Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
Saving.––Nothing in this Act shall apply to–– (a) the carrying out by any local authority or by any department of Government of any works for the purpose of inspecting, repairing, or renewing any drains, sewers, main pipes, cables or other apparatus including the breaking open of any street or other land for that purpose ; 1.Substituted by Act X of 1977, s. 3. 316 DEVELOPMENT ACT, 1970 (b) the erection of a building, not being a dwelling house if such building is required for the purposes subservient to agriculture ; (c) the construction of a canal, water course, and drainage work as defined in the Jammu and Kashmir State Canal and Drainage Act, Svt. 1963, by any local authority or the department of the Government ; (d) the excavation (including wells) made in the ordinary course of agricultural operations ; (e) the construction of unmetalled road intended to give access to land solely for agricultural purposes ; and (f) the carrying out of works for the maintenance of any building which effect only the interior of the building and which do not materially effect the external appearance of the building.