omitted.

Section 106B of the principal Act shall be omitted.