There is established the National Physical and Land Use Planning Consultative Forum.

The Cabinet Secretary shall appoint members nominated under subsection (2)(k), (l), (m), (n), (o), (p) and (q) by notice in the Gazette.

The National Physical and Land Use Planning Consultative Forum shall meet at least four times in a year.

Subject to this Act, the National Physical and Land Use Planning Consultative Forum may regulate its procedure.

The National Physical and Land Use Planning Consultative Forum may establish committees for the effective performance of its functions.

There is established the office of the Director-General of Physical and Land Use Planning which shall be an office in the public service.

The Director-General of Physical and Land Use Planning shall advise and be responsible to the Cabinet Secretary responsible for physical and land use planning.

The Director-General of Physical and Land Use Planning shall hold office for a term of three years, renewable once.

There is established a County Physical and Land Use Planning Consultative Forum in each county.

The respective County Executive Committee Member shall appoint members nominated under subsection (2)(h), (i), (j), (k), (l), (m), (n), (o) and (p) by notice in the Gazette.

The County Physical and Land Use Planning Consultative Forum shall meet at least four times in a year.

Subject to this Act and any relevant county legislation, the County Physical and Land Use Planning Consultative Forum may regulate its procedure.

The County Physical and Land Use Planning Consultative Forum may establish committees for the effective performance of its functions.

There is established the office of the County Director of Physical and Land Use Planning which shall be an office in the county public service.

The County Director of Physical and Land Use Planning shall advise and be responsible to the County Executive Committee Member.

The Cabinet Secretary shall cause the Director- General of Physical and Land Use Planning to prepare the National Physical and Land Use Development Plan for approval and publication in accordance with this Part.

The National Physical and Land Use Development Plan shall define strategic policies for the determination of the general direction and trends of physical, and sectoral development in Kenya and provide a framework for the use and development of land.

The Cabinet Secretary shall, at least fourteen days before commencement of the preparation of a National Physical and Land Use Development Plan, publish a notice in the Gazette, in at least two newspapers of national circulation and through electronic media of the intention to prepare a National Physical and Land Use Development Plan.

A notice published in accordance with this section shall state the objectives of National Physical and Land Use Development Plan, the purpose of the National Physical and Land Use Development Plan, the information to be set out in the plan and the places where members of the public may provide written comments on the National Physical and Land Use Development Plan.

The Director-General of Physical and Land Use Planning shall, in addition to what is provided for in subsection (1), take into account matters specified in the First Schedule to this Act.

The preparation of the National Physical and Land Use Development Plan shall be completed within twenty four months after the publication of the intention to prepare the plan.

The Cabinet Secretary may, by notice in the Gazette, extend the period within which a National Physical and Land Use Development Plan is to be prepared by one year.

Within thirty days of the preparation of the National Physical and Land Use Development Plan, the Cabinet Secretary shall publish a notice in the Gazette, in at least two newspapers of national circulation and through electronic media informing the public that the draft National Physical and Land Use Development Plan is available at the place and time specified in the notice for inspection and that any interested person may within fourteen days, comment on the content of the draft National Physical and Land Use Development Plan.

The Cabinet Secretary shall, within twenty-one days of the expiry of the period for making comments under subsection (1), consider the comments made on the National Physical and Land Use Development Plan and may incorporate the comments in the plan.

Within seven days of making a decision under subsection (2), the Cabinet Secretary shall publish a notice in the Gazette, in at least two newspapers of national circulation and through electronic media informing the public that a decision on the comments received by the Cabinet Secretary has been made and that the reviewed draft National Physical and Land Use Development Plan is available at the places and times designated in the notice for perusal.

A person dissatisfied with the decision of the Cabinet Secretary may, within fourteen days of the publication of the notice under subsection (3), apply to the Cabinet Secretary for review of his or her decision and the Cabinet Secretary shall consider the same and communicate his or her decision within sixty days of receipt of application for review.

If there have been no applications for review of the decision of the Cabinet Secretary or if the applications for review have been heard and determined, the Cabinet Secretary shall submit the draft National Physical and Land Use Development Plan to the National Physical and Land Use Planning Consultative Forum for comments.

