Development and Planning (Amendment) Law (No. 16 of 2006)

CAYMAN ISLANDS Supplement No. 8 published with Extraordinary Gazette No. 14 dated 7 July, 2006. THE DEVELOPMENT AND PLANNING (AMENDMENT) LAW, 2006 (LAW 16 OF 2006) The Development and Planning (Amendment) Law, 2006 2 The Development and Planning (Amendment) Law, 2006 CAYMAN ISLANDS Law 16 of 2006. I Assent Stuart Jack Governor. 30 June, 2006 A LAW TO AMEND THE DEVELOPMENT AND PLANNING LAW (2005 REVISION) WITH RESPECT TO THE INFRASTRUCTURE FUND ESTABLISHED UNDER THAT LAW; AND FOR INCIDENTAL AND CONNECTED PURPOSES ENACTED by the Legislature of the Cayman Islands. 1. (1) This Law may be cited as the Development and Planning (Amendment) Law, 2006. Short title and commencement (2) This Law shall come into operation on 1st July, 2006. Amendment of section 38 of the principal Law – infrastructure fund 2. The Development and Planning Law (2005 Revision), in this Law referred to as “the principal Law”, is amended in section 38 by repealing subsections (3) and (4) and substituting the following subsections – “(3) In this section – (a) “Area A” means the following registration sections, blocks and parcels – Registration Section Block (i) West Bay 5C (parcels with water frontage only, but including any parcel subsequently derived from another parcel with water frontage existing at the 15th September, 1997), 5D, 3 The Development and Planning (Amendment) Law, 2006 10A, 10E, 11B, 11C, 11D, 12C, 12D, 12E, 17A. (ii) George Town 13B, 13C, 13E, 13EH (parcels with road frontage on West Bay Road, Eastern Avenue and North Church Street), 13D (parcels with road frontage on Eastern Avenue), 14BG, 14BH, 14BJ, 14C, 14CF, 14CJ, 14D (parcels with road frontage on Elgin Avenue, Huldah Avenue and Thomas Russell Avenue), OPY, 19A, 19E, 20B, 20C (parcels north of Owen Roberts International Airport). (iii) Bodden Town 28C, 28D (parcels zoned Neigh bourhood Commercial). (b) “Area B” means the following registration sections, blocks and parcels – Registration Section Block North Side and East End 33B, 33C, 33CJ, 33D, 33E, 33M, 39E, and those parcels in 57A, 61A, 65A, 69A and 73A between the sea and the Queen’s Highway. (c) “Area C” means the registration sections, blocks and parcels in Grand Cayman and Little Cayman not included in Areas A or B. (4) A person to whom planning permission for development of – (a) an industrial building; (b) a commercial building; (c) a hotel; (d) an apartment; (e) a strata lot; (f) a house exceeding four thousand square feet in gross floor area; or (g) an extension to a house which would increase its gross floor area to more than four thousand square feet, is granted pursuant to an application made on or after the 1st July, 2006 shall, at the date such person applies for a building permit, contribute to the 4 The Development and Planning (Amendment) Law, 2006 infrastructure fund as follows – (i) in Area A, $2.50 per square foot of the gross floor area of the development; (ii) in Area B, $1.50 per square foot of the gross floor area of the development; (iii) in Area C, $0.50 per square foot of the gross floor area of the development; or (iv) in any case where the Authority is of the opinion that the development (including any temporary development) is necessary for the purpose of restoration following a national disaster, fifty per cent of the respective amounts prescribed in subparagraphs (i), (ii) and (iii).” 3. For avoidance of doubt, the Development and Planning (Amendment) (Temporary Provisions) Law, 2004 is of no further force or effect in relation to Part VI of the principal Law or the regulations made under that Law. Status of Law No. 8 of 2004 Passed by the Legislative Assembly the 9th day of June, 2006. EDNA MOYLE Speaker. SHARON SMITH Acting Clerk of the Legislative Assembly. 5