Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
i. The State Government may, from time to time by notification in the Official Gazette, declare any area in the State to be a regional planning area, a local planning area or the site for a new township provided that if the area falls within the notified area of any urban local body, it will done after consultation with such body. ii. Before making the declaration under sub-section (i) the State Government may take into consideration such matters as may be prescribed. iii. Every notification published under sub-section (i) shall indicate the limits and the name of the area to which it relates. iv. Except in such class or category of cases, which the State Government may, by order for the reasons to be recorded in writing, exempt, no person shall, on or after publication of notification under sub-section (i), and till the date, the Regional Plan or the Master Plan comes into operation under section 60 or under section 67, as the case may be, institute or change the use of land for any purpose or carry out any development in respect of any land without the previous permission of the Authority in local planning area and local authorities in rest of urban local body area and the provisions of sections 63 and 64 mutatis mutandis shall apply to the grant of such permission. Provided that the exemptions granted in the case of operational construction, shall not apply in the case of development affecting heritage site or its vicinity. v. The State Government may, after following the procedure as laid down in this section, alter the limits of any regional planning area, local planning area or the site for a new town.