Development (Emergency Electricity Generation) Act 2022
Regulations for purpose of Act | ||
9. (1) The Minister may prescribe such matters of procedure and administration as appear to the Minister to be necessary or expedient in respect of this Act. | ||
(2) Without prejudice to the generality of subsection (1), regulations under this section may provide for all or any of the following: | ||
(a) the form and manner in which an application under section 4 for an approval under section 7 shall be made, including by electronic means; | ||
(b) the information, including additional information, to be provided by an applicant to the Minister in relation to the application and the form and manner in which it is to be provided; | ||
(c) the information, including reports and technical assessments, relating to the assessments referred to in sections 5 (2) and 6 (1) to be provided to the Minister or the Board by an applicant; | ||
(d) the manner in which the information referred to in paragraphs (b) and (c) shall be provided by the Minister to the Board; | ||
(e) procedures for public participation and the provision of information obtained under the assessments referred to in sections 5 (2) and 6 (1) to the public; | ||
(f) procedures for co-ordination of assessments in accordance with section 5 (3); | ||
(g) the period within which the Board is to carry out the assessments referred to in sections 5 (2) and 6 (1); | ||
(h) procedures in relation to the making of a recommendation by the Board under section 6 (2) and the granting of a derogation by the Minister under section 7 (2); | ||
(i) procedures for managing an application for a variation of the designated development referred to in an application under section 4 before an approval is granted by the Minister under section 7 or a variation of the approval after it has been granted. | ||
(3) Regulations under this section may contain such incidental, supplementary, consequential or transitional provisions as appear to the Minister to be necessary for the purposes of the regulations. | ||
(4) Every regulation made by the Minister under this Act shall be laid before each House of the Oireachtas as soon as may be after it is made and, if a resolution annulling the regulation is passed by either such House within the next 21 days on which that House sits after the regulation is laid before it, the regulation shall be annulled accordingly, but without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done thereunder. |