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PLANNING (NORTHERN IRELAND) ORDER 1972 - SECT 48



48.(1) Compliance with an enforcement notice whether in respect of

(a)the demolition or alteration of any buildings or works, or

(b)the discontinuance of any use of land,

(2) Without prejudice to paragraph (1), any provision of an enforcement notice
requiring a use of land to be discontinued shall operate as a requirement that
it shall be discontinued permanently, to the extent that it is in
contravention of Part IV; and accordingly the resumption of that use at any
time after it has been discontinued in compliance with the enforcement notice
shall to that extent be in contravention of the enforcement notice.

(3) Without prejudice to paragraph (1), if any development is carried out on
land by way of reinstating or restoring buildings or works which have been
demolished or altered in compliance with an enforcement notice, the notice
shall, notwithstanding that its terms are not apt for the purpose, be deemed
to apply in relation to the buildings or works as reinstated or restored as it
applied in relation to the buildings or works before they were demolished or
altered; and, subject to paragraph (4), Article 46 shall apply accordingly.

(4) Where, at any time after an enforcement notice takes effect

(a)any development is carried out on land by way of reinstating or restoring
buildings or works which have been demolished or altered in compliance with
the notice, and

(b)the Ministry proposes, under Article 46(1), to take any steps required by
the enforcement notice for the demolition or alteration of the buildings or
works in consequence of the reinstatement or restoration,

(5) A person who, without the grant of planning permission in that behalf,
carries out any development on land by way of reinstating or restoring
buildings or works which have been demolished or altered in compliance with an
enforcement notice shall be guilty of an offence, and shall be liable on
summary conviction to a fine not exceeding #400; and no person shall be liable
under Article 44(1) to (4) for failure to take any steps required to be taken
by an enforcement notice by way of demolition or alteration of what has been
so reinstated or restored.



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