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(j) ―local authority‖ means a Municipal Committee or Municipal Council or municipal Corporation;"

19. Our attention was also drawn to Sections 3, 3A and 3AC of the HDRUA which are reproduced hereinbelow:-

―3. Application for licence-- [(1) Any owner desiring to convert his land into a colony shall, unless exempted under section 9, make an application to the Director, for the grant of license to develop a colony in the prescribed form and pay for it such fee and conversion charges as may be prescribed: [xxx]; Provided that if the conversion charges have already been paid under the provisions of the Punjab Scheduled Roads and Controlled Areas Restriction of Unregulated Development Act, 1963 (41 of 1963), no such charges shall be payable under this section [Provided further that owner may enter into an agreement jointly or severally with a developer for pooling of land for grant of licence [Provided further that in case of migration of licence, the colonizer shall pay the outstanding renewal fee with interest accrued upto the date of payment. However, the external development charges including interest paid thereon for the area under migration shall be adjusted in the licence and the colonizer shall not be liable to deposit the unpaid interest amount on external development charges and infrastructure development charges of the existing project.

(2) The Haryana Urban Development Authority {local authorities, firms, undertakings of Government and other authorities involved in land development} shall also be liable to deposit the {infrastructure development charges} and shall be deemed to be {colonizers}for this purpose only. The date of first inviting applications for sale of plots in any colony by it shall be deemed to be the date of granting of license under this Act for the purpose of deposit of {infrastructure development charges}.

(3) The {infrastructure development charges} shall be deposited by the colonizer with such officer or person as may be appointed by the government in this behalf.

(4) The colonizer shall in turn be entitled to pass on the {infrastructure development charges} paid by him to the plot holder.

(5) The amount of {infrastructure development charges} if not paid within the prescribed period shall be recoverable as arrears of land revenue.

[(6) The amount of infrastructure development charges so deposited by the colonizer shall constitute a fund called the Fund, for stimulating socio-economic growth and development of major infrastructure projects for the benefit of the State of Haryana (hereinafter referred to as the Fund)].