Development Planning Act (Cap. 552), article 70

70. (1) Subject to the provisions of this article and to the following provisions of this Part of the Act, and subject to ar ticles 55 and 85(2)( n), no development shall be carried out except with development permission. (2) For the purposes of this article, and, unless the context otherwise requires, for all other purposes in this Act, "development" means the carrying out of building, engineering, quarrying, mining or other operations for the construction, demolition or alterations in, on, over, or under any land or the sea, the placing of advertisements or the making of any material cha nge in use of land or building and sea, other than: (a) maintenance operations which affect only the interior of a building or which do not materially affect the external appearance of the building: Provided that such maintenance works are not contrary to any order made under this Act in relation to the building: Provided further that maintenance operations shall not include demolition and rebuilding works, irrespective of the location where such demolition and rebuilding 48 [CAP. 552. DEVELOPMENT PLANNING works are carried out; (b) the use of land for agriculture, animal husbandry and forestry (including afforestation), except where such use consists of: (i) the erection of buildings or amounts to intensive raising of crops or animals; or (ii) the reclamation of land for agriculture by the deposit of material on such land unless such reclamation of land for agriculture can be proven to have subsisted prior to 1994; (c) in the case of buildings or other land that are used for a purpose of any class specified in an order made by the Minister, as the case may be, under this Act, the use thereof for any other purpose of the same class; (d) emergency works in relation to public safety carried out by Government; (e) a use which subsisted continuously from a period when such use was not considered illegal and did not require a permit; (f) the placing of plant and machinery required for the operation of a use already covered by development permission on land within the perimeter of the site covered by the same permission of the use being operated. (3) For the purpose of this article - (a) the use of a building resulting in an increase in the number of dwelling units in which the building was previously used; or (b) the deposit of materials on land; or (c) the use for the display of advertisements on any external part of a building that is not normally used for that purpose, involves a material change in the use of that building or land, or part thereof, without prejudice, in the case of advertisements, to any regulations or order made under this Act with respect to th eir control. (4) For the purpose of this article, development includes clearing of valleys from accumulated sediment and development i n relation to the sea includes land reclamation from the sea, aquaculture and beach developments and their related uses. Application for permission. Amended by: XXI.2022.9.