THIRD SCHEDULE

ACT V OF 2010 ACT V OF 2010 BALOCHISTAN LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT, 2010 An Act to provide for the constitution and continuance of Local Government Institutions in Balochistan, and to consolidate law relating to the Local Government and to provide for the matters connected therewith and ancillary thereto. [Gazette of Balochistan, Extraordinary, 13th May, 2010] No. PAB/Legis: V(8)/2010, dated 13-5-2010.---The Balochistan Local Government Bill, 2010 having been passed by the Provincial. Assembly of Balochistan on 10th May, 2010 and assented to by the Governor, Balochistan on 11th May, 2010 is hereby published as an Act of the Provincial Assembly. Preamble.---Whereas the Constitution of Islamic Republic of Pakistan under Article 32 requires the State to encourage Local Government Institutions composed of elected representatives of the areas concerned and having special representation of peasants workers and women: Whereas the Constitution requires the provincial, government to decentralize the government administration under Article 140-A so as to facilitate expeditious disposal of its business to meet the convenience and requirements of the public: And Whereas it is expedient to consolidate the law relating to Local Government Institutions so as to the obligation in line with the requirements of the Constitution: Now therefore, it is enacted as under: THE THIRD SCHEDULE OFFENCES UNDER THE ACT [See Section 133) Part-I 1. Contravention of the prohibition provided under the Act with regard to the development of sites and erection and re-erection of buildings within the urban area. 2.? Keeping or maintaining any cattle in any part of a prohibited zone or failure to remove the cattle from the prohibited zone within the specified time when an order to this effect has been made. 3. Carrying of any dangerous or offensive trade or storing any offensive or dangerous articles without the sanction required under this Act. 4. Tampering with any road, drain, pavement, main pipe, meter or any apparatus or appliance for the supply of water. 5. Exhibiting, any obscene advertisement. 6. Stocking or collecting of timber, wood, dry grass, straw or other inflammable material in a manner which is declared by the Local Council to be dangerous. 7. Discharge fire-arms or letting off fire works, crackers fire balloons or detonators or engaging in any game in such manner as causes or is likely to cause danger to persons passing by or living or working in neighbourhood, or risk or injury to property. 8. Wilfully obstructing any officer or servant of a Local Council or any person authorized by the Local Council in the exercise of powers conferred by or under this Act. 9. Fixing of wooden Khokhas, plying of hand carts for the sale, of goods and temporary shops or permanent shops or extension thereof on footpaths or beyond the street line. 10. Opposing forcible seizure of animals under this Act or rescuing the seized animals either from the pond or from any person taking them to a pond. 11. Erection or re-erection of a building without the sanction required under this Act or using for a purpose other than for which erection or re-erection was sanctioned. 12. Erection or re-erection or addition to or altering any building or buildings within the area of the scheme respecting which notice under section 92 has been notified, except with the permission of the Town Improvement Committee. 13. Dyeing or tanning skins within such distance of the residential area as may be specified by the Local Council. 14. Establishing a brick kiln, lime kiln, charcoal kiln, or pottery within such distance of the residential area as may be specified by the Local Council. 15. Failure to demolish or otherwise secure a building declared by the Local Council to be dangerous building. 16. Failure of industrial or commercial concerns to provide adequate and safe disposal of affluent. 17. Erection or re-erection, addition or alteration of any building or buildings within the area of the scheme included in the Site Development Schemes prepared by and sanctioned at the instance of Town Improvement Committee. 18. Failure by the owner or occupier of any land to clear away and remove any thick vegetation or under-growth declared by a Local Council to be injurious to health or offensive to the neighbourhood. 19. Quarrying, blasting, cutting timber or carrying building operations in such manner as causes or is likely to cause danger to persons passing by or living or working in the neighbourhood. 20. Being an officer or servant declared by the Local Council to be an essential officer or servant to be absent from duty or to neglect or refuse to perform any of the duties or to perform them willfully in inefficient manner. 21. Violation of the prohibitions and other provisions provided in the Master Plan, and the sanctioned and un-sanctioned Site Development Scheme under this Act. 22. Cutting down of any tree, or cutting of a branch of any tree, or erection or demolition of any building, or a part of a building where such action is declared under this Act to be a cause of danger or annoyance to public. Part-II 1. Without the permission of the Local Council, causing or knowingly or negligently allowing the contents of any sink, sewer or cesspool or any other offensive matter to flow, or drain to be put upon any street, or public place, or into any irrigation channel or any sewer or drain not set apart for the purpose. 2. Laying out a drain or altering any drain in a street without the sanction required under this Act. 3. Connecting any house drain with a drain in a public street without the permission required under this Act. 4. Using water for drinking from any source which is suspected to be dangerous to public health and the use thereof has been prohibited by the Local Council. 