The National Physical and Land Use Planning Consultative Forum shall consider the plan and may propose changes which shall be incorporated in the plan.

Upon incorporation of the proposed changes by the National Physical and Land Use Planning Consultative Forum, the plan shall be submitted to the Cabinet for approval.

Upon approval by the Cabinet, the Cabinet Secretary shall submit the plan to Parliament for consideration and approval.

Upon approval by Parliament, the Cabinet Secretary, shall publish the approved plan in the Gazette, in at least two newspapers of national circulation and through electronic media within fourteen days of the approval of the National Physical and Land Use Development Plan.

The planning authorities shall base the preparation of inter-county physical and land use development plans, integrated county physical and land use development plans, city physical and land use development plans, urban area physical and land use development plans and sectoral plans on the National Physical and Land Use Development Plan.

Notwithstanding the lack of a National Physical and Land Use Development Plan, planning authorities at the county level shall prepare County and Local Physical and Land Use Development Plans.

At least three months before the end of the financial year, each public institution of a government that is responsible for the application or the implementation of a National Physical and Land Use Development Plan shall prepare and submit a status report on the implementation of the National Physical and Land Use Development Plan to the Cabinet Secretary or the County Executive Committee member and the Commission for their purposes.

The status reports submitted under this section, shall be published by the National Land Commission on its website for information.

Two or more Counties may, by mutual agreement or out of compelling necessity, formulate an inter-county physical and land use development plan.

In the preparation of the Inter-County physical and land use development plan, the counties shall form an Inter-County Joint Physical and Land Use Planning Committee.

The inter-county joint physical and land use planning committee may co-opt such other persons as may be necessary to assist it in performance of its duties.

The members of the inter-county joint physical and land use planning committee appointed under subsection (3)(a) and (b) shall, during the first meeting of the Committee, elect from amongst themselves a Chairperson and a vice-Chairperson provided that the Chairperson and the vice-Chairperson shall not be county executive committee members from the same county.

The Director-General of Physical and Land Use Planning shall, in consultation with the other members of the Committee, convene the first meeting.

The Director-General of Physical and Land Use Planning shall co-ordinate meetings of the inter-county joint physical and land use planning committee and provide it with secretariat services.

The Inter-County Physical and Land Use Planning Joint Committee preparing an Inter-County Physical and Land Use Development Plan shall publish a notice of intention to prepare a plan in the Gazette, in at least two newspapers with a national circulation and through electronic media.

The notice published under subsection (1) shall state the constitution of the Inter-County Physical and Land Use Planning Joint Committee, the broad reasons for the constitution of the joint committee and the joint committee's address where comments on the plan may be submitted.

The joint committee shall prepare and complete the Inter-County Physical and Land Use Development Plan within two years from the time notice of intention to prepare the plan is published.

The joint committee shall consult, publish, consider national security and hold stakeholders' meetings during the preparation of the Inter-County Physical and Land Use Development Plan.

Within thirty days of the completion of an Inter-County Physical and Land Use Development Plan, the Inter-County Physical and Land Use Planning Joint Committee shall publish a notice in the Gazette and in at least two newspapers of national circulation informing the public that the plan is available at the place and time specified in the notice for inspection and that any interested person may, within fourteen days, comment on the content of the plan.

The Inter-County Physical and Land Use Planning Joint Committee shall, within twenty-one days of the expiry of the period for making comments under subsection (1), consider the comments made about the plan and may or may not incorporate the comments in the plan.

Within seven days of making a decision under subsection (2), the Inter-County Physical and Land Use Planning Joint Committee shall publish a notice in the Gazette and in at least two newspapers of national circulation informing the public that a decision on the comments received by the joint committee has been made and that the reviewed draft Inter-County Physical and Land Use Development Plan is available for perusal at the place and time specified in the notice.

Any person dissatisfied with the decision of the Inter-County Physical and Land Use Planning Joint Committee may appeal to the National Physical and Land Use Planning Liaison Committee within fourteen days and the committee shall consider the application and make its determination within (60) days of the receipt of the application.

