Historic and Archaeological Heritage and Miscellaneous Provisions Act 2023

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Display of bye-laws, etc.

84. (1) (a) Subject to paragraphs (b) and (c), bye-laws shall be displayed at the national monument to which they relate in such manner as the bye-law maker considers best adapted for giving information to the public.

(b) Where a bye-law applies to all national monuments (M), the bye-law maker does not have to comply with paragraph (a) if it has published the bye-law in Iris Oifigiúil.

(c) Where a bye-law applies to all national monuments (LA), the bye-law maker does not have to comply with paragraph (a) in the case of such bye-law if it has published the bye-law in Iris Oifigiúil.

(2) The bye-law maker shall give a copy of the bye-laws to any person applying for them on payment of such reasonable charge (if any) being a charge (not exceeding the reasonable cost of making the copy) as fixed by the bye-law maker.

(3) Subsection (1)(a) shall not be construed to prevent the bye-law maker from promulgating the bye-laws in such other ways (whether by publishing the bye-laws in Iris Oifigiúil or on the bye-law maker’s website or otherwise) as the bye-law maker thinks appropriate to bring the bye-laws to the attention of the public.

(4) A document which purports to be a copy of bye-laws, and which has endorsed on it a certificate purporting to be signed by the bye-law maker, or an officer of the bye-law maker authorised in that behalf, stating that the document is a true copy of the bye-laws and that the bye-laws were in force on a specified day, shall, without proof of the signature of the bye-law maker or such officer or that such officer was in fact such officer so authorised, be evidence, until the contrary is shown, in every court and in all legal proceedings, of the bye-laws and of the fact that they were in force on that day.