The Delhi Lands (Restrictions on Transfer) Act, 1972

Section 11. Power to make rules

In force · As amended up to 2026-08

11. Power to make rules.— (1) The Administrator may, by notification in the Official Gazette, make rules for carrying out the purposes of this Act. (2) Without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing provision, such rules may provide for all or any of the following matters, namely:— (a) the particulars which an application to be made under sub-section (1) of section 5 shall contain; (b) the authority to which an appeal may be filed under sub-section (1) of section 6, the form in which such appeal may be filed and the particulars which such appeal shall contain; (c) any other matter which is required to be, or may be, prescribed. (3) Every rule made under this section shall be laid, as soon as may be after it is made, before each House of Parliament, while it is in session, for a total period of thirty days which may be comprised in one session or in two or more successive sessions, and if, before the expiry of the session immediately following the session or the successive sessions aforesaid, both Houses agree in making any modification in the rule or both Houses agree that the rule should not be made, the rule shall thereafter have effect only in such modified form or be of no effect, as the case may be; so, however, that any such modification or annulment shall be without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done under that rule. STATEMENT OF OBJECTS AND REASONS Unauthorised sale of plots of land in Delhi by private colonisers to general public has assumed serious proportions. The colonisere sell plots of land which have either already been acquired or notified for acquisition by the Delhi Administration for planned development of Delhi, etc. without informing the intending purchasers of the factual position. This creates complications in as much as unauthorised colonies lacking in essential civic amenities come up illegally end vitiate the entire planning effort.

Source: India Code