URBAN COUNCILS ACT Chapter 29:15 (5) Where the Minister wishes to amend any model building by-laws he shall— (a) ensure that copies of the proposed amending model building by-laws are open to inspection at the State offices specified in the notice referred to in paragraph (b) and at the offices of the councils referred to in paragraph (b) of subsection (6); and (b) cause a notice in terms of subsection (6) to be published in two issues of a newspaper. (6) A notice in terms of subsection (5) shall— (a) specify the chapters of the model building by-laws that are to be amended by the proposed by-laws; and (b) specify offices of the State from which the following information may be obtained— (i) the councils which have adopted each particular chapter of the model building bylaws that is to be amended; and (ii) the area within which or class of buildings to which the chapter concerned applies within a particular council area; and (c) indicate that the proposed amendment to a chapter of the model building by-laws will apply automatically within the areas of those councils which have adopted the chapter concerned or, where a council has provided that the provisions of the chapter concerned shall apply only to a part of its area or to a class of buildings, within that part of its area or to that class of buildings, as the case may be; and (d) state that— (i) copies of the model building by-laws and the proposed amending by-laws, together with a written explanation of each amendment, will be open to inspection at— A. the offices of the State specified in the notice; and B. the offices of the councils within the areas of which the proposed amending bylaws will apply; for a period of thirty days from the date of the last publication of that notice in the newspaper; and (ii) objections to the proposed amending by-laws may be lodged in writing with the Secretary of the Ministry for which the Minister is responsible before a specified date, being not less than thirty days after the date of the last publication of the notice in the newspaper. (7) Subject to subsection (8), any amendment to a particular chapter of the model building by-laws made by the Minister in terms of this section shall be of force— (a) within any council area where that chapter has been adopted; or (b) where a council has provided that the chapter concerned shall apply only to a part of its area or to a class of buildings, within that part of its area or to that class of buildings, as the case may be; without the council adopting such amending by-laws. (8) If a council to which any proposed amendment of the model building by-laws would apply— (a) does not wish that amendment to apply within its area, it may, with the approval of the Minister, amend its by-laws so as to provide that the particular chapter of the model building by-laws that is to be or has been amended is no longer applicable within its area and may make alternative provisions; or (b) wishes that amendment to be introduced gradually or in stages within its area or any part thereof, it may amend its by-laws adopting the model building by-laws so as to provide for the gradual or phased introduction of that amendment within that area or part thereof and for the saving, for any period and subject to any conditions, of any other by-laws of the council in force within that area or part thereof. (9) The Minister may, in respect of such buildings or such areas and on such terms and conditions as he may determine, after the council concerned has been consulted, by notice in the Gazette require the council to suspend the operation of any by-laws in force within the council area which provide for the matters referred to in subsection (1). (10) Subject to any by-laws made in terms of paragraph (b) of the proviso to subsection (2) or paragraph (b) of subsection (8), where model building by-laws are in force in any council 89