Urban Regeneration and Housing Act 2015

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Number 33 of 2015


Urban Regeneration and Housing Act 2015


CONTENTS

PART 1

Preliminary and General

Section

1. Short title, collective citation, construction and commencement

2. Definitions

PART 2

Vacant Site Levy

3. Definitions (Part 2)

4. Application

5. Vacant site

6. Register of vacant sites

7. Procedure for entry on register

8. Entry on register

9. Appeal against entry on register

10. Obligation to owners to notify

11. Notice to owners of sites on register

12. Market value of vacant site

13. Appeal of market value determination

14. Determination of zero market value

15. Vacant site levy

16. Amount of levy

17. Death or change of ownership

18. Appeal against demand for payment of levy

19. Vacant site levy to be charge on land

20. False or misleading evidence

21. Receipts, certificates and requirements on sale of vacant site

22. Forged and altered documents

23. Proceeds of vacant site levy

24. Service of notices

25. Regulations

26. Prosecutions

PART 3

Amendment of section 23 of Derelict Sites Act 1990

27. Derelict sites levy not payable where vacant site levy payable

PART 4

Amendment of Parts II and III of Act of 2000

Development Plans and Development Contributions

28. Amendment of section 10(2) of Act of 2000 - content of development plans

29. Amendment of section 48 of Act of 2000 - development contributions

30. Amendment of section 49 of Act of 2000 - supplementary development contribution schemes

PART 5

Amendment of Part V of Act of 2000

Housing Supply

31. Amendment of section 94 of Act of 2000 - housing strategies

32. Amendment of section 95(1) (a) of Act of 2000 - housing strategies and development plans

33. Amendment of section 96 of Act of 2000 - provision of social and affordable housing, etc.

34. Amendment of section 96 of Act of 2000 - rental accommodation availability agreements

35. Repeal

36. Amendment of section 97 of Act of 2000 - development to which section 96 shall not apply

PART 6

Amendment of Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2009

37. Amendment of section 31 of Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2009


Acts Referred to

Companies Act 2014 (No. 38)

Derelict Sites Act 1990 (No. 14)

Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1992 (No. 18)

Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2009 (No. 22)

Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2014 (No. 21)

Housing Acts 1966 to 2014

Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Act 2009 (No. 27)

Planning and Development (Amendment) Act 2002 (No. 32)

Planning and Development (Amendment) Act 2010 (No. 30)

Planning and Development Act 2000 (No. 30)

Planning and Development Acts 2000 to 2014

Registration of Title Act 1964 (No. 16)

Valuation Act 2001 (No. 13)

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Number 33 of 2015


URBAN REGENERATION AND HOUSING ACT 2015


An Act to make provision with respect to land in areas in which housing is required and in areas which are in need of renewal to prevent it lying idle or remaining vacant, to establish a register of vacant sites in those areas, to provide for a vacant sites levy, to amend the Derelict Sites Act 1990 , to amend Parts II, III and V of the Planning and Development Act 2000 , to amend the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2009 and to provide for related matters.

[28 th July, 2015]

Be it enacted by the Oireachtas as follows: