Clause 48

after subsection (2), insert —“(2A) For the purpose of subsection (2)(a), a proposal or plan (including a revised proposal or plan) for the provision of parking lots in a private parking place is deemed to be approved by the Authority if all of the following conditions are satisfied:

the proposal or plan is lodged with the Authority in accordance with rules made under section 22;

the proposal or plan complies with the requirements relating to private parking places which are prescribed in rules made under section 22;

the owner or occupier in question has obtained a written acknowledgment of the lodgment from the Authority.(2B) The Authority may issue a written acknowledgment mentioned in subsection (2A)(c) to the owner or occupier in question without checking the proposal or plan, on the basis of the prescribed documents and information that are submitted with the proposal or plan.(2C) To avoid doubt, a written acknowledgment mentioned in subsection (2A)(c) is only evidence that the proposal or plan in question has been lodged with the Authority, and is not evidence that the proposal or plan complies with the requirements relating to private parking places which are prescribed in rules made under section 22.(2D) Without affecting subsection (2B), if the Authority is of the view that the proposal or plan lodged with the Authority does not comply with any requirement mentioned in subsection (2A)(b), the Authority may —

refuse to accept any further lodgment of a proposal or plan in respect of the private parking place in question; and

direct the owner or occupier in question to submit to the Authority an application for the approval of the proposal or plan instead.”; and

in subsection (3), after “a proposal or plan”, insert “(including a revised proposal or plan)”.