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Showing 1 - 9 of 9 resultsLegislation | 2018 |Marine and Coastal Access Act 2018
AustraliaAustralia Marine and Coastal Access Act 2018 Commencement date unknown [This is the version of this document at 1 January 2019.] Marine and Coastal Act 2018 No. 26 of 2018 The Parliament of Victoria enacts: Part 1 1. Purposes The purposes of this Act are— (a) to establish an integrated and co-ordinated whole-of-government approach to protect and manage Victoria's marine and coastal environment...Legislation | 2016 |Coastal Management Act 2016
AustraliaAustralia Coastal Management Act 2016 Commencement date unknown [This is the version of this document at 1 January 2019.] An Act to make provision for the ecologically sustainable management, use and occupation of the New South Wales coast; and for related purposes. Part 1 – Preliminary 1. Name of Act This Act is the Coastal Management Act 2016. 2. Commencement This Act commences on a day or days...Legislation | 2016 |Development Planning Act 2016
MaltaMalta Development Planning Act 2016 Published on 26 January 2016 Commencement date unknown [This is the version of this document at 1 January 2019.] To make provision for sustainable planning and management of development and for the establishment of an authority with powers to that effect and for matters connected therewith or ancillary thereto. Part I – Preliminary Article 1. Short title and...Legislation | 2015 |Urban and Regional Planning Act, 2015
ZambiaZambia Urban and Regional Planning Act, 2015 Act 3 of 2015 Published in Government Gazette on 14 August 2015 Assented to on 14 August 2015 Commenced on 14 August 2015 [This is the version of this document from 14 August 2015.] An Act to provide for development, planning and administration principles, standards and requirements for urban and regional planning processes and systems; provide for a...Legislation | 2013 |Spatial Planning and Land use Management Act, 2013
South AfricaSouth Africa Spatial Planning and Land use Management Act, 2013 Act 16 of 2013 Published in Government Gazette 36730 on 5 August 2013 Assented to on 2 August 2013 Commenced on 1 July 2015 by Spatial Planning and Land use Management Act, 2013: Commencement [This is the version of this document from 5 August 2013.] (English text signed by the President) ACT To provide a framework for spatial...Legislation | 2010 |Physical Planning Act, 2010
UgandaUganda Physical Planning Act, 2010 Chapter 142 Published in Uganda Gazette 32 on 28 May 2010 Assented to on 28 April 2010 Commenced on 29 April 2011 by Physical Planning Act (Commencement) Instrument, 2011 [This is the version of this document at 31 December 2023.] [Note: This legislation was revised and consolidated as at 31 December 2000 and 31 December 2023 by the Law Reform Commission of...Legislation | 2004 |Planning and Urban Management Act 2004
SamoaSamoa Planning and Urban Management Act 2004 Commencement date unknown [This is the version of this document at 1 January 2019.] AN ACT to establish a Planning and Urban Management Agency and to implement a framework for planning the use, development, management and protection of land in Samoa in the present and long-term interests of all Samoans and for related purposes. BE IT ENACTED by the...Legislation | 2001 |Physical Planning and Development Act 2001
Saint LuciaSaint Lucia Physical Planning and Development Act 2001 Commencement date unknown [This is the version of this document at 1 January 2019.] AN ACT to make provision for the development of land, the assessment of the environmental impacts of development, the grant of permission to develop land and for other powers to regulate the use of land, and for related matters. Preliminary 1. Short title This...Legislation | 1997 |Planning and Building Act 1997
IcelandIceland Planning and Building Act 1997 Published in 2005 version Commenced on 1 January 1998 [This is the version of this document at 1 January 2019.] Planning and Building Act No. - 73/1997, no. 135/1997 and no. 58/1999 Chapter IGeneral Provisions Article 1 – Aims. The aims of this Act are: to ensure that the development of settlement and land use in the country as a whole will be in accordance...
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