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L.-33004/99 The Gazette of India CG-DL-E-03082026-275130 No. 21] EXTRAORDINARY PART II-Section 4 PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY NEW DELHI, TUESDAY, JULY 28, 2026/SHRAVAN 6, 1948 5775 GI/2026 (1) MINISTRY OF DEFENCE NOTIFICATION New Delhi, the 28th July, 2026 S.R.O. 21(E).—The following draft of the Jalandhar Cantonment Building Bye-laws, 2026, which the Cantonment Board proposes to issue in exercise of the powers conferred by section 251 of the Cantonments Act, 2006 and in supersession of notification number 2747-H-37/21591 dated 26th May, 1937, except as respects things done or omitted to be done before such supersession, is hereby published for the information of the public likely to be affected thereby; and notice is hereby given that the said draft Bye-laws shall be taken into consideration on or after the expiry of a period of thirty days from the date on which copies of the Gazette of India containing the Bye- laws are made available to the Public; and the said draft Bye-Laws is also available at the office of the Cantonment Board, Jalandhar and on the website https://jalandhar.cantt.gov.in . Any person interested in making any objections or suggestions on the proposals contained in the draft Bye- laws may forward the same in writing, for consideration of the Cantonment Board within the period so specified to the Cantonment Board, Jalandhar or at e-mail address : [email protected] . THE GAZETTE OF INDIA: EXTRAORDINARY [PART II-SEC.4] The Draft of the Jalandhar Cantonment Building Bye-Laws, 2026 CHAPTER -1 GENERAL 1. SHORT TITLE, COMMENCEMENT AND EXTENT. -(1) These Bye-Laws shall be called the Jalandhar Cantonment Building Bye-Laws, 2026. (2) These shall come into force on the date of final publication in the Official Gazette by the Central Government. (3) These Bye-Laws shall apply within the limits of Jalandhar Cantonment. 2. DEFINITIONS.- In these Bye-Laws, unless the context otherwise requires: (1) "Act" means the Cantonments Act, 2006 as amended from time to time; (2) "Access" means a clear approach to a plot or a building; (3) "Addition to a building" means addition to the cubic content of a building; (4) "Air-Conditioning” means the process of treating air so as to control simultaneously its temperature, humidity, cleanliness and distribution to meet the requirement of conditioned space; (5) "Alteration of a building" means- (a) The sub-division of any room in such building so as to convert the same into two or more separate rooms, or; (b) The change in two or more rooms in such building which increases or diminishes the cubic content of any room or rooms; (c) The conversion of any passage or space in such building into a room or rooms; (6) "Appendix" means an appendix to these Bye-Laws; (7) "Application" means an application made in such a form as may be specified by the authority from time to time; (8) "Applicant" means a person who has legally valid occupancy rights on leased or old grant or private land and intends to erect/ re-erect a building or to make any addition/ alteration in the building; (9) "Approved" means approval granted by the Competent Authority as prescribed under the Act; (10) "Architect" means any person who holds a valid registration with the Council of Architecture, India as per the provisions of the Architects Act, 1972; (11) "Architectural Projection” means a chhajja, cornice etc. which is a protrusion from the building facade or line of the building only for aesthetic purpose and not used for any habitable purpose; (12) "Atrium" means a sky lighted and naturally/ mechanically ventilated area in a building with no intermediate floors and used as circulation space or entrance foyer; (13) "Balcony" means a horizontal projection including a handrail, balustrade or parapet to serve as a passage or siting out place with at least one side open, except for the railing or Parapet wall for safety; (14) "Barrier free" means a barrier free environment which enables people with disabilities to move safely and freely and to use the facilities within the built environment; (15) "Barsati" means a shed or covered space, which is not enclosed on all sides, used for shelter on the roof or a building; (16) "Basement" means the lowest storey of a building below or partly below ground level or adjoining ground level; THE GAZETTE OF INDIA: EXTRAORDINARY [PART II-SEC.4] (17) "Board" shall mean a Cantonment Board constituted under the Cantonments Act, 2006; (18) "Building" means a house, out house, stable, latrine, shed, hut or other roofed structure whether of masonry, brick, wood, mud, metal or other material, and any part thereof, and includes a well and a wall other than a boundary wall but does not include a tent or other portable and temporary shelter; (19) "Building Height" means the vertical distance measured in the case of flat roof from the average level of the centre line of the adjoining street to the highest points of the building adjacent to the sheet wall; in the case of pitched roofs upto the point where the external surface of the outer wall intersects the finished surface of the sloping roof; and in the case of gable facing the road, the mid point between the eaves