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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. 25. Cognizance of offences.---(1) No Court shall take cognizance of any offence under this Act except on a complaint in writing received from the Authority or an officer or a person generally or specifically authorized by the Authority or on a complaint filed by an affected citizen if no action is taken on the complaint made by him under subsection (2). (2) The Authority on its own motion, or an officer or any other person generally or specially authorized by the Authority on his own motion, or on the complaint of any affected citizen, may institute any suit or initiate prosecution or any other legal action against a person committing an offence under this Act.