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17.   Uses and operations not constituting or constituting development

Revised Laws of Saint Lucia (2021)

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17.   Uses and operations not constituting or constituting development

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    (1)   The following operations or uses of land shall not be deemed for the purposes of this Act to involve the development of land—

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      (a)     the carrying out of works for the maintenance, improvement or other alteration of any building, if the works affect only the interior of the building or do not materially affect the external appearance of the building;

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      (b)     the carrying out by or on behalf of the Government of Saint Lucia of any works required for the maintenance of a road if the works are carried out on land within the boundaries of the road;

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      (c)     the carrying out by or on behalf of the Government of Saint Lucia or any statutory undertaker of any works for the purpose of inspecting, repairing or renewing any sewers, water mains, pipes, cables or other apparatus, including the breaking open of any road or other land for that purpose;

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      (d)     the use of any building or land within the curtilage of a dwelling house for any purpose ancillary to the use of the dwelling house as such;

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      (e)     subject to such exceptions or limitations as the Minister may by order prescribe, the use of any land for the purposes of agriculture or forestry and the use for any of those purposes of any building on land so used; and

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      (f)     in the case of buildings or land that are used for a purpose of any class specified in an order made by the Minister under this section, the use thereof for any other purpose of the same class.

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    (2)   For the avoidance of doubt it is hereby declared that—

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      (a)     the carrying out of building, engineering, mining or other operations in, on, over or under any land within the curtilage of a dwelling house involves development of that land;

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      (b)     the carrying out of building, engineering, mining or other operations in, on, over or under any land used for agriculture or forestry, or the subdivision of any such land, involves development of that land;

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      (c)     the use for display of an advertisement of any land or external part of a building which has not been previously used for that purpose which involves a material change in the use of that land or that part of that building;

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      (d)     the use as 2 or more separate dwelling units of any building previously used as one dwelling unit which involves a material change in the use of that building;

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      (e)     the accumulation of derelict vehicles, scrap metal, refuse, spoil, mineral tailings, sludge, effluent or waste or discarded material of any kind on land which involves a material change of use of that land, although any such material had previously been deposited thereon.

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