479. Supplemental provisions respecting rules.—(1) Any rule which the 1
[Government] is
empowered to make under this Act may provide that any contravention thereof shall be punishable with
fine which may extend to one hundred rupees.
2
[(2) 3
[Every rule made under clause (8) of section 22 and section 31 4
[and every notification issued
under sub-section (2) of section 3A]] shall be laid as soon as may be after it is made or issued 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,
bye-law or notification or both Houses agree that the rule, bye-law or notification should not be made or
issued, the rule, bye-law or notification 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, bye-law or notification.]
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[(3) Every rule made under this Act, except rules made under section 22(8) and section 31 of this Act,
every notification issued under 6*** sub-section (2) of section 52 and bye-law made by the Government
under section 349A shall be laid, as soon as may be after it is made or issued, before the Legislative
Assembly of Delhi, 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, the Legislative Assembly agrees in making any
modification in the rule, bye-laws or notification or the Legislative Assembly agrees that the rule, or byelaws or notification should not be made or issued, the rule or bye-laws or notification 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 or bye-law or notification.]
480. Supplemental provisions respecting regulations.—(1) Any regulation which may be made by
7
[
8
[the Corporation]] under this Act, may be made by the 1
[Government] within one year of the
establishment of 7
[
8
[the Corporation]]; and any regulation so made may be altered or rescinded by 7
[
8
[the
Corporation]] in the exercise of its powers under this Act.
(2) No regulation made by 7
[
8
[the Corporation]] under this Act shall have effect until it has been
approved by the 1
[Government] and published in the Official Gazette.
481. Power to make bye-laws.—(1) Subject to the provisions of this Act 7
[
8
[the Corporation]] may, in
addition to any bye-laws which it is empowered to make by any other provision of this Act, make
bye-laws to provide for all or any of the following matters, namely:—
A. Bye-laws relating to taxation
(1) the maintenance of tax books and registers by the Commissioner and the particulars which such
books and registers should contain;
(2) the inspection of and the obtaining of copies and extracts from such books and registers and
fees, if any, to be charged for the same;
(3) the publication of rates of taxes as determined by 8
[
9
[the Corporation]] from time to time;
