S.I. No. 539/2001 - Local Government (Planning and Development) (Amendment) Regulations, 2001

Type Statutory Instrument
Publication 2001-12-04
Last updated 2001-12-19
State Repealed superseded text
Text As published
articles 3

This is the act as published. Later amendments are not folded into the text below: each one is a separate act in this repository and an entry in this law's history.

1 amending act · 2001-12-19, S.I. No. 599/2001 - Planning and Development Act, 2000 (Commencement) (No. 3) Order, 2001

Reform history JSON API

The Minister for the Environment and Local Government, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 10 of the Local Government (Planning and Development) Act, 1963 (No. 28 of 1963) and by section 4 of that Act (as amended by article 6 of the European Communities (Environmental Impact Assessment) Regulations, 1989 ( S.I. No. 349 of 1989 ) hereby makes the following Regulations:-

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(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Local Government (Planning and Development) (Amendment) Regulations, 2001.

Commencement.

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These Regulations shall come into operation on 10 December 2001.

Amendment of 1994 Regulations.

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The Local Government (Planning and Development) Regulations, 1994 ( S.I. No. 86 of 1994 ), as amended by article 3 of the Local Government (Planning and Development) Regulations, 1996 ( S.I. No. 100 of 1996 ), are hereby amended by -

“‘peat extraction’ includes any related drainage of bogland;” and

  • “(b) replacement of broadleaf high forest by conifer species, where the area involved would exceed 10 hectares,

  • (c) peat extraction which would involve a new or extended area of 10 hectares or more.”.

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Minister for the Environment and Local Government this 4^th day of December 2001.
Noel Dempsey, T.D. _____
Minister for the Environment and Local Government.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Instrument and does not purport to be a legal interpretation.)

The purpose of these Regulations is, firstly, to remove initial afforestation from the planning control system, to coincide with the introduction of a separate statutory consent system by the Minister for the Marine and Natural Resources under the European Communities (Environmental Impact Assessment) (Amendment) Regulations, 2001 ( S.I. No. 538 of 2001 ), and, secondly, to reduce the planning threshold for peat extraction from 50 hectares to 10 hectares.

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