Planning and Development Act 2024
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Short-term lettings | ||
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8. (1) In this section— | ||
“rent pressure zone” means— | ||
(a) any area standing prescribed for the time being under section 24A of the Residential Tenancies Act 2004 , or | ||
(b) an administrative area deemed to be a rent pressure zone under section 24B of that Act; | ||
“short-term letting” means the letting of a house or part of a house for any period not exceeding 14 days, and includes a licence that permits the licensee to enter and reside in the house or part thereof for any such period in consideration of the making by any person (whether or not the licensee) of a payment or payments to the licensor. | ||
(2) For the purposes of this section, the Minister may make regulations requiring such persons as are specified in the regulations to provide a planning authority with such information as may be so specified and at such intervals as may be so specified in relation to short-term lettings in the functional area of the planning authority. | ||
(3) A person who contravenes a provision of regulations under this section that is described in the regulations as a penal provision shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable, on summary conviction, to a class A fine. | ||
(4) This section shall not operate to abrogate or amend the law with regard to— | ||
(a) lettings (including short-term lettings) outside a rent pressure zone, or | ||
(b) lettings (other than short-term lettings) in a rent pressure zone. |