LegalizeLocal Government Reform Act 2014
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Act to make further and better provision in relation to local government and, in particular, to amalgamate Limerick County Council with Limerick City Council, Waterford County Council with Waterford City Council and North Tipperary County Council with South Tipperary County Council, to provide for the position of chief executive in relation to each local authority, to dissolve town councils, to make provision for municipal districts, to assign additional reserved functions to local authority members, to dissolve county development boards and city development boards and make provision for the establishment of local community development committees, for planning and oversight of local and community development programmes, to provide for an increased role for local authorities in economic development and enterprise support, to amend the Local Government Act 1991 and provide for regional assemblies, to enable (subject to certain preconditions) a plebiscite to be held in the administrative areas of the local authorities in the Dublin area in respect of a directly elected Mayor for that area and for those and other purposes to amend the Local Government Acts 1925 to 2013, the Local Elections Acts 1974 to 2012 and other enactments relating to elections, the Housing Acts 1966 to 2013 and the Planning and Development Act 2000, to amend other acts in connection with the foregoing matters, to amend section 20 of the Dublin Docklands Development Authority Act 1997 and to provide for related matters
- (b) where the Commissioner of Valuation made orders before the relevant day or date under section 19 of the Valuation Act 2001 in respect of the dissolved authorities concerned, the list to which section 33(1) relates.
- (2) Where the valuation of any relevant property in the administrative area of a dissolved authority is at any time for any reason revised or altered (including any case where such revision or alteration arises as a result of any appeal or other process commenced before the relevant day or date), the rate shall be assessed in accordance with such revised or altered valuation and may be levied, collected and recovered accordingly by the successor authority concerned.
Continuation of housing allocation schemes.
An allocation scheme made under section 22 of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2009 by a dissolved authority to which section 17 relates that is in force immediately before the 2014 establishment date shall—
- (a) be deemed to have been made by the successor authority to the dissolved authority on that date, and
- (b) continue to have effect in respect of the former administrative area of the dissolved authority concerned until such time as that successor authority makes an allocation scheme under the said section 22.
Register of electors.
With effect from the relevant day or date and until the next following register of electors comes into force—
- (a) the register of electors in force for the Limerick registration area shall be the register of electors for Limerick City and County,
- (b) the register of electors in force for the Tipperary registration area shall be the register of electors for Tipperary County, and
- (c) the register of electors in force for the Waterford registration area shall be the register of electors for Waterford City and County.
Polling districts.
With effect from the relevant day or date, and until the first scheme under section 28 of the Electoral Act 1992 in respect of the successor authority is made, the arrangements with respect to polling districts in the areas of the relevant dissolved authorities shall be deemed to be an arrangement with respect to polling districts in the area of the successor authority.
Continuation of membership of certain bodies.
(1) Subject to the provisions of this Act and any regulations made under it, all persons appointed (whether by nomination, election or otherwise) as members of any body by a dissolved authority shall continue to be members of the body to which they were so appointed for such period as they would have held such office if this Act had not been enacted save in any case where provision to the contrary is made by any such body.
- (2) This paragraph applies to appointments—
- (a) of persons who were, immediately before the relevant day or date, members of a dissolved authority who, on or after that day or date, would continue to be members of the authority referred to in subparagraph (1) had such dissolved authority not been dissolved,
- (b) of persons to whom clause (a) does not apply,
- (c) to bodies whether corporate or unincorporate.
SCHEDULE 5 Relevant Body
Section 36(3)
“SCHEDULE 16
Relevant Bodies to which Section 128F(1) (d) Relates
(1) Pobal
(2) Avondhu/Blackwater Partnership Limited
(3) Ballyhoura Development Limited
(4) Bray Area Partnership Limited
(5) Breffni Integrated Development Limited
(6) Carlow County Development Partnership Limited
(7) Cill Dara Ar Aghaidh Teoranta
(8) Clare Local Development Company Limited
(9) Comhar na nOileáin Teoranta
(10) Comhair Chathair Chorcaí Teoranta
(11) County Kilkenny LEADER Partnership Company Limited
(12) County Sligo LEADER Partnership Company Limited
(13) Co. Wicklow Community Partnership
(14) Donegal Local Development Company Limited
(15) Fingal Leader Partnership Company Limited
(16) Forum Connemara Limited
(17) Galway City Partnership Limited
(18) Galway Rural Development Company Limited
(19) Inishowen Development Partnership
(20) IRD Duhallow Limited
(21) Laois Community and Enterprise Development Company Limited
(22) Leitrim Integrated Development Company Limited
(23) Longford Community Resources Limited
(24) Louth LEADER Partnership
(25) Mayo North East LEADER Partnership Company Teoranta
(26) Meath Community Rural and Social Development Partnership Limited
(27) Monaghan Integrated Development Limited
(28) North and East Kerry LEADER Partnership Teoranta
(29) North Tipperary LEADER Partnership
(30) Northside Partnership Limited
(31) Offaly Integrated Local Development Company Limited
(32) People Action Against Unemployment Limited
(33) Rathmines Pembroke Community Partnership Limited
(34) Roscommon Integrated Development Company Limited
(35) South and East Cork Area Development Partnership Limited
(36) South Dublin County Partnership Limited
(37) South Kerry Development Partnership Limited
(38) South Tipperary Development Company Limited
(39) South West Mayo Development Company Limited
(40) Southside Partnership DLR Limited
(41) The Ballyfermot / Chapelizod Partnership Company Limited
(42) The Ballymun Partnership Limited
(43) The Blanchardstown Area Partnership Limited
(44) Tolka Area Partnership Limited
(45) Waterford Area Partnership Limited
(46) Waterford LEADER Partnership Limited
(47) West Cork Development Partnership Limited
(48) West Limerick Resources Limited
(49) Westmeath Community Development Limited
(50) Wexford Local Development”.
Footnotes
OJ No. L197, 21.7.2001 p.30-37
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