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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. 13. Power to execute any scheme.---(1) Where the Authority is satisfied that any direction given by it with regard to any scheme has not been carried out by the Government Authority concerned, the Authority may itself undertake any work for the execution of that scheme and the cost thereof shall be borne as may be agreed between the Authority and the Government Authority concerned and in the event of disagreement, as may be determined by the Government. (2) Where any work is undertaken by the Authority under subsection (1), it shall be deemed to have, for the purposes of execution of such work, all the powers which may be exercised, under any law for the time being in force, by the Government Authority concerned.