The National Development Council (NDC) said yesterday that it would remove clauses on land expropriation from its draft act on free economic pilot zones, to protect residents’ property rights.
On Friday next week, the council is to submit a motion to revise the draft to the Cabinet, National Development Council Minister Kuan Chung-ming (管中閔) said yesterday.
The council is to talk with the Council of Agriculture on other possible changes today, Kuan said.
Upon its approval, the Cabinet will send the motion to the legislature, he added.
After the legislature passes the draft bill, local governments can apply to establish such zones, but they would not be granted an expedited land-seizure process with less supervision after the revision, Kuan said.
“Local governments will have to prepare the needed land for the zones before they apply for setting up new zones,” Kuan said. “The revision is a response to concerns raised at recent public hearings over the issue.”
On Monday, former National Taiwan University professor Shieh Jyh-cherng (謝志誠) said at a hearing of the draft in Taipei that the government used to allow local governments to carry out land seizures with little supervision for economic development in certain well-defined designated economic zones.
However, since the government plans to allow every local government to set up the zones, there might be many across the nation, and the land-seizure process may be applied to many places, Shieh said.
As a result, the pilot zone draft may violate more property rights than earlier government policies if the draft is not altered, he added.
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