Section 110

1. Dredging (including dredging involving the use of a device to remove any material, whether or not suspended in water, from one part of the seabed to another part of the seabed) other than—

(a) dredging carried out to create a new harbour, berth or waterway, or to deepen existing facilities in order to allow access for larger ships, or

(b) dredging ancillary to development authorised under the Act of 2000, whether or not it involves the removal of any material from the sea or seabed.

2. Marine environmental surveys for the purposes of scientific discovery or research.

3. Marine environmental surveys for the purposes of site investigation or in support of an application under Part XXI of the Act of 2000.

4. The installation or placement of navigational markers or aids to navigation, or both, not undertaken or authorised by the Commissioners of Irish Lights.

5. The installation of non-permanent platforms, pontoons or slipways.

6. The deposit of any substance or object, either in the sea or on or under the seabed, from—

(a) a vehicle, vessel (including a craft capable of travelling on, in or under water, whether or not self-propelled), boat, aircraft or marine structure (other than a pipeline),

(b) a container floating in the sea, or

(c) a structure on land constructed or adapted wholly or mainly for the purpose of depositing solids in the sea.

7. The use of a vehicle, vessel (including a craft capable of travelling on, in or under water, whether or not self-propelled), boat, aircraft, marine structure (other than a pipeline) or floating container to remove any substance or object from the seabed.

8. The use of explosives not related to development authorised under the Act of 2000 and not requiring authorisation under any other enactment.

9. The maintenance of any cable, pipeline, oil, gas or carbon storage facility structure that does not require an authorisation (whether the authorisation takes the form of the grant of a licence, consent, approval or any other type of authorisation) under any other enactment in order to be undertaken.

10. The harvesting, disturbance or removal of seaweed, whether growing or rooted on the seabed, or deposited in or washed up thereon by the action of any one or more than one of the following:

(a) tides;

(b) winds;

(c) waves.

11. The deposit, construction or removal of any mooring not requiring authorisation under any other enactment.

12. (a) The removal of beach material from, or the disturbance of beach material in, the maritime area otherwise than in the course of the ordinary or reasonable recreational enjoyment of the maritime area.

(b) In this paragraph, “beach material” means sand, clay, gravel, shingle, stones, rocks, mineral substances, seashells, coral and maerl and any flora, in or on the surface of the seabed or suspended in the water of the maritime area, and includes outcrops of rock or any other mineral substance above the surface of the seabed.

13. The laying or installation of telecommunications cables or ducting by or between coastal States where such cables or ducting pass through the exclusive economic zone (as construed in accordance with the Act of 2021) or the continental shelf but do not land in the State.

14. A maritime usage specified, for the purposes of this paragraph, in regulations made under section 113(2).