s 30F Board’s certificate or approval required for coastal protection measure
30F.—(1) A person must not put in place or expand a coastal protection measure, or a part of a coastal protection measure, for a prescribed place (called in this section relevant works), or cause or permit such relevant works, for the purposes of section 30E without first obtaining for the relevant works a clearance certificate or the approval of the Board under section 33. (2) Where, in respect of 2 or more prescribed places that are adjacent to one another, each of the applications for a clearance certificate or the approval of the Board relating to any relevant works is pending before the Board, the Board may approve the applications in any order that it thinks fit and may, for this purpose, take into account the relative complexities and time involved in the relevant works for the respective prescribed places. (3) The Board may impose as a condition of a clearance certificate or approval under section 33(7) that the certificate or approval is valid for a specified period. (4) The Board may, on its own initiative or upon an application made within the time prescribed in regulations made under section 74, extend the period of validity of a clearance certificate or approval relating to any relevant works at any prescribed place; but any extension (if granted) does not extend the date mentioned in section 30E(1) or (5)(a) to have a coastal protection measure or expand a coastal protection measure (as the case may be) for the prescribed place. (5) Where the period of validity of a clearance certificate or an approval is about to expire or has expired, an application for a new clearance certificate or approval may be made to the Board, whether or not for the same relevant works for the prescribed place for which the firstmentioned clearance certificate or approval was granted. (6) Where a person contravenes subsection (1) or any condition of a clearance certificate or approval mentioned in that subsection, the Board may do one or both of the following:(a) serve on an owner of the prescribed place a written notice requiring the owner to demolish or remove the coastal protection measure or the part of the coastal protection measure, or the expansion, resulting from the relevant works, or restore the coastal protection measure or part or expansion to its original condition, within the time specified in the notice; (b) revoke the clearance certificate or approval given, or suspend the clearance certificate or approval for any period that the Board considers reasonable. (7) Any person who —(a) contravenes subsection (1); or (b) carries out any relevant works —(i) after the clearance certificate or approval relating to those works has expired (and a new clearance certificate or approval has not been granted under subsection (5)); or (ii) after the clearance certificate or approval relating to those works has been revoked, or during the period that the clearance certificate or approval is suspended, under subsection (6)(b), shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $20,000. [Act 8 of 2026 wef 29/05/2026]