S. No | Action | Responsible | Time | Output/Outcome |
1. | Identification of land which is potentially hazardous | Minister for Lands or any authority or interested party; provided that the Minister is convinced | Open | Land identified to be “proposed hazard land” and matter taken up further by the Minister |
2. | Publication of Notice in Gazette of proposed hazard land (Land Form 2, Appendix 1) | Minister | Date not less that 60 days from publication of notice when declaration will be made | Notice of intention to declare land to be hazardous specifying: a) the location of the proposed hazardous land; b) the boundaries and extent of the proposed hazardous land; c) a brief statement of the reasons for the proposed declaration; d) the date, being, not less than sixty days from the date of the publication of the notice when the declaration may be made. |
3. | A copy of the notice of proposed hazard land is: a) served on all persons occupying and using the proposed hazardous land, in a manner and form, as will be understandable to those persons; b) served on all local authorities having jurisdiction in the area of the proposed hazardous land; c) put up in conspicuous places within, the area, of the proposed hazard land d) put in official Gazette and local newspapers. | Minister | Date not less that 60 days from publication of notice when declaration will be made | All interested parties informed and enabled to give objections or otherwise, their views. |
4. | Parties served with notice or not served but interested nevertheless, make presentations to the Commissioner for Lands | Stakeholders | 30 days | Commissioner made aware of the views and objections or otherwise of the stakeholders |
5. | Commissioner hears and records representations and takes them into account whether to recommend to the Minister to declare land to be hazardous | Commissioner for Lands | 30 days (above) | Recommends to the Minister to declare or not to declare land to be hazardous. |
6. | Declaration of Hazardous land is made (Land Form 3, Appendix 2) | Minister | When convinced that that is the rights step | Land declared to be hazardous land. |
7. | Where proposed hazardous land is used under Granted Right of Occupancy or Customary Tenure, Minister will inform the President | Minister | asap | President to consider issue further |
8. | President declares land under granted right of occupancy or customary tenure, hazardous land | President | asap | Declaration serves to compulsorily acquire that land subject to payment of compensation |
9. | Notice of declaration of hazardous land put in Gazette and elsewhere | Minister | asap | Land declared to be hazardous, to be used as directed by local planning authority. |