Development Notification (Amendment No. 3) Order, 2023

L.N. 183 of 2023

DEVELOPMENT PLANNING ACT

(CAP. 552)

Development Notification (Amendment No. 3) Order, 2023

IN EXERCISE of the powers conferred by articles 55 of the

Development Planning Act, the Executive Council, with the approval

of the Minister responsible for the Planning Authority, has made the

following order:-

The title of this order is the Development Notification Citation.

(Amendment No. 3) Order, 2023 and this order shall be read and

construed as one with the Development Notification Order, hereinafter S.L. 552.08.

referred to as "the principal order".

In this order, unless the context otherwise requires, words Interpretation.

and expressions defined in this order shall have the same meaning as

assigned to them in the principal order.

Schedule I to the principal order shall be amended as Amends

Schedule I to

the principal

order.

(a) in the Index to Schedule I, immediately after item (i)

of Class 15 there shall be added the following new item

"(ii) Mobile installations";

(b)

CLASS 10 thereof shall be amended as follows

(i) in paragraph (ii) thereof, the words "cultural

and social purposes as well as any temporary structures

required for such use for not more than four calendar

months yearly" shall be substituted by the words "cultural

and social purposes, and for the temporary placing and use

of a caravan or a camp, as well as any temporary structures

required for such use for not more than four calendar

months in one (1) calendar year only";

(ii) in the first proviso of paragraph (ii) thereof, the

words "for a caravan site or for camping, or" shall be

deleted;

(iii) in sub-paragraph (b) of paragraph (ii) thereof,

the words "such use does not entail direct or indirect

damage to existing historical buildings or monuments,

archaeological or natural remnants including underground

shelters, cisterns or water galleries, rubble walls and natural

stone paving;" shall be substituted by the words "such use

does not entail direct or indirect damage to existing

historical buildings or monuments, archaeological or

cultural or natural or landscape remnants including

underground shelters, caves, cisterns or water galleries,

natural habitats, valleys and watercourses, ridges and

escarpments, natural bedrock, topography, trees, rubble

walls and natural stone paving;"; and

(iv) immediately after the last paragraph thereof

there shall be added the following new paragraph

"Development under this Class shall also be

subject to the prior clearance from the Environment and

Resources Authority in the case of areas declared as

protected under the Environment Protection Act"; and

(c) immediately after paragraph (i) of CLASS 15 thereof

there shall be added the following new paragraph

"(ii) The temporary use of land for the erection,

placing and installation of structures required in relation to

mobile sanitary facilities and life-saving management

practices on beaches, provided that the notification is

submitted by a Government entity, a Local Council, any

other public entity appointed thereby, or a registered

institution whose expertise is in civil protection subject to

the prior clearance from the Environment and Resources

Authority in the case of areas declared as protected under

the Environment Protection Act and the site is not located

on sand dunes.".

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