Planning and Development Act 2024
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PART 5 Developments at Dublin Airport | ||
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Interpretation | ||
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189. (1) In this Part— | ||
“Act of 2019” means the Aircraft Noise (Dublin Airport) Regulation Act 2019 ; | ||
“Aircraft Noise Regulation” means Regulation (EU) No 598/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 April 201413 on the establishment of rules and procedures with regard to the introduction of noise-related operating restrictions at Union airports within a Balanced Approach and repealing Directive 2002/30/EC; | ||
“airport” means Dublin Airport and includes, as appropriate, the area around the airport significantly affected by aircraft noise; | ||
“airport authority” means daa public limited company; | ||
“appeal body” shall be construed in accordance with subsection (1) of section 10 of the Act of 2019; | ||
“competent authority” means the competent authority designated by section 3 of the Act of 2019 to be the competent authority for the purposes of the Aircraft Noise Regulation; | ||
“Environmental Noise Directive” means Directive 2002/49/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 June 200214 relating to the assessment and management of environmental noise; | ||
“introduced” includes implemented; | ||
“measure” includes a restriction; | ||
“noise” means aircraft noise; | ||
“noise abatement objective” means the noise abatement objective for the airport; | ||
“noise mitigation measure” means a noise mitigation measure in place at the airport and includes— | ||
(a) a land-use planning and management measure intended to reduce noise at source, and | ||
(b) a noise abatement operational measure, | ||
that do not restrict the capacity of the airport but does not include an operating restriction; | ||
“operating restriction” means an operating restriction in place at the airport; | ||
“relevant authority” means— | ||
(a) the planning authority, or | ||
(b) the competent authority; | ||
“specified” means, in relation to a form, specified under section 28 of the Act of 2019. | ||
(2) (a) A word or expression that is used in this Part and in the Aircraft Noise Regulation has the meaning in this Part that it has in that Regulation. | ||
(b) A word or expression that is used in this Part and in the Environmental Noise Directive has the meaning in this Part that it has in that Directive. | ||
(3) Where a provision of this Act or regulations under this Act provides for the specification of a period in a notice or direction, the period specified shall be a period that is reasonable in all the circumstances of the case. | ||