5. Excavation of earth, stone or any other material with in such distance of the residential area as specified by the Local Council. 6. Disposing of carcasses of animals within prohibited distance and removal of fat from a dead animal other than a slaughtered animal. 7. Slaughtering of animals for the sale of meat at a place other than the place set apart for the purpose. 8. Burning or burning a dead body at a place which is not a public or registered burial or burning place, except with the sanction of the Local Council. 9. Evasion of payment of a tax or other impost lawfully levied by a Local Council. 10. Failure to furnish, on requisition, information in respect of any matter which a Local Council is authorized to call for under any of the provisions of this Act, rules or bye-laws or furnishing wrong information. 11. Doing an act without licence or permission when the doing of such act requires a licence or permission under any of the provisions of this Act or the rules or bye-laws. 12. Picketing, parking animals or collecting carts or vehicles on any street, using any street as a halting place for vehicles or animals or as a place of encampment without the permission of the Local Council. 13. Causing or permitting animals to stray or keeping, tethering, stalling, feeding or grazing any cattle on any road, street or thoroughfare or in any public place or damaging or causing or permitting to be damaged any road, street or thoroughfare by allowing cattle to move thereon. 14. Throwing or placing any refuse on any street, or in any place, not provided or appointed for the purpose by a local Council. 15. Doing any act by which water for drinking is rendered unfit for such use. 16. Watering cattle or animals, or bathing or washing at or near a well or other source of drinking water for the public. 17. Steeping hemp, jute or any other plant in or near a pond or any other excavation within such distance of the residential area as may be specified by a Local Council. 18. Wilfully or negligently injuring or suffering to be injured, wells, reservoirs mains, pipes or other appliances for the supply of water under the management or control of a Local Council. 19. Drawing off, diverting or taking any water except with the permission required under this Act. 20. Failure or provide, close, remove, alter, repair, clean, disinfect or put in proper order any latrine, urinal, drain, cesspool or other receptacle for filth, sullage, water or refuse when so required by a Local Council. 21. Failure by the owner or occupier of any land to cut or trim, the hedges growing thereon which overhang any well, tank or other source from which water is derived for public use. 22. Cultivation of such crops, use of such manure, or irrigation of any land in such manner as is declared under this Act to be injurious to public health or offensive to the neighbourhood. 23. Failure by the owner or occupier of any land or building to clean, repair, cover, fill up or drain off any private well, tank or other source of water-supply, which is declared under this Act to be injurious to health or offensive to the neighbourhood. 24. Failure of an owner or occupier of any building or land to put up and keep in good condition troughs and pipes for receiving or carrying water or sullage water. 25. Sale of article of food or drink by a person suffering from any infectious disease. 26. Feeding or allowing to be fed any animal meant for dairy, or food purposes on deleterious substance, filth or refuse of any kind. 27. Defacing or disturbing any direction-post, lamp-post or lamp, of extinguishing, any light arranged by a Local Council without due authority. 28. Fixing any bill board, notice, placard or other paper or means of advertisement against or upon any building or place other than the places fixed for the purpose by a Local Council. 29. Writing or painting any objectionable, abusive, Provocative, anti-State or such other slogans or words on a building. 30. Failure to remove or erase bills, notices, placards, papers, writing or paintings referred to in items 28 and 29 by the owner or occupier of the buildings. 31. Playing of music or radio, beating a drum or tomtom, blowing a horn or trumpet or beating or sounding any brass or other instrument or utensil in contravention of any general or special prohibition issued by a Local Council. 32. Letting loose or setting in of ferocious dogs or other dangerous animals. 33. Using or allowing the use for human habitation of a building declared by a Local Council to be unfit for human habitation. 34. Failure to lime-wash or repair a building if so required by a Local Council. 35. Failure by the owner or occupier of a building to make adequate, arrangements for house scavenging when so required by a Local Council. 36. Begging importunately for alms or exposing or exhibiting with the object of exciting charity, any deformity or disease or any offensive sore or wound. 37. Failure of the head of family to report the birth or death to a Local Council or a person appointed in this behalf within a reasonable time. 38. Any owner or keeper of an animal who through neglect or otherwise damages or causes or permits to be damaged any land or crop or produce of land, or any public road, by allowing such animals to trespass thereon. 39. Doing of any other act which is prescribed as an offence under this Act. 40. Contravening any of the provisions of this Act, rules or bye-laws, or any order, direction, notice or declaration made or issued there under. 41. Attempts and abetment of any of the offences as aforesaid.