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Objects and Reasons.

This Bill, which provides for the appointment of a Town Planning Board and for the preparation by that Board of draft plans for the future lay-out of existing and potential urban areas, as well as for the types of building suitable for erection therein, and for the approval of such plans by the Governor in Council as standards for the guidance of all public officers and bodies in the exercise of powers vested in them, is intended as the first step taken to implement the Report, dated the 11th October, 1938, of the Housing Commission (Sessional Paper No. 12 of 1938). A Table of Correspondence showing the source of its various provisions is attached.

C. G. ALABASTER,

Attorney General.

February, 1939.

Table of Correspondence showing the source (if any) of the various provisions of the Town Planning Bill, 1939.

Clause

of Bill.

1

2 (1)

3

4 (1)

Source.

Remarks.

F. M. S. Sanitary Boards

Enactment Chap. 137, s. 2 (1) (b) and (c).

II. K. Ordinance No. 36 of

1931, s. 9 (7).

F.M.S. Chap. 137, s. 135.

do.

Short title.

Adapted and redrafted.

Adapted. Quorum of five

consideral preferable.

Redrafted and elaborated.

s. 136 (1). "agricultural" and words in brackets omitted in para. (b).

(2)

New.

10

5

do.

s. 187.

(3) F.M.S. Chap. 137, s. 148.

Redrafted.

Redrafted "two months'

for "three months”.

6

do.

s. 138.

Last part redrafted.

7

do.

s. 139.

8

do.

s. 140.

Governor in Council instead

of Resident as approv- ing authority.

"permanently"

omitted

before 'exhibited" in para. (5).

9

do.

10

do.

s. 141.

s. 142.

Adapted.

There is no registration of titles as such in the Colony.

Redrafted.

11

do.

s. 144 (1).

12

do.

s. 145.

Adapted and redrafted.

13

14

H. K. Ordinance No. 1 of Adapted.

1931, s. 4 (1) (h).

H. K. Ordinance No. 4 of Adapted and redrafted.

1931, s. 5 (2).