1. Subs. by Delhi Act 12 of 2011, s. 2, for “Central Government” (w.e.f. 13-1-2012).
2. Subs. by Act 67 of 1993, s. 119, for sub-section (2) (w.e.f. 1-10-1993).
3. Subs. by Delhi Act 12 of 2011, s. 17, for certain words (w.e.f. 13-1-2012).
4. Ins. by Act 10 of 2022, s. 11 (w.e.f. 22-5-2022).
5. Ins. by s. 17, ibid. (w.e.f. 13-1-2012).
6. The words, brackets, figures and letter “sub-section (2) of section 3A and” by s. 11, ibid. (w.e.f. 22-5-2022).
7. Subs. by Delhi Act 12 of 2011, s. 2, for “the Corporation” (w.e.f. 13-1-2012).
8. Subs. by Act 10 of 2022,s. 2, for “a Corporation” (w.e.f. 22-5-2022).
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(4) the requisition by the Commissioner of information and returns from persons liable to pay taxes;
(5) the notice to be given to the Commissioner by any person who becomes the owner or possessor
of a vehicle or animal in respect of which any tax is payable under this Act;
(6) the wearing of badge by the driver of any such vehicle and the display of number plate on such
vehicle;
(7) the submission of returns by persons liable to pay any tax under this Act;
(8) the collection by the registrar or sub-registrar of 1
[
2
[Delhi]] appointed under the Indian
Registration Act, 1908 (16 of 1908), of the additional stamp duty payable to 3
[
4
[the Corporation]] under
this Act, the periodical payment of such duty to 3
[
4
[the Corporation]] and the maintenance, by such
registrar or sub-registrar of separate accounts in relation thereto;
(9) any other matter relating to the levy, assessment, collection, refund or remission of taxes under
this Act;
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6* * * * *
E. Bye-laws relating to streets
(1) the closure of streets when any work is in progress and alternative passage during the progress
of such work;
(2) the erections of a temporary nature during festivals;
(3) the setting up of hoards on buildings adjacent to streets during their construction or repair;
(4) the precautions to be taken when permission is granted to any private individual for opening or
breaking up any public street and the fees to be paid for the restoration of a street in its original
condition;
(5) the permission, regulation or prohibition of use or occupation of any street or place by intinerant
vendors or hawkers or by any person for the sale of articles or the exercise of any calling or the setting
up of any booth or stall and the fees chargeable for such occupation;
(6) any other matter in connection with the construction, repair, maintenance, naming, numbering
and lighting of streets for which provision is necessary or should be made;
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G. Bye-laws relating to sanitation and public health
(1) the position of latrines and urinals;
(2) the provision of air spaces between latrines and buildings or places used for various purposes;
(3) the white-washing of buildings;
(4) the provision of living accommodation for sweepers in buildings newly erected requiring ten or
more latrines;
(5) the regulation or prohibition of the stabling or herding of animals or any class of animals so as
to prevent danger to public health;
1. Subs. by Delhi Act 12 of 2011, s. 2, for “Delhi” (w.e.f. 13-1-2012).
2. Subs. by Act 10 of 2022, s. 2, for “the area of the Corporation” (w.e.f. 22-5-2022).
3. Subs. by Delhi Act 12 of 2011, s. 2, for “the Corporation” (w.e.f. 13-1-2012).
4. Subs. by Act 10 of 2022, s. 2, for “a Corporation” (w.e.f. 22-5-2022).
5. Omitted by Act 67 of 1993, s. 120 (w.e.f. 1-10-1993).
6. Omitted by Act 71 of 1971, s. 7(b) and the Second Schedule (w.e.f. 3-11-1971).
7. Omitted by Act 67 of 1993, s. 120 (w.e.f. 1-10-1993).
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(6) the seizure of ownerless animals straying within the limits of 1
[
2
[Delhi]] and the regulation and
control of pounds;
(7) the fixing and regulation of the use of public bathing and washing places;
(8) the prevention of the spread of dangerous disease;
(9) the segregation in or the removal or exclusion from any part of 1
[
2
[Delhi]] or the destruction of
animals suffering or reasonably suspected to be suffering from any infectious or contagious disease;
(10) the supervision, regulation, conservation and protection from injury, contamination or
trespass, of sources and means of public water supply and of appliances for the distribution of water;
(11) the enforcement of compulsory vaccination and inoculation;
(12) the proper disposal of corpses, the regulation and management of burning and burial places
and other places for the disposal of corpses and the fees chargeable for the use of such places where the
same are provided or maintained at the expense of the Municipal Fund;
H. Bye-laws relating to vital statistics
(1) the prescribing of qualifications of persons to be appointed as registrars under Chapter XVIII;
(2) the registration of births, deaths and marriages and the taking of a census;
I. Bye-laws relating to public safety and suppression of nuisances
The regulation or prohibition for the purpose of sanitation or the prevention of disease or the
promotion of public safety or convenience, of any act which occasions or is likely to occasion a
nuisance and for the regulation or prohibition of which on provision is made elsewhere by this Act;
J. Bye-laws relating to markets, slaughter houses, trades and occupations
(1) the days on, and the hours during which any market or slaughter house may be kept open for
use;
(2) the regulation of the design, ventilation and drainage of markets and slaughter houses and the
materials to be used in the construction thereof;
(3) the keeping of markets and slaughter houses and the lands and buildings appertaining thereto
in a clean and sanitary condition, the removal of filth, rubbish and other polluted and obnoxious matter
therefrom and the supply therein of pure water and of a sufficient number of latrines and urinals for the
use of persons using or frequenting the same;
(4) the manner in which animals shall be admitted in a slaughter house;
(5) the manner in which animals may be slaughtered;
(6) the provision of passages of sufficient width between the stalls in market buildings and market
places for the convenient use of the public and the prevention of encroachment of such passages;
(7) the setting apart of separate areas for different classes of articles in market buildings and market
places;
(8) the disposal or destruction of animals offered for slaughter which are, from disease or any other
cause, unfit for human consumption;
(9) the destruction of carcasses which from any disease or any other cause are found after slaughter
to be unfit for human consumption;
(10) the regulation of the entry of animals into slaughter house and the bringing out of the carcasses
of such animals after slaughter and the fee to be paid for use of slaughter houses;