Any person dissatisfied with the decision of the National Physical and Land Use Planning Liaison Committee may, within fourteen days of the decision, appeal to the Environment and Land Court.

The County Executive Committee members of all counties participating in the Inter-County physical and land use development plan shall separately submit the plans to the respective County Assemblies for approval and thereafter submit the same to the Director-General of Physical and Land Use Planning for coordination and certification.

Within thirty days of the completion of an Inter-County Physical and Land Use Development Plan or if comments on the plan have been heard and determined, the Inter-County Physical and Land Use Planning Joint Committee shall publish a notice in the Gazette and in at least two newspapers of national circulation informing the public that the Inter-County Physical and Land Use Development Plan is available for perusal at the place and time specified in the notice.

Before the Inter-County Physical and Land Use Development Plan can be implemented, the governors of the relevant counties shall adopt the plan at a joint meeting of the relevant governors that shall be organized by the Inter-County Physical and Land Use Planning Joint Committee.

The approved Inter-County Physical and Land Use Development Plan shall be deposited with the relevant County Director of Physical and Land Use Planning who shall submit certified copies of the plan to the Director- General of Physical and Land Use Planning and the Commission.

In addition to the national physical and land use development plan, the Inter-County Physical and Land Use Development Plan shall inform the preparation of a county physical and land use development plan, a local physical and land use development plan or an urban area physical and land use development plan for the county governments within the planning area covered by the Inter-County Physical and Land Use Development Plan.

Where a National Physical and Land Use Development Plan and an Inter-County Physical and Land Use Development Plan have not been prepared or approved, county governments may prepare other physical and land use development plans which will be incorporated into the National Physical and Land Use Development Plan or the relevant Inter-County Physical and Land Use Development Plan after they have been prepared and approved in accordance with this Act.

Once in every ten years, a county government shall prepare a county physical and land use development plan for that county.

Each county physical and land use development plan shall be in conformity with the National Physical and Land Use Development Plan and any relevant Inter-County Physical and Land Use Development Plan.

The county executive committee member shall ensure the county physical and land use development plan is prepared and published within a period of eighteen months from the time notice of intention to prepare the plan is published.

At least twenty-one days before commencing the preparation of a county physical and land use development plan, the county executive member shall publish a notice in the Gazette and the notice shall include the intention to prepare a county physical and land use development plan, the objects of the plan and the matters to be considered in the plan and the address to which any comments on the plan may be sent.

The notice shall be displayed for a period of fourteen days at the offices of the county government and such other places as may be necessary in all the wards within the county.

The county planning authority shall hold adequate stakeholder meetings in each ward before the completion of the preparation of the county physical and land use development plan.

In addition to the provisions of subsection (1) the county government shall take into account those matters specified in the First Schedule.

Within thirty days of the preparation of a county physical and land use development plan, the county planning authority shall publish a notice in the Gazette, in at least two newspapers of national circulation and through electronic media informing the public that the draft county physical and land use development plan is available at the places and times specified in the notice.

The county executive committee member shall facilitate public participation.

The county executive committee member shall consider the comments made about the draft county physical and land use development plan and may incorporate the comments in the plan.

A person aggrieved by a decision of the county planning authority concerning the county physical and land use development plan or matters connected therewith, may within sixty days of receipt by him of notice of such decision, appeal to the county physical and land use planning liaison committee in writing against the decision in such manner as may be prescribed.

Subject to subsection (4), the county physical and land use planning liaison committee may reverse, confirm or vary the decision appealed against and make such order as it deems necessary or expedient to give effect to its decision.

When a decision is reversed by the county physical and land use planning liaison committee it shall, before making any order under subsection (5), afford the county planning authority an opportunity of making representations as to any conditions or requirements which in his opinion ought to be included in the order, and shall also afford the appellant an opportunity to replying to such representations.

Any person aggrieved by a decision of the County Physical and Land Use Planning Liaison Committee under this section may appeal to the Environment and Land Court against such decision in accordance with the rules of procedure for the time being applicable to the High Court.

If there are no applications for the review of a county physical and land use development plan or if all applications for review have been heard and determined, the county executive committee member shall submit the draft county physical and land use development plan to the County Physical and Land Use Planning Consultative Forum for comments.

