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

F24[154B. (1) This section applies where a person makes an application for a payment from the environmental legal costs financial assistance mechanism in accordance with Chapter 2 of Part 9 of the Planning and Development Act 2024 and any regulations made thereunder.

(2) Subject to subsection (3), where this section applies, a relevant person may, as if the relevant person were a party to the proceedings in question, apply to the Chief Legal Costs Adjudicator for adjudication upon the bill of costs, or any matter or item in that bill of costs, submitted with the person’s application for the payment.

(3) An application under subsection (2) shall not be made 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.

(4) An application under subsection (2) may be made at any time before a payment is made to a person from the environmental legal costs financial assistance mechanism.

(5) In this section—

"environmental legal costs financial assistance mechanism" has the meaning it has in Part 9 of the Planning and Development Act 2024;

"relevant person" means—

(a) the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications, and

(b) the person authorised by regulations under section 299 of the Planning and Development Act 2024 to administer the environmental legal costs financial assistance mechanism for the time being on behalf of the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications.]