13. Amendment of plan -

(1) The [Town and Country Planning Department or any other agency appointed/ nominated by the State Authority] 2 may make any amendments in the master plan or the zonal development plan as it thinks fit, being amendments which, in its opinion do not effect important alterations in the character of the plan and which do not relate to the extent of land uses or the standards of population density.

(2) The State Government may make amendments in the master plan or the zonal development plan whether such amendments are of the nature specified in sub-section (1) or otherwise.

(3) Before making any amendments in the plan, the [Town and Country Planning Department or any other agency appointed/nominated by the State Authority] 2 or as the case may be, the State Government shall publish a notice in at least one newspaper having circulation in the development area inviting objections and suggestions from any person with respect to the proposed amendments before such date as may be specified in the notice and shall consider all objections and suggestions that may be received by the Authority or the State Government.

(4) Every amendment made under this section shall be published in such manner as the [Town and Country Planning Department or any other agency appointed/ nominated by the State Authority] 2 or the State Government, as the case may be, may specify and the amendment shall come into operation either on the date of the first publication or on such other date as the [Town and Country Planning Department or any other agency appointed/ nominated by the State Authority]2 or the State Government as the case may be, may fix.

(5) When the [Town and Country Planning Department or any other agency appointed/ nominated by the State Authority] 1 makes any amendment in the plan under sub-section (1) it shall report to the [State Authority]2 the full particular of such amendments within thirty days of the date on which amendments come into operation.

(6) If any question arises whether the amendments proposed to be made by the [Town and Country Planning Department or any other agency appointed/ nominated by the State Authority] 1 are amendments which effect important alterations in the character of the plan or whether they relate to the extent of land-uses or the standards of population density, it shall be referred to the State Government whose decision thereto shall be final.

(7) Any reference in any other Chapter, except Chapter III, to the master plan or the zonal development plan shall be construed as reference to the master plan or the zonal development plan as amended under this section.

2. Substituted by section 13 (1) of Uttarakhand Act No. 25 of 2013.

1. Substituted by section 13 (1) of Uttarakhand Act No. 25 of 2013.

2. Subs. by section 13 (2) ibid.