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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-IV PREPARATION OF SCHEMES. 11. Preparation of schemes.---(1) The Authority in consultation with any other Authority of the Government shall, in such form and in such manner as may be prescribed, prepare schemes for the area or any part thereof. (2) All schemes prepared by the Authority shall be submitted to the Government for approval, except those schemes, the estimated costs whereof do not exceed such limit as may be prescribed by rules or for which no loan or grant is required from the Government. (3) The Authority shall publish the approval of its scheme(s) in the official Gazette and shall forthwith proceed to execute the scheme in collaboration with any other Authority of the Government. (4) The publication of a scheme under subsection (3), shall be conclusive evidence that the scheme has been duly framed and sanctioned.