Historic and Archaeological Heritage and Miscellaneous Provisions Act 2023

Chapter 5

Special protection for certain registered monuments

Special protection applied to registered monuments in ownership or guardianship of Minister or local authority

24. (1) Section 30 shall be deemed to apply to a registered monument in the ownership or guardianship of the Minister or a local authority where special protection does not otherwise apply to the monument.

(2) The Minister may, by notice published in Iris Oifigiúil or a national newspaper, give public notice of registered monuments to which subsection (1) applies where such monuments are in his or her ownership or guardianship.

(3) Where the Minister, in a notice referred to in subsection (2), identifies a registered monument to which subsection (1) applies by the use of a map, the map shall not be definitive as to the extent of the monument unless the Minister expressly states in that notice that it is so definitive.

(4) A local authority may, by notice published in Iris Oifigiúil or a national newspaper, give public notice of registered monuments to which subsection (1) applies where such monuments are in its ownership or guardianship.

(5) Where a local authority, in a notice referred to in subsection (4), identifies a registered monument to which subsection (1) applies by the use of a map, the map shall not be definitive as to the extent of the monument unless the local authority, with the consent of the Minister, expressly states in that notice that it is so definitive.