Planning and Development and Foreshore (Amendment) Act 2022
Number 47 of 2022
PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT AND FORESHORE (AMENDMENT) ACT 2022
REVISED
Updated to 18 June 2025
This Revised Act is an administrative consolidation of the Planning and Development and Foreshore (Amendment) Act 2022. 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 Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Act 2025 (5/2025), enacted 19 June 2025, and all statutory instruments up to and including the Planning and Development Act 2024 (Commencement) (No. 2) Order 2025 (S.I. No. 256 of 2025), made 17 June 2025, were considered in the preparation of this Revised Act.
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Number 47 of 2022
PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT AND FORESHORE (AMENDMENT) ACT 2022
REVISED
Updated to 18 June 2025
CONTENTS
Preliminary and General
Section
1. Short title, collective citation and commencement
Amendment of Planning and Development Act 2000
3. Amendment of section 4 of Act of 2000
4. Amendment of section 104 of Act of 2000
5. Amendment of section 105 of Act of 2000
6. Appointment of chairperson on interim basis
7. Amendment of section 106 of Act of 2000
8. Saver of power of Minister to appoint under section 106(1)(e) of Act of 2000
9. General power of deputy chairperson to perform functions of chairperson where office is vacant
10. Amendment of section 108 of Act of 2000
11. Amendment of section 110 of Act of 2000
12. Amendment of section 111 of Act of 2000
13. Amendment of section 179 of Act of 2000
14. Local authority own housing development
Amendment of Foreshore Act 1933
16. Amendment of section 1 of Act of 1933
17. Subsoil below, and water column above, foreshore
18. Provisions relating to certain other leases, licences, etc.
20. Provisions relating to certain other aquaculture licences
21. Provisions with respect to certain other court proceedings
Acts Referred to
Civil Service Regulation Acts 1956 to 2005
Education and Training Boards Act 2013 (No. 11)
Fisheries (Amendment) Act 1997 (No. 23)
Fisheries and Foreshore (Amendment) Act 1998 (No. 54)
Foreshore Act 1933 (No. 12)
Foreshore Acts 1933 to 2021
Local Government Act 2001 (No. 37)
Planning and Development Act 2000 (No. 30)
Regional Technical Colleges Act 1992 (No. 16)
Number 47 of 2022
PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT AND FORESHORE (AMENDMENT) ACT 2022
REVISED
Updated to 18 June 2025
An Act to amend the Planning and Development Act 2000 in relation to the appointment of, and the efficient discharge of business of, An Bord Pleanála and, in order to facilitate and accelerate the provision of housing on lands owned by local authorities and certain state authorities, to provide that certain housing development on such lands be exempted development, and to amend the Foreshore Act 1933.
[20th December, 2022]
Be it enacted by the Oireachtas as follows: