Cap. 356 Art. 22Finalconsideration and approval of plan or review.

(1) At the conclusion of the procedures set out in the foregoing provisions, the structure plan, and any review thereof, shall be considered by the Cabinet together with the Minister’s planning position statement and the representations made with respect to the plan or its review.

(2) Subject to article 17B(2) to (4), the Minister shall then cause the structure plan or a review thereof as originally prepared, or as revised, by the Authority, together with the Minister’s planning position statement, to be laid before the House together with a motion for a resolution that the structure plan be approved by the House, with such amendments, if any, as may be specified in the resolution.

(3) The structure plan and any review thereof as approved by the House shall have effect as from such date as may be specified for that purpose by the Minister by order in the Gazette; and for the purposes of this Act, other than those provisions relative to the preparation, consideration and submission of the structure plan or its review, the expression structure plan and any reference to a review thereof means the structure plan, and any review thereof, as approved by the House of Representatives: Provided that if at the date of commencement of this Act there is a structure plan prepared under the Building Permits

(Temporary Provisions) Act, and approved by the House of Representatives, such structure plan, as so approved, shall be the structure plan, and shall be treated as if it were the structure plan prepared by the Authority under this Act, for all the purposes thereof, and as if all the provisions of this Act relative to the preparation, consideration and submission of the structure plan had been complied with.