Punjab Roads and Bridges Development Board Act, 1998

No: 22 Dated: Jul, 27 1998

The Punjab Roads and Bridges Development Board Act, 1998

Punjab Act No. 22 of 1998

    An Act to provide for the establishment of the Punjab Roads and Bridges Development Board Act, 1998.

    Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Punjab in the Forty-ninth Year of the Republic of India as follows :-

1. Short title and commencement. - (1) This Act may be called the Punjab Roads and Bridges Development Board Act, 1998.

(2) It shall come into force at once.

2. Definitions. - In this Act, unless there is anything repugnant to the context, -

(a) "Board" means the Punjab Roads and Bridges Development Board established under section 3;

(b) "bridge" means a permanent or temporary bridge on a plan road and shall include such other permanent or temporary bridges or Ferry services as may, from time to time, be undertaken for construction or improvement by the Government;

(c) "Fund" means the Punjab Roads and Bridges Development Fund constituted under section 7;

(d) "Government" means the Government of Punjab in the Department of Public Works (Building and Roads);

(e) "National Highway" means a National Highway specified in the Schedule appended to the National Highways Act, 1956 (Central Act No. 48 of 1956);

(f) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this Act;

(g) "plan road" means a road or part of a road other than a National Highway or a link road and shall include such other road or part of a road, as may from time to time be undertaken for construction or improvement by the Government;

(h) "regulation" means regulations made by the Board under this Act; and

(i) "section" means section of this Act.