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




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: