Section 24
Lapse of development order
of Federal Territory (Planning) Act 1982
A development order issued under this Act shall unless
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otherwise extended be valid for twelve months from the date of the issue of the order within which time the development shall commence in the manner specified in such order or the building plans in respect of the development shall be submitted in accordance with any law relating to the erection of buildings:
Provided that this subsection shall not apply in respect of a development order which is expressly mentioned therein that the planning permission granted does not involve any building operation.
(2)
On an application being made in that behalf in the prescribed manner before the expiry of the period referred to in subsection (1)
the Commissioner may on the payment of the prescribed fee by the applicant grant such extension to a development order as the
Commissioner may deem fit.
(3)
In granting an extension or further extension of a development order under subsection (2), the Commissioner may impose such conditions on the development order as he thinks fit or vary the conditions originally imposed; and section 23 shall apply with the necessary modifications to the imposition or variation of conditions under this section as it applies to the imposition of conditions under subsection 22(2).