S.I. No. 478/2019 - Rent Pressure Zone (Local Electoral Area of Carlow) Order 2019


Notice of the making of this Statutory Instrument was published in

“Iris Oifigiúil” of 27th September, 2019.

I, EOGHAN MURPHY, Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by subsection (5) of section 24A (inserted by the Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Act 2016 (No. 17 of 2016)) of the Residential Tenancies Act 2004 (No. 27 of 2004), and consequent on having duly received from the Director of the Residential Tenancies Board, pursuant to that subsection, a rent zone report confirming that the criteria in subsection (4) of that section are satisfied in respect of the area to which the following Order relates, hereby order as follows:

1. This Order may be cited as the Rent Pressure Zone (Local Electoral Area of Carlow) Order 2019.

2. The Order comes into operation on 26 September 2019.

3. The area consisting of the Local Electoral Area of Carlow (as provided for by the County of Carlow Local Electoral Areas and Municipal Districts Order ( S.I. No. 610 of 2018 )) is prescribed as a rent pressure zone during the period commencing on 26 September 2019 and ending on 31 December 2021.

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GIVEN under my Official Seal,

25 September, 2019.

EOGHAN MURPHY,

Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Instrument and does not purport to be a legal interpretation)

This Order provides for the designation of the Local Electoral Area of Carlow as a rent pressure zone under section 24A of the Residential Tenancies Act 2004 (as inserted by section 36 of the Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Act 2016 ), for the period commencing on 26 September 2019 and ending on 31 December 2021.