The Regularisation of Unauthorised Developments in the City of Ulhasnagar Act, 2006

Preamble

MAHARASHTRA ACT NO. IX OF 2006¹

[THE REGULARISATION OF UNAUTHORISED DEVELOPMENTS IN THE CITY OF ULHASNAGAR ACT, 2006.]

[This Act received the assent of the Governor on the 21^st April 2006; assent was first published in the Maharashtra Government Gazette, dated the 21^st April 2006.]

An Act to regularise unauthorised developments in the City of Ulhasnagar and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.

WHEREAS there has been unauthorised developments in the City of Ulhasnagar on the large scale;

AND WHEREAS such unauthorised developments were liable to be removed and pulled down;

AND WHEREAS by removal and pulling down of such unauthorised developments hardship to a large number of people was likely to be caused;

AND WHEREAS it was expedient to have a law to provide for regularisation of certain unauthorised developments in the City of Ulhasnagar and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto;

AND WHEREAS both Houses of the State Legislature were not in session;

AND WHEREAS the Governor of Maharashtra was satisfied that circumstances existed which rendered it necessary for him to take immediate action to make a law, for the purposes hereinafter appearing; and, therefore, promulgated the Regularisation of Unauthorised Developments in the City of Ulhasnagar Ordinance, 2006 (Mah. Ord. I of 2006) on the 14^th January 2006;

AND WHEREAS it is expedient to replace the said Ordinance by an Act of the State Legislature; it is hereby enacted in the Fifty-seventh Year of the Republic of India as follows:-