The County Physical and Land Use Planning Consultative Forum shall consider the plan and may propose changes which shall be incorporated in the plan.

Upon incorporation of the proposed changes by the County Physical and Land Use Planning Consultative Forum, the county executive committee member shall submit the completed county physical land use development plan to the county governor who shall cause it to be placed before the county assembly for approval.

On the approval of the county physical and land use development plan by the respective county assembly, the county executive committee member shall publish the approved plan in the Gazette and in at least two newspapers with a national circulation within fourteen days of the approval and no development shall take place on any land unless it is in conformity with the approved plan.

A county physical and land use development plan shall be the basis for the preparation of sectoral programmes and projects in the county and sub-county levels.

On the approval of the county government, the County Executive Committee member shall publish a notice in the Gazette, in at least two newspapers of national circulation and through electronic media notifying any interested parties of the proposed amendments to the county physical and land use development plan and the period within which interested parties may make representations to the County Executive Committee member.

Where a county executive committee member determines that a proposed amendment to the county physical and land use development plan shall affect other counties, the county executive committee member shall consult the county executive committee members in the counties that are likely to be affected and shall take into account their comments before incorporating the amendment to the county physical and land use development plan.

During the process of amending a county physical and land use development plan, the county executive committee member shall ensure public participation.

The amended county physical and land use development plan shall be published by the county planning authority in accordance with section 41 of this Act.

This section shall not prevent the national government or a person ordinarily resident in a county from proposing an amendment to the county physical and land use development plan.

A county executive committee member may only initiate the process of revising a county physical and land use development plan after eight years have elapsed since the county plan was published in the Gazette.

The provisions of section 42 of this Act shall apply with the necessary modifications to the revision of a county physical and land use development plan.

A county government shall prepare a local physical and land use development plan in respect of a city, municipality, town or unclassified urban area as the case may be.

A local physical and land use development plan may be for long-term physical and land use development, short-term physical and land use development, urban renewal or redevelopment and for the purposes set out in the Second Schedule in relation to each type of plan.

A local physical and land use development plan shall be consistent with an Integrated City or Urban Development Plan as contemplated under Part V of the Urban Areas and Cities Act (Cap. 275).

The survey report in a local physical and land use development plan should include technical annexes and a sieve analysis of gradient, environment and infrastructure so as to provide for maximum locations for new developments.

Within thirty days of the preparation of a local physical and land use development plan, a county planning authority shall publish a notice in the Gazette, in at least two newspapers of national circulation and through electronic media informing the public that the plan is available at the places and times designated in the notice for inspection and that an interested person may comment on the content of the plan.

The provisions of section 40 relating to the making of representations or objections to the county physical and land use planning liaison committee concerning county physical and land use development plans and to the consideration by the committee of such representations or objections and to appeals shall apply mutatis mutandis to this section.

The provisions of section 41 relating to the approval or disapproval of a county physical and land use development plan shall apply mutatis mutandis to the approval or disapproval of a local physical and land use development plan.

Where the county executive committee member intends to amend or revise a local physical and land use development plan, the provisions of section 42 shall apply with the necessary modifications.

A County Executive Committee member may initiate the revision of a local physical and land use development plan after a period of three years after the plan has been approved in accordance with section 51 of this Act or as the need may arise.

Where a county government has declared an area as a special planning area, the county executive committee member may, by notice in the Gazette, suspend for a period of not more than two years any development in the special planning area until a physical and land use development plan in respect of that area has been approved.

Despite subsection (2), where planning permission has been granted in an area declared to be a special planning area before the declaration is made, the permitted development shall be permitted to continue but only if planning permission was granted more than six months before the declaration of the special planning area.

The county government shall declare an area as a special planning area by notice in the Gazette and in at least two newspapers of national circulation and the notice shall specify the area declared as a special planning area and the nature of the proposed development for which the declaration has been made.

A county planning authority may publish such Regulations as may be necessary to promote public participation during the process of declaring an area a special planning area.

A physical and land use development plan prepared for a special planning area shall undergo the process of approval in accordance with section 49 of this Act.

