**The Town and Country Planning (Amendment) Act, 2001** [Margin: Short title.]

13 SIGNED this *24th* day of *April, 2001.* ALHAJI AHMAD TEJAN KABBAH, *President.* (LS) No. 3 [Coat of arms: UNITY FREEDOM JUSTICE] 2001 Sierra Leone **The Town and Country Planning (Amendment) Act, 2001** [Margin: Short title.] **Being an Act to amend the Town and Country Planning Act.** *[3rd May, 2001]* [Margin: Date of commencement.] 14 No. 3 *Town and Country Planning (Amendment) Act* 2001 ENACTED by the President and Members of Parliament in this present Parliament assembled. [Margin: Amendment of Cap 81] [Margin: Cap. 81.] 1. Section 6 of the Town and Country Planning Act is hereby repealed and replaced by the following section— [Margin: "Declaration of Planning Area.] 6. (1) If the Minister is of the opinion— (a) in the case of the whole of Sierra Leone, that a s :heme should be made for the whole of Sierra Leone; or (b) in the case of Freetown, after consultation with the Freetown Committee of Management, in the case of other towns established under the Townships Act, with the Committees of Management of those towns; in the case of the Shebro Urban District, with the Shebro Urban District Committee of Management, and in the case of other parts of Sierra Leone, with the appropriate local authorities that a scheme should be made for that area; [Margin: Cap. 295.] and (c) after hearing the views of members of the public in the areas referred to in paragraph (a) and (b) in public hearings, the Minister may by Order declare that the whole of Sierra Leone or the area, so specified by a survey plan, as case may be, shall be a planning area. (2) Any person affected by an Order made under subsection (1) may make a representation to the Minister and the Minister may modify the area specified in the plan after considering such representation, by adding thereto or omitting therefrom any portion or portions of land. No. 3 *Town and Country Planning (Amendment) Act* 2001 15 (3) An Order made under subsection (1) shall come into operation in accordance with the provisions of subsection (7) of section 170 of the Constitution of Sierra Leone and shall cease to have effect, if within three years from the date of its coming into operation, no scheme has been approved under section 17. (4) A copy of an Order made under subsection (1) shall also be posted at such place or places within the planning area as the Minister shall direct.

(5) When an area has been declared a planning area the value of any building or land in such area shall, for the purposes of determining the amount of compensation or betterment payable under the provisions of this Act, be deemed to be the value of the building or land at the date of such declaration. PASSED in Parliament this *3rd* day of *April,* in the year of our Lord two thousand and one. J. A. CARPENTER, *Clerk of Parliament.* THIS PRINTED IMPRESSION has been carefully compared by me with the Bill which has passed Parliament and found by me to be a true and correctly printed copy of the said Bill. J. A. CARPENTER, *Clerk of Parliament.* PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY THE GOVERNMENT PRINTING DEPARTMENT, SIERRA LEONE. *GAZETTE* NO. 23 OF 3RD MAY, 2001.