These Regulations implement the Planning and Environment Act 1987 by, among others, prescribing the manner and form of giving notice as required under the Act, related forms and information; defining the manner for keeping the register prescribed by the Act and for securing access to information.

Implements: Planning and Environment Act 1987 (No. 47). (2016-06-28)
Repealed by: Planning and Environment Regulations, 2015. (2015-03-16)
Repeals: Planning and Environment Regulations 1998. (2004-08-01)

There is hereby laid down the legislative framework in matter of town and country planning, in compliance with the principles of subsidiarity, cooperation and sustainability. The regional territory shall be managed through plans approved at the municipal, provincial and regional levels. In order to ensure the coordination of such different plans, article 3 provides for the setting up of the integrated Regional Territorial System. Plans shall be subjected to environmental assessments, so as to contribute to the protection of the environment and regional landscape.

The present Regional Act lays down the legislative framework in matter of town and country planning, taking into particular consideration, inter alia, the need to preserve the environment and regional landscape, including agricultural lands. The regional territory shall be managed at the municipal, provincial and regional levels. Plans shall be coordinated as provided in article 4. Article 47 concerns the environmental assessment of plans.

These Rules provide for the institution and responsibilities of the related Authority in relation to: the registration of wells and the licence to drill wells; the construction of rain water harvesting structures; the registration of rigs; the prohibition of water contamination, for both surface and groundwater; land use and water quality; the forestation of urban areas, etc. The Authority may take over wells in order to ensure supply of drinking water to local population. Violations of the provisions of these Rules shall be punishable with fines specified in section 26.

La presente Ley reglamenta el loteamiento de inmuebles, entendiéndose por el mismo toda división o parcelamiento de inmueble en dos o más fracciones destinadas a la venta en zona urbana, suburbana o rural, con fines de urbanización. Todo loteamiento de inmueble privado estará sujeto a la aprobación de la Municipalidad, la cual será otorgada bajo los requisitos indicados en el artículo 2º, entre los cuales figura la declaración de impacto ambiental referente al proyecto de loteamiento presentado por el interesado.

The Act consists of 76 sections divide into 12 parts: Preliminary (I); Administration (II); Planning (III); Control of development (IV); Continuation of existing uses (V); Special powers (VI); Development by Government (VII); certification of development (VIII); Enforcement (IX); Planning Appeals Tribunal (XI); Compensation (XI); Miscellaneous (XII).Objects of the Act are set out in section 3. The Minister shall be in principal responsible for the administration of this Act. There is established a National Planning and Development Commission under section 6.

This Act regulates the carrying out of surveys of land by, appointment of, qualifications of, etc. land surveyors including Government surveyors, i.e. land surveyors who are public officers of the Ministry of Housing, Lands and Town and Country Planning. No survey, plan or memorandum of survey, of land shall be valid unless it has been made by a land surveyor appointed by a commission issued by the President. No land surveyor, other than a Government surveyor, shall undertake the survey of any State land, unless he has been authorised in writing by the Chief Surveyor.

The present Act provides for rules relative to land use planning and development in the province of Quebec. It contains at the outset a definition clause relating to various terms therein employed such as “alienation”, “commission”, “cadastral operation”, “minister”, “public agency”, “core city”.

The present Act lays down provisions relating to the land regime in the James Bay and New Québec Territories.

The present Act lays down provisions relating to lands in the domain of the state. In particular, it applies to all lands that form part of the domain of the State, including the beds of watercourses and lakes and the parts of the bed of the St. Lawrence river and the Gulf of St. Lawrence belonging to Québec by right of sovereignty.

There is established a National Planning Board of Lesotho under section 105 of the Constitution.

The purpose of these Regulations is to facilitate compliance with the European Court of Justice ruling of 21 September 1999 (Case C-392/96) that the EIA thresholds adopted by Ireland in relation to initial afforestation and peat extraction exceeded the discretion available to Ireland under Directive 85/337/EEC on Environmental Impact Assessment in that they did not take account of the nature, location or cumulative effect of projects below these thresholds. The threshold for mandatory EIA in relation to these activities is reduced.