In addition to the provisions of subsection (1), development control may also relate to the matters specified in the Third Schedule

A person shall not carry out development within a county without a development permission granted by the respective county executive committee member.

A person who commences any development without obtaining development permission commits an offence and is liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding five hundred thousand shillings or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two months or to both.

A county executive committee member shall require a person who has commenced a development without obtaining development permission to restore the land on which the development is taking place to its original condition or as near to its original condition as is possible and that such restoration shall take place within ninety days.

Where a person who is required to do so fails to comply with the provisions of subsection (3), the relevant county executive committee member may undertake to restore the land as required and shall recover the cost of the restoration from the person required to undertake the restoration.

A county executive committee member may revoke development permission if the applicant has contravened any provision of this Act or conditions imposed on the development permission for any justifiable cause.

A county executive committee member may modify the conditions imposed on development permission where circumstances require it or for any justifiable cause.

A person shall obtain development permission from the respective county executive committee member by applying for development permission from that county executive committee member in the prescribed form and after paying the prescribed fees.

An applicant for development permission shall provide documents, plans and particulars as may be required by the respective county executive committee member to indicate the purposes of the proposed development.

An applicant for development permission shall indicate the proposed uses to which the land shall be put, the population density to which that land shall be subjected and the portion of the land the applicant shall provide for easements as a consequence of the applicant's proposed development.

Where an applicant is not the registered owner of the land for which development permission is being sought, that applicant shall obtain the written consent of the registered owner of that land and the applicant shall provide that written consent to the respective county executive committee member at the time of applying for development permission.

The development permission granted by a county executive committee member shall be subject to compliance with the provisions of any other written law.

Where an applicant does not receive written response for development permission within sixty days, such permission shall be assumed to have been given in terms of this Act.

A person applying for development permission shall also notify the public of the development project being proposed to be undertaken in a certain area in such a manner as the Cabinet Secretary shall prescribe.

The notification referred to under subsection (7), shall invite the members of the public to submit any objections on the proposed development project to the relevant county executive committee member for consideration.

A person applying for development permission shall ensure that any documents, plans and particulars that are provided to the respective county executive committee member while applying for development permission have been prepared by the relevant qualified, registered and licensed professionals.

A person who purports to prepare a document, plan or particulars required under this Act shall prove that person's credentials when asked to do so by a county executive committee member and shall be required to authenticate the copies of the documents, plans or particulars provided to the county executive committee member in that person's name.

Within fourteen days of receiving the copy of the development permission from a county executive committee member, the relevant authorities or agencies shall submit their comments to the respective county executive committee member.

An applicant or an interested party that is aggrieved by the decision of a county executive committee member regarding an application for development permission may appeal against that decision to the County Physical and Land Use Planning Liaison Committee within fourteen days of the decision by the county executive committee member and that committee shall hear and determine the appeal within fourteen days of the appeal being filed.

An applicant or an interested party who files an appeal under sub-section (3) and who is aggrieved by the decision of the committee may appeal against that decision to the Environment and Land Court.

Each county executive committee member shall maintain a register of documents submitted by applicants for development permission and shall issue a submission certificate to every applicant who submits such documents.

Each county executive committee member shall maintain a register of development permission and shall enter the details of each applicant for development permission, whether or not development permission was granted to that applicant and the details of the proposed project for which development permission has been applied for.

A register maintained by a county executive committee member under this Act shall be open to the public for scrutiny and the Cabinet Secretary shall publish guidelines for public access to that register.

A county executive committee member may levy a development fee against an applicant for development permission.

Each county government may, by notice in the Gazette, publish Regulations determining the circumstances under which a development fee shall be levied, the rates that shall be payable and the circumstances under which a development fee may be waived.

Where a development fee has been waived in relation to an application for development permission, a county executive committee member may require that applicant to develop infrastructure in relation to the property in question for general use by the residents of the area where the property in question is located.

Where an applicant for development permission has been granted development permission but has not commenced the proposed project within three years of receiving the development permission that permission shall lapse.

Despite sub-section (1), a county executive committee member, where an applicant makes an application, may extend development permission by a period of one year if the county executive committee member determines it is necessary or just to grant that extension.

