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PLANNING (NORTHERN IRELAND) ORDER 1972 - SECT 53

53.(1) The Ministry shall not adopt a development scheme under paragraph (2)
or (3) until it has published in two successive weeks in one or more
newspapers circulating in the locality to which the scheme relates a notice

(a)describing the area to which the scheme relates and referring to the
preparation of the scheme;

(b)specifying the place at which copies of the scheme may be inspected at
reasonable times;

(c)stating the time (not being less than twenty-eight days from the last of
the publications of the notice) during which objections to the scheme may be
sent to the Ministry.

(2) If

(a)no objections are made to a development scheme; or

(b)all objections to a development scheme are withdrawn;

(3) If objections made to a development scheme are not withdrawn the Ministry
shall, unless it considers them to be solely of a frivolous or vexatious
nature,

(a)cause a public local inquiry to be held by the planning appeals commission;
and

(b)consider any objections not withdrawn and the report of that commission;

(4) The Ministry may at any time prepare proposals for amending an adopted
development scheme in so far as it relates to the manner in which the area of
the development scheme is to be laid out and the land therein used.

(5) The Ministry may by order adopt any proposals prepared under paragraph (4)
with or without amendment and may amend the development scheme accordingly.

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