7Declaration of major infrastructure project

7 Declaration of major infrastructure project

(1)  The Minister may recommend to the Governor the making of an order declaring a project to be a major infrastructure project.

(2)  The Governor may make an order in accordance with a recommendation made under subsection (1) .

(3)  An order under subsection (2) is to be published in the Gazette.

(4)  The Minister must cause an order under subsection (2) to be laid before each House of Parliament within the first 10 sitting days of the House after it is so published.

(5)  An order under subsection (2) is of no effect until it has been approved by both Houses of Parliament.

(6)  For the purposes of subsection (5) , a House of Parliament is taken to have approved an order under subsection (2) if a copy of it has been laid on the table of that House and –

(a) it is approved by that House; or

(b) at the expiration of 15 sitting days after it was laid on the table of that House, no notice has been given of a motion to disallow it or, if such notice has been given, the notice has been withdrawn or negatived; or

(c) if any notice of a motion to disallow it is given during that period of 15 sitting days, the notice is, after the expiration of that period, withdrawn or negatived.

(7)  As soon as practicable after an order under subsection (2) has taken effect, the Minister must –

(a) give written notice of the taking effect of the order to –

(i) the Commission; and

(ii) each planning authority on which obligations are imposed by the order, or which is otherwise affected by the making of the order; and

(iii) each instrumentality or agency of the Crown on which obligations are imposed by the order; and

(b) advertise the taking effect of the order in a newspaper circulating in the area within which the major infrastructure project is to be implemented.