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AMENITY LANDS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1965 - SECT 26

Short title.

26. This Act may be cited as the Amenity Lands Act (Northern Ireland) 1965.

Schedule 1 rep. by 1973 NI 1 art.45 sch.10

1. A member of the Committee shall hold office for a period of three years and
shall, upon ceasing to hold office, be eligible for re-appointment.

2. The Chairman of the Committee shall be such person as the Minister may
appoint.

3. The Committee shall have power to regulate its own quorum and procedure.

4. No salary shall be paid to any member of the Committee but the Ministry may
pay to any member allowances for travelling and other out-of-pocket expenses
incurred by him in connection with the business of the Committee at such rates
as the Ministry, with the approval of the Ministry of Finance, may determine.

5. The Committee shall prepare and submit to the Minister an annual report and
the Minister shall lay a copy of the report before each House of Parliament.

6. The Secretary to the Committee shall be such person as the Ministry may
appoint.

1.(1) Before the Ministry makes or varies an order designating a
National Park, the Ministry shall prepare a draft of that order and shall give
notice

(a)stating the proposal to make the order and the effect thereof;

(b)naming a place or places in the locality to which the draft relates where a
copy of the draft and of any map referred to therein may be inspected; and

(c)specifying the time (not being less than 28 days) within which, and the
manner in which, representations or objections with respect to the draft may
be made.

(2) The notice to be given under sub-paragraph (1) shall be given by
publication in the Belfast Gazette and in two newspapers circulating in the
area to which the draft order relates.

2.(1) If no representations or objections are duly made, or if any so made are
withdrawn, the Ministry shall make the order.

(2) If any representation or objection duly made is not withdrawn, the
Ministry shall, before making the order, if the objection is made by a local
authority cause a local inquiry to be held and in any other case either

(a)cause a local inquiry to be held, or

(b)afford to any person by whom any representation or objection has been duly
made and not withdrawn an opportunity of being heard by a person appointed by
the Ministry for the purpose,

(3) Notwithstanding anything in sub-paragraph (2), the Ministry shall not make
an order so as to affect land not affected by a draft order except after

(a)giving notice, by publication in the Belfast Gazette and in two newspapers
circulating in the area to which the proposal relates, the proposal so to
modify the draft order, specifying the time (not being less than 28 days)
within which, and the manner in which, representations or objections with
respect to the proposal may be made;

(b)holding a local inquiry, or affording to any person by whom any
representation or objection has been duly made and not withdrawn an
opportunity of being heard by a person appointed by the Ministry for the
purpose; and

(c)considering the report of the person appointed to hold the inquiry or to
hear representations or objections, as the case may be.

(4) If, as the result of any representations or objections considered, or
inquiry or other hearing held, in connection with an order designating a
National Park or the making of an order varying such an order, the Ministry is
of the opinion that the Ulster Countryside Committee, a local authority or any
other person ought to be consulted before the Ministry makes the order, the
Ministry shall consult the said Committee, authority or other person but,
subject to the provisions of sub-paragraph (3) of this paragraph, shall not be
under any obligation to consult any other person, or to afford any opportunity
for further representations or objections or to cause any further inquiry or
other hearing to be held.

3. As soon as may be after an order has been made the Ministry shall publish,
in the Belfast Gazette and in two newspapers circulating in the area to which
the order relates, a notice describing the effect of the order, stating that
the order has been made, and naming a place where a copy thereof may be
inspected at all reasonable hours.

Schedule 4 rep. by 1972 NI 17 art.110(2) sch.7



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