Section 6: Declaration of planning areas

6. Declaration of planning areas (1) (a) Where, in respect of any area, the Board is of the opinion that an outline scheme should be made in respect of that area, and makes representations to that effect to the President, the President may, after consultation with the local authority concerned, by Order declare that the area specified in the representations shall be a planning area. (b) Any representations under paragraph (a) shall be accompanied by a plan of the area concerned. (2) Any order made under this section shall come into operation on the day of its publication in the Gazette and shall cease to have effect if within 3 years from that date no outline scheme in respect of the planning area has been approved under section 14. (3) A copy of every Order made under this section shall be posted at such conspicuous places within the planning area as the Board shall direct. (4) Where an area has been declared a planning area under subsection (1), the value of any building or land in the area shall, for the purposes of determining the amount of compensation payable under this Act, be deemed to be the value of the building or land on the day 12 months immediately before the declaration, together with the value of any improvement T13 – 5 [Issue 5] Town and Country Planning Act and alteration carried out during those 12 months and subsequently approved by the Board. [S. 6 amended by Act 48 of 1991.]