Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2026

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Amendment of section 83 of Act of 1992

11. Section 83 of the Act of 1992 is amended—

(a) in subsection (2A)—

(i) in paragraph (a), by the substitution of the following definition for the definition of “environmental report”:

“ ‘environmental report’ has the meaning given by subsection (11).”,

(ii) in paragraph (b), by the substitution of “other than a designated application or an application for a licence for an activity in respect of which an order is made under section 88C or an exemption is granted under section 88D” for “other than a designated application”,

(iii) in paragraph (ba), by the substitution of “other than a designated application or an application for a licence for an activity in respect of which an order is made under section 88C or an exemption is granted under section 88D” for “other than a designated application”,

(iv) in paragraph (bh), by the substitution of “paragraph (bg)” for “paragraph (bf)”,

(v) in paragraph (c), by the substitution of “other than a designated application or an application for a licence for an activity in respect of which an order is made under section 88C or an exemption is granted under section 88D” for “other than a designated application”,

(vi) in paragraph (d), by the substitution of “other than a person making a designated application or an application for a licence for an activity in respect of which an order is made under section 88C or an exemption is granted under section 88D” for “other than a person making a designated application”, and

(vii) in paragraph (g), by the substitution of “an environmental impact assessment, an alternative assessment or an assessment referred to in section 88D(6)(a), as the case may be,” for “an environmental impact assessment or, as the case may be, an alternative assessment”,

and

(b) by the addition of the following subsection after subsection (10):

“(11) In subsections (2A) and (3), ‘environmental report’ means a report prepared in accordance with Regulation 7 of the Development (Emergency Electricity Generation) Regulations 2022 ( S.I. No. 719 of 2022 ).”.