Abstract

The Planning and Development Act (PDA) is a new and modem piece of legislation enacted to bring the planning exercise more in tune with the requirements of today's changes and the challenges (Globalization, structural changes in the economy, need to provide for new sectors of activities). It gives a legal status to the National Development Strategy which had remained as a vision document only. However, only a few sections of the PDA 2004 have been proclaimed to date. These are as follows:

·         PART I

·         PART II Section 5

·         PART III Sections 12,13,14 and 15

·         PART XI Sections 62,63 (2),(4),(5),(6),64 and 65

·         PART XII Sections 67,68 (1)(f),70,75 (2),(4)

Keywords: development permit, planning, development notice

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