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Amendment of Section 296 of the Bihar Act 11, 2007.- In section 296 of the said Act - (i) Explanation of sub section (1) shall be substituted by the following namely:- “In this section, the expression, “unique premises number” shall mean a number consisting of alphabets and numbers assigned to the premises or part thereof by the Municipality in the following manner, namely:- (a) the first two alphabets indicating the zone of the town in which the town shall be divided; (b) the next three digits indicating each sector in the zone; (c) the next four digits indicating the premises number; 10 बहार गजट (असाधारण), 8 जनवर 2014 (d) the next one digit indicating if the property is partitioned or more than one premises is merged together; (e) in cases of merger of more than one premise or fragmentation of premise due to partition, new number shall be assigned to the premises and the new number so assigned to such premises shall be entered in the register and maintained for record. (ii) In sub-section (2) of section 296, the words “any ward of” appearing after the words “in respect of premises in” shall be deleted. (iii) In sub-section (3) of section 296, the words “in any ward” appearing after the words “in respect of premises” shall be deleted.. (iv) New sub-section (4) shall be added to this section after sub section (3):- (4) Detailed scheme of assigning the Unique Premises Number shall be provided for in the Rules to be framed by the Government. The Government if required may also change the numbering scheme as described in sub-section (1)."