Water Environment (Abstractions and Associated Impoundments) Act 2022

Provision supplemental to section 62

63. (1) Irish Water shall cause a notice under section 62 (1) to be published on its website, in one national newspaper and in one local newspaper, if there is one, circulating in the area where the abstraction point or points at which the proposed public abstraction is proposed to be carried out.

(2) Notwithstanding section 62 (3), a notice published in accordance with subsection (1) in a national or local newspaper is not required to contain the information referred to in paragraphs (c) to (j) of section 62 (3) but shall give notice where the information concerned shall be made available, including by publication on the website of Irish Water.

(3) A notice under section 62 (1) shall specify the times and places at which, and the period (within 42 days after the date of the notice) during which a copy of the notice and all the information referred to in section 62 (3) may be inspected free of charge or purchased on payment of a fee prescribed under section 73 .

(4) Notwithstanding section 6 (1)(d), where, for the purpose of giving a notice under section 62 (2)(a), the owner or occupier of land cannot be ascertained by reasonable inquiry, Irish Water, as well as complying with section 62 (2), shall, on the same day as giving notice under section 62 , erect on or near the land or affix to a structure on the land, for a period of not less than 42 days, the notice in a form that is weatherproof and visible from the public roadway.