level and the ridge. Architectural features, chimneys, water tanks and other ornamental features which are not intended for human habitation and serving no other function except that of decoration shall be excluded for the purpose of taking heights, and if the building does not abut on a street the height shall be measured above the average level of the ground around and contiguous to the building; (20) "Building Line" means the line up to which the plinth of a building adjoining on a street or on an extension of a street or on a future sheet may lawfully extend and includes the line prescribed, if any, in any scheme; (21) "Building Envelope" means the horizontal spatial limits up to which a building may be permitted to be constructed on a plot which shall not exceed the clear setbacks as prescribed in the Bye-Laws; (22) "Built up area" means the area covered by a building on all floors including cantilevered portion, mezzanine floors, if any, but excluding the areas specifically exempted from computation of Floor Space Index (F.S.I) under these Regulations. (23) "Bungalow area" means area Outside Notified Civil Area with Old Grant / leasehold bungalows; (24) "Butchery" means a slaughterhouse where animals (sheep and goats) are slaughtered under the supervision of competent Authority; (25) "Cabin" means a non-residential enclosure constructed of non-load bearing, non-masonry partitions; (26) "Canopy" means an overhead roof or else a structure over which a fabric or metal covering is attached, able to provide shade or shelter from weather conditions such as sun, hail, snow and rain. A canopy can also be a tent, generally without a floor; (27) "Ceiling Height" means vertical distance between the finished floor and the ceiling; (28) "Central Government" for the purposes of these Bye-Laws means the Government of the Union in the Ministry of Defence; (29) “Chhajja" means a sloping or horizontal structural overhang usually provided over openings on external walls to provide protection from sun and rain and for purpose of architectural appearance; (30) "Chimney" means an upright shaft containing and encasing one or more flues; (31) "Civil Area" means an area declared to be a civil area by the Central Government under Sub-Section (1) of Section 46 of the Act; (32) "Civil Engineer" means any person who is a graduate of civil engineering from a recognized Indian or foreign university duly approved by Govt. of India or is a member of Civil Engineering Division of the Institution of Engineers (India) and is competent to carry out supervision of building works as per approved drawings and design; (33) "Combustible Material" means any material if it burns or adds heat to a fire when tested for combustibility in accordance with good practice; (34) "Commercial Building" means a building used or constructed or adapted to be used the whole or a substantial part of building for commercial purposes; (35) "Competent Authority" means the authority to sanction the building plan as prescribed under the Act; (36) "Corner Plot or Site" means a plot or site at the junction of and fronting on two or more intersecting sheets; THE GAZETTE OF INDIA : EXTRAORDINARY [PART II-SEC.4] (37) "Courtyard" means a space open to the sky enclosed or partially enclosed, by walls or by railing and shall be at ground floor level; (38) "Covered Area" means ground area covered by the building immediately above plinth level, but does not include the space covered by the following: (a) Garden, rockery, well and well structure, plant nursery, water pool, swimming pool (if uncovered), platform around a tree, water tank, fountain, bench with open top and un-enclosed sides and the like; (b) drainage, culvert, conduit, catch pit, gully pit, chamber, gutter, septic tank, soakage pit and the like; (c) compound wall, gate, canopy, uncovered staircases areas covered by sun shade and the like; (39) "Cupboard" means a space used for storage of household goods/dress having shelves/partitions not more than 1.50 metre apart; (40) "Damp Proof Course" A course consisting of appropriate water-proofing material provided to prevent penetration of dampness or moisture from any part of the ground to the structure or from one part of the structure to any other part of it; (41) "Drain" means a line of pipes including all fittings and equipment such as manholes, inspection chambers, traps, gully traps and floor traps, used for the drainage of a building, or a number of buildings, or yards appurtenant to buildings, with in the same curtilage. Drain shall also include open channels used for conveying surface water; (42) "Drainage" means the removal of any liquid by a system constructed for this purpose; (43) "Dwelling Unit/ Tenement" An independent housing unit with separate facilities for living, cooking and sanitation needs; (44) "Demolished" means total dismantling of an existing building; (45) "Equivalent Car Space (ECS)" means the space occupied by the vehicle as well as the minimum space needed to move it into and out of the space and one equivalent car space is as defined in National Building Code, as amended time to time; (46) "Existing Building or Use" means a building, structure or its use as sanctioned or deemed to have been sanctioned by