90 Confirmation of National Plan (1) If, after the period specified in a notice in terms of paragraph (a) of section eight-nine— (a) no objections or representations have been received in response to the notice, the Minister may confirm the National Plan and fix the date on which it shall come into operation; (b) objections or representations have been received in response to the notice, the Minister shall consider all the objections and representations and may either— (i) confirm the National Plan and fix the date on which it shall come into operation; or (ii) carry out such further consultations as he considers necessary. (2) After carrying out such further consultations, the Minister shall make whatever changes he considers necessary to the National Plan in the light of those further consultations. (3) When a National Plan is resubmitted to him in terms of subsection (2), the Minister may— (a) confirm the National Plan and fix the date on which it shall come into operation; or (b) carry out such further consultations as he considers necessary; and subsection (2) and this subsection shall apply to any further such consultations and resubmissions until the Minister confirms the National Plan. (4) The Minister shall cause notice to be given in the Gazette of the date fixed by him for the National Plan to come into operation. 91 Operative National Plan to be open to public inspection The Minister shall ensure that a National Plan that has come into operation in terms of section ninety is open to inspection by the public, free of charge, during normal business hours at the offices of the Secretary and at such other places in Zimbabwe as the Minister may direct. 92 Effect of operative National Plan (1) A National Plan that has come into operation in terms of section ninety shall be binding on all persons, including the State. (2) Every person and authority upon whom any function has been conferred or imposed in connection with the environment by or under any enactment shall, in exercising such function, have regard to a National Plan that has come into operation in terms of section ninety. (3) Without limiting the generality of subsections (1) and (2)— (a) a National Plan that has come into operation in terms of section ninety shall be taken into account in the preparation and implementation of regional and master plans in terms of the Regional, Town and Country Planning Act [Chapter 29:12]; and (b) no person shall implement a project otherwise than in compliance with a National Plan that has come into operation in terms of section ninety. 93 Changes to operative National Plan (1) If it appears to the Minister that a National Plan that has come into operation in terms of section ninety-two should be changed, the Minister shall— (a) give notice in the Gazette and in a newspaper with wide circulation of the proposal to change the National Plan and of the places at which the National Plan embodying the 41