Cap. 504 Art. 49Minister may request the preparation by any person of a plan, policy or revision thereof. Strategic Environment Assessment and

(1) Where the Authority is unable to prepare a plan or policy or fails to delegate such function as is envisaged in article

48(5), the Minister shall request any person, including any government agency, other than the Authority, to prepare on his behalf a plan or policy or a revision of such a plan or such policy.

(2) The Minister shall consult the Authority on the terms of reference which are to form the basis of the preparation of a plan or a policy or a revision of such plan or policy by the said person. The Minister shall then furnish the said person with the relative terms of reference and shall also indicate to the said person the documentation which shall be presented to the Minister when the plan, policy or a revision of such plan or policy is drawn up. On receipt of such documentation, the Minister shall forward a copy of such documentation to the Authority.

(3) The Minister shall also request the said person to comply with article 58(2)(a) and (b) and, for the purposes of the said paragraphs, the expression "the Authority" shall be construed as a reference to the said person and such person shall revise, if necessary, the plan, policy or a revision thereof after taking into consideration the representations he may have received in terms of article 58(2)(b).

(4) If the Authority agrees with such a plan, policy or revision thereof, it shall adopt it for submission to the Minister for his approval; and the provisions of article 58(2) shall, mutatis mutandis, apply.

(5) If the Authority does not agree with the said plan, policy or revision of such plan or such policy, it shall draw up a position statement indicating the changes to be made to the said plan, policy or revision thereof and shall refer both the said plan, policy or revision of such plan or such policy and its position statement to the Minister; and the provisions of article 58(2)(i) to (n) shall mutatis mutandis apply.

(6) The plan, policy or the revision of such plan or policy shall

87 of Act I of 2016 and article 35 of Act VII of 2016).