Local Government (Planning and Development) Act, 1963

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Local Government (Planning and Development) Act, 1963 1963 28

No. 28/1963:

LOCAL GOVERNMENT (PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT) ACT, 1963


ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

PART I PRELIMINARY AND GENERAL

1 Short title and commencement.

2 Interpretation.

3 Development.

4 Exempted development.

5 References to the Minister.

6 Power of examination, investigation and survey.

7 Service of notices, etc.

8 Register.

9 Obligation to give information to planning authority.

10 Regulations generally.

11 Repeals.

PART II FINANCIAL PROVISIONS

12 Expenses of administration of Minister.

13 Charging of expenses of planning authority who are council of a county.

14 Assistance by planning authority in certain cases.

15 Contribution towards training and research.

16 Apportionment of joint expenses.

17 Power to set off.

18 Payment of sum to or by appellant.

PART III DEVELOPMENT PLANS

19 Obligation to make development plan and contents of plan.

20 Obligation to review development plan and variations of plan.

21 Publication of notices with respect to plans, etc.

22 General duty of planning authority.

23 Preparation and publication of model forms of development plans.

PART IV CONTROL OF DEVELOPMENT AND OF RETENTION OF CERTAIN STRUCTURES, ETC.

24 General obligation to obtain permissions.

25 Permission regulations.

26 Permission for development.

27 Permission for retention of structures.

28 Supplemental provisions as to grant of permission.

29 Obligation to purchase land on refusal of permission in certain cases.

30 Revocation and modification of permission.

31 Enforcement of planning control (development).

32 Enforcement of planning control (retention of structure).

33 Enforcement of planning control structure which is unauthorised structure on commencement of appointed day).

34 Liability of owner of land for failure to comply with requirements of enforcement notice other than discontinuance of use of land.

35 Enforcement of planning control (development commenced and not carried out in conformity with permission).

36 Requiring removal or alteration of structure.

37 Requiring discontinuance of use.

38 Agreements regulating development or use of land.

39 Restrictions on certain local authorities.

40 Permission not required in certain cases.

41 Registering of applications.

PART V AMENITIES

42 Area of special amenity.

43 Confirmation of order under Section 42 of this Act.

44 Requiring removal or alteration of hedge.

45 Tree preservation orders.

46 Conservation orders.

47 Creation of public rights of way pursuant to agreement.

48 Compulsory powers for creation of public rights of way.

49 Supplemental provisions with respect to public rights of way.

50 Planting of trees, shrubs and other plants.

51 Noise and vibration.

52 Litter.

53 Exhibition of advertisements on certain structures, etc.

54 Repair and tidying of advertisement structures and advertisements.

PART VI COMPENSATION

55 Compensation (refusal of permission or grant of permission subject to conditions).

56 Compensation excluded in respect of certain matters.

57 Compensation excluded if certain other development permitted or if compensation already paid.

58 Restrictions on sections 56 and 57.

59 Compensation (revocation or Modification of permission).

60 Compensation in relation to section 36.

61 Compensation in relation to section 37.

62 Compensation in relation to section 44.

63 Compensation in relation to section 48.

64 Compensation in relation to section 83.

65 Compensation in relation to section 85.

66 Compensation in relation to direction under the Act of 1934.

67 Regulations in relation to Compensation.

68 Determination of claim for payment of compensation.

69 Amendment of section 2 of the Act of 1919.

70 Prohibition of double compensation.

71 Recovery from planning authority of compensation.

72 Registration of compensation.

73 Recovery by planning authority of compensation on subsequent development.

PART VII ACQUISITION OF LAND, ETC.

74 Appropriation of and to purposes of functions under this Act.

75 Disposal of land by planning authority.

76 Extinguishment of public right of way.

77 Development by planning authority, etc.

78 Public notice of development proposed to be carried out by certain local authorities.

79 Amendment of Landlord and Tenant Acts, 1931 and 1958.

PART VIII MISCELLANEOUS

80 Prosecution of offences by planning authority.

81 Restriction on exercise of power of entry of planning authority and obstruction of approved entry.

82 Supplemental provisions relating to references and appeals.

83 Power of authorised person to enter on land.

84 Consultation by State authorities.

85 Cables, wires and pipelines.

86 Building regulations.

87 Relaxation of building regulations.

88 Appeal against refusal by planning authority to relax building regulations.

89 Petrol pumps, etc., on public roads.

90 Saving for national monuments.

91 Amendment of Section 42 of Public Health (Ireland) Act, 1878.

92 Transitional.

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SECOND SCHEDULE

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FOURTH SCHEDULE

FIFTH SCHEDULE


AN ACT TO MAKE PROVISION, IN THE INTERESTS OF THE COMMON GOOD, FOR THE PROPER PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT OF CITIES, TOWNS AND OTHER AREAS, WHETHER URBAN OR RURAL (INCLUDING THE PRESERVATION AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE AMENITIES THEREOF), TO MAKE CERTAIN PROVISIONS WITH RESPECT TO ACQUISITION OF LAND, TO REPEAL THE TOWN AND REGIONAL PLANNING ACTS, 1934 AND 1939, AND CERTAIN OTHER ENACTMENTS AND TO MAKE PROVISION FOR OTHER MATTERS CONNECTED WITH THE MATTERS AFORESAID.

[7th August, 1963.]

BE IT ENACTED BY THE OIREACHTAS AS FOLLOWS:—

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