Chapter-2 Provisions Relating to the Approval of Joint Housing

3. Prohibition on the Construction of Joint Housing Without Approval:

Nobody may, except as otherwise provided for in the existing laws, build or cause to be built a joint housing without the approval of the competent authority.

4. Requirement to Make Application for Approval:

A corporate body wishing to build and operate a joint housing shall, along with the proposed drawings, structural design, particulars of the land area and the ownership thereof, the process of selling the apartment thereof particulars relating to collective areas and facilities as well as a plan thereof, make an application to the competent authority in the prescribed format in order to obtain approval for building and operating a joint housing.

5. Granting of Approval:

In cases where an application has been made pursuant to section 4, a competent authority shall, if he or she after carrying out the necessary inquiry, finds that the prescribed procedure has been followed, grant the applicant approval to build and operate a joint housing.

6. Power to Ask for Additional Details or Documents:

If the competent authority deems it necessary, in the course of inquiry conducted pursuant to section 5, to have additional details or documents, he or she may ask for such details or documents from the applicant and it will be the duty of the applicant concerned to submit forthwith the details or documents so demanded.

7. Prohibition to Pass Drawings Without Approval:

Notwithstanding anything contained in the existing laws, an entity authorized to pass drawings of a building may not, without the approval of the competent authority authorized to do so pursuant to this Act, pass the drawings for the building of a joint housing.