Town and Regional Planning Act, 1934

The Dublin and Cork planning regions.

20.—(1) The county borough of Dublin and the counties of Dublin, Kildare, Meath and Wicklow shall for the purposes of this Act collectively form and be a planning region which shall be known and is in this Act referred to as the Dublin planning region.

(2) The county borough of Cork and the county of Cork shall for the purposes of this Act collectively form and be a planning region which shall be known and is in this Act referred to as the Cork planning region.

(3) The Right Honourable the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Burgesses of Dublin shall be the regional planning authority for the Dublin planning region and the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Burgesses of Cork shall be the regional planning authority of the Cork planning region.

(4) So far as is reasonably possible, the respective regional planning authorities for the Dublin planning region and the Cork planning region shall confine the exercise of their powers as such authorities to matters affecting only the county borough of Dublin or the county borough of Cork (as the case may be), but where either of such authorities proposes to exercise any of such powers in relation to any portion of the Dublin planning region or the Cork planning region (as the case may be) outside the said county borough, such authority shall ascertain the opinions and requirements of the district planning authority for every planning district which, or any portion of which, would be affected by such exercise of such powers and shall in such exercise of such powers consider the opinions and requirements so ascertained.

(5) Every doubt, question, or dispute as to whether any act (whether of commission or omission) done by the regional planning authority for the Dublin planning region or the Cork planning region is or is not a contravention of the next foregoing sub-section of this section shall be determined by the Minister whose decision thereon shall be final.

(6) All expenses incurred by the regional planning authority for the Dublin planning region or the regional planning authority for the Cork planning region in the exercise of their powers and performance of their duties under this Act as such authority shall be defrayed in the manner in which such expenses would be required to be defrayed under this Act if they were expenses incurred by the district planning authority for the county borough of Dublin or the county borough of Cork, as the case may be.