Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
Power to enforce scheme.—(1) On and after the day on which the final scheme comes into force the Planning Authority may, after giving the prescribed notice and in accordance with the provisions of the scheme,— (a) remove, pull down or alter any building or other work in the area included in the scheme, which is such as to contravene the scheme or in the erection or carrying out of which, any provisions of the scheme has not been complied with; (b) execute any work which it is the duty of any person to execute under the scheme, in any case where it appears to the Planning Authority that delay in the execution of the work would prejudice the efficient operation of the scheme. (2) Any expenses incurred by the Planning Authority under this section may be recovered from the persons in default or from the owner of the plot in the manner provided for the recovery of sums due to the Planning Authority under the provisions of this Act. (3) If any question arises as to whether any building or work contravenes a Town Planning scheme, or whether any provision of a Town Planning scheme is not complied with in the erection of any such building or the carrying out of any such building or work, it shall be referred to the State Government or the Director if authorised by the State Government in this behalf, and the decision of the State Government or the Director, as the case may be, shall be final and conclusive and binding on all persons.