Town and Country Planning (Amendment) Act, 2001 (No. 3 of 2001)

f ; t, ; 13 SIGNED this 24th day of April, 2001. ALHAJI AHMAD TEJAN KABBAH, President. No.3 Sierra Leone 2001 The Town and Country Planning (Amendment) Act, 2001 Being an Act to amend the Town and Country Planning Act. Short title. [3rd May, 2001] Date of com mencement. ENACfED by the President and Members of Parliament in this present Parliament assembled. Cap. 81. 1. Section 60f the Town and Country Planning Act is hereby repealed and replaced by the following section 6. (1) If the Minister is of the opinion 1 I zoo1 (a) in the case of the whole of Sierra Leone, that a s .heme should -be made for the whole of Sierra Leone; or Town and Country Planning (Amendment) Act "Declaration of Planning Area. No.314 Amendment of Cap 81 (b) in the case of Freetown, after consultation with the Freetown Committee of Management, in the case of other towns established under the Cap. 295. Townships Act, with the Committees of Management of those towns; in the case of the .. - - ---- .. Shebro Urban.District, with the~br9 Urban . District Committee of Management, and in the case of other parts of Sierra Leone, with the appropriate local authorities that a scheme should be made for that area; and (c) after hearing the views of members of the public in the areas referred to in paragraph (a) and (b) in public hearings, the Minister may by Order declare that the whole of Sierra Leone or the area, so specified by a survey plan, as case may be, shall be a planning area. (2) Any person affected by an Order made under subsection (1) may make a representation to the Minister and the Minister may modify the area specified in the plan after considering such representation, by adding thereto or omitting therefrom any portion or portions of land. No.3 Town and Country Planning (Amendment) Act zooI IS (3) An Order made under subsection (1) shall come into operation in accordance with the provisions of subsection (7) of section 170 of the Constitution of Sierra Leone and shall cease to have effect, if within three years from the date of its coming into operation, no scheme has been approved under section 17. (4) A copy of an Order made under subsection (1) shall also be posted at such place or places within the planning area as the Minister shall direct. (5) When an area has been declared a planning area the value of any building or land in such area shall, for the purposes of determining the amount of compensation or bettermentpayable under the provisions of this Act, be deemed to be the value of the building or land at the date of such declaration. PASSED in Parliament this 3rd day of April, in the year of our Lord two thousand and one. J. A. CARPENTER, Clerk ofParliament. THIS PRINTED IMPRESSION has been carefully compared by me with the Bill which has passed Parliament and found by me to be a true and correctly printed copy of the said Bill. J. A. CARPENTER, Clerk ofParliament. PRn-."TED A.J-ID PuBUSHED BY THE GoVER.NME.1'-.'T PRrNnNO DEPART~'T,SIERRA LEONE. GAZEITE No. 23 OF 3RD MAY, 2001.