Development Notification (Amendment) Order, 2016

Chairman, Malta

Prime Minister

Minister for Sustainable

Environment and Planning

Development, the

Environment and Climate

Change

B

L.N. 82 of of 2016

ENVIRONMENT AND DEVELOPMENT PLANNING ACT

(CAP. 504)

Development Notification (Amendment) Order, 2016

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 have

made the following Order

The title of this Order is the Development Notification

(Amendment) Order, 2016, and this Order shall be read and construed as

one with the Development Notification Order hereinafter referred to as “the

principal Order”.

In the index to Schedule I of the principal Order, immediately after

“Class 19 – Development relating to Migration Matters”, the words “Class

20 – Development related to hospital” shall be deleted.

Immediately after Class 19 of Schedule I to the principal Order, the

following words shall be deleted

“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

annexed to this Order 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:-

(i) 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

(ii) 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 of Health as

a Hospital for the purposes of this class.”

Schedule IV, immediately after Schedule III to the principal Order,

shall be deleted.

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