Local Government (Water Pollution) (Amendment) Act, 1990

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Number 21 of 1990


LOCAL GOVERNMENT (WATER POLLUTION) (AMENDMENT) ACT, 1990


ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

Section

1.

Interpretation.

2.

Amendment of section 1 of Principal Act.

3.

Amendment of section 3 of Principal Act.

4.

Amendment of section 6 of Principal Act.

5.

Amendment of section 7 of Principal Act.

6.

Appeals in relation to sections 4 and 7 of Principal Act.

7.

Powers of courts, local authorities and regional boards in relation to the mitigation and remedying of effects of pollution.

8.

Amendment of section 11 of Principal Act.

9.

Amendment of section 12 of Principal Act.

10.

Power of local authority to prevent and abate pollution.

11.

Amendment of section 15 of Principal Act.

12.

Amendment of section 16 of Principal Act.

13.

Amendment of section 17 of Principal Act.

14.

Amendment of section 19 of Principal Act.

15.

Appeals in relation to sections 16 and 17 of Principal Act.

16.

Provisions in relation to appeals under sections 8 and 20 of Principal Act.

17.

Information to local authorities and sanitary authorities.

18.

Amendment of section 26 of Principal Act.

19.

Amendment of section 28 of Principal Act.

20.

Civil liability for pollution.

21.

Regulation and prohibition of certain agricultural activities.

22.

Power to declare combined drains to be sewers for certain purposes.

23.

Offences under Principal Act and this Act by directors, etc., of bodies corporate.

24.

Increase of certain penalties under Principal Act.

25.

Provisions in relation to offences under sections 171 and 172 of Act of 1959.

26.

Payment of certain fines to local authorities, sanitary authorities and regional boards.

27.

Prosecution of certain offences.

28.

Costs of prosecutions.

29.

Consultation by Minister in relation to making of regulations.

30.

Repeals.

31.

Short title, construction, collective citation and commencement.


Acts Referred to

Fisheries (Consolidation) Act, 1959

1959, No. 14

Fisheries Act, 1980

1980, No. 1

Foreshore Act, 1933

1933, No. 12

Foyle Fisheries Act, 1952

1952, No. 5

Local Government (Planning and Development) Acts, 1963 to 1983

Local Government (Sanitary Services) Acts, 1878 to 1964

Local Government (Water Pollution) Act, 1977

1977, No. 1

Petty Sessions (Ireland) Act, 1851

1851, c. 93

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Number 21 of 1990


LOCAL GOVERNMENT (WATER POLLUTION) (AMENDMENT) ACT, 1990


AN ACT TO AMEND AND EXTEND THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT (WATER POLLUTION) ACT, 1977 , AND (IN SO FAR AS IT RELATES TO WATER POLLUTION) THE FISHERIES (CONSOLIDATION) ACT, 1959 , AND TO PROVIDE FOR OTHER MATTERS CONNECTED WITH THE MATTERS AFORESAID. [18th July, 1990]

BE IT ENACTED BY THE OIREACHTAS AS FOLLOWS: