Section 17 of Maharashtra Village Panchayats And The Maharashtra Regional And Town Planning Act, 2014

I n section 159 of the Regional and Town Planning Act, for subsection (2), the following sub-sections shall be substituted, namely:- "(2) Subject to the provisions of this Act, the State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, make Special Development Control Regulations consistent with this Act and the rules made thereunder, for the purpose of implementing any Scheme, Project, Programme or Policy, of the Central or the State Government, in the whole or a part of the State. (3) The State Government shall, before making such Regulations prepare a draft thereof and publish a notice in the Official Gazette stating the draft Regulations have been prepared. The notice shall state that the names of the places where a copy of such draft Regulations shall be available for inspection by the public at all reasonable hours mentioned therein and the copies thereof or any extract therefrom, certified to be correct, shall be available for sale to the public at a reasonable price; and invite objections and suggestions from any person with respect to the draft Regulations before such date as may be specified in the notice. The notice shall also be published in at least two newspapers having wide circulation in the area to which the Regulations are to be made applicable and also in such other manner as the State Government may think fit. (4) After considering the objections and suggestions received by it, the State Government may approve such draft Regulations with modifications or without modifications, if any, as it may think fit, or decide not to approve the same and shall publish a notification in the Official Gazette stating that the Regulations have been approved with or without modifications or have not been approved, as the case may be. In case the Regulations are approved, the notification shall specify therein the date on which the Regulations shall come into operation. (5) Where Special Development Control Regulations are made, the provisions of such Regulations shall be in force in the area to which such Regulations are made applicable and the provisions of any plan or scheme applicable to and in force in such area or part thereof, prior to the date of coming into force of such Regulations under sub-section (4) shall, to the extent of the provisions contained in such Regulations, stand modified.".