Radiological Protection (Amendment) Act, 2002

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Regulations.

8.—(1) The Minister may, with the consent of the Minister for Finance, make regulations for the administration of the grant scheme by the Institute.

(2) The Minister may make regulations concerning the grant scheme and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing, such regulations under this section may provide for all or any of the following—

(a) the date of commencement of the grant scheme and the date of cessation of the grant scheme,

(b) the procedure for making an application for a grant,

(c) the class or classes and use of house in respect of which a grant may be paid,

(d) the types of remediation works,

(e) the carrying out of inspections of any house and of remediation works,

(f) any matter in respect of which compliance by a contractor is required when carrying out remediation works including compliance with the Taxes Consolidation Act, 1997 ,

(g) information to be provided by an applicant in respect of the house that is the subject of the application for a grant,

(h) documentation to be furnished by an applicant concerning the measurement of radon gas inside the house that is the subject of the application and the period for which such measurement is valid,

(i) documentation to be furnished by an applicant concerning the statement of the costs of the remediation works concerned,

(j) documentation to be furnished by the contractor on the remediation works concerned in respect of and compliance by that contractor with prescribed standards and any other matter in respect of which compliance is prescribed,

(k) the resolution of disputes, and

(l) the provision of information, by advertisement, concerning the grant scheme,

and such regulations may contain such incidental, supplementary and consequential provisions as appear to the Minister to be necessary for the purposes of the regulations.

(3) Section 3 of the Principal Act shall apply to regulations made under this Act.