Environmental Protection Agency (Emergency Electricity Generation) (Amendment) Act 2023

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Number 6 of 2023

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (EMERGENCY ELECTRICITY GENERATION) (AMENDMENT) ACT 2023

CONTENTS

Section

1. Definition

2. Amendment of section 3 of Act of 1992

3. Amendment of Act of 1992 - supply of electricity

4. Amendment of section 83 of Act of 1992

5. Amendment of section 87 of Act of 1992

6. Agency may not grant licence in respect of designated development unless Minister has approved designated development

7. Amendment of Act of 1992

8. Amendment of section 89 of Act of 1992

9. Short title and commencement

Acts Referred to

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Act 2015 (No. 46)

Development (Emergency Electricity Generation) Act 2022 (No. 35)

Environmental Protection Agency Act 1992 (No. 7)

Number 6 of 2023

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (EMERGENCY ELECTRICITY GENERATION) (AMENDMENT) ACT 202

An Act to amend the Environmental Protection Agency Act 1992 to enable the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications to provide for arrangements for an alternative form of assessment to be carried out in respect of an application for a licence under Part IV of that Act in relation to designated development within the meaning of the Development (Emergency Electricity Generation) Act 2022 in accordance with Article 2(4) of Directive No. 2011/92/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 December 2011¹ on the assessment of the effects of certain public and private projects on the environment amended by Directive 2014/52/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 April 2014² and to provide for the information obtained under such assessment to be made available to the public; to provide for coordination of the alternative assessment and an appropriate assessment of such activity for the purposes of Council Directive 92/43/EEC of 21 May 1992³ on the conservation of natural habitats and of wild fauna and flora; and to provide for related matters.

[10th March, 2023]

¹ OJ No. L26, 28.1.2012, p. 1

² OJ No. L24, 25.4.2014, p. 1

³ OJ No. L206, 22.7.1992, p. 7