the Competent Authority, existing before the commencement of the Bye-Laws; (47) "Exit" means a passage, or means of egress from any building, storey or floor area to a street or any other open space of safety; (a) Vertical exit: It is a means of exit used for ascending or descending between two or more levels including stair ways, ramps and fire escapes; (b) Horizontal exit: It is a protected opening through or around a fire-resistant wall or bridge connecting two buildings; (c) Outside exit: It is an exit from the building to a public way or to an open area leading to a public way or an enclosed fire-resistant passage leading to a public way; (48) "Enclosed Staircase" means a staircase separated by fire resistant walls and doors from the rest of the buildings; (49) "External Wall" means an outer wall of a building not being a partition wall, even though adjoining to a wall of another building and also means, a wall abutting on an interior open space of any building; (50) "Floor" means the lower surface in a storey on which one normally walks in a building. The general term, floor, unless otherwise specifically mentioned, shall not refer to a mezzanine floor. Sequential numbering of floor shall be determined by its relation to the determining entrance level. For floors at or wholly above ground level the lowest floor in the building with direct entrance from the road/street to be termed as Ground Floor. Other floors above ground floor shall be numbered in sequence as Floor 1, Floor 2, with numbers increasing upwards; (51) "Floor Area Ratio" or "FAR" means the quotient obtained in terms of %age by dividing the multiple of the total of the covered area on all floors and hundred by the area of the plot i.e. THE GAZETTE OF INDIA : EXTRAORDINARY FAR = Total covered area of all floors x 100 Plot Area (52) "Floor Space Index" or "FSI" means the quotient obtained by dividing the total covered area on all floors by the area of the plot i.e. FSI = Total covered area of all floors Plot Area (53) “Flue" means a confined space provided for the conveyance to the outer air of any product of combustion resulting from the operation of any heat producing appliance or equipment employing solid, liquid or gaseous fuel; (54) "Footing" means a foundation unit constructed in brick work, masonry or concrete, steel or any other material permissible as per IS Code under the base of a wall or column for the purpose of distributing the load over a large area; (55) "Foundation" means that part of the structure which is below the lower most floor and which provides support for the super structure and which transmits loads of the super- structure to the ground; (56) "Frontage" means the measurement of the side of any site abutting the road; (57) "Ground Coverage" means the quotient obtained in terms of percentage by dividing the plinth areas of Ground Floor by plot area i.e. Ground coverage = Plinth area of ground floor x 100 Plot Area (58) "Gallery" means an intermediate floor or platform projecting from a wall of an auditorium or hall providing extra floor, additional seating accommodation etc.; (59) "Garage Private" means a building designed or used for the parking of a motor car or other vehicles; (60) "Ground Level" means the finishing surface after formation cutting of the site from where erection of the building starts; (61) “Group Housing" means housing of more than one dwelling unit, where land is owned jointly as in the case of cooperative societies or public agencies such as Local Authorities or Housing Boards or property developers etc. and the construction is undertaken by one agency but shall not include properties which are co-owned by family members; (62) "Habitable Room" means a room occupied or designed for occupancy by one or more persons for study, living, sleeping, eating; kitchen if it is part of living room but does not include bathroom, water closet compartments, laundries, serving and storage pantries, corridors, cellars, attics and other spaces that are not used frequently or during extended period; (63) "Height of a Room" means the vertical distance measured from the finished floor surface to the finished ceiling/slab surface; (64) "Internal wall" means all partition walls in the interior of a building excluding walls which abut exterior or interior open spaces; internal walls when made of bricks shall be a minimum of 115 mm brick work in suitable mortar ; other non-load bearing partitions shall be of suitable thickness; (65) "Loft" means an intermediate floor in between two main floors but not more than 1.5 metre in height which may be adopted or constructed for storage purpose; (66) "Marginal Distance/ Side and Rear Marginal Open Space" means a minimum distance required to be left open to sky between the boundary of the building plot and the building line on respective sides; (67) "Masonry" means the form of construction composed of brick, stone, tile, concrete blocks, gypsum or other similar building material units or combination of these material units laid up, bonded THE GAZETTE OF INDIA: EXTRAORDINARY [PART II-SEC.4] together and set in mortar; (68) "Mezzanine Floor" means an intermediate floor between two floor levels above ground floor and at least one side of it should form an integral part of space/floor below; (69) "Mumty" means a structure with a covering roof over a stair case and its landing built to enclose only the stairs for the purpose of providing protection from weather and not meant for human habitation; (70) "Materials Alteration" means a change of use in building materials in any existing building; (71) "Non-Combustible" means a material which does not burn or add heat to a fire when tested for combustibility in accordance with good practice; (72) "Occupancy" means the function or use of the building; (73) "Public Building" means a building used or intended to be used either ordinarily or occasionally, as a church, temple, mosque or any other place of public worship, dharamshala, college / school, hostel, theatre, cinema, public concert room, lecture room, library, orphanage, or rescue home or any other place of public assembly; (74) "Parapet" means a low wall built along the edge of a roof or a floor not more than 1.2 metre height; (75) "Parking Space" means an area enclosed or unenclosed sufficient in size to park vehicle together with a drive-way connecting the parking space with a street or alley and provided for ingress and egress of the vehicles; (76) "Partition" means an interior non-load bearing wall, one storey or part storey in height; (77) "Pavilion" means a flexible architectural open space that invites people to come in and spend time in it. It could be temporary or permanent and might even change its form and function. A pavilion might be used as a shelter, seating, meeting point, cafe, theatre, or for lectures, events, exhibitions, sports, play, relaxation and work etc.; (78) "Pillar" means a wood, stone, brick, RCC or a metal pillar and includes all columns or upright post or support, stanchions (steel structures) and an assemblage of columns of stanchions properly riveted or welded or bolted together; (79) "Plinth" means the portion of a structure between the surface of the surrounding ground and surface of the floor, immediately above the ground; (80) "Porch or Portico” means covered surface supported on pillars or otherwise for the purpose of pedestrian or vehicular approach to a building; (81) "Public Garage” means building or portion thereof designed other than a private garage, operated for gains, designed or used for repairing, servicing, hiring, selling or storing motor driven or other vehicles; (82) "Residential Building" means a building used or constructed or adapted to be used wholly for human habitation; (83) "Residential cum Commercial Building" means a building where part of the building is used or constructed or intended to be used for human habitation with remaining part used or constructed or intended to be used for commercial purpose; (84) "Repairs" means and includes the following activities, which do not otherwise violate any provisions regarding general building requirements, structural stability and fire safety requirements of these Bye-Laws; (a) Erection, Re-erection, Addition to, or Alteration of (i) an internal partition wall which does not involve sub-division of property, or; (ii) a parapet wall or a cornice or chhajja within the boundaries of the permissible setbacks & ground coverage area of the site. Provided that the total height of the parapet wall shall not be more than 1.2 metre and width of the cornice or chhajja shall not be more than 0.75 metre; (b) Repairing of a stair case; THE GAZETTE OF INDIA : EXTRAORDINARY [PART II-SEC.4] (c) White washing or painting; (d) Re-flooring of the surface of an existing floor; (e) Minor repairs and recasting of an existing damaged roof without changing the character and dimensions of such roof; (f) Erection of a false ceiling in any floor for air-conditioning, lighting or decorative purposes; (g) Plastering and Patch work; (h) Providing or closing an internal door or window or a ventilator not opening directly opposite a door or a window of another building; (i) Replacing off fallen bricks or stones; (j) Repairing or renewing existing plumbing, sanitary and other utility services; (k) Repairing of boundary wall; (1) Installation of air conditioner/ water tank/ solar plants/ solar water heater etc.; (85) "Storey" means the portion of a building included between the surface of any floor and the surface of the floor next above it, or if there be no floor above it, then the space between any floor and the ceiling next above it; (86) "Street" includes anyway, road, lane, square, court, alley or passage in a Cantonment, whether a thorough fare or not and whether built upon or not, over which the public have a right of way and also the road way or foot-way over any bridge or cause way; (87) "Setback Line / Front open space/ Margin” means the distance between the boundary line of plot abutting the means of access/road/street and the building line. In case of plots facing two or more means of access, roads/streets, the plot shall be deemed to front on all such means of accesses/roads/streets; (88) "Site or Plot" means a parcel/piece of land enclosed by definite boundaries; (89) "Smoke Pipe" means a flue approximately horizontal, made of metal or other material in which smoke or the products of combustion are conducted from a furnace to a chimney; (90) "Store or Shop" shall mean any store or shop in which it is not intended that any person shall reside; (91) "Structural Engineer" means a person who is a graduate of civil engineering from a recognized Indian or Foreign university duly approved by Government of India or is a member of Civil Engineering Division of the Institution of Engineers (India) with experience in structural engineering practice which includes structural design and field work; (92) "Sanctioned Plan" means the set of plans and specifications submitted under Section 235 of the Cantonments Act, 2006 under the Bye-Laws and regulations in connection with a building and duly sanctioned by the Authority under Section 234, 237 and 238 of the Cantonments Act, 2006; (93) "Sun shade" means a sloping or horizontal structural overhang usually provided over openings on an external wall to provide protection from sun and rain; (94) "Swimming Pool" means a wading pool, paddling pool or simply a pool in container filled with water intended for swimming or water based recreation. The pool can be built either above or in the ground and from materials such as concrete, metal, plastic or fibre glass; (95) "To Abut" means to be positioned juxtaposed to a road, lane, open space, building etc.; (96) "To erect or Re-erect" means: (a) To erect a new building on any site whether previously built upon or not; (b) To re-erect any building of which portion have been pulled down, burnt or destroyed, damaged by storm, rains, fire, earthquake or any other natural calamity to the same extent, and similar specifications as existing prior to damage; (c) Conversion from one occupancy to another; THE GAZETTE OF INDIA : EXTRAORDINARY [PART II-SEC.4] (d) To carry out alterations and; (e) To add to a storey/ storeys; (97) "Total Floor Area" means the area of all floors of building including habitable, basement and mezzanine floor; (98) "Travel distance" means the distance an occupant has to travel to reach the exit; (99) "Verandah" means a covered area with at least one side open to the outside; (100) "Water Closet” means a privy with arrangement for flushing the pan with water but does not include bathroom; (101) "Water Course" means a natural channel meant for carrying storm water and includes an artificial one formed by training or diversion of a natural channel; (a) "Major Water Course" means a river. (b) "Minor Water Course" means a nallah, (102) "Window" means an opening to the outside other than a door which provides all or part of the required natural light, ventilation or both to an interior space and not used as a means of ingress/ egress; (103) "Workshop" means a room or a group of rooms or building in which goods are manufactured or repaired; (104) "Warehouse" means a building, the whole or a substantial part of which is used or intended to be used for the storage of goods whether for keeping or for sale or for any similar purpose, but does not include a storeroom attached to and used for the proper functioning of a shop; (105) "Washing Platform" means an authorized platform for washing and also for servicing of scooters/cars etc.; (106) Words and expressions used and not defined in these bye laws but defined in the Act shall have the same meaning as assigned to them in the Act; CHAPTER II PROCEDURE FOR SANCTION OF BUILDING PLANS AND RELATED DOCUMENTATION 3. BUILDING SANCTION REQUIRED.- No person shall carry out any erection, re-erection, addition or alteration to any building or cause the same to be done without obtaining a sanction for such work from the Competent Authority. 4. PROCEDURE FOR OBTAINING BUILDING SANCTION.-(1) An applicant who intends to erect or re-erect a building or to make addition or alteration in any building shall register himself/herself in the e- Chhawani portal and apply through online, duly enclosing all the requisite documents and plans, in e- Chhawani portal through Cantonment Board registered architect/architects: Provided that due to any reason, if it is not feasible for an applicant to apply in the e-Chhawani portal the Board may prescribe a procedure for submission of applications: Provided further that the Central Government or Director General may issue guidelines from time to time to the Board regarding the manner of submitting applications for the said purpose. (2) Only persons who have legally valid occupancy rights on leased or old grant or private land are eligible for applying for sanction of building plan. In cases wherein breach of lease conditions on leased land or breach of old grant terms in old grant lands are involved, the board shall have the right to refuse or reject applications for erections, re-erection or addition/alteration till the breach of lease or old grant conditions are regularized or condoned. THE GAZETTE OF INDIA : EXTRAORDINARY [PART II-SEC.4] (3) On scrutiny of the documents and plans submitted, the applicant receives the development charges communication (or the charges levied by the Board by whatever name these are known) for payment to Cantonment Board. (4) On deposition of development charges (or the charges levied by the Board by whatever name these are known), the sanction is conveyed within the prescribed timeline. 5. BUILDING APPLICATION FEES AND APPLICABLE CHARGES.- (1) Building Application Fees: The building plan application shall be deemed valid only if the applicant has paid the requisite building application fee as determined by the Board. (2) Development Charges: The development charges, labour cess and other fees, as determined by the Board, are to be paid by the applicant through on line before issuance of the sanction of the building application by the competent authority. (3) Incentive in development charges if Rooftop Solar Installation and Rain Water Harvesting is proposed and implemented: For construction of residential or commercial or any building less than 100 square metre, if the applicant opts for Roof top Solar Installation and/ or Rain Water Harvesting, he/she shall be eligible for refunding of development charges after the completion of said Rooftop solar installation and / or Rain Water Harvesting facility and submission of photographs to this effect. The quantum of incentive for different categories of buildings shall be decided by the Board by resolution. Rain water harvesting shall be mandatory for the buildings with the covered area of more than 100 square metre. (4) Stacking of building material on street or other public land shall not take place without the permission of the Chief Executive Officer on a case to case basis and on payment of charges as fixed by the Chief Executive Officer in terms of Section 257 of the Act. 6. DOCUMENTS AT THE TIME OF APPLICATION.- The following documents shall be submitted through online on e-Chhawani portal at the time of submitting application for building sanction: (a) Proof of ownership/HOR/Lessee/Successor/legal rights document; (b) Affidavit and Indemnity Bond as specified by the competent authority; (c) Proof of identity; (d) Any other document as approved by the competent authority (Cantonment specific documents). 7. SANCTION/ REFUSAL OF PLANS, VALIDITY PERIOD AND REVALIDATION PROCEDURE.- (1) In case of old grant land, the proposed building plan shall be inconformity with the old grant terms and the land policies of Ministry of Defence. (2) In case of leased land, the proposed building plan shall be inconformity with the lease hold rights/terms and the land policies of Ministry of Defence. (3) The Competent Authority shall sanction the plan unless such building would contravene any of the followings, namely:- (a) That the building or the use of the site for the building or any of the particulars comprised in the site plan, ground plan, elevation, section or specification contravenes the provisions of the Act or the Bye-Laws made there under; (b) That the notice for sanction does not contain the particulars or is not prepared in the manner required under the provisions of these Bye-Laws; (c) That any information or document required by the Board under these Bye-Laws has or have not been duly furnished; (d) That the building plan is not in accordance with the bye laws framed by the Board under Section 260 or those framed under clauses (19) and (20) of Section 348 of the Act; (e) That the building would be an encroachment on defence land or land vested in the Cantonment Board; (f) That the site of the building does not abut on a street or projected street and that there is no THE GAZETTE OF INDIA: EXTRAORDINARY [PART II-SEC.4] access to such building from any such street by a passage or path-way appertaining to such site; or (g) That the erection or re-erection of the building is not in conformity with any general scheme sanctioned under Section 240 of the Act; (h) When the land on which it is proposed to erect or re-erect the building is entrusted to the management of the Board by the Government if the erection or re-erection constitutes a breach of terms of the entrustment of management or contravenes any of the instructions issued by the Government regarding the management of the land by the Board; (i) When the land on which it is proposed to erect or re-erect the building is not held on a lease from the Government, if the right to build on such land is in dispute between the person applying for sanction and the Govt.; (j) That the minimum size of the plot for residential purpose is not less than 25 square metre; or (k) That it is mandatory to provide Roof top Solar Installation and Rain Water Harvesting if the size of the plot exceeds 100 square metre; (1) For implementation of India Cooling/Climate Action Plan any one of the following measures are mandatory for getting approval for construction: (i) Plantation of 1 tree per 80 square metre of plot area, selection of tree can be done based on availability of space. (ii) Cool roof / application of High Solar Reflective index paints / China mosaic tiling on the roof using white / light colored tile (iii) Pervious Pavement to be adopted in hard scape. (iv) Solar PV installation under prevailing government scheme of State and Center. (m) For buildings coming under the purview of ECBC / ENS / ECSBC- Residential compliance with the energy conservation codes as per Notification of State/ Center. (4) The sanction once granted shall be valid for a period as provided in the Act from the date of issue of sanction. (5) The Building Sanction can be revalidated beyond the date of the expiry of the original Sanction of building plans on payment of the required revalidation fees as decided by the Board under provisions of the Act. Application for such revalidation shall be submitted on plain paper along with the following documents: (a) Original sanctioned plan. (b) Revalidation fees chargeable based on the decision and guidelines issued by Competent Authority from time to time. (c) Documents in support of construction, if any, having been done within valid period of sanction. (d) Certificate of supervision from Architect /Engineer /Supervising Engineer and the Applicant that the construction will be carried out under his supervision according to the plans sanctioned by the Competent Authority. 8. SCRUTINY OF BUILDING PLAN APPLICATIONS.- Once the plans have been scrutinized and objections, if any, have been communicated through online, the applicant may modify the plan, comply with the objections raised and resubmit through online, for consideration of the competent authority. 9. REVOCATION OF SANCTIONED BUILDING PLANS AND LIABILITY OF THE APPLICANT TO CONFORM TO BYELAWS. -(1) The Competent Authority may revoke any building sanction issued under the provisions of these byelaws, whenever there has been any false statement, or any misrepresentation of material fact, or concealment of facts in the application on which the building sanction was based, and the whole work executed on the basis of such sanction shall be treated as unauthorized. Further, any or all executed works in cases of deviation from the sanctioned plan shall be treated as unauthorized construction and would lead to revocation of accorded sanction. THE GAZETTE OF INDIA : EXTRAORDINARY [PART II-SEC.4] (2) In the case of revocation of sanction during course of construction under above Bye-law, no compensation/ damages shall be payable by the Competent Authority. (3) No such order of revocation shall be passed by the Competent Authority without giving a reasonable opportunity to the applicant of being heard. 10. NOTICE OF COMMENCEMENT AND COMPLETION OF WORK. - (1) On issue of building sanction the applicant shall commence the work for which the building sanction has been issued. The Applicant shall give notice to the Chief Executive Officer of his intention to start work on the building site by submitting Form D, set forth in the Appendix. (2) On completion of work the Applicant shall submit a Notice of Completion of the building as per Form E, set forth in the Appendix through the Architect/Engineer who has supervised the construction within a period of thirty days from the date of completion of work. 11. COMPLETION-CUM-OCCUPANCY CERTIFICATE.- The Chief Executive Officer on receipt of the notice of completion shall inspect the work and issue a certificate of occupancy within the period stipulated in the Act, as per Form F, set forth in the Appendix, if the building has been constructed in conformity with sanction issued. 12. COMPOSITION OF UNAUTHORIZED CONSTRUCTION.- (1) The Cantonment Board may by resolution decide formula to calculate quantum of penalty/ fees for regularization of unauthorized construction. (2) Such composition of unauthorized construction shall be subject to the provisions of the Cantonments Act, 2006, the rules subsisting there under and other restrictions mentioned in these Bye-Laws including but not limited to FSI, Set-backs, and Ground Coverage. (3) In so for as constructions which are present and existing on the date of notifying of these Byelaws wherein such constructions are without sanction or in violation of approved plan including deviation, the applicants may apply to Cantonment Board for Compounding, which at the discretion of the Cantonment board or GoC-in-Chief, as applicable, may be allowed subject to payment of compounding fees as determined by Cantonment Board or GoC-in-Chief, as applicable. This exercise shall be undertaken subject to the Bye-Laws framed hereunder after approval of Central Government. CHAPTER III ZONING 13. ZONING. - (1) The Cantonment should be divided into two broad zones, namely:- (a) Zone I:- This would include notified civil areas (Old grant, Lease hold and free hold properties) and private land comprising civilian habitation. This will be generally high density populated zone. (b) Zone II:- All other land not included in Zone-I but inclusive of all OGBs and leases situated outside notified civil area and Central Govt. land classified as B-I. This will be generally low density zone. Note: In Jalandhar Cantonment, there is 133.83 acres of private land exists, which has already been incorporated in the Zone I. (2) Zone I.