Hong Kong Ordinances

TOWN PLANNING ORDINANCE - SECT 26

Interim development permission areas

(Past version on 30/06/1997).

Adaptation amendments retroactively made - see 62 of 2000 s. 3

(1) Notwithstanding any other provision in this Ordinance, the Director of
Planning-

   (a)  may prepare plans designating any area of Hong Kong as the Chief
        Executive may direct as an interim development permission area and
        providing that development shall not be undertaken or continued in
        such area otherwise than in conformity with such plans or with the
        permission of the Director of Planning; (Amended 62 of 2000 s. 3)

   (b)  may, for the purposes of paragraph (a), on an application being made
        for permission, grant permission in writing with or without conditions
        or refuse permission; and

   (c)  shall cause notice to be published in the Gazette of any such plan.

(2) Sections 4(1) and 4A shall apply to a plan prepared under subsection (1)
as if the references in those sections to a draft plan of the Board were
references to a plan prepared under subsection (1) and the references to the
Board and the Chairman of the Board were references to the Director of
Planning.

(3) Where land to which a plan prepared under subsection (1) relates is
subsequently included in a plan prepared under section 3, subsection (1) in so
far as it requires conformity with such a plan or obtaining permission from
the Director of Planning shall not apply as regards that land.

(4) The Director of Planning shall not prepare a plan under subsection (1)(a)
or cause a notice to be published under subsection

(1)(c) after the commencement of the Town Planning (Amendment) Ordinance 1991
(4 of 1991). (Added 4 of 1991 s. 8)
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_____ Note: See 4 of 1991 s. 1(2) as to date of operation.