Malaysia legislation
Section 24
Section 24
(2)
A State Government may only withhold its approval of the draft NCER Development Plan if it is of the opinion that the draft NCER Development Plan or any part thereof has not been prepared in accordance with the requirements of paragraph 23(4)
(a)
or (b) or subparagraph 23(4)(c)(ii) or (c)(iv).
(3)
For the avoidance of doubt, a State Government may not withhold its approval if any of those requirements are not met in respect of a proposal pertaining to another State.
(4)
The Authority shall publish the fact of the approval of the draft NCER Development Plan by each State Government—
(a)
at the Authority’s internet website, in the national and
English languages, together with the NCER Development
Plan; and
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(b)
in three issues of at least one local newspaper in the national language and one local newspaper in the English language, together with the marking by which the approved
NCER Development Plan may be identified and with a statement of the place where the NCER Development
Plan may be inspected.
(5)
After the NCER Development Plan has been approved by each and every State Government—
(a)
in relation to any area within the Northern Corridor
Economic Region for which a local plan has yet to receive the assent of a State Authority, the relevant
State Planning Committee for such area shall give a direction to the relevant local planning authority under paragraph 12(3)(b) and subsection 12(8) of the Town and Country Planning Act 1976 to incorporate into the draft local plan for the area such contents of the NCER
Development Plan as such State Planning Committee may deem relevant or appropriate; and
(b)
in relation to any area within the Northern Corridor
Economic Region for which a local plan has received the assent of any State Authority, the relevant State
Planning Committee for such area shall give a direction to the relevant local planning authority under subsection 16(2) of the Town and Country Planning Act 1976 to alter such local plan by incorporating such contents of the NCER Development Plan as such State Planning
Committee may deem relevant or appropriate.
Review or alteration of NCER Development Plan