Punjab Municipal Corporation (Second Amendment) Act, 2014

No: 3 Dated: Jan, 27 2015

Punjab Municipal Corporation Act, 1976

THE PUNJAB MUNICIPAL CORPORATION (SECOND AMENDMENT) ACT, 2014

(Punjab Act No. 3 of 2015)

An Act further to amend the Punjab Municipal Corporation Act, 1976.

BE it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Punjab in the Sixty-fifth Year of the Republic of India as follows:-

1. Short title and commencement:- (1) This Act may be called the Punjab Municipal Corporation (Second Amendment) Act, 2014.

(2) The provisions of sections 2, 3, 4, 5, 7 and 9 shall be deemed to have come into force on and with effect from the first day of April, 2014, and the remaining provisions of this Act shall come into force on and with effect from the date of its publication in the Official Gazette.

2. Amendment of section 2 of Punjab Act 42 of 1976:- In the Punjab Municipal Corporation Act, 1976 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act), in section 2, after clause (17), the following clause shall be inserted, namely:–

"(17-A) "flat" means an apartment, which may be called block, chamber, dwelling unit, lot, premises, suite, tenement, unit or by whatever any other name, a separate and self contained part of any property, including one or more rooms or enclosed spaces, located on one or more floors, or any part or parts thereof, in a building, or in a portion of land, used or intended to be used for residence, or for any other type of independent-use ancillary to the residential purpose, and with a direct exit to a public street, road or to a common area leading to such street, road, and includes any garage or room, whether or not adjacent to the building in which such apartment is located for the use by the owner of such apartment for parking any vehicle or for the residence of any domestic servant employed in such apartment;"