S.I. No. 43/2025 - Rent Pressure Zone (Local Electoral Area of Athlone (Roscommon)) Order 2025

1. This Order may be cited as the Rent Pressure Zone (Local Electoral Area of Athlone (Roscommon)) Order 2025.

2. The Order comes into operation on 26 February 2025.

3. The area consisting of the Local Electoral Area of Athlone (Roscommon) is prescribed as a rent pressure zone during the period commencing on 26 February 2025 and ending on 31 December 2025.

GIVEN under my Official Seal,

20 February, 2025.

JAMES BROWNE,

Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(

This note is not part of the Instrument and does not purport to be a legal interpretation.

)

This Order provides for the designation of the Local Electoral Area of Athlone (Roscommon) as a rent pressure zone under section 24A of the

Residential Tenancies Act 2004

(as inserted by

section 36

of the

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Act 2016

), for the period commencing on 26 February 2025 and ending on 31 December 2025.

Notice of the making of this Statutory Instrument was published in

“Iris Oifigiúil” of

28

th February,

2025.

I, JAMES BROWNE, Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by subsection (5) of section 24A (inserted by the

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Act 2016

(No. 17 of 2016)) of the

Residential Tenancies Act 2004

(No. 27 of 2004), and consequent on having duly received from the Director of the Residential Tenancies Board, pursuant to that subsection, a rent zone report confirming that the criteria in subsection (4) of that section are satisfied in respect of the area to which the following Order relates, hereby order as follows