Malaysia legislation
Section 9
Section 9
(a)
that publicity is given in the State to the report of the survey under section 7 and to the matters that he proposes to include in the plan; and
(b)
that persons who may be expected to desire an opportunity of making representations to the State Director in respect of those matters are made aware that they are entitled to, and are given, an opportunity of doing so, and the State Director shall consider every representation made within the prescribed period to him.
(2)
As soon as practicable after a draft structure plan has been submitted to the Committee, the State Director shall—
(a)
publish, in three issues of at least two local newspapers, one of which being in the national language, a notice stating that copies of the plan are available for inspection at the office of the State Director and at such other places as he may determine and the time within which objections to the plan may be made to the Committee; and
(b)
make copies of the plan available for inspection at the places stated in the notice; and each copy shall be accompanied by a statement of the time, as stated in the notice, within which objections to the plan may be made to the Committee.
(3)
The time within which objections to the draft structure plan may be made shall be not less than one month from the date of the first appearance of the notice under paragraph (2)(a) in a local newspaper in the national language, and any time stated in the notice may be extended once by the State Director by not more than one month in favour of any particular objector.
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(4)
A draft structure plan submitted by the State Director to the
Committee for its approval shall be accompanied by a statement containing such particulars, if any, as may be prescribed—
(a)
of the steps that the State Director’s has taken to comply with subsection (1); and
(b)
of the
State
Director’s consultations with, and consideration of the views of, other persons in respect of the matters included, or originally proposed to be included, in the plan.
(5)
If, after considering the statement submitted with, and the matters included in, the draft structure plan and any other information provided by the State Director, the Committee is satisfied that the purposes of paragraphs (1)(a) and (b) have been adequately achieved by the steps taken by the State Director in compliance with that paragraph, it shall proceed to consider whether to approve the structure plan; and if it is not so satisfied, it shall return the plan to the State
Director and direct him—
(a)
to take such further action as the Committee may specify in order better to achieve those purposes; and
(b)
after doing so, to resubmit the plan with such modifications, if any, as the State Director then considers appropriate and, if so required by the direction, to do so within a specified period, but the Committee shall not return the plan or give such direction if three months have elapsed since the State Director submitted the plan to the Committee.
(6)
If the Committee returns the draft structure plan to the State
Director under subsection (5), it shall inform the State Director of its reasons for doing so and, if any person has made to the Committee any objection to the plan, it shall also inform that person that it has returned the plan.
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(7)
If the State Director is given directions by the Committee under subsection (5), he shall forthwith withdraw the copies of the plan made available for inspection as required by subsection (2) and shall publish the fact of withdrawal in three issues of at least two local newspapers, one of which being in the national language.
(8)
Subsections (2) to (7) shall apply, with the necessary modifications, in relation to a draft structure plan resubmitted to the
Committee in accordance with directions given by it under subsection (5) as they apply in relation to the plan as originally submitted.
Approval or rejection of draft structure plans by Committee