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ACT II OF 2020 ACT II OF 2020 BALOCHISTAN HOUSING AND TOWN PLANNING AUTHORITY ACT, 2020 An Act to provide for the establishment of Housing and Town Planning Authority in the Province of Balochistan [Gazette of Balochistan Extraordinary, 10th September, 2020] No. PAB / Legis; V(18) / 2019, dated 10.9.2020.---The Balochistan Housing And Town Planning Authority Bill, 2019 (Bill No.18 of 2019), having been passed by the Provincial Assembly of Balochistan on 10th August, 2020 and assented to by the Governor, Balochistan on 10th September, 2020 is hereby published as an Act of the Balochistan Provincial Assembly. Preamble.---WHEREAS, it is expedient to establish an authority for Housing and Town Planning in order to provide shelter to the shelter less and to establish a comprehensive system of town planning at regional, district, tehsil or union council level, as such to ensure systematic, integrated growth of urban and rural areas in the Province of Balochistan and to make provisions for matters connected therewith and ancillary thereto: It is hereby enacted as follows:- CHAPTER-II ESTABLISHMENT AND CONSTITUTION OF BALOCHISTAN HOUSING AND TOWN PLANNING AUTHORITY. 3. Establishment of the Authority.---(1) After the commencement of this Act, the Government shall establish by notification in the official Gazette an Authority not later than sixty days to be called "the Balochistan Housing and Town Planning Authority" for carrying out the purposes of this Act. (2) The Authority shall be a body corporate having perpetual succession and a common seal with power, subject to the provisions of this Act, to acquire and hold property, both moveable and immovable, and may sue and be sued by the said name. (3) The Authority may have powers to enter into agreement with any Person or Persons as prescribed by rules.