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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-VIII OFFENCES, PENALTIES AND PROCEDURES. 23. Offences, penalties and procedures.---(1) If a person contravenes any provision of the Act, he shall be liable to punishment of imprisonment which may extend to six months or fine which may extend to fifty thousand rupees or both. (2) If a person continues to commit an act in violation of any order of the Authority, he shall, in addition to any other punishment under the Act, be liable to punishment of fine which may extend to one thousand rupees for each day the offence continues. (3) If a person, being convicted under the Act, again commits an offence under the Act, he shall be liable to punishment of imprisonment for a term which may extend to one year or fine which may extend to one hundred thousand rupees or both. (4) An offence under the Act shall be bailable but the police shall not take cognizance of the offence except on the information received from an authorized officer of the Authority. (5) The procedure for the trial of offences under the Act shall be the same as is laid down in the Criminal Procedure Code of for summary trial.