-(a) REQUIREMENT OF SITE. No piece of land shall be used as a site for the construction of a building if the Competent Authority considers that the site is insanitary or is not drained properly or is incapable of being well drained. (b) PERMISSIBLE FSI. The permissible FSI, depending on the plot size, shall be as per table below: THE GAZETTE OF INDIA : EXTRAORDINARY [PART II-SEC.4] Table: FSI in Zone I +-------+-----------------------------+-------+-------------------+ | S. No. | Area of plot in square metres | FSI | Max. Ground coverage | +=======+=============================+=======+===================+ | 1 | Upto 100 | 2.00 | 90% | +-------+-----------------------------+-------+-------------------+ | 2 | Above 100 to 150 | 1.90 | 90% | +-------+-----------------------------+-------+-------------------+ | 3 | Above 150 to 200 | 1.75 | 70% | +-------+-----------------------------+-------+-------------------+ | 4 | Above 200 to 300 | 1.65 | 65% | +-------+-----------------------------+-------+-------------------+ | 5 | Above 300 to 500 | 1.5 | 60% | +-------+-----------------------------+-------+-------------------+ | 6 | Above 500 to 1000 | 1.5 | 50% | +-------+-----------------------------+-------+-------------------+ | 7 | Above 1000 | 1.25 | 40% | +-------+-----------------------------+-------+-------------------+ (i) However, instructions/guidelines, land policies issued by the Government of India, Ministry of Defence from time to time with regards to old grant/ lease hold sites within civil area shall prevail. For old grant/lease hold properties within Civil area, proposed re-erection shall be governed w.r.t. Old Grant/ Lease terms and Land Policy. (ii) Construction of access ramps within the street/ road portion shall not be allowed. This will be applicable to all categories of buildings. (iii) Professionals, Consultants, Doctors, Advocates, Architects/Building Designers and supervisors can use up to 25% of covered area for offering professional consultancy only on 30 ft. wide road, on charges prescribed from time to time. (iv) The front setback is exempted in core area. The core area shall mean the innermost or the most intimate inner part of the civil area having gross density of 250 persons per acre or more and shall include all such adjacent/ other areas which are thickly and totally built up areas and have assumed same and similar character and notified as such by the competent authority, but shall not include any areas which are covered under any planned scheme. (c) TENEMENT DENSITY.- No independent dwelling unit less than minimum size 25 square metre carpet area [for Economically Weaker Sections (EWS)] and 35 square metre carpet area [for Low Income Group (LIG)], in alignment with the provisions of the NBC 2016, Volume 1 - Part 3, Clause 4.2.1.1 (Housing) can be constructed. (d) BUILDING HEIGHT.- Minimum height of floors in buildings falling in this zone shall be 2.75 metres measured from the surface of the floor to the lowest point of the ceiling i.e. bottom of slab and the total height of all buildings in all plot categories shall not be more than 15.00 metres from ground level: including height of the stilt floor. (e) MAXIMUM NUMBER OF STOREY PERMISSIBLE.- The maximum number of storeys permissible shall be G+2 but within the permissible limits of FSI. It will be apart from stilt, basement and mumty. (3) ZONE II. (a) REQUIREMENT OF SITE. No piece of land shall be used as a site for the construction of a building if the Competent Authority considers that the site is insanitary or is not drained properly or is in capable of being well drained. (b) PERMISSIBLE FSI. The permissible FSI, depending on the plot size, shall be as per table below: THE GAZETTE OF INDIA : EXTRAORDINARY TABLE: FSI IN ZONE II S. No. | Area of plot in square metres | FSI | Max. Ground coverage -------|--------------------------|----------|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 | Upto 100 | 0.50 | 90% 2 | Above 100 to 150 | 0.50 | 90% 3 | Above 150 to 200 | 0.50 | 70% 4 | Above 200 to 300 | 0.50 | 65% 5 | Above 300 to 500 | 0.50 | 60% 6 | Above 500 to 1000 | 0.50 | For old grant/ lease hold properties outside civil area, proposed re-erection shall be governed w.r.t. old grant/ lease terms, land policy and old grant terms & lease hold terms & conditions shall prevail. 7 | Above 1000 | Besides, for old grant/ lease hold properties outside civil area, proposed re-erection shall be governed w.r.t. old grant/lease terms, land policy and old grant terms & lease hold terms & conditions shall prevail. | For old grant/ lease hold properties outside civil area, proposed re-erection shall be governed w.r.t. old grant/ lease terms, land policy and old grant terms & lease hold terms & conditions shall prevail. (i) Instructions/guidelines, land policies issued by the Government of India, Ministry of Defence from time to time with regards to old grant/ lease hold sites outside civil area shall prevail. (c) TENEMENT DENSITY. No independent dwelling unit less than minimum size 25 square metre carpet area [for Economically Weaker Sections (EWS)] and 35 square metre carpet area [for Low Income Group (LIG)], in alignment with the provisions of the NBC 2016, Volume 1 - Part 3, Clause 4.2.1.1 (Housing) can be constructed. (d) BUILDING HEIGHT. Minimum height of floors in buildings falling in zone II shall be 2.75 metres measured from the surface of the floor to the lowest point of the ceiling i.e. bottom of slab and the total height of all buildings in all plot categories shall not be more than 15.00 metres from ground level including height of the stilt floor. (e) MAXIMUM NUMBER OF STOREY PERMISSIBLE. For old grant/lease hold bungalows outside civil area, proposed re-erection shall be governed (old grant/ lease terms and land policy) and old grant terms & lease hold terms & conditions shall prevail. THE GAZETTE OF INDIA: EXTRAORDINARY [PART II-