Where a county executive committee member extends development permission, it may impose further conditions on the applicant that he or she considers fit.

Despite the provisions of subsections (1) (a) and (1) (b) (iii) of this section, in case of any material variations in a development permission, the applicant may apply to the county executive committee member for development permission.

A person who commits an offence under this section is liable, on conviction to a fine of not less than one million shillings or to imprisonment for a term of not less than five years or to both.

A county executive committee member may demand the production of, and make extracts from, all registers or other records or any deeds or instruments belonging to, or in the custody or possession of, any public officer or any person and in which are contained particulars of any land or property affected by the relevant physical and land use development plan.

The information obtained by a county executive committee member in accordance with sub-section (1) shall be treated confidentially and shall not be disclosed to any other person except by an order of a court in connection with any legal proceedings.

Any request for information shall protect the rights enshrined in Article 31 of the Constitution.

The Cabinet Secretary shall consider and offer policy guidance to any public institution proposing a project of strategic national importance.

Any inter-county physical and land use development projects shall be approved in accordance with section 33.

The Cabinet Secretary shall within sixty days of the enactment of this Act make regulations prescribing for the projects that may be classified as strategic national or inter-county projects.

The Cabinet Secretary may consider and approve development permission for any development to be carried out within the prescribed projects of strategic national importance.

Subject to the provisions of National Museums and Heritage Act (Cap. 216), a county government may, after consultation with the Cabinet Secretary responsible for national heritage, serve on the owner or occupier of a building which in the opinion of the county government is of special architectural value or historic interest, an order prohibiting the demolition, alteration or extension of such building.

All physical and land use development plans shall take into account and record all heritage sites declared or deemed to have been declared under the National Museums and Heritage Act (Cap. 216).

The owner of any building which shall be declared a national monument building shall be compensated for loss of use and income.

Where a person on whom an enforcement notice has been served is aggrieved by that notice, that person may appeal to the relevant County Physical and Land Use Planning Liaison Committee within fourteen days of being served with the notice and the committee shall hear and determine the appeal within thirty days of the appeal being filed.

Any party aggrieved with the determination of the county physical and land use planning liaison committee may appeal to the court only on a matter of law and the court shall hear and determine the appeal within thirty days.

A person who has been served with an enforcement notice and who refuses to comply with the provisions of that notice commits an offence and is liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding five hundred thousand shillings or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two months or to both.

The Cabinet Secretary shall provide the secretariat services to the committee.

The members of the National Physical and Land Use Planning Liaison Committee appointed under subsection (1)(h), (i), (j), (k), (l) and (m) shall serve for a term not exceeding five years and shall not be eligible for re-appointment.

The Chairperson of the committee shall be a person appointed under paragraphs (h), (i), (j), (k), (l) or (m).

The National Physical and Land Use Planning Liaison Committee may co-opt any other persons with special skills, interest and knowledge to assist in its deliberations but not more than three persons at any one time.

The co-opted members of the National Physical and Land Use Planning Liaison Committee may not vote on any matter for which a vote of the committee is required and the numbers of the co-opted members shall not count in determining the quorum of the National Physical and Land Use Planning Liaison Committee.

The county physical and land use planning liaison committee may co-opt a maximum of five experts to assist in its deliberations.

The County Executive Committee member shall provide secretariat services to the committee.

The members of the County Physical and Land Use Planning Liaison Committee appointed under subsection (1)(a), (d), (e), (f) and (g) shall serve for a term not exceeding three years, renewable once.

The County Physical and Land Use Planning Liaison Committee shall, subject to this Act or any other written law, determine its own procedure.

Despite sub-section (1), the quorum of the County Physical and Land Use Planning Liaison Committee shall be half the members of the Liaison Committee.

Every decision of a County Physical and Land Use Planning Liaison Committee shall be by a majority vote of the members present and voting and where there is a tied vote, the Chairperson of that committee or the person acting as the Chairperson of that committee shall cast the deciding vote.

