Bermuda was first settled in 1609 by shipwrecked English colonists heading for Virginia. Self-governing since 1620, Bermuda is the oldest and most populous of the British overseas territories. Vacationing to the island to escape North American winters first developed in Victorian times. Tourism continues to be important to the island's economy, although international business has overtaken it in recent years. Bermuda has also developed into a highly successful offshore financial center. A referendum on independence from the UK was soundly defeated in 1995.
Bermuda is a parliamentary democracy and a self-governing overseas territory of the UK.
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Displaying 71 - 75 of 83Development and Planning (Use Classes) Order 1975.
These Regulations stipulate that where a building or other land is used for a purpose of any class specified in the Schedule, the use of such building or other land for any other purpose of the same class shall not be deemed for the purposes of the Development and Planning Act 1974 to involve development of the land, provided that remains the necessity of obtaining planning permission for a change in the use of any building or land if such change involves an intensification of user amounting to a material change in the use.
Development and Planning (Rocky Heights Quarry) Special Development Order 1997.
Order relative to planning development permission for the quarry site described in the Second Schedule. Planning permission is granted for any use of, or operation at, the Quarry site for the following purposes: (a) the storage of off-site rip rock or rubble, or the storage of aggregate; (b) the installation and use of crushing machinery, at any location within the area of the Quarry site shown hatched black on the plan, for the processing of rip rock, soil or spoil into aggregate of such gradations as may from time to time be required.
Development and Planning (General Development) Order 1999.
This Order stipulates that, subject to certain conditions, development of any class specified in the First Schedule to this Order is permitted and may be undertaken upon land to which this Order applies, without the permission of the Development Applications Board.
Development and Planning (Wells and Boreholes) Order 1976.
This Order stipulates that, subject to certain conditions, the development of land by the construction of a well shall be permitted and may be undertaken without the permission of the Development Applications Board. The planning permission granted shall have the effect of granting planning permission for any drilling, excavation or other engineering works which are necessary in order to carry out the development permitted. Nothing in paragraph 2 shall authorize the construction of: (a) more than one well upon any lot; (b) a well upon a lot where there is already a well.
Base Lands Development Act 1996.
This Act concerns the development of land described in the Schedule. Section 3 provides for the creation of the Bermuda Land Development Company Limited. The general purpose of the Company is to manage, or oversee the management of, the land entrusted to it with a view: (a) generally, to the integration of that land into the economic and social fabric; (b) in particular, to the creation of opportunities for increased employment now and in the future, in furtherance of the well-being of the present and future generations of Bermudians.