Planning and Development Act 2024
Oral hearings in relation to compulsory acquisition of land | ||
416. (1) Where, as a result of the section 410 functions, the Commission would otherwise be required to hold a local inquiry, public local inquiry or oral hearing, that requirement shall not apply to the Commission but the Commission may, at its absolute discretion, hold an oral hearing in relation to the matter, the subject of the function concerned. | ||
(2) For the avoidance of doubt, it is hereby declared that the provisions of the Local Government Acts 1941, 1946, 1955 and 1991, in relation to public local inquiries shall not apply in relation to oral hearings held by the Commission in accordance with subsection (1). | ||
(3) For the purposes of this Part, in so far as this Part relates to land, the references to local inquiries or public local inquiries in the following provisions shall be deemed to be references to oral hearings under this section: | ||
(a) section 10 of the Local Government (No. 2) Act 1960 ; | ||
(b) section 78 of, and the Third Schedule to, the Act of 1966; | ||
(c) Part IV of the Act of 1993. | ||
(4) Sections 370 , 380 and 385 shall apply and have effect in relation to the section 410 functions and those sections shall, with all necessary modifications, be construed accordingly. |