Land Utilization (Orange Walk District East Special Development Area) Regulations, 1994 (S.I. 2 of 1994)

[ ] Land Utilization [CAP. 188 39 THE SUBSIDIARY LAWS OF BELIZE REVISED EDITION 2020 Printed by Authority of the Government of Belize CHAPTER 188 LAND UTILIZATION (ORANGE WALK DISTRICT EAST SPECIAL DEVELOPMENT AREA) REGULATIONS ARRANGEMENT OF REGULATIONS 1. Citation. 2. Declaration of Special Development Area. 3. Permitted development. 4. Development Plan and administration. 5. Offence and penalty. SCHEDULE CHAPTER 188 LAND UTILIZATION (ORANGE WALK DISTRICT EAST SPECIAL DEVELOPMENT AREA) REGULATIONS (section 19) 1. These Regulations may be cited as the LAND UTILIZATION (ORANGE WALK DISTRICT EAST SPECIAL DEVELOPMENT AREA) REGULATIONS. 2. The Orange Walk District East area, as more fully described in the Schedule hereto, is hereby declared to be a Special Development Area. S.I. 2 of 1994. Act 16 of 1981. Citation. Declaration of Special Development Area. Schedule. [8th January, 1994] [ ] 40 [CAP. 188 Land Utilization THE SUBSIDIARY LAWS OF BELIZE REVISED EDITION 2020 Printed by Authority of the Government of Belize 3. The type of development that will be permitted in the Special Development Area declared under regulation 2 above shall be the following or any combination thereof– (a) agriculture; (b) residential; (c) commercial; (d) tourism; (e) forestry; (f) wildlife reserve; and (g) environmental protection. 4.-(1) The Land Utilization Authority shall, after consultation with such local persons and institutions as it may think fit, draw up a Development Plan for the Special Development Area referred to in regulation 2 above, to demarcate the zonation and density of the types of development as stipulated in regulation 3 above. (2) Every Development Plan prepared by the Land Utilization Authority under subregulation (1) above shall be subject to approval by the Minister. (3) After approval by the Minister, the Development Plan shall be available for inspection at the Ministry of Natural Resources, Belmopan, as well as at the Lands and Survey Office in Orange Walk. (4) Every Development Plan approved by the Minister under this regulation shall be administered by the Land Utilization Authority either directly or through the agency of such local institutions as it may deem fit to appoint. Permitted development. Development Plan and administration. [ ] Land Utilization [CAP. 188 41 THE SUBSIDIARY LAWS OF BELIZE REVISED EDITION 2020 Printed by Authority of the Government of Belize 5. Any person who commences or carries out in the Special Development Area, declared by regulation 2 above, any development other than the types of development stipulated in regulation 3 above, or in contravention of the form of zonation and density drawn up in a Development Plan as stipulated in regulation 4 above, commits an offence and is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars. MADE by the Minister of Natural Resources this 28th day of December, 1993. (EDUARDO JUAN) Minister of Natural Resources Minister responsible for Land Offence and penalty. [ ] 42 [CAP. 188 Land Utilization THE SUBSIDIARY LAWS OF BELIZE REVISED EDITION 2020 Printed by Authority of the Government of Belize SCHEDULE [regulation 2] ORANGE WALK DISTRICT EAST SPECIAL DEVELOPMENT AREA ALL THAT piece or parcel of land situate in the Orange Walk District containing approximately 118,000 acres, and bounded on the North by the Orange Walk/Corozal District boundaries; on the East by the Orange Walk/ Corozal District boundary; on the South by the Orange Walk/Belize District boundary and parts of Pine Ridge or Big Pond Works; and on the West by the New River and Narrows Branch and more particularly described as follows: Commencing at a point where the Orange Walk, Corozal and Belize District boundaries meet having the scaled U.T.M. co ordinates of 364 060 East and 1987 500 North; thence in a West South West direction for an approximate distance of 29,000 metres, following the Orange Walk/Belize District boundary to a point at Calabash Pond having the scaled U.T.M. co-ordinates of 335 525 East and 1981 250 North; thence in a West North West direction for an approximate distance of 5,530 metres to a point in the middle course of the New River and having the scaled U.T.M. co-ordinates of 330 250 East and 1983 000 North; thence in a general Northern direction, following the middle course of the New River and the Narrows Branch of the New River to a point, at the northern confluence of the Narrows Branch and the Swasey Branch of the New River, having the scaled U.T.M. co-ordinates of 342 455 East and 2012 550 North; thence in a South East South direction, following the Orange Walk/Corozal boundary, for an approximate distance of 10,660 metres to a point, at Cowpen having the scaled U.T.M. co-ordinates of 346 850 East and 2002 775 North; thence in a South East direction, following the Orange Walk/Corozal District boundary, for an approximate distance of 22,875 metres to the point of commencement.