Development Notification (Amendment) Order, 2015

L.N. 262 of 2015

ENVIRONMENT AND DEVELOPMENT PLANNING ACT

(CAP. 504)

Development Notification (Amendment) Order, 2015

IN EXERCISE of the powers conferred by articles 61 and 62 of

the Environment and Development Planning Act, the Minister for

Sustainable Development, the Environment and Climate Change and

the Parliamentary Secretary for Planning and Simplification of

Administrative Processes, after consultation with the Malta

Environment and Planning Authority, have made the following

Order:-

The title of this Order is the Development Notification Citation.

(Amendment) Order, 2015, and this Order shall be read and construed

as one with the Development Notification Order, hereinafter referred S.L. 504.80

to as "the principal Order".

In the Index to Schedule I of the principal Order, Amends the

immediately after "Class 19 - Development relating to Migration Index

Schedule 1 of

Matters", there shall be added the following new Class

the principal

Order.

"Class 20 - Development related to hospitals".

Immediately after Class 19 of Schedule I to the principal Amends

Schedule I to

Order there shall be added the following new Class

the principal

Order.

"Class 20

Development related to hospitals

1. The following development is permitted under this

Class without the need of any notification as established in

article 5(1)

Development within the perimeter of sites as indicated on

the relative maps in Schedule IV, which sites the Minister

responsible for Health may, from time to time, declare to be

hospitals for the purpose of this Class, where such development

consists of

(a) the erection or alteration or extension of any

building within the perimeter of the hospital, which may be

required solely for purposes related directly to any

healthcare service provided by the hospital, which

development is carried out by an operator of the hospital or

its agent; or

(b) the change to the use of buildings within the

perimeter of the hospital, for purposes related to any

healthcare service or ancillary service provided by the

hospital, which development is carried out by an operator

of the hospital or its agent

Provided that

(a) when the development is located in

designated areas or scheduled property, it shall be

subject to prior clearance by the Superintendent of

Cultural Heritage;

(b) where necessary, the operations of the

permitted development will be subject to an

environmental permit in accordance with Part V of

the Act.

2. No development shall be considered as a permitted

development under this class unless the site on which the

relative development is proposed is a site which has been

declared by the Minister responsible for Health as a Hospital for

the purposes of this class.".

Immediately after Schedule III to the principal Order there

shall be added the following new Schedule

"Schedule IV

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