1. Subs. by Delhi Act 12 of 2011, s. 2, for “Delhi” (w.e.f. 13-1-2012).
2. Subs. by Act 10 of 2022, s. 2, for “the area of the Corporation” (w.e.f. 22-5-2022).
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(11) the proper custody and care of animals for the keeping of which licences are granted under
section 417;
(12) the regulation of the import of animals and flesh within 1
[
2
[Delhi]];
(13) the rendering necessary of licences for the use of premises within 1
[
2
[Delhi]] as stables or
cow-houses or as an accommodation for sheep, goat or buffalo, and the fees payable for such licences
and the conditions subject to which such licences may be granted, refused, suspended or revoked;
(14) the regulation of sarais, hotels, dak bungalows, lodging houses, boarding houses, buildings,
let-in-tenements, residential clubs, restaurants, eating houses, cafes, refreshment rooms and places of
public recreation, entertainment or resort;
(15) the control and supervision of places where dangerous or offensive trades are carried on so to
secure cleanlines therein or to minimise injurious, offensive or dangerous effects arising or likely to
arise therefrom;
(16) the regulation of the posting of bills and advertisements and of the position, size, shade or style
of the name boards, sign-boards and sign-posts;
(17) the fixation of a method for the sale of articles whether by measure, weight; piece or any other
method;
(18) the procedure regarding the grant of permit to establish a factory, workshop or trade premises;
(19) the regulation of smoke in factories workshops and trade premises;
(20) the regulation of sanitary conditions in factories, workshops, and trade premises;
(21) the regulation of the use in any factory, workshop or trade premises of whistle, trumpet, siren,
or horn worked by steam, compressed air, electricity or other mechanical means;
(22) the prevention of nuisance in any market building, market place, slaughter house or any
factory, workshop or trade premises;
K. Bye-laws relating to improvement
(1) the form and content of an improvement scheme or a rehousing scheme;
(2) the procedure to be followed in connection with the framing, submission, approval and sanction
of such schemes;
(3) the local inquiries and other hearings that may be held before a scheme is framed, approved or
sanctioned;
(4) the alteration of an improvement scheme or a rehousing scheme after approval and sanction;
L. Bye-laws relating to miscellaneous matters
3
* * * * *
(2) the circumstances and the manner in which owners of land or building in 1
[
2
[Delhi]] temporarily
absent therefrom or not resident therein may be required to appoint as their agents for all or any of the
purposes of this Act or of any bye-laws made thereunder, persons residing within or near 1
[
2
[Delhi]];
(3) the maintenance of schools and the furtherance of education generally;
(4) the regulation and control of municipal hospitals and dispensaries;
(5) the rendering necessary of licences—
(a) for the proprietors or drivers of hackney-carriages, cycle-rickshaws, thelas and rehries kept
or plying for hire or used for hawking articles;
1. Subs. by Delhi Act 12 of 2011, s. 2, for “Delhi” (w.e.f. 13-1-2012).
2. Subs. by Act 10 of 2022, s. 2, for “the area of the Corporation” (w.e.f. 22-5-2022).
3. Omitted by Act 67 of 1993, s. 120 (w.e.f. 1-10-1993).
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(b) for persons working as job-porters for the conveyance of goods;
(6) the classification of cinema theatres for the purposes of the Fourth Schedule;
(7) any other matter which is to be or may be prescribed by bye-laws made under this Act or in
respect of which this Act makes no provision or makes insufficient provision and provision is, in the
opinion of the Corporation, necessary for the efficient municipal government of 1
[
2
[Delhi]].
