State Act

The Telangana Town Planning Act, 1920.

55. (1) The *[State Government] may, by notification and from a date to be specified in such notification, transfer the proceedings commenced under this Act in respect of any land by any authority having jurisdiction to any other authority having jurisdiction over such land. (2) Before issuing a notification under sub-section (1) the *[State Government] shall communicate to the authorities affected the grounds on which they propose to make the transfer, fix a reasonable period for them to show cause against the proposal and consider their objections, if any. (3) The authority to whom a transfer of proceedings is made under sub-section (1) may continue such proceedings from the stage which they had reached on the date specified in the notification. (4) When making a transfer of proceedings under sub-section (1), the *[State Government] may direct the authority to whom the transfer is made to reimburse the authority from whom the transfer is made the net expenditure which the last-mentioned authority may, up to the date of such transfer, have incurred on such proceedings. (5) From the date specified in the notification under sub-section (1) all rights and assets which, for the purposes of the proceeding transferred by such notification are vested in, and all obligations and liabilities which for the same purposes are enforcible against the authority from whom the transfer is made, shall vest in or be enforcible against the authority to whom the transfer is made.]