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VIRGIN ISLANDS
DRAFT PLANNING ACT
JUNE 1997


THE PLANNING ACT, 1997
VIRGIN ISLANDS
NO. ____ OF 1997

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A BILL FOR

An Act to make provision for the orderly and progressive development of land in both urban and rural areas and for the protection of the environment and improvement of the amenities thereof; for the grant of permission to develop land and for other powers of control over the use of land; to confer additional powers in respect of the acquisition and development of land for planning purposes; and for purposes connected with the matters aforesaid.

ENACTED by the Legislature of the Virgin Islands as follows:

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

PART I
PRELIMINARY

1. Short Title
2.

Interpretation

3. Act binds the Crown
4. Objects and purposes of Act

PART II
ADMINISTRATION

5. Duties of Minister
6. Planning Authority
7. Chief Planner
8. Exercise of functions of Chief Planner
9. Limitation of personal liability

PART III
DEVELOPMENT PLANS

10. Proposal for development plan
11. Scope and preparation of development plan
12. Environmental protection area
13. Environmental protection area management plan
14. Public participation
15. Consideration of draft development plan
16. Approval of development plan
17. Deposit of approved plan
18. Modification or revocation of a plan
19. Legal status of development plans

PART IV
MANAGEMENT OF DEVELOPMENT OF LAND

20. Permission required to develop land
21. Types of development permission
22. Applications for development permission
23. Requirement for further information
24. Certificate of ownership
25. Publicity for applications
26. Environmental impact assessment
27. Consultation on applications
28. Material planning considerations with respect to applications
29. Determination of applications
30. Applications inconsistent with development plan
31. Conditions of development permission
32. Development agreements
33. Performance bonds
34. Lapse of development permission
35. Supplementary provisions as to grant of development permission
36. Minor variation of development permission
37. Modification or revocation of development permission
38. Reference of application to Minister

PART V
COMPLIANCE

39. Compliance notice
40. Material planning considerations with respect to compliance notices
41. Notice to apply for development permission
42. Permission for retention of buildings or continuance of use
43. Suspension of effect of compliance notice
44. Stop order
45. Injunctions
46. Action by Authority for non-compliance with compliance notice
47. Continuing operation of compliance notice

PART VI
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

48. Compilation of a list in respect of buildings or sites which are of special interest
49. Publication of provisional list
50. Approval of a list
51. Listed building consent or listed site consent
52. Interim preservation orders in respect of buildings or sites
53. Preservation orders in respect of buildings or sites
54. Plant preservation orders
55. Amenity orders
56. Control of advertisements
57. Supplementary provisions as to advertisements
58. Environmental protection area order

PART VII
COMPENSATION AND ACQUISITION

59. Claim for compensation
60. Position where land is subject to mortgage
61. Registration of claim for compensation
62. Acquisition of land in lieu of compensation
63. Public access and rights of way to beaches
64. Acquisition of comprehensive planning area
65. Acquisition of buildings or sites for the purposes of preservation
66. Acquisition of land for planning purposes

PART VIII
APPEALS

67. Establishment of Appeals Tribunal
68. Right of appeal
69. Notice of appeal
70. Procedure at public examinations
71. Record of proceedings of public examinations
72. Appeals by written representations
73. Decision and notification of appeal
74. Appeals to the High Court

PART IX
MISCELLANEOUS & SUPPLEMENTARY

75. Powers of entry
76. Service of notices
77. Power to require information
78. Register of planning decisions
79. Notification of decisions to Registrar of Lands
80. Death of person having claim or right
81. Offences
82. Regulations
83. Repeal and savings
SCHEDULE 1
SCHEDULE 2
SCHEDULE 3
SCHEDULE 4

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