Planning and Development Act 2024
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Chapter 4 Miscellaneous | ||
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Repair and tidying of advertisement structures and advertisements | ||
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274. (1) If it appears to a planning authority that, having regard to the interests of public safety or amenity, an advertisement structure or advertisement in its functional area should be repaired or tidied, the planning authority may serve a notice on the owner, or person having control, of the structure or advertisement, requiring him or her to repair or tidy the structure or advertisement within a specified period. | ||
(2) If it appears to a planning authority that an advertisement structure or advertisement in its functional area is derelict, the planning authority may serve a notice on the owner, or person having control, of the structure or advertisement requiring him or her to remove the structure or advertisement within a specified period. | ||
(3) If, within the period specified in a notice under this section, the advertisement structure or advertisement is not repaired or tidied, or removed, as the case may be, the planning authority may enter on the land on which the structure is situate or the advertisement is exhibited and repair, tidy or remove the structure or advertisement and the owner, or person having control, of the structure or advertisement shall pay the planning authority any expenses reasonably incurred by it in that behalf. | ||
(4) Section 209 of the Act of 2000 shall, in relation to a notice served under that section before the repeal of that section by section 6 , continue to have effect on and after such repeal. |