Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2011
Number 20 of 2011
ENVIRONMENT (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) ACT 2011
REVISED
Updated to 31 January 2019
This Revised Act is an administrative consolidation of the Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2011. 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 Local Government Act 2019 (1/2019), enacted 25 January 2019, and all statutory instruments up to and including Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2011 (Commencement) Order 2019 (S.I. No. 23 of 2019), made 30 January 2019, were considered in the preparation of this Revised Act.
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Number 20 of 2011
ENVIRONMENT (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) ACT 2011
REVISED
Updated to 31 January 2019
ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS
Preliminary and General
Section
1. Short title, collective citations, construction and commencement.
Costs of Certain Proceedings to be Borne by Each Party in Certain Circumstances
3. Costs of proceedings to be borne by each party in certain circumstances.
4. Civil proceedings relating to certain licences, etc.
5. Proceedings relating to Information Regulations.
6. Additional proceedings to which section 3 applies.
7. Application to court for determination that section 3 applies to proceedings.
8. Judicial notice to be taken of Convention.
Amendment of Act of 1987
9. Amendment of section 12 of Act of 1987.
11. Amendment of section 14 of Act of 1987.
Amendment of Act of 1996
12. Amendment of section 72 of Act of 1996.
13. Amendment of section 73 of Act of 1996.
14. Amendment of section 74 of Act of 1996.
Amendment of Planning and Development Act 2000
16. Amendment of section 2 of Act of 2000.
17. Amendment of section 4 of Act of 2000.
18. Amendment of section 13 of Act of 2000.
19. Amendment of section 30 of Act of 2000.
20. Amendment of section 50A of Act of 2000.
21. Amendment of section 50B of Act of 2000.
22. Amendment of section 57 of Act of 2000.
23. Amendment of section 82 of Act of 2000.
24. Amendment of section 87 of Act of 2000.
25. Amendment of section 130 of Act of 2000.
26. Amendment of section 135 of Act of 2000.
27. Amendment of section 153 of Act of 2000.
28. Amendment of section 157 of Act of 2000.
29. Amendment of section 160 of Act of 2000.
30. Amendment of section 170 of Act of 2000.
31. Amendment of section 177R of Act of 2000.
32. European site that does not host priority habitat or species and draft Land use plan.
33. European site that hosts priority habitat or species and draft Land use plan.
34. Amendment of section 177Z of Act of 2000.
35. European site that does not host priority habitat or species.
36. European site that hosts priority habitat or species.
37. Amendment of section 181A of Act of 2000.
37A. Transitional provision regarding section 37.
38. Amendment of section 181B of Act of 2000.
38A. Transitional provision regarding section 38.
39. Amendment of section 182A of Act of 2000.
40. Amendment of section 182C of Act of 2000.
41. Amendment of Seventh Schedule to Act of 2000.
Miscellaneous
43. Amendment of Freedom of Information Act 1997.
44. Amendment of Local Government Act 1998.
45. Amendment of section 70 of Environmental Protection Agency Act 1992.
47. Savings and transitionals.
49. Amendment of section 32 of Official Languages Act 2003. (Repealed)
Acts Referred to
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1987, No. 6 |
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1996, No. 14 |
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1992, No. 7 |
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1972, No. 27 |
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1933, No. 12 |
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1946, No. 13 |
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1997, No. 13 |
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1976, No. 30 |
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1998, No. 16 |
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2001, No. 37 |
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2006, No. 42 |
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1977, No. 1 |
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1940, No. 31 |
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1965, No. 7 |
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2009, No. 15 |
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2003, No. 32 |
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1960, No. 7 |
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2000, No. 30 |
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2010, No. 30 |
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Planning and Development (Strategic Infrastructure) Act 2006 |
2006, No. 27 |
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Planning and Development Acts 2000 to 2010 |
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1991, No. 9 |
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1993, No. 14 |
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2001, No. 55 |
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1996, No. 10 |
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Waste Management Acts 1996 to 2003 |
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2007, No. 30 |
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1976, No. 39 |
Number 20 of 2011
ENVIRONMENT (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) ACT 2011
REVISED
Updated to 31 January 2019
AN ACT TO AMEND AND EXTEND THE AIR POLLUTION ACT 1987; THE ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY ACT 1992; THE WASTE MANAGEMENT ACT 1996; AND THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 1997; TO MAKE PROVISION FOR COSTS OF CERTAIN PROCEEDINGS; TO GIVE EFFECT TO CERTAIN ARTICLES OF THE CONVENTION ON ACCESS TO INFORMATION, PUBLIC PARTICIPATION IN DECISION-MAKING AND ACCESS TO JUSTICE IN ENVIRONMENTAL MATTERS DONE AT AARHUS, DENMARK ON 25 JUNE 1998 AND FOR JUDICIAL NOTICE TO BE TAKEN OF THE CONVENTION; TO AMEND THE PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT ACT 2000; THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT 1998; THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT 2001 AND THE OFFICIAL LANGUAGES ACT 2003; AND TO PROVIDE FOR RELATED MATTERS.
[2nd August, 2011]
BE IT ENACTED BY THE OIREACHTAS AS FOLLOWS:
Annotations
Modifications (not altering text):
C1
Application of collectively cited Planning and Development Acts restricted (3.07.2017) by Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Act 2016 (17/2016), s. 4(1), S.I. No. 270 of 2017.
Strategic housing developments and planning applications
4. (1) Subject to subsection (4), during the specified period and notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in any other provision of the Planning and Development Acts 2000 to 2016—
(a) an application for permission for a strategic housing development shall—
(i) be made to the Board under this section and not to a planning authority, other than an application for permission, the purpose of which is as set out in section 34(3A) of the Act of 2000,
(ii) be so made only where section 6 (7)(b) applies or, in the case that a request is made under section 7 (1), when the Board has complied with the request pursuant to section 7 (2),
(iii) be so made only where the applicant for permission has fulfilled the requirements set out in section 8,
(iv) be in such form and contain such information as is prescribed, and
(v) be accompanied by the appropriate fee,
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(b) a copy of the application, shall be sent by the applicant to the planning authority or authorities in whose area or areas the proposed strategic housing development would be situated.
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(4) In the case of an application for permission for a strategic housing development that is located in a strategic development zone, the applicant may elect to make the application to the planning authority under section 34 of the Act of 2000 rather than under this section and, accordingly, section 170 of that Act applies to the application to which the said section 34 relates.
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C2
References to “a county council or a city council” and “a county council and a city council” construed (1.06.2014) by Local Government Reform Act 2014 (1/2014), s. 9(2)-(3), S.I. No. 214 of 2014.
Cesser and amalgamation of certain local government areas
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(2) Except where otherwise provided for by this Act, a reference, however expressed, in any enactment—
(a) to a county council or a city council (including a reference construed by section 3(2) of, and Schedule 2 to, the Principal Act as a reference to a county council or to a city council, as the case may be) shall, if the context permits, be read as a reference to a county council, a city council or a city and county council, and
(b) to a county council and a city council (including a reference so construed) shall, if the context permits, be read as a reference to a county council, a city council and a city and county council.
(3) Except where otherwise provided for by this Act, a reference, however expressed, in any enactment—
(a) to the administrative area of a county council or the administrative area of a city council shall, if the context permits, be read as a reference to the administrative area of a county council, the administrative area of a city council or the administrative area of a city and county council, and
(b) to the administrative area of a county council and the administrative area of a city council shall, if the context permits, be read as a reference to the administrative area of a county council, the administrative area of a city council and the administrative area of a city and county council.