TEMPLE BAR AREA RENEWAL AND DEVELOPMENT ACT, 1991

FIRST SCHEDULE Temple Bar Area

Temple Bar Area

Section 2.

Interpretation

In this Schedule—

“thoroughfare” includes any bridge, green, hill, river and street;

a reference to a line drawn along any thoroughfare is a reference to a line drawn along the centre of that thoroughfare;

a reference to a projection of any thoroughfare is a reference to a projection of a line drawn along the centre of that thoroughfare;

a reference to the point where any thoroughfare or projection of any thoroughfare intersects or joins any other thoroughfare is a reference to the point where a line drawn along the centre of one thoroughfare, or in the case of a projection of a thoroughfare, along the projection, would be intersected or joined by a line drawn along the centre of the other thoroughfare.

Description of Temple Bar Area

That part of the county borough of Dublin bounded by a line commencing at the point (hereinafter in this description referred to as “the first-mentioned point”) where the River Liffey is intersected by O'Connell Bridge, then continuing, initially in a southerly direction along O'Connell Bridge, Westmoreland Street, College Green, Dame Street, Cork Hill and Lord Edward Street to the point where it joins Fishamble Street, then continuing in a northerly direction along Fishamble Street and the northerly projection thereof to the point where it intersects the River Liffey, then continuing in an easterly direction along the River Liffey to the first-mentioned point.

SECOND SCHEDULE Grounds for Approval, etc., of Existing or Proposed Buildings or Premises

Grounds for Approval, etc., of Existing or Proposed Buildings or Premises

Section 4.

1. Any building or premises—

(a) where activities of a cultural nature are being carried out, or are to be carried out if that building or premises is duly approved of by Temple Bar Renewal Limited for those activities, or

(b) where activities of a business undertaking providing services for tourists or other visitors to the Area are being carried out or are to be carried out if that building or premises is duly approved of by Temple Bar Renewal Limited for that activity and, in particular but without prejudice to the generality of this subparagraph, where that building is or is to be used as—

(i) a restaurant, or

(ii) a place for the sale and consumption of intoxicating liquor, or

(iii) a hotel, or

(iv) a hostel,

or

(c) where activities by a business undertaking are being carried out, or are to be carried out if that building or premises is duly approved of by Temple Bar Renewal Limited for those activities and where the undertaking—

(i) is or will be smaller or similar in size to existing business undertakings in the Area, and

(ii) employs or will employ not more than 20 persons,

or

(d) used, or to be used if duly approved of by Temple Bar Renewal Limited for use—

(i) as a multi-storey car-park within the meaning assigned to it by Chapter VII of Part I of the Finance Act, 1991, or

(ii) as residential accommodation, or

(iii) as an office or service activity primarily serving the Area,

may be approved.

2. Any building or premises used or proposed to be used for use—

(a) as a warehouse, other than a storage area for the use of a building or premises to which paragraph 1 relates and which is consistent with the use or activity to which the building or premises is being or is to be put, or

(b) as a factory, other than a building or premises to which paragraph 1 (c) relates, or

(c) by business undertakings, other than those to which paragraph 1 or 3 relates,

shall not be approved.

3. Buildings or premises for the use of financial institutions or which are general office developments (except to the extent that it relates to paragraph 1 (d) (iii)) shall not be approved in any part of the Area other than a part which, in the opinion of Temple Bar Renewal Limited, is situate in the periphery of the Area.

4. Notwithstanding paragraphs 1 and 3, approval by virtue of either of those paragraphs shall be refused where Temple Bar Renewal Limited is of the opinion that such an approval would be detrimental to a suitable mix of uses and activities in the Area or any part thereof.

THIRD SCHEDULE Provisions Relating to Compulsory Acquisition

Provisions Relating to Compulsory Acquisition

Section 12.

1. In this Schedule—

“the Company” means Temple Bar Properties Limited;

“the Minister” means the Minister for the Environment;

“prescribed” means prescribed by regulations made by the Minister.

2. (1) Where the Company proposes to acquire any land or any interest in or right over land under section 12 the Company may apply to the Minister for an order under this Schedule authorising the Company to acquire the property compulsorily and the application shall be accompanied by such maps, plans and books of reference as are referred to in paragraph 6.

(2) The Company shall publish the prescribed notice of the application in the Iris Oifigiúil and in one or more newspapers circulating in the county borough of Dublin (including the Temple Bar Area), and serve a copy of the notice on every person who appears to the Company to have an estate or interest in the property, so far as it is reasonably practicable to ascertain such persons.

(3) The notice referred to in subparagraph (2) shall include a provision notifying persons having an estate or interest in the property that they have a right to lodge with the Minister within one month of the making of the application by the Company an objection to the making of an order and specify the times and places where the maps, plans and books of reference deposited in accordance with paragraph 6 may be inspected.

(4) The Minister shall consider and determine any objection to the application and he may, if he thinks fit, appoint an adviser to assist him in relation thereto.

3. The Minister shall, where no objection to the application of the Company is lodged within one month of the making of the application by the Company or any such objection is rejected by the Minister, make an order (in this Schedule referred to as an acquisition order) authorising the Company to acquire the property compulsorily in accordance with the terms of its application or subject to such modifications if any as he may specify.

