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Prospective affecting provision: section inserted by Planning and Development Act 2024 (34/2024), s. 302(c), not commenced as of date of revision.

F23[154A. (1) Subject to subsection (2), where a person who is the subject of an order to pay costs in respect of relevant proceedings receives a bill of costs prepared in accordance with subsection (1) of section 154, that person shall not apply to the Chief Legal Costs Adjudicator for adjudication on any matter or item other than the following:

(a) that a matter or item claimed in the bill of costs is not in accordance with a monetary amount standing prescribed, under section 294 of the Planning and Development Act 2024, in relation to that matter or item;

(b) that the matter or item represents work that was actually done.

(2) Subsection (1) shall not apply to a matter or item in relevant proceedings where the matter or item is wholly unrelated to—

(a) Part 9 judicial review proceedings (within the meaning of Part 9 of the Planning and Development Act 2024), or

(b) proceedings, other than those referred to in paragraph (a), in which an applicant challenges an act or omission by any person that contravenes a provision of the Planning and Development Act 2024 relating to the environment.

(3) In this section "relevant proceedings" has the meaning it has in section 157.]