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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-V DIRECTIONS BY GOVERNMENT 15. Controlled Area.---The Authority may, by notification in the official Gazette, declare any locality to be a Controlled Area, for the purposes of this Act and may issue in respect of such locality such directions as it considers fit and appropriate and do all such things as may be necessary for the prevention of haphazard growth, encroachments and unauthorized construction in such area.