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Order declaring Ampara Deegavapi as Sacred Area .

Country/Territory
Sri Lanka
Document type
Regulation
Date
2008
Source
FAO, FAOLEX
Original source
The Gazette of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka (Extraordinary) No. 1533/8, 23 January 2008, pp. 1A-3A.
Subject
Environment gen.
Keyword
Land-use planning Protected area Zoning Urban land
Geographical area
Asia, Asia and the Pacific, Indian Ocean, South Asian Seas, Southern Asia
Abstract

By Virtue of the powers vested by Section 6(2)(b) and Section 21(2)(b) of the Town and Country Planning Ordinance (Chapter 269), Dinesh Chandra Rupasinghe Gunawardena, Minister of Urban Development and Sacred Area Development by this Order: declares that the area of land specified in the Schedule shall be an Urban Development area for the purpose of this aforesaid Ordinance and shall be called “Ampara Deegavapi Sacred Area”; and direct that an outline scheme shall be prepared for the whole of the area declared to be the Ampara Deegavapi Sacred Area.

Full text
English
Website
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References - Legislation

Implements

Town and Country Planning Ordinance.

Legislation | Sri Lanka | 1947 (1955)

Keyword: Land-use planning, Institution, Land commission, Policy/planning, Public land, Right of use, Subdivision of land

Source: FAO, FAOLEX