Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
Development of areas.— (1) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in any other State law for the time being in force, once a notification is issued under clause (a) of sub-section (1) of section 42 declaring any area to be an Investment Promotion Area, the Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint a Planning, Development and Construction Committee consisting of the following members, namely:- (i) Chief Secretary — Chairperson; (ii) Secretary (Industries) — Member; (iii) Director, Directorate of Industries, Trade and Commerce — Member; (iv) Chief Town Planner (Planning) or his nominee not below the rank of the Deputy Town Planner — Member; (v) Director, Directorate of Health Services or his nominee not below the rank of the Deputy Director — Member; (vi) Director of Fire and Emergency Service or his nominee not below the rank of Deputy Director — Member; (vii) Chief Inspector of Factories and Boilers or his nominee not below the rank of the Inspector — Member; (viii) Chief Electrical Engineer, Electricity Department or his nominee not below the rank of the Superintending Engineer —Member; (ix) Principal Chief Engineer, Public Works Department or his nominee not below the rank of the Superintending Engineer — Member; (x) Principal Chief Conservator of Forests — Member; (xi) Member Secretary, Goa State Pollution Control Board — Member; (xii) Member Secretary, Goa Coastal Zone Management Authority — Member; (xiii) District Collector, North Goa — Member; (xiv) District Collector, South Goa — Member; (xv) Chief Executive Officer of the Board — Member Secretary, to decide and dispose of all applications for change of land use/conversion, land development and building construction under the Goa Land Revenue Code, 1968 (Act 9 of 1969), the Goa, Daman and Diu Town and Country Planning Act, 1974 (Act 21 of 1975), the Goa (Regulation of Land Development and Building Construction) Act, 2008 (Goa Act 6 of 2008) and the rules and regulations framed thereunder (hereinafter referred to as the “said Acts”). (2) The Planning, Development and Construction Committee shall discharge all the functions of,— (i) the Collector under the Goa Land Revenue Code, 1968 (Act 9 of 1969); (ii) the Chief Town Planner of the Town and Country Planning Department, in a non- planning area and the Planning and Development Authority in a planning area, under - 17 - the Goa, Daman and Diu Town and Country Planning Act, 1974 (Act 21 of 1975); and (iii) the Competent Authority under the Goa Land Development and Building Construction Regulations, 2010. (3) The Planning, Development and Construction Committee shall have regard to the provisions of all local laws including any regional plan, outline development plan, comprehensive development plan or other plans prepared under the relevant Act as in force.