Cap. 504 Art. 52Publication of the strategic plan of the Environment and Development or its reviews.

(1) When the Strategic Plan for the Environment and Development or a review thereof has been completed, the

Authority shall publish the plan together with a statement of the representations it has received and the responses it has made to those representations.

(2) The Authority shall invite representations on the plan to be submitted to it within a specified period of not less than six weeks.

(3) The Strategic Plan for the Environment and Development, or any review thereof, together with all representations made to the Authority, shall, as soon as practicable, after the expiry of the period specified in sub-article (2), be referred to the Minister.

(4) The Minister may refer back the Strategic Plan for the Environment and Development, or review thereof to the Authority where he does not agree with the Strategic Plan for the Environment and Development, or any review thereof and he shall prepare a position statement stating the changes he proposes to it or his reactions to the Strategic Plan for the Environment and Development, or review thereof.

(5) Where the Strategic Plan for the Environment and Development, or any review thereof, has been referred back to the Authority, the same procedure as far as practicable shall be followed with respect to any further draft prepared and published by the Authority, except that reference back to the Authority shall not be made more than once. its review.

(2) Subject to article 34(2)(a), (3) and (4), the Minister shall then cause the Strategic Plan for the Environment and Development, or a review thereof as originally prepared, or as revised, by the Authority, together with the Minister’s position statement, to be laid before the House together with a motion for a resolution that the Strategic Plan for the Environment and Development, be approved by the House, with such amendments, if any, as may be specified in the resolution.

(3) The Strategic Plan for the Environment and Development, 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 Strategic Plan for the Environment and Development, or its review, the expression Strategic Plan for the Environment and Development and any reference to a review thereof means the Strategic Plan for the Environment and Development, and any review thereof, as approved by the House of Representatives.