Malaysia legislation
Section 15
Section 15
(1)
Subject to the succeeding provisions of this section, as from the material date no person shall, within the jurisdiction of any Local Authority, carry out any development of land or any construction, demolition, alteration, extension, repair or renewal of any building until six months after an approved scheme takes effect for the area containing such land or building.
(2)
A Local Authority may with the approval of the Council during any period of prohibition under the provisions of subsection (1), do all or any of the following things, that is to say –
(a)
grant to any person applying therefor permission in writing to develop land, construct, demolish, alter, extend, repair, or renew a particular building in the area to which such scheme is proposed to relate;
(b)
prohibit the further proceeding with the development of land or
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construction, demolition, alteration, extension, repair, or renewal of any particular building situate in the said area, stating in writing their reasons for such prohibition.
(3)
The Council may authorise or instruct a Local Authority to attach to a permission granted under this section such conditions as it thinks proper.
(4)
A prohibition made under this section may either prohibit absolutely the further proceeding with the work to which such prohibition relates or prohibit the further proceeding with such work otherwise than under and in accordance with conditions specified in such prohibition.
(5)
Every person who, otherwise than in accordance with an approved scheme or by permission granted under the provisions of paragraph (a) of subsection (2), proceeds with or does any work in contravention of this section shall be guilty of an offence, and shall be liable, on conviction, to a penalty of not exceeding fifty thousand ringgit or imprisonment not exceeding two years or both together with, in the case of a continuing offence, a further penalty of five hundred ringgit for every day during which the offence is continued.
Appeal to a Appeal Board in relation to permission or prohibition.