11A.—(1) In this section—

"specified planning authority" means—

(a) in respect of its administrative area, a town council, or

(b) in respect of its administrative area, North Tipperary County Council, South Tipperary County Council, Limerick County Council, Limerick City Council, Waterford County Council or Waterford City Council;

"town council" means the town council of a town set out in Part 1 of Schedule 6 to the Local Government Act 2001 and to which section 11(4) of that Act relates.

(2) Except as provided for by section 11B(2), subsection (1) of section 11 shall not apply to a specified planning authority—

(a) where the specified planning authority decides not to review its development plan, or

(b) where a notice of intention to review its development plan has been given by the specified planning authority under that subsection and it decides by virtue of this section not to review, or not to continue to review, that plan,

and, accordingly, the development plan shall continue to have effect until such time as a development plan that includes the administrative area of the specified planning authority is made for the purposes of section 11B.

(3) A decision by a specified planning authority under subsection (2) shall not have effect unless notice of the making of the decision—

(a) is given in writing to the Minister,

(b) where the planning authority is a town council, is given in writing to the council of the county in which the town council is situated, and

(c) is published in a newspaper circulating in the area to which the development plan concerned relates.

(4) A notice of the making of a decision by a specified planning authority under subsection (2) may be published by it on the internet.]