Planning and Development Act 2024
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Coordination of environmental impact assessments under different enactments | ||
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240. (1) Where a relevant development in respect of which— | ||
(a) an application for permission is made, and | ||
(b) an environmental impact assessment is required to be carried out in accordance with section 236 , | ||
cannot lawfully be carried out or retained without the grant of a permission, licence, authorisation or consent (howsoever described) under any enactment (other than this Act), a competent authority shall for the purpose of coordinating— | ||
(i) the performance of its functions in relation to the carrying out of an environmental impact assessment of the relevant development under this Act, and | ||
(ii) the performance by the competent authority under the said enactment of functions in relation to the carrying out of an environmental impact assessment of the relevant development under the said enactment, | ||
consult with the competent authority referred to in paragraph (ii). | ||
(2) The Minister may, after consultation with the other responsible Minister make regulations prescribing the order in which an application for permission under Part 4 for relevant development and an application for a permission, licence, authorisation or consent (howsoever described) for that relevant development under the enactment referred to in subsection (1) shall be made and decided upon. | ||
(3) The Minister may, after consultation with the other responsible Minister make regulations for the purposes of subsection (1) including regulations— | ||
(a) prescribing the procedures to be followed for the purposes of compliance with that subsection, and | ||
(b) providing for— | ||
(i) consultation by a competent authority with the Environmental Protection Agency where a relevant development requires a permission under Part 4 and any one or more of the following: | ||
(I) an integrated pollution control licence; | ||
(II) an industrial emissions licence; | ||
(III) a waste licence; | ||
(IV) a waste water discharge licence; | ||
(V) an abstraction licence, | ||
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(ii) the coordination by a competent authority and the Environmental Protection Agency of the performance by them of functions in relation to the relevant development. | ||
(4) In this section “other responsible Minister” means— | ||
(a) in relation to an enactment referred to in subsection (1), any Minister of the Government on whom power is conferred to make regulations under that enactment, and | ||
(b) in relation to an enactment referred to in subsection (3), any Minister of the Government on whom power is conferred to make regulations under that enactment. |