Planning and Development Act 2024

Notice to organise funfair

489. (1) Subject to subsection (3), a person who intends to organise a funfair shall give 2 weeks’ notice (or such other period of notice as may be prescribed) in writing to the local authority in whose functional area the funfair is to be held.

(2) The notice referred to in subsection (1) shall be accompanied by a valid certificate of safety in respect of the fairground equipment to be used at the funfair and shall give details of—

(a) the names of the organiser of the funfair,

(b) the person who owns fairground equipment to be used at the funfair,

(c) the location at which the funfair is to be held, and

(d) the dates on which the funfair is to be held.

(3) Subsection (1) shall not apply to a person who intends to organise a funfair where the operation of the funfair equipment that is at the funfair is authorised by a permission under Part 4, Part III of the Act of 2000, or is not otherwise an unauthorised use.