Planning and Development Act 2024

Evidence

19. (1) A document purporting to be a correct copy of a part or all of a plan, strategy or statement made under this Part and to be certified by an officer of—

(a) in the case of the National Planning Framework or a National Planning Statement, the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage,

(b) in the case of a regional spatial and economic strategy, a regional assembly, or

(c) in the case of a development plan, urban area plan, priority area plan or coordinated area plan, a planning authority,

shall be evidence of the plan, strategy or statement, or part, unless the contrary is shown, and it shall not be necessary to prove the signature of the officer or that he or she was in fact such an officer.

(2) Evidence of all or part of a plan, strategy or statement made under this Part may be given by production of a copy thereof certified in accordance with this section and it shall not be necessary to produce the plan, strategy or statement itself.