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DEVELOPMENT AND PLANNING (DRAFT BERMUDA PLAN

2008 EXTENSION) ACT 2009

Assent Date: 6 December 2009 Operative Date: 6 December 2009

WHEREAS it is provided by section 10 of the Development and Planning Act 1974 (“the Act”)—

(a) that the Minister may by notice published in the Gazette, prior to the approval of a development plan by the Legislature under the Act, declare a draft development plan to be operative as a development plan from such date as may be specified in the notice and until that approval is obtained; but

(b) that, if that approval is not obtained within eighteen months of the publication of such a notice, a draft development plan so published shall cease to be so operative; AND WHEREAS the Minister of the Environment and Sports, by notice published in the Gazette on 30 May 2008 under section 10 of the Act, declared the Draft Bermuda Plan 2008 to be operative from 6 June 2008; AND WHEREAS it is expedient that the operation of the Draft Bermuda Plan 2008 should be extended beyond the period of eighteen months, notwithstanding the restriction in that behalf imposed by section 10 of the Act; Be it enacted by The Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and the House of Assembly of Bermuda, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

Short Title

1 This Act may be cited as the Development and Planning (Draft Bermuda Plan 2008 Extension) Act 2009.

DEVELOPMENT AND PLANNING (DRAFT BERMUDA PLAN

2 0 0 8 EXTENS ION) ACT 2 0 0 9

Extension of operation of Draft Bermuda Plan 2008

2 Notwithstanding the proviso to section 10(1) of the Development and Planning Act 1974, the Draft Bermuda Plan 2008 shall continue to be operative under that section as a development plan until 30 June

2010.