9. Penalty for letting out and sale of unauthorised building
Feedback & supportAny person who sells, conveys, transfers, assigns, mortgages, or charges an unauthorised building or any part thereof or enters into an agreement for any such purpose shall be guilty of an offence.
Any person who lets or enters into an agreement to let an unauthorised building or any part thereof for rent or any other consideration shall be guilty of an offence.
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“building” includes the whole or any part of any house, hut, shed, enclosure roofed or otherwise or any other structure whether used for the purpose of human habitation or otherwise, and also any wall, shoring, fence, platform, staging, gate, post, pillar, paling, frame, hoarding, slip, dock, wharf, pier, jetty, landing-stage or bridge, or any structure, support or foundation connected to the foregoing;
The court before which a person is convicted for an offence under subsection (1) may also order him to refund the purchase money for the building to the purchaser together with such compensation as the court considers fit and section 403 of the Criminal Procedure Code [Cap. 68] shall be applicable to an order under this subsection.