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Section 4. One-time Settlement.

"The Punjab One-time Voluntary Disclosure and Settlement of Violations of the Buildings constructed in Violation of the Building Bye-laws in the Corporations and the Municipalities Act, 2004"

Act no. 6 of 20042004Repealed 6 March 2019Punjab (State Act)

This Act was repealed on 6 March 2019 by the Punjab One-time Voluntary Disclosure and Settlement of Building constructed in Violations of the Building Bye-laws Act, 2019 (Punjab Act 6 of 2019), s.13(1); it may still apply to matters that began before then.

4. (1) The voluntary disclosure of non-compoundable violation made under section 3, may be settled by the Commissioner in the case of a Corporation after making spot verification as a one-time measure by realizing the following composition fee, namely :— (a) in a prime area, in the case of a commercial building, five hundred rupees per square foot of the area covered under the non-compoundable violation; (b) in any other area, in the case of a commercial building, two hundred rupees per square foot of the area covered under the non-compoundable violation; (c) in the case of a residential building whether located in a prime area or in any other area, two hundred rupees per square foot of the area covered under the non-compoundable violation; and (d) in a slum area and a Scheduled Caste Basti, in the case of a residential building one hundred rupees per square foot of the area covered under the non-compoundable violation. (2) The voluntary disclosure of non-compoundable violation made under section 3, may be settled by the Executive Officer in the case of a Municipal Council and Nagar Panchayat, after spot verification as a one-time measure by realising the following composition fee, namely:— (a) in the case of First Class Municipal Council, eighty per cent of the fee, specified in clauses (a), (b), (c) and (d) of sub-section (1); (b) in the case of Second Class Municipal Council, seventy per cent of the fee, specified in clauses (a), (b), (c) and (d) of sub-section (1) ; and (c) in the case of Third Class Municipal Council and Nagar Panchayat, sixty per cent of the fee, specified in clauses (a), (b), (c) and (d) of sub-section (1).