National Capital Region Planning Board Act, 1985
No: 2 Dated: Feb, 09 1985
National Capital Region Planning Board Act, 1985
Act No 2 of 1985
An Act to provide for the constitution of a Planning Board for the preparation of the plan for the development of the National Capital Region and for co-ordinating and monitoring the implementation of such plan and for evolving harmonized policies for the control of land-uses and development of infrastructure in the National Capital Region so as to avoid any haphazard development of that region and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.-
WHEREAS it is expedient in the public interest to provide for the constitution of a Planning Board for the preparation of a plan for the development of the National Capital Region and for co-ordinating and monitoring the implementation of such plan and for involving harmonized policies for the control of land-uses and development of infrastructure in the National Capital Regions so as to avoid any haphazard development thereof;
AND WHEREAS Parliament has no power to make laws for the States with respect to any of the matters aforesaid, except as provided in articles 249 and 250 of the Constitution;
AND WHEREAS in pursuance of the provisions of clause (1) of article 252 of the Constitution, resolutions have been passed by all the Houses of the Legislatures of the States of Haryana, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh to the effect that the matters aforesaid should be regulated in those States by Parliament by law;
BE it enacted by Parliament in the Thirty-fifth Year of the Republic of India as follows:-
CHAPTER I
Preliminary
1. Short title and Commencement. - (1) This Act may be called the National Capital Region Planning Board Act, 1985.
(2) It shall be deemed to have come into force on the 19th day of October, 1984.
2. Definitions. - In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,-
(a) "Board" means the National Capital Region Planning Board constituted under sub-section (1) of section 3;
(b) "Committee" means the Planning Committee constituted under sub-section (1) of section 4;
(c) "counter-magnet area" means an urban area selected by the Board under clause (f) of section 8;
(d) "Functional Plan" means a plan prepared to elaborate one or more elements of the Regional Plan;
(e) "land" includes benefits to arise out of land, and things attached to the earth or permanently fastened to anything attached to the earth;
(f) "National Capital Region" means the areas specified in the Schedule:
Provided that the Central Government with the consent of the Government of the concerned participating State and consultation with the Board, may, by notification in the Official Gazette, add any area to the Schedule or exclude any area therefrom;
(g) "participating States" means the States of Haryana, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh;
(h) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this Act;
(i) "Project Plan" means a detailed plan prepared to implement one or more elements of the Regional Plan, Sub-Regional Plan or Functional Plan;
(j) "Regional Plan" means the plan prepared under this Act for the development of the National Capital Region and for the control of land-uses and the development of infrastructure in the National Capital Region;
(k) "regulations" means regulations made by the Board under this Act;
(l) "sub-region" means such part of the National Capital Region as falls entirely within the limits of a participating State or the Union territory;
(m) "Sub-Regional Plan" means a plan prepared for a sub-region; and
(n)"Union territory" means the Union territory of Delhi.