Planning and Development (Amendment) Act 2025

Continued operation of certain Parts of Act of 2000 for purposes of certain notices

14. The Principal Act is amended by the substitution of the following section for section 69:

“69. (1) Where a notice of intention to review an existing development plan and prepare a new development plan is given under subsection (1) of section 11 of the Act of 2000 before the commencement of the repeal of Part II of the Act of 2000 by section 6—

(a) Parts II and XAB, and Chapter III of Part IIB, of the Act of 2000 shall, on and after that repeal, continue to apply and have effect for the purposes of that notice,

(b) that existing development plan may, subject to the said Parts II and XAB and the said Chapter III, be reviewed on or after that repeal, and

(c) such new development plan may, subject to the said Parts II and XAB and the said Chapter III, be prepared on or after that repeal,

and any such new development plan prepared in accordance with this subsection shall have effect as if it were a development plan made under this Chapter and, accordingly, references in this Act to a development plan shall be construed as including references to such new development plan.

(2) Where a planning authority proposes to make a variation of a development plan under section 13 of the Act of 2000 and, before the commencement of the repeal of Part II of that Act by section 6, the planning authority complies with subsections (2) and (3) of the said section 13—

(a) Parts II and XAB, and Chapter III of Part IIB, of the Act of 2000, shall, on and after that repeal, continue to apply and have effect for the purposes of—

(i) the notice sent under paragraph (a) of the said subsection (2), and

(ii) the notice published under paragraph (b) of that subsection,

and

(b) that variation may, subject to the said Parts II and XAB and the said Chapter III, be made on or after that repeal,

and any development plan under the Act of 2000 varied in accordance with this subsection shall have effect as if it were a development plan made under this Chapter and, accordingly, references in this Act to a development plan shall be construed as including references to such development plan as so varied.

(3) Subsections (3), (4) and (5) of section 68 shall apply to a development plan prepared or varied in accordance with this section as they apply to a development plan continued in force by virtue of that section, as if—

(a) in subsection (3), ‘a development plan prepared, or varied, in accordance with section 69’ were substituted for ‘a development plan continued in force under subsection (1)’, and

(b) in subsection (5), ‘a development plan prepared, or varied, in accordance with section 69’ were substituted for ‘a development plan continued in force under subsection (1)’.”.