(c) reserves for Government, institution or community
purposes;
(d) parks, recreation grounds and similar open spaces; (e) zones or districts set apart for undetermined uses. and any matter whatsoever may be shown or provided for or specified in or in respect of the plans by means of such diagrams, illustrations, notes or descriptive matter as the Board thinks appropriate; and any such diagrams, illustra- tions, notes and descriptive matter shall be part of the plans.".
3. The principal Ordinance is amended by adding, after new sections section 15, the following new sections—
Addition of
16, 17 and
18.
"Applica- tions for permission
in respect of plans.
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16. (1) Where a draft plan or approved plan, whether prepared or approved before or after the commencement of the Town Planning (Amendment and Validation) Ordinance 1974, provides for the grant of permission for any purpose, an application for the grant of such permission shall be made to the Board.
(2) Any such application shall be addressed in writing to the secretary to the Board and shall be in such form and include such particulars as the Board thinks fit.
(3) The Board shall within 2 months of the receipt of the application, consider the same in the absence of the applicant and, subject to subsection (4), may grant or refuse to grant the permission applied for.
(4) The Board may grant permission under sub- section (3) only to the extent shown or provided for or specified in the plan.
(5) Any permission granted under subsection (3) may be subject to such conditions as the Board thinks fit.
(6) The secretary to the Board shall notify the applicant in writing of the Board's decision on an application under this section, and where the Board refused to grant permission shall also notify the ap plicant of his right to a review under section 17.
(7) For the purposes of section 16(1)(d) of the Buildings Ordinance, anything permitted by the Board
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under this section shall not be a contravention of any approved plan or draft plan prepared under this Ordinance.
17. (1) Where the Board refused to grant per- mission under section 16, the applicant may, within 21 days of being notified of the decision of the Board, apply in writing to the secretary to the Board for a review of the Board's decision.
(2) On receipt of an application under subsection (1), the secretary to the Board shall fix a time and place for the review, which shall be a day not more than 3 months of the receipt of the application, and shall give 14 days' notice thereof to the applicant.
(3) On a review under this section the applicant or his authorized representative may attend before the Board and shall be given an opportunity to make representations.
(4) If the applicant or an authorized representa- tive does not attend at the time and place fixed for the review, the Board may proceed with the review or adjourn it
(5) On a review under this section the Board shall consider any written representations submitted by the applicant.
(6) On a review under this section, the Board may, subject la section 16(4), grant or refuse to grant the permission applied for and may exercise the powers conferred by section 16(5).
(7) Any person aggrieved by the decision of the Board on a review under this section may appeal by way of petition to the Governor in Council whose decision on such appeal shall be final.
18. (1) Where a draft plan prepared before the of diagrams, commencement of the Town Planning (Amendment and Validation) Ordinance 1974, whether it has been approved under section 9 or not, contains, or is ac- compained by, diagrams, illustrations, notes or des- criptive matter, the Board may, for the purpose of removing any uncertainty.-
(e) amend such diagrams, illustrations, notes or
descriptive matter: or