No: 34 Dated: Oct, 16 1958

U.P. (Regulations of Building Operations) Act, 1958

-: ACT :-

1. Short title extent and commencement.- (1) This Act may be called the Uttar Pradesh (Regulation of Building Operations) Act, 1958.
(2) It extends to the whole of Uttar Pradesh.
(3) It shall come into force at once.
2. Definitions.- In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires-
(a) 'amenity' includes roads, water supply, street lighting, drainage, sewerage, public parks and any other convenience which the State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, specify to be an amenity for the purposes of this Act:
1[(b) 'building' has the same meaning as in the U.P. Nagar Mahapalika Adhiniyam, 1959;]
2[(c) * * *]
3[(d) 'regulated area' means an area in respect of which a declaration under Sub-section (1) of Section 3 is for the time being in force];
(e) 'development' with its grammatical variations and cognate expression, means the carrying out of building, engineering, mining or other operations in, on, over or under land or the making or any material change in any building or land;
(f) 'Prescribed' means prescribed by [rules] under this Act;
(g) 'Prescribed Authority' means a person or body of persons appointed as such by the State Government in respect of a regulated area by notification in the Official Gazette;
(h) 'to erect' in relation to a building means to construct a building for the first time or to construct and existing building after demolishing it according to some fresh or revised plan.,
(i) 'to re-erect' in relation to a building means the construction for a second or subsequent time of a building or part of a building after demolishing it' on the same plan as has been previously sanctioned: