Cap. 552 чл. 58Emergency conservation order. Cap. 123. Cap. 364.

(1) If a property, site or area which is not scheduled or protected under the provisions of this Act or any regulations made thereunder, but which the Executive Council believes could have an importance or value sufficient to have it scheduled or protected, is at risk of being demolished, damaged or destroyed, the Executive Council may make an emergency conservation order and take such further steps for the protection of such property, site or area as it may deem necessary and the provisions of the proviso to sub-article

(1) of article 57 shall apply: Provided that in case of urgency the Executive Chairperson may make an emergency conservation order without the need of consulting the other members of the Executive Council.

(2) An emergency conservation order shall be published in the Gazette and shall have effect immediately on its publication.

(3) An emergency conservation order shall, for a period of twelve months from its publication in the Gazette, have the same effect as the inclusion of the property to which it refers in the list of scheduled property. It shall cease to have any effect on the expiration of the period aforesaid.

(4) An appeal to the Tribunal from an emergency conservation order shall not stay the execution of such order.

The Development Planning Fund

(3) The Development Planning Fund shall be used to finance both public and privately owned projects, programmes and schemes, and costs intended to enforce and manage the aims and objectives of this Act, as well as works which may be needed for that purpose or to remedy any harm caused to the environment in connection with any contingency or emergency plan, or to finance such other activities, including activities organised by non-governmental organisations, as the Minister in consultation with the Executive Council may prescribe: Provided that, without prejudice to the aforesaid, the Development Planning Fund shall not be used to finance other costs of the Authority.

(4) There shall be paid into the Development Planning Fund:

(a) any sums appropriated by Parliament for the purpose;

(b) any donations or grants made to the Development Planning Fund by individuals or institutions;

(c) sums received by the Authority for the purpose of being placed in the Development Planning Fund;

(d) such other sums or monies as may from time to time be provided by, or under this or any other law or regulations.

(5) The Executive Council shall keep a proper account of the revenue and expenditure of the Development Planning Fund and it shall, without prejudice to the powers of the Auditor General and of the Minister responsible for finance under any law, each year cause the accounts of the Development Planning Fund to be audited by suitably qualified Public Auditors and Accountants appointed by it with the concurrence of the Minister.

(6) The Executive Council shall every financial year deliver to the Minister, a copy of a duly audited balance sheet together with a report of the activities during the previous financial year of the Development Planning Fund. The Minister shall lay a copy of the balance sheet and of the report on the Table of the House within a month of the receipt of same from the Executive Council.

(7) The revenue generated through the Development Planning Fund shall not be subject to tax under the Income Tax Act, and it shall not be liable to tax under the Duty on Documents and

Transfers Act.

(8) The Minister, after consulting the Executive Council, may make regulations prescribing the procedure to be followed by the Executive Council in the management of the Development Planning Fund.

(9) The Executive Council may set up other funds and prescribe what shall be paid into such funds and how the said funds shall be administered and used. The provisions of sub-articles (4), Policy Advisory Committees The Standing Committee on the Environment, Climate Change and Development Planning