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Home Dictionary Name: re development areasRe-development areas
Re-development areas. By ss. 34 et seq. of the (English) Housing Act, 1936, a local authority may acquire an area of land by agreement or compulsorily for houses for the working classes if after an inspection for the purposes of detecting overcrowding under s. 1 of the Act or otherwise the authority is satisfied that the area contains fifty or more working class houses, of which at least one-third are overcrowded or unfit for human habitation, and that the industrial and social conditions of the district are such that the area should be used for working-class houses and that the area should be re-developed as a whole for their accommodation. The authority must in those conditions prepare a re-development plan by reference to a map to be submitted to the Minister of Health for approval, and the Minister must hold a public inquiry if there is any objection, before giving or withholding or modifying the plan; in any other case approval may be given, qualified or withheld at the Minister''...
Development work
Development work, construction of the under-ground market is not intended and meant to destroy the intrinsic character of a public park but on the contrary, the scheme is to re-locate and re-develop the park as a public park as a place for public recreation. Construction of underground market is held to be development work, Calcutta Youth Front v. State of West Bengal, AIR 1988 SC 436 (439). [Calcutta Municipal Corporation Act, 1980 (59 of 1980), s. 353(2) Expl.]Development works, construction of schools, hospitals and community centres and other community buildings do not come within the purview of the term 'development works', D.L.F. Qutab Enclave Complex Educational Charitable Trust v. State of Haryana, (2003) 5 SCC 622 (634). [Haryana Development and Regulation of Urban Areas Rules 1976, R. 2(b)]...
Clearance area
Clearance area. Under the Housing Acts, 1930-35, substantially reproduced by the Housing Act,1936, the local authority may (see ss. 25 et seq., 1936 Act) declare any area in their district to be a clearance area where they are satisfied that the houses there are by reason of disrepair or sanitary defects or bad arrangement either of the houses or streets dangerous to the health of the inhabitants in the area, and after marking off on a map of the area and excluding from the area any building which is not unfit for human habitation or dangerous and injurious to health, they may, by a clearance order obtained from the Minister of Health, see Errington v. Minister of Health, 1935 (1) KB 249, and subject to formalities under ss. 51-53 of the H. Act, 1936, and if the owner has not obtained a certificate of re-conditioning fitness, order the demolition of the buildings in the area or purchase the land compulsorily or by agreement, or themselves secure the demolition of the buildings. A limit...
Development
Development, means the carring out of building, engineering,mining or other operations in, on over or under land or the making of any material change on any building or land, or planting of any tree on land and includes development. [Delhi Metro Railway (Operation and Maintenance) Act, 2002 (60 of 2002), s. 2(c)]Development with its grammatical variations means the carrying out of building, engineering, mining or other operations in, on, over or under land or the making of any material change in any building or land and includes redevelopment. [Delhi Development Act, 1957, s. 2(d)]The word 'development' in, s. 10(20A) of the IT Act, should be understood in its wide sense. There is no warrant to exclude all development programmes relating to any industry from the purview of the word 'development' in the said sub-section. There is no indication in the Act that development envisaged therein should confine to non-industrial activities. Development of a place can be accelerated through vari...
Block
Block, means a community development area within a district comprising a group of Gram Panchayats [National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, 2005 (42 of 2005), s. 2(c)] Means an area delineated on the reference map deposited at the principal office of the Deptt. of Trade and Industry, Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 19(2), 4th Edn., Para 1480, p. 1103....
Re-erection
Re-erection, includes construction for a second time on the same plan sanctioned previously, Ghaziabad Development Authority, Ghaziabad v. Duli Chand, 1992 All Cr Cas 327....
Area
Area [Lat., a threshing-floor], (1) an enclosed yard or open place connected with a house; (2) a district for particular purposes, as a school board area, a parliamentary electoral area, a local government district (see Part viii of the Public Health Act, 1875), a Poor Law Union of parishes, as to which, see UNION; (3) Metaphor, the region of discussion; (4) In the London Building Act, 1930, s. 5, contains this definition: 'area' in relation to a building means the superficies of a horizontal section thereof made at the point of its greatest surface inclusive of the external walls and of such portions of the party walls as belong to the building.'Area' means the area (including all the buildings, structures or other properties comprises therein) specified in the Schedule. [Acquisition of Certain Area at Ayodhya, (33 of 1993), s. 2(a)]An area simpliciter is certainly not a route. Its potentiality to become a route would not make it a route. A route is an area plus something more, C.P. S...
Local area
Local area, 'Local area', in relation to any local cadre, means the local area specified in para 6 for direct recruitment to posts in such local cadre, and includes, in respect of posts belonging to the category of Civil Assistant Surgeons, the local area specified in sub-para (5) of paragraph 8 of this Order', S. Prakasha Rao v. Commissioner of Commercial Taxes, AIR 1990 SC 997: (1990) 2 SCC 259 (261). [A.P. Employment (Organisation of Local Cadre and Regulation of Direct Recruitment) Order, 1975]It means any area, whether urban or rural, declared by the Central Government or the State Government by notification in the Official Gazette, to be a local area for the purposes of this Act. [Prevention of Food Adulteration Act, 1954 (37 of 1954), s. 2 (vii)]The words 'local area' in Entry 52 of the Constitution, (when the area is a part of the State imposing the law) in an area administered by a local body like a municipality, a district board, a local board, a union board, a Panchayat or t...
Reserved area and selected area
Reserved area and selected area, the expression 'reserved area' and 'selected area' means the area lawfully reserved under the Punjab Tenants (Security of Tenures) Act, 1950 (Act XXII of 1950), as amended by the President's Act of 1951. Though 'reserved area' has been defined, there is no definition of 'selected area'. This indicates that the Legislature did not introduce a new concept of 'selected area' in the Act. The expressions 'reservation' and 'selection' involve the same process and indeed, to some extent, they are convertible, for one can reserve land by selection and another can select land by reservation, S. Gurbax Singh v. State of Punjab, AIR 1967 SC 502: (1967) 1 SCR 926...
Scheduled and Tribal areas
Scheduled and Tribal areas, in any State other than Assam, Meghalaya, Tripura and Mizoram declared by the President in an order are scheduled areas. [Constitution of India, Art. 244(1)]Scheduled and Tribal areas, in India, the areas from Assam, Meghalaya, Tripura and Mizoram specified in Part 1, 11, 11A and 111 of the table appended to para 20 of Sixth Schedule are tribal areas, their administration is governed by provisions of Sixth Schedule containing self-contained Code for the governance of tribal areas, A Commentary on the Constitution of India, Durga Das Basu, Vol. J, p. 69.Scheduled and Tribal areas, the President is empowered to take out or add certain areas from or to the scheduled areas and alter it for rectification of boundaries, Constitution of India, Fifth Sch....
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