Gujarat Town Planning & Urban Dev., 1976
(1) Where the State Government is of opinion that the object of proper development or redevelopment of any urban area or group of urban areas in the State together with such adjacent areas as may be considered necessary, whether covered under a development area already declared as such under section 3 or not, will be best served by entrusting the work of development or redevelopment thereof to a special authority, instead of to an area development authority, the State Government may, by notification, declare such area to be an urban development area and constitute an authority for such area to be called the urban development authority of that area, and thereupon all the powers and functions of an area development authority relating to the development or redevelopment of a development area under this Act shall, in relation to such urban development area, be exercised and performed by such urban development authority:[]. [Provided that notwithstanding anything contained in this Act, in the case of the urban development area comprising the heritage area, the development plan shall also contain the particulars specified in the Chamneer-Pavagadh Archaeological Park World Heritage Area Management Authority Act, 2006 and the plan so prepared shall for the purpose of that Act be deemed to be the comprehensive development plan for the purpose of section 22 of this Act.] (2) Every notification issued under sub-section (1) shall define the limits of the area to which it relates. 2[2A) The State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, include in or exclude any area from an urban development area, amalgamate two or more urban development areas into one urban development area, sub-divide any urban development area into different urban development areas and include such sub-divided urban development area in any other urban development area.]