Regulations

(1) The Central Authority may, with the approval of the Minister, make regulations relating to the following matters, 74 (a) fixing and from time to time varying the number of persons who may occupy a dwelling-house which is let by the Central Authority and for the separation of sexes therein; (b) the use of the dwellings let by the Central Authority with a view to the prevention of nuisances and sanitary defects; (c) the inspection of houses and land vested in (d) the time, place and manner for the payment of moneys payable under this Act; (e) the books and accounts to be kept by the (f) prescribing the forms of mortgages, charges, leases and other instruments; (g) generally, for regulating the administration of the Central Authority and for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this Act; (h) the procedure to be followed in connection with the preparation and the adoption of schemes under Part III and the several matters and things mentioned in the Fourth Schedule. (2) Regulations made under subsection (1) (h) shall be subject to affirmative resolution. SCHEDULE 1 HOUSING AND TOWN PLANNING ACT Notification by Central Authority [Section 12 (7)] TO the Registrar: 1. No. of application. 2. Name and address of Applicant as stated in the application for the advance. 3. Particulars of house or houses to be charged with repayment of advances made to the Applicant. 4. Particulars as to title of land on which house or houses erected. 5. Taxes payable. 6. Insurance. 7. Amount advanced. 8. Rate of interest, and dates of payment. 9. Date on which advance to be repaid. 10. Any other conditions. DATED , 20 . Chairperson, Central Housing and Planning Authority. 76 SCHEDULE 2 HOUSING AND TOWN PLANNING ACT Warrant to give Possession of Vacant Land or Building To Complainant [Section 33 (2)] IN THE DISTRICT COURT TO the Bailiff of the District Court. WHEREAS (set forth the complaint) I Magistrate of the District in Belize do authorise and command you, on any day within days from the date hereof (except on Sunday or any bank holiday) between the hours of eight in the forenoon and five in the afternoon, to enter (by force, if necessary) with or without the aid of any other person or persons whom you may think requisite to call to your assistance into and upon the said premises, and to eject thereout any person, and of the said premises full and peaceable possession to deliver to the Central Housing and Planning Authority. GIVEN under my hand this day of 20 . Magistrate, District. SCHEDULE 3 HOUSING AND TOWN PLANNING ACT Matters under Part III to be dealt with by Schemes [Section 53 (2)] PART I Roads 1. Providing for the reservation of land for roads, the construction of new roads, improvement of existing roads, establishment of public rights of way. 2. Providing for the closing or diversion of existing roads and public and private rights of way and traces. 3. Restricting and controlling the construction of new roads and the alteration of existing roads whether by the Central Authority or owners. 4. Regulating the line, width, level, construction and general dimensions and character of roads whether new or existing. 5. Enabling the Central Authority to require an owner of land as a condition of his developing such land in any manner, (a) to reserve land for such roads as it may think necessary; (b) to construct such roads as it may think necessary, or improve existing roads; or 78 (c) to contribute to the cost of the construction of new roads or the improvement of existing roads by the Central Authority. 6. Providing for and generally regulating the construction or execution whether by the Central Authority or by owners, of works incidental to the making or improvement of any road, including the erection of shelters, provision of seats, planting or protecting of grass, trees, and shrubs on or adjoining such road. PART II Buildings and other Structures 1. Regulating and controlling either generally or in particular areas, all or any of the following matters, that is to say, (a) the size, height, spacing, and building line of buildings; (b) the objects which may be affixed to buildings; (c) the location of buildings, the extent of yards, gardens and curtilage of buildings; (d) the purposes for and the manner in which buildings may be used or occupied including, in the case of dwelling-houses, the letting thereof in separate tenements; (e) the prohibition of building operations on any land, or regulating such operations. 2. Regulating and controlling or enabling the Central Authority to regulate and control the construction and materials of buildings and fences. 3. Reserving or allocating any particular land or all land in any particular area for buildings of a specified class or classes, or prohibiting or restricting, either permanently or temporarily, the making of any buildings or any particular class or classes of buildings on any specified land. 4. Limiting the number of buildings or the number of buildings of a specified class which may be constructed, erected or made on, in or under any area. 5. Providing for the removal, demolition, or alteration of buildings or works which are inconsistent with, or obstruct the operation of, a scheme. 6. Providing for sanitary conditions. PART III Community Planning 1. Regulating and controlling the layout of housing areas, including the density, spacing, grouping and orientation of houses in relation to roads, open spaces and other buildings. 2. Regulating and controlling the provision and siting of community facilities, including shops, schools, churches, meeting halls, play centres and recreation grounds, in relation to the number and siting of houses. 80 PART IV Amenities 1. Providing for the zoning of land in town and country areas, whether public or private, whether built on or un-built on, and for reserving such land for specific purposes, including agriculture, forestry, industry, commerce, housing and recreation. 2. Providing for the preservation of views and prospects and of the amenities of places and features of natural beauty or interest. 3. Providing for the preservation of buildings and objects of artistic, architectural, archaeological or historical interest. 4. Providing for the preservation or protection of forests, woods, trees, shrubs, plants and flowers. 5. Prohibiting, restricting or controlling, either generally or in particular places, the exhibition, whether on the ground, on any building, or any temporary erection, on any vehicle, boat or other movable object, whether on land, or on, or in, water or in the air, of all or any particular forms of advertisement or other public notices. 6. Preventing, remedying, or removing injury to amenities where such injury arises from the ruinous or neglected condition of any building or fence, or by the objectionable or neglected condition of any land. 7. The prohibition, regulation and control of the deposit or disposal of waste material and refuse. PART V Public Services 1. Facilitating the construction of works by statutory undertakers in relation to lighting, water supply, sewerage, drainage, and refuse disposal or other public services. PART VI Transport and Communication 1. Facilitating the establishment, extension or improvement of systems of transport whether by land, water or air. 2. Allocating sites for use in relation to transport and providing for the reservation of land for that purpose. 3. Providing for the establishment, extension, or improvement of telegraphic or telephonic communication, allocating sites for use in relation to such communication, and providing for the reservation of land for that purpose. PART VII Miscellaneous 1. Declaring the persons by whom and the manner in which the cost of the execution of works, whether of construction, demolition, removal or alteration, in pursuance of the scheme are to be borne. 2. Subject to any regulations made under the provisions of the Act, declaring the notices to be served for the purposes of the scheme by the Central Authority and the persons on whom, 82 the manner in which, and the times at or within which, such notices are to be served. 3. Subject to the Act and the said regulations, declaring the manner in which and the times at or within which notice for the purposes of the scheme may be served on the Central Authority by other persons. 4. Providing for and regulating the making of agreements for the purpose of a scheme by the Central Authority with owners and other persons and by such persons with one another. 5. Dealing with the use or disposal of land acquired under the Act. 6. Prohibiting the sub-division of land until a plan showing the subdivision and proposed access to the land has been approved. 7. Making any provisions necessary for, (a) the pooling of lands of several owners, or any lands, roads or rights of way adjacent or near thereto; (b) the re-distribution of such land among such owners; (c) adjusting and altering the boundaries and areas of any such lands, roads, rights of way or traces; (d) effecting such exchanges of land or cancellation of existing sub-divisions as may be necessary or convenient for the purposes aforesaid; (e) apportionment of survey fees, cost of issuing or obtaining new titles and any other expenses in connection with the foregoing among the owners concerned. 8. Providing for and regulating the construction, alteration, removal and use of railways, pipe lines, telegraph, telephone lines, and electric current transmission lines, drainage or irrigation channels, aerial cable ways and ancillary structures. 9. Works ancillary to or consequent on a scheme. 10. Any other matter not hereinbefore mentioned, necessary or incidental to a scheme, or its administration. The mention of particular matters in this Schedule shall not be held to prejudice or affect the generality of any other matter. 84 SCHEDULE 4 HOUSING AND TOWN PLANNING ACT Matters under Part IV to which Regulations shall be made [Section 80(1)(h)] 1. The documents and matters, including maps and plans, which are to be deposited by the Central Authority and the places in which and times at or within which such documents are to be deposited. 2. The inspection, by persons interested, of documents (including maps and plans) deposited in pursuance of the regulations. 3. The manner in which, and the times at or within which, objection to or representations in respect of a scheme may be made to the Central Authority. 4. The notices to be given by the Central Authority and the time, place, nature and means by which such notices are to be given and published. 5. Securing co-operation by the Central Authority with owners of property and other persons likely to be affected by the scheme. 6. For securing that local authorities who are likely to be affected by a scheme shall, as soon as possible after the passing of a resolution for the preparation of a scheme, receive notice of the passing of such resolution and shall be furnished by the Central Authority with a copy of the scheme before it is submitted to the Minister. 7. For enabling the Central Authority to obtain, without charge, information which it requires for the purposes of or in connection with the preparation or making or carrying into effect of schemes by inspection of or obtaining copies from assessment rolls, rate books and other similar documents which are not in its custody. 8. For enabling the Central Authority to deal with lands and buildings, the ownership of which is doubtful or uncertain.