Where the Chairperson of a County Physical and Land Use Planning Liaison Committee is unable to exercise his functions owing to illness, genuine absence or any other reason, the members present shall elect one of their own to be the Chairperson of the respective Liaison Committee.

A County Physical and Land Use Planning Liaison Committee shall meet at least four times in a year.

A person who appeals to County Physical and Land Use Planning Liaison Committee shall do so in writing in the prescribed form.

A County Physical and Land Use Planning Liaison Committee shall hear and determine an appeal within thirty days of the appeal being filed and shall inform the appellant of the decision within fourteen days of making the determination.

The Chairperson of a County Physical and Land Use Planning Liaison Committee shall cause the determination of the committee to be filed in the Environment and Land Court and the court shall record the determination of the committee as a judgment of the court and published in the Gazette or in at least one newspaper of national circulation.

A person who has been summoned to appear before a County Physical and Land Use Planning Liaison Committee may do so through a representative or through any form of communication that the committee may permit for the purpose and if required to produce or deliver any document that person shall produce or deliver that document in accordance with the direction of the committee.

A person who contravenes the provisions of this section commits an offence and is liable, on conviction, to a fine not exceeding twenty-five thousand shillings.

A person who has made an appeal before a County Physical and Land Use Planning Liaison Committee may withdraw the appeal in writing at any time before the appeal is determined by the committee.

The County Physical and Land Use Planning Liaison Committee shall notify each relevant party that an appeal has been withdrawn within seven days of receiving the written notice of the withdrawal.

Where a County Physical and Land Use Planning Liaison Committee determines that an appeal has been abandoned by the person who filed the appeal, that committee may require the applicant to submit to the committee, within fourteen days of the committee notifying the applicant in writing, reasons why the appeal should not be regarded as having been withdrawn.

The County Physical and Land Use Planning Liaison Committee shall consider the submissions made under sub-section (3) and shall either allow the appeal to be finally heard and determined or shall stop all proceedings and determine that the appeal has been withdrawn.

Every County Physical and Land Use Planning Liaison Committee shall maintain written records of all its proceedings.

A member of the National Physical and Land Use Planning Liaison Committee or a County Physical and Land Use Planning Liaison Committee who has an interest in a matter being considered by that committee shall disclose that interest at the meeting in which that matter is being considered.

A member of a Physical and Land Use Planning Liaison Committee who makes a disclosure under subsection (1) shall not take part in any proceedings related to that matter.

A member of a physical and land use planning liaison committee who does not disclose an interest as required under this section commits an offence and is liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding one hundred thousand shillings or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two months or to both.

A person who contravenes the provisions of subsection (1) commits an offence and on conviction is liable to a fine not exceeding one hundred thousand shillings.

Despite sub-section (1), a person may disclose information that person obtained while serving on the National Physical and Land Use Planning Liaison Committee or a County Physical and Land Use Planning Liaison Committee in the performance of their duties to a person authorized by any written law to be given that information or as may be required by a court of law.

Each Physical and Land Use Planning Liaison Committee shall maintain a register of each appeal filed, minutes of the meeting of the committee and the decisions of the committee.

Each register maintained by Physical and Land Use Planning Liaison Committees shall be made available to the public for scrutiny.

An interested party may, in the prescribed form, apply to a Physical and Land Use Planning Liaison Committee to examine a register maintained by that committee and that party may, after paying a prescribed fee, make copies or take extracts from that register.

The Cabinet Secretary may, by notice in the Gazette, make Regulations for the better implementation of the provisions of this section.

The Cabinet Secretary, may make regulations generally for giving effect to this Act, and for prescribing anything required to be prescribed by or under this Act.

Any approval for development granted in accordance with the provisions of any written law in force immediately prior to the commencement of this Act shall be deemed to be a development permission granted under this Act.

Despite the provisions of subsection (1), if a development for which approval was granted under the provisions of any written law in force immediately before the commencement of this Act shall not have been commenced within twenty-four months of the commencement of this Act that development approval shall lapse.

Where an application for development had been made under the provisions of any written law prior to the commencement of this Act and approval has not been granted, that application shall be deemed to be an application for development permission under this Act and shall be deemed to have been made on the date of the commencement of this Act.