Area Development Act
Consolidated act- Citation
- R.S.N.W.T. 1988, c.A-8
- Source
- Unofficial consolidation PDF (justice.gov.nt.ca)
This is an unofficial reading copy parsed from the Department of Justice consolidation PDF above — itself an office consolidation, not an official statement of the law. The authoritative text is in the Revised Statutes of the Northwest Territories, 1988 and the annual Statutes volumes.
- None.
- Cassidy Point Development Area Regulations, s.3 → #sec_2
- Coal Regulations, s.5
- Coal Regulations, s.24
- Enterprise Corridor Development Area Regulations, s.1
- Mackenzie Development Area Regulations, s.1 → #sec_4__subsec_1
- Norman Wells Development Regulations, s.1
- Summary Conviction Procedures Regulations, s.2 → #sec_4__subsec_1
- Yellowknife Watershed Development Area Regulations, s.3 → #sec_2
Definitions
1.In this Act,
"development area" means an area designated as a development area under subsection 2(1); (région d’aménagement)
"officer" means a person appointed as an officer under subsection 4(1). (agent)
Designation of development area
2.(1) The Commissioner may designate any area in the Territories as a development area where the Commissioner considers that it will be necessary in the public interest to regulate the orderly development of the area, as contemplated by this Act.
(2) An area designated under subsection (1) on or after February 15, 1979, must not exceed 150 km2 of land, and the straight line joining any two points on the perimeter must not exceed 30 km.
Order to remedy default
3.(1) Where by regulation or by order of an officer a certain matter or thing is directed to be done and is not done or a certain matter or thing is directed to be not done and is done by a person, the Commissioner, officer or person authorized by the Commissioner may order the person who is in default to remedy the default.
(2) Where a person fails to comply with an order made under subsection (1) within 30 days after the day on which the order is served on the person or mailed to the person by registered mail at the person’s last known address, the Commissioner, officer or person authorized by the Commissioner may
(a) take such action as the Commissioner, officer or person authorized by the Commissioner, as the case may be, sees fit to have the default remedied; and
(b) recover from the person the expenses of the action with costs of the action in any court of competent jurisdiction.
(3) The action taken by the Commissioner, officer or person authorized by the Commissioner to have a default remedied may include the destruction, alteration or removal of buildings or structures or portions of buildings or structures.
Appointment of officers
4.(1) The Commissioner may appoint one or more officers for the purpose of administering and enforcing this Act and the regulations.
(2) An officer may make such orders as are necessary for carrying out the provisions of this Act and the regulations.
Offence and punishment
5.Every person who contravenes this Act or the regulations or any order made under this Act or the regulations is guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding $200.
Regulations
6.On the recommendation of the Minister, the Commissioner may make regulations for the orderly development of a development area and, for greater certainty, but not so as to limit the generality of this power to make regulations, may make regulations respecting
(a) the zoning of the development area, including the allocation of land in the area for agricultural, residential, business, industrial, educational, public or other purposes, and the regulation and prohibition of businesses in the area;
(b) the regulation or prohibition of the erection, maintenance, alteration, repair or removal of buildings;
(c) streets, roads, lanes, sidewalks, parks, street lighting and street transit;
(d) public health, including
(i) the supply, treatment and purification of water,
(ii) the collection and disposal of garbage and sewage,
(iii) hospitals, and
(iv) the burial of destitute persons;
(e) fire protection;
(f) animals; and
(g) the regulation or the prohibition of the discharge of guns or other firearms within a development area.
Territorial Printer, Northwest Territories Yellowknife, N.W.T./1997©