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Approval of schemes by the Minister

Cap. 182, s. 42 · Revised Edition 2020

(1) When the Central Authority has decided to prepare or adopt a scheme, the Central Authority shall with all convenient speed make a draft scheme and submit it to the Minister for (2) The Minister may either, (a) approve of such scheme with or without (b) require such scheme to be modified; or 46 (c) require a new scheme to be made and submitted to him. (3) When the Minister requires under this section a scheme submitted to him to be modified by the Central Authority, it shall be the duty of the Central Authority to modify the scheme accordingly and to resubmit the scheme as so modified to the Minister, and thereupon subsection (2) of this section, shall apply as if such scheme were then being submitted to the Minister for the first time. (4) When the Minister requires under this section a new scheme to be made and submitted to him by the Central Authority, it shall be the duty of the Central Authority to make with all convenient speed a new scheme accordingly and to submit such scheme to the Minister for approval, and thereupon subsection (2) shall apply as if such submission were the first submission of an original scheme. (5) When the Minister approves a scheme under this section, the Central Authority shall cause copies of the scheme to be made available for public inspection at the prescribed times and places, and shall within the prescribed time cause to be published in the Gazette and in such other manner as it may think fit, notice of such approval. (6) A scheme when approved by the Minister under this section and published in the Gazette, shall have full force and effect as from the date of such publication.

Amended by: 40 of 1963; 40 of 1963

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