New Irrigation Projects (Planned Development) Act, 1953 (Act No. XIII of 1953).

This Act is enacted to provide for the speedy and planned development of the areas brought under new irrigation projects and for the levy of development fee.
Government may frame schemes for the development of any local area or part thereof providing for all or any of the matters prescribed in Section 3, including: The acquisition under the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa New Irrigation Projects (Control and Prevention of Speculation in Land) Act, 1950, of any land or any interest in land necessary for, or affected by the execution of the scheme; (ii) The acquisition by purchase, lease, exchange or otherwise of such land or interest in land; (iii) The retention, letting on hire, lease, sale, exchange or disposal otherwise of any land vested in or acquired by the Government; (iv) The draining, water supply and lighting of streets and sanitation of villages and settlements, towns, mandis and market places; (v) The provision of a system of drains or sewer for the improvement of ill-drained and in sanitary localities; (vi) The provision of fisheries, poultry farms, live-stock farms, dairy farms, sheep-farms, bee-farms, sericulture farms and the like; etc. The Act also provides for development fund, compensation for damage to Government Property, penalty for unauthorised cultivation, etc..