Section 11

Without prejudice to section 10, the competent authority or the Minister, as the case may be, may at any time after an application for permission to develop any land under section 10(1) and before the application is determined in accordance with that section, provisionally grant permission to develop the land for such period, not exceeding 6 months, and subject to such conditions as he thinks fit, except that the competent authority or the Minister may extend the period of the provisional permission for such further period as he thinks fit.

In granting any provisional permission to develop any land, the competent authority or the Minister, as the case may be, shall act in conformity with the provisions of the Master Plan and any Certified Interpretation Plan in so far as they may be material thereto.

If the competent authority or the Minister, as the case may be, grants or refuses permission to develop any land which is the subject of any provisional permission to develop granted under this section, the provisional permission shall cease to have effect.

A valid and subsisting in principle approval for the development of any land given by the competent authority or the Minister before 1st September 1989 shall have the same force and effect as a provisional permission to develop the land granted under this section; and where any written law or document refers expressly or by implication to such in principle approval for development of land, the reference shall (except where the context otherwise requires) be construed as a reference to a provisional permission to develop the land. [9A