Development Planning Act (Cap. 552)
Development Planning Act (Cap. 552), article 98
98. (1) If it appears to the Executive Council that anything
which is prohibited or restricted or subject to a condition by or
under any of the provisions of article 57 is being done or carr ied on
or has been done or carried on in contravention of any such
prohibition, restriction or condition or without any permission or
other requirement, or without compliance with any condition,
mentioned in those articles or any orders made thereunder, the
Executive Council shall serve a notice on the owner of the land or
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on the occupier of the land or on the person responsible for th e acts
mentioned in the notice or any combination thereof, as the Exec utive
Council deems most expedient, requiring such steps as may be
specified in the notice, including the discontinuance of anything
being done or carried on, to be taken within such time as may a lso
be specified in the notice. The provisions of article 97(3) sha ll also
apply to any notice under this article.
(2) A notice under this article shall also be referred to as an
"enforcement notice" and, unless the context otherwise requires
and subject to such modifications and adaptations as may be
necessary to give full effect to the provisions of those articles,
wherever the expression appears in this Act, it shall include a
notice given under this article:
Provided that no such notice shall be issued for any
development carried out before 1967.
Injury to amenity
and removal of
danger.
Amended by:
XXI.2022.19.
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