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LAND ACQUISITION ACT 1993 - SECT 7B

7B. Order authorising acquisition of land for purposes of infrastructure to be constructed or operated by private sector

      (1) The Minister may recommend to the Governor the making of an order authorising the Minister to acquire land for the purposes of infrastructure to be constructed or operated by a person other than the Crown.

      (2) The Governor may make an order in accordance with a recommendation made under subsection (1).

      (3) An order under subsection (2) is to be published in the Gazette.

      (4) The Minister must cause an order under subsection (2) to be laid before each House of Parliament within the first 10 sitting days of the House after it is so published.

      (5) An order under subsection (2) is of no effect until it has been approved by both Houses of Parliament.

      (6) For the purposes of subsection (5), a House of Parliament is taken to have approved an order under subsection (2) if a copy of it has been laid on the table of that House and –

(a) it is approved by that House; or

(b) at the expiration of 15 sitting days after it was laid on the table of that House, no notice has been given of a motion to disallow it or, if such notice has been given, the notice has been withdrawn or negatived; or

(c) if any notice of a motion to disallow it is given during that period of 15 sitting days, the notice is, after the expiration of that period, withdrawn or negatived.

      (7) As soon as practicable after an order under subsection (2) has taken effect, the Minister must give written notice of the taking effect of the order to –

(a) each planning authority with jurisdiction over the land to which the order relates; and

(b) each planning authority on which obligations are imposed by the order; and

(c) each instrumentality or agency of the Crown on which obligations are imposed by the order; and

(d) each owner of land which it is proposed to acquire pursuant to the order.



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