(2) Any bye-law which may be made under sub-section (1) may be made by the 3
[Government] within
one year of the establishment of 4
[
5
[the Corporation]]; and any bye-law so made may be altered rescinded
by the Corporation in the exercise of its powers under sub-section (1).
6
[481A. Regulations and bye-laws to be laid before Legislative Assembly of Delhi.—The
3
[Government] shall cause every regulations made under this Act and every bye-law made under section
481 to be laid, as soon as may be after it is made or issued, before the Legislative Assembly of Delhi, 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, the Legislative Assembly agrees in making any modification in the regulation
or bye-law or the Legislative Assembly agrees that the regulation or bye-law should not be made or issued,
the regulation or bye-law 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 regulations or bye-law.]
482. Penalty for breaches of bye-laws.—(1) Any bye-law made under this Act may provide that a
contravention thereof shall be punishable—
(a) with fine which may extend to five hundred rupees; or
(b) with fine which may extend to five hundred rupees and in the case of a continuing contravention,
with an additional fine which may extend to twenty rupees for every day during which such
contravention continues after conviction for the first such contravention; or
(c) with fine which may extend to twenty rupees for every day during which the contravention
continues, after the receipt of a notice from the Commissioner or any municipal officer duly authorised
in that behalf, by the person contravening the bye-law requiring such person to discontinue such
contravention:
Provided that a contravention of any bye-law relating to the road transport services may be punishable
with imprisonment which may extend to three months, or with fine which may extend to fifteen hundred
rupees, or with both.
(2) Any such bye-law may also provide that a person contravening the same shall be required to remedy
so far as lies in his power, the mischief, if any, caused by such contravention.
483. Supplemental provisions respecting bye-laws.—(1) Any power to make bye-laws conferred by
this Act is conferred subject to the conditions of the bye-laws being made after previous publication and in
the case of such bye-laws being made by 5
[
6
[the Corporation]] of their not taking effect until they have been
approved by the 7
*** Government and published in the Official Gazette.
(2) The 8*** Government in approving a bye-law may make any change therein which appears to it to
be necessary.
(3) The 8
*** Government may, after previous publication of its intention cancel any bye-law which it
has approved, and thereupon the bye-law shall cease to have effect.
1. Subs. by Delhi Act 12 of 2011, s. 2, for “Delhi” (w.e.f. 13-1-2012).
2. Subs. by Act 10 of 2022, s. 2, for “the area of the Corporation” (w.e.f. 22-5-2022).
3. Subs. by Delhi Act 12 of 2011, s. 2, for “Central Government” (w.e.f. 13-1-2012).
5. Subs. by Delhi Act 12 of 2011, s. 2, for “the Corporation” (w.e.f. 13-1-2012).
6. Subs. by Act 10 of 2022, s. 2, for “a Corporation” (w.e.f. 22-5-2022).
6. Subs. by Delhi Act 12 of 2011, s. 18, for section 481A (w.e.f. 13-1-2012).
7. The word “Central” omitted by Act 67 of 1993, s. 121 (w.e.f. 1-10-1993).
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484. Bye-laws to be available for inspection and purchase.—(1) A copy of all bye-laws made under
this Act shall be kept at the municipal office and shall, during office hours, be open free of charge to
inspection by any inhabitant of Delhi.
(2) Copies of all such bye-laws shall be kept at the municipal office and shall be sold to the public at
cost price either singly or in collections at the option of the purchaser.
484A. [Director of Local Bodies.] Omitted by the Delhi Municipal Corporation (Amendment) Act,
2022, s. 12 (w.e.f. 22-5-2022).Earlier it was inserted by Delhi Act 12 of 2011, s. 19.