Agriculture Appeals Act 2001
Number 29 of 2001
AGRICULTURE APPEALS ACT 2001
REVISED
Updated to 17 July 2025
This Revised Act is an administrative consolidation of the Agriculture Appeals Act 2001. It is prepared by the Law Reform Commission in accordance with its function under the Law Reform Commission Act 1975 (3/1975) to keep the law under review and to undertake revision and consolidation of statute law.
All Acts up to and including the Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Act 2025 (7/2025), enacted 15 July 2025, and all statutory instruments up to and including the Agriculture Appeals Act 2001 (Amendment of Schedule) Regulations 2025 (S.I. No. 342 of 2025), made 17 July 2025, were considered in the preparation of this Revised Act.
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Number 29 of 2001
AGRICULTURE APPEALS ACT 2001
REVISED
Updated to 17 July 2025
ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS
Section
1.
2.
Appointment of appeals officers.
3.
Director of Agriculture Appeals.
4.
Deputy Director of Agriculture Appeals.
4A.
Agriculture Appeals Review Panel.
5.
Functions of appeals officers.
6.
Independence of appeals officers.
7.
8.
9.
10.
Revised Decisions by Director and appeals officers.
10A.
Revised decisions by Review Panel.
11.
12.
Representations under National Beef Assurance Scheme Act, 2000. (Repealed)
13.
Representations by certain animal and poultry dealers. (Repealed)
14.
14A.
Establishment of Forestry Appeals Committee and its function.
14B.
14C.
14D.
General directive as to policy.
14E.
14F.
14G.
Prohibition on unauthorised disclosure of confidential information.
15.
16.
Laying of regulations before Houses of Oireachtas.
17.
18.
Amendment of First Schedule to Ombudsman Act, 1980.
19.
Schemes
Agriculture Appeals Review Panel
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Acts Referred to |
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Diseases of Animals Acts, 1996 to 2001 |
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National Beef Assurance Scheme Act, 2000 |
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Ombudsman Act, 1980 |
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Number 29 of 2001
AGRICULTURE APPEALS ACT 2001
REVISED
Updated to 17 July 2025
AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE APPOINTMENT OF APPEALS OFFICERS TO REVIEW ON APPEAL DECISIONS OF OFFICERS OF THE MINISTER FOR AGRICULTURE, FOOD AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT IN RELATION TO CERTAIN SCHEMES AND TO PROVIDE FOR CONNECTED MATTERS. [9th July, 2001]
BE IT ENACTED BY THE OIREACHTAS AS FOLLOWS:
Annotations
Modifications (not altering text):
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Prospective affecting provision: application of Act subject to transitional provisions in Agriculture Appeals (Amendment) Act 2024 (38/2024), s. 15, not commenced as of date of revision.
Transitional provisions
15.—(1) The Act of 2001 shall have effect as amended by this Part on and after the commencement date in respect of a pre-commencement decision if immediately before the commencement date—
(a) no request has been made for revision of the decision by an appeals officer under section 10(1) of the Act of 2001 or by the Director under section 10(2) of that Act,
(b) a request for revision of the decision by an appeals officer under section 10(1) of the Act of 2001 has been made but not determined, or
(c) a request for revision of the decision by the Director under section 10(2) of the Act of 2001 has been made but not determined (in which case the Director shall make administrative arrangements to transfer the request to the Review Panel for consideration under section 10A of that Act).
(2) The period allowed by section 10(1A) or subsection (1), be taken to be the period of 12 months beginning with the commencement date.10A(2)(b) of the Act of 2001 for requesting a revision shall, in the application of those provisions by virtue of
(3) In relation to any pre-commencement decision to which subsection (1) does not apply, the Act of 2001 shall continue to have effect as if this Part had not come into operation.
(4) In this section—
“commencement date” means the date on which section 9 comes into operation;
“pre-commencement decision” means a decision made before the commencement date by an appeals officer under section 7(4) or 10(1) of the Act of 2001.