Adventure Activities Standards Authority Act, 2001

Regulatory schemes.

35.—(1) The Authority may, after consultation with the Minister, make a scheme or schemes for the regulation of adventure activities in the State.

(2) The Authority may, after consultation with the Minister, make a scheme amending or revoking a scheme under this section, including a scheme under this subsection.

(3) Without prejudice to the generality of subsection (1), a scheme for the regulation of adventure activities may provide for any or all of the following:

(a) the carrying out of inspections by or on behalf of the Authority;

(b) the circumstances under which (including non-compliance with a code of practice published or approved of under section 34 ) and the manner in which the Authority may direct the suspension or cessation of an adventure activity;

(c) the circumstances under which (including non-compliance with a code of practice published or approved of under section 34 ) and the manner in which the Authority may direct the removal of an adventure activities operator from the register;

(d) the publication of any directions issued by the Authority to an adventure activities operator in accordance with any scheme under this section.

(4) An adventure activities operator shall comply with any scheme made under subsection (1).

(5) A scheme 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 annulling the scheme is passed by either such House within the next twenty-one days on which the House has sat after the scheme is laid before it, the scheme shall be annulled accordingly, but without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done thereunder.