C43

Transitional arrangements on repeal made (31.12.2025) by Planning and Development Act 2024 (34/2024), s. 81, S.I. no. 633 of 2025, art. 3(1) and sch. part 1 item 1.

Continuation in force of pre-commencement local area plans

81.—(1) Notwithstanding the repeal of section 20 of the Act of 2000 effected by section 6, a local area plan made under that section that was in force in respect of any particular area within the functional area of a planning authority immediately before such repeal shall continue in force on and after that repeal—

(a) for the remainder of the period stated in the plan for which it is to remain in force, or

(b) until a new development plan has been made under Chapter 5 in respect of the functional area to which the plan relates,

whichever is the shorter period.

(2) The members of a planning authority may, by resolution for the purposes of ensuring the effective operation of this Part, extend for such period as they consider appropriate, the period for which a local area plan continued in force under subsection (1) is to remain in force provided that a new development plan has not been made under Chapter 5 in respect of the functional area to which the plan relates.

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C44

References to specific planning policy requirements construed as references to National Planning Policies and Measures during transitional period (2.10.2025) by Planning and Development (Amendment) Act 2025 (9/2025), s. 35(1)(b)(iii), S.I. No. 453 of 2025.

Construction of references in Act of 2000

35. (1) An unrepealed provision and any instrument under an unrepealed provision shall—

(a) on and after the coming into operation of the repeal of Part II of the Act of 2000 by section 6 of the Principal Act, and

(b) pending the coming into operation of the repeal of the said provision under subsection (3) of section 1 of the Principal Act,

apply subject to the following modifications:

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(iii) references in that unrepealed provision or instrument to specific planning policy requirements shall be construed as references to National Planning Policies and Measures within the meaning of the Principal Act;

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(2) In this section “unrepealed provision” means a provision of the Act of 2000, the repeal of which by section 6 of the Principal Act has not, for the time being, come into operation.