Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
12. Authority 1 [or the Director] to follow preliminary procedure before enhancing or reducing enhanced fee.- ( 1 ) The Authority, before enhancing or reducing the enhanced rate and levying the fee at such rate shall observe the following preliminary procedure, namely :- ( a ) the Authority shall, by a resolution passed at a special meeting approve the rate of fee at which it proposes to levy such fee; (b) when such a resolution is passed, the Authority shall take further action to obtain the previous sanction of the State Government to the proposal. 2 [( 1A ) The Director, on receipt of an application or suo moto , before enhancing or reducing the enhanced rate and levying the fee at such rate, shall obtain the previous sanction of the State Government to the proposal.] ( 2 ) The State Government may, by an order published in the Official Gazette , accord sanction to the said proposal of the Authority 3 [or the Director] and specify in such order the date on or after which the proposal shall be brought into force. ( 3 ) ( a ) The Authority 4 [or the Director] shall display on the notice board of its office the said order, and shall also publish a notice in a local newspaper informing the inhabitants of the area within its jurisdiction of the subject matter of the order so displayed; (b) When the rates at which the fee is leviable are enhanced or reduced under sub-section ( 3 ) of section 11, it shall not be necessary to give any separate notice thereof to the owners or occupiers of the buildings affected thereby.