4. (1) At any time after the making of an acquisition order and before conveyance or ascertainment of price, the Company may, subject to this paragraph, enter on and take possession of the land to be acquired or exercise the right to be acquired.

(2) The Company shall not—

(a) enter on or take possession of any land under this paragraph without giving to the occupier at least one month's previous notice in writing of its intention so to do,

(b) exercise any right under this paragraph without giving the occupier of the land in respect of which the right is to be exercised at least one month's previous notice in writing of its intention so to do.

5. (1) A notice under this Schedule may be served on any person by sending it by registered post in an envelope addressed to him at his usual or last known address.

(2) Where, for any reason, the envelope cannot be so addressed, it may be addressed to the person for whom it is intended in either of the following ways

(a) by the description “the occupier” without stating his name,

(b) at the land to which the notice relates.

6. (1) The Company shall cause maps, plans and books of reference to be deposited in accordance with this paragraph.

(2) The maps and plans shall be sufficient in quantity and character to show on adequate scales the land or right proposed to be acquired.

(3) The books of reference shall contain the names of the owners or reputed owners, lessees or reputed lessees, and occupiers of the land which is proposed to be acquired or in respect of which the right is proposed to be exercised.

(4) The maps, plans and books of reference shall be deposited at such place or places as the Company, with the consent of the Minister, considers suitable and shall remain so deposited for at least one month and shall, while so deposited, be open to inspection by any person, free of charge, between the hours of ten o'clock in the morning and four o'clock in the afternoon on every day except Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays.

7. (1) The amount of price to be paid by the Company for any land acquired to the several persons entitled thereto or having estates or interests therein or for any right acquired to the several persons entitled to or having estates or interests in the land in respect of which the right is exercised, shall, in default of agreement, be fixed under and in accordance with the Acquisition of Land (Assessment of Compensation) Act, 1919.

(2) Sections 69 to 83 of the Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845, shall apply to the said price and, subject to paragraphs 9 and 10, to the conveyance to the Company of the land or right acquired, and for the purpose of the application the Company shall be deemed to be the promoters of the undertaking.

8. The amount to be paid in accordance with paragraph 7 for any land or any estate or interest therein or any right, shall be determined as if Chapter VII of Part I of the Finance Act, 1991, had not been enacted.

9. (1) Where the Company has entered on and taken possession of land in accordance with the powers conferred upon it by paragraph 4 and the Minister is satisfied that—

(a) the several interests in the land have not been conveyed or transferred to the Company,

(b) it is urgently necessary, in connection with the purposes for which the Company has been authorised to acquire the land compulsorily, that the acquisition of the land should be completed, and

(c) the Company has made a proper offer in writing to each person having an interest in the land who has furnished sufficient particulars of his interest to enable the Company to make proper offer for such interest,

then the Minister may make an order (in this Schedule referred to as a vesting order) vesting the land in the Company.

(2) Where the Minister or the Company, before the making of the vesting order, becomes aware that the land to be acquired by the order is subject (whether alone or in conjunction with other land) to any annuity or other payment to the Irish Land Commission or to the Commissioners of Public Works in Ireland, or to any charge payable to the Revenue Commissioners on the death of any person, the Minister or the Company, as the case may be, shall forthwith inform the Irish Land Commission, the Commissioners of Public Works in Ireland or the Revenue Commissioners, as the case may be, of the intention to make the order.

(3) When a vesting order has been made, the Company shall within seven days after notification of the making of the order—

(a) publish in one or more newspapers circulating in the county borough of Dublin (including the Temple Bar Area) a notice stating that the order has been made, describing the land referred to therein and naming a place where a copy of the order may be seen at all reasonable times, and

(b) serve on every person appearing to it to have an interest in the land to which the order relates a notice stating the fact of such an order having been made and the effect of the order.

10. (1) A vesting order shall be in the prescribed form and shall have attached thereto a map of the land to which it applies and it shall be expressed and shall operate to vest the land in the Company in fee simple free from encumbrances and all estates, rights, titles and interests of whatsoever kind (other than any public right of way) on a specified date not earlier than twenty-one days after the making of the vesting order.

(2) Notwithstanding anything in subparagraph (1), where the Company has acquired by a vesting order land which is subject, either alone or in conjunction with other land, to a purchase annuity, payment in lieu of rent, or other annual sum (not being merely a rent under a contract of tenancy) payable to the Irish Land Commission or the Commissioners of Public Works in Ireland, the Company shall become and be liable, as from the date on which the land is vested in it by the vesting order, for the payment to the Irish Land Commission or the Commissioners of Public Works in Ireland, as the case may be, of the annual sum or such portion thereof as shall be apportioned by the Irish Land Commission or by the Commissioners of Public Works in Ireland, as the case may be, on the land as if the land had been transferred to the Company by the owner thereof on that date.

(3) When the Minister makes a vesting order in relation to any land, he shall cause the order to be sent to the registering authority under the Registration of Title Act, 1964, and thereupon the registering authority shall cause the Company to be registered as owner of the land in accordance with the order.