PRESIDENTS ACT NO-11 OF 1973

An act to provide for the development of certain areas of uttar Pradesh according to plan and for the
matters ancillary thereto
It was enacted as follows :
The governor of U.P. propagated on june 12, 1973, the U.P urban planning and development ordinance,
1973 which reproduced the provision of the U.P urban planning and development bill,1973. As passed
by the U.P legislative council .
The reasons for the enactment were listed as below:
1. In the developing areas of UP the problems of town planning and urban development needed to
be appended resolutely,the existing local bodies and other authorities in spite of all their efforts
could not cope with these problems. In order to bring improvement to the situation the state
government considered it advisable to establish some development authority pstterned on
Delhi Development Authority. As the urban development and planning work in the state had
already been delayed it was felt necessary by the state government to provide for an early
establishment for such an authority.
2. The present measure seeks to replace the above-mentioned act by a president act.
3. The committee constituted under the condition to sub-section(2) of section(3) of the U.P. State
Legislature (delegation of powers) ACT,1973 ( ACT 33 of 1973), has been consulted before the
enactment of this measure as a presidents act.

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PRELIMINARY
Short Title and Extent:
a. This act maybe called the Uttar Pradesh urban planning and development act, 1973
b. It extends to the whole of Uttar Pradesh, excluding cantonment areas and lands owned or taken on
lease by the Central Government for the purpose of defence.
Definitions:
in this act unless the context otherwise requiresa. amenity includes road, water supply, street lighting, drainage, sewerage, public works and such other
convenience as the state government may notify in the gazette specify to be an amenity for the purpose
of this act.
b. building includes any structure or erection or parts of structure which is intended to be use for
residential, industrial, commercial or other purposes whether in actual use or not.
c. building operations includes rebuilding structural alterations of, or additions to, buildings and other
operations undertaken as construction of buildings.
d. bye-law means a bye law made under this act made by the development authority.
e. development means the carrying out of building engineering mining or other operations in, on, over or
under land, or making of any material change in any building or land. It also includes redevelopment.
f. development area maens any area declared to be development areas under section 3
g. the development authority or the authority means the authority constituted under section4 for that
area.

h. engineering operation includes the formation or laying out access to a road or water supply.
i. means of access includes any means of access for private or public vehicles or foot passengers. It
includes a road. Mutation charges means the charges levied under the section 15 upon the person
seeking mutation in his name of a property allotted by the authority to another person.
j. regulation means a rule made under this act by the authority
k. rule means a rule made under this act by the state government.
kk. Stacking fees means fee levied under section 15 upon the person or body who keeps building
materials on the land of authority or on a public place or street.
l. erect a building.
i. any material alteration or enlargement of building
ii. The conversion by structural alteration
a. of a building not originally constructed for habitation into a place of habitation.
b. into more than one place for habitation.
c. into a greater number of such places for habitation.
iii. Alterations of a building affecting an alteration of its drainage or sanitary arrangements or its material
security.
iv. The addition of rooms, buildings, houses, or other structures to any building.
v. construction in a wall adjoining any street or land not belonging to the owner of the wall.
ll. Water fees means the fees levied under section 15 upon a person,or body for using water supplied by
theauthority during the construction.
m. zone means any one of the divisions in which development area maybe divided for the purposes of
development under this act.
n. the expression land has a meaning assign to it in section 3 of the land acquisition act, 1894.
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Declaration of development areas:

if the state Government finds any area within the state which requires to be developed according to the
plan it may notify in the gazette and declare the area to be a development area.

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The development authority: