Planning and Development Act 2024

Failure to effect service

398. Where a provision of this Act requires the service by a planning authority or the Commission of a notice or other document on the owner or occupier of land or a maritime site as a precondition of the performance by the planning authority or the Commission, as the case may be, of any other function under this Act in relation to that land or maritime site or any other land or maritime site, the failure to effect such service shall not of itself operate to preclude or invalidate the performance of that function unless—

(a) the planning authority or Commission failed to make reasonable efforts to effect such service, or

(b) the failure prejudices the exercise by the said owner or occupier of his or her rights under or in connection with this Act.