Planning and Development (Strategic Infrastructure) Act 2006

Amendment of section 218 of Principal Act.

39.— Section 218 of the Principal Act is amended—

(a) by substituting the following subsection for subsection (1):

“(1) Where, as a result of the transfer of functions under section 214, 215, 215A or 215B, the Board would otherwise be required to hold a local inquiry, public local inquiry or oral hearing, that requirement shall not apply to the Board but the Board may, at its absolute discretion, hold an oral hearing in relation to the matter, the subject of the function transferred.”,

and

(b) in subsection (4), by substituting “sections 214 to 215B” for “sections 214 and 215”.