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GOVERNMENT OF SIKKIM
URBAN DEVELOPMENT AND HOUSING DEPARTMENT
GANGTOK

 No. GOS/UD&HD/6(294) 2001/A                                                                      Dated: 15/10/2001

 NOTIFICATION

           In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (2) of section 7 and section 17 of the Sikkim Allotment of House Sites and Construction of Building (Regulation and Control) Act, 1985 (11 of 1985), the State Government hereby makes the following regulations further to amend the Sikkim Building Construction Regulations, 1991, namely: - 

1.                (1)     These    Regulations    may    be   called   the   Sikkim 

                             Building Construction (Amendment) Regulations, 2001 

(2)             They shall extend to all the notified areas in Sikkim. 

(3)             They shall come into force at once. 

(4)             They shall apply to both Government allotted sites and private sites. 

2.                 In the Sikkim Building Construction Regulation, 1991, (hereinafter referred to as the said regulations), in regulation 17, - 

(a)            for sub-regulation (i), the following shall be substituted, namely: - 

“ (i) The maximum height of buildings constructed in allotted sites or private holdings within a notified area shall be in accordance with the suitability and profile of the locations based on the stability map of the area as prepared by the Mines and Geology Department from time to time which shall be as follows: - 

      Stability zone                  Admissible number of floors

1.                                                                           5 ½ storeys

2.                                                                         4 ½ storeys

3.                                                                        3 ½ storeys

4.                                                                        2 ½ storeys

5.                                                                       1 ½ storeys

6.                                                      No construction is allowed. 

Provided that the height of buildings shall further be regulated in accordance with the size of the plot allotted or possessed and structural design of the foundation of the proposed building; 

(b)            after sub-regulation (V) the following sub-regulation shall be added, namely: - 

“(vi)   Any structure beyond the permissible number of floors or allotted area or approved Blue Print Plan completed or under construction on or before the date of notification of these regulations, shall be regularised after payment of regularisation fee to be prescribed by Notification by the Government”. 

3.                 In the said regulation, after regulation 38, the following regulation shall be inserted, namely: - 

“39 Power to          In  case  of  genuine  difficulties  arising  out  of  the 
relax.                     implementation of  any  of  the  regulations in regard to

buildings or structures proposed to be constructed by the Government of Sikkim or Government of India or any registered organisation the State Government reserves the right to relax from application of any of the provisions which it considers justifiable on the merit of each case. ”

 

                                                        Sd/-

                                                  ( L.B. Rai )

   Commissioner-cum-Secretary

 

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