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14. Punishment

14. Punishment :

(1) If any person or body builds a building without  getting its design approved pursuant to this Act or in a manner to be contrary to such an approved design or the standards set forth in the building code, in the case of within the municipal area, the municipality,  and in the case of the village development area, the Urban Development Office shall give order to immediately stop such construction.
14 (2) If any person or body builds a building without getting its design approved pursuant to this Act or in a manner to be contrary to such  an approved design or the standards set forth in the building code, the municipality or the Urban Development Office, as the case may be, may order to demolish such a building or any part thereof and also fine the person or body doing such construction with a sum not exceeding Fifty Thousand Rupees.
(3) If the municipality or the Urban Development Office, as the case may be, make an order to demolish a building or any part thereof pursuant to Sub-section (2), the municipality or the Urban Development Office, as the case may be, shall write to the concerned officers to withhold the transfer of the title to, or mortgage such, a property to any person in any manner, to refrain from distributing water supply, electricity, telephone etc. to the building so build and to cut off such water
supply, electricity, telephone line etc. if already distributed, and the concerned offices shall also do accordingly as requested.

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