Dublin Metropolitan Streets Commission Act, 1986

Metropolitan Central Area.

2.—(1) The part of the County Borough of Dublin described in the First Schedule to this Act shall be known (and is referred to in this Act) as the Metropolitan Central Area.

(2) The Minister may by order alter the boundary of the Metropolitan Central Area so as to include therein immediately adjoining land or to exclude therefrom land forming part thereof and, where the Minister makes an order under this subsection, for so long as the order remains in force the First Schedule to this Act shall have effect subject to the terms of the order.

(3) Dublin Corporation shall in the discharge of its functions have regard to the special importance in the national interest of the Metropolitan Central Area and to the need in that interest to ensure therein a high environmental standard and a high standard of civic amenity and civic design.

(4) Every order made by the Minister under this section shall be laid before each House of the Oireachtas as soon as may be after it is made, and if a resolution is passed by either House of the Oireachtas within the next seven days on which such House has sat after the order is laid before it annulling such order, such order shall be annulled accordingly, but without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done under such order.