S.I. No. 467/2025 - Maritime Area Planning Act 2021 (Fit and Proper Person) Order 2025

1. This Order may be cited as the Maritime Area Planning Act 2021 (Fit and Proper Person) Order 2025.

Interpretation

2. In this Order

“Act” means Maritime Area Planning Act 2021 (No. 50 of 2021);

“local authority” has the meaning given by

section 2

(1) of the

Local Government Act 2001

;

“MAC” means maritime area consent.

Specified fit and proper person

3. The following class of persons is specified, for the purpose of Section 90(1)(b) of the Act, are hereby declared as fit and proper persons to be granted and to hold any MAC

(a) The local authority for any of the following

i. the county of Louth, Meath, Fingal, Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown, Wicklow, Wexford, Carlow, Kilkenny, Tipperary, Cork, Kerry, Clare, Galway, Mayo, Sligo, Leitrim or Donegal;

ii. the City of Dublin, Cork or Galway;

iii. Waterford City and County or Limerick City and County.

PRESENT when the SEAL of the MARITIME AREA REGULATORY AUTHORITY was affixed hereto and was authenticated by the signatures of:-

LAURA BRIEN,

Chief Executive, Maritime Area Regulatory Authority .

MARK MELLETT,

Chairperson, Maritime Area Regulatory Authority.

1 October, 2025

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(

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

)

This Order provides for a local authority to be declared a fit and proper person to be granted a Maritime Area Consent (MAC), both at the time a MAC application is made and at the time that the MAC application concerned is determined by the Maritime Area Regulatory Authority (MARA).

Notice of the making of this Statutory Instrument was published in

“Iris Oifigiúil” of

7

th October,

2025.

The Maritime Area Regulatory Authority, in exercise of the powers conferred on it by

section 90

(1) of the

Maritime Area Planning Act 2021

, after consultation with the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment and having had regard to the matters listed in

section 90

(3) of the Act, hereby orders as follows

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