Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) and Miscellaneous Provisions Act 2024

PART 4

Additional Functions of Mayor and Mayoral Office Structures

Definitions (Part 4)

29. (1) In this Part—

“Act of 2015” means the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Act 2015 ;

“delivery board” has the meaning assigned to it by section 33 ;

“Limerick City and County Development Plan” means a development plan under subsection (1) of section 9 of the Act of 2000 relating to Limerick which is, for the time being, in force;

“Limerick-Shannon metropolitan area strategic plan” means the part of the regional spatial and economic strategy for the Southern Region relating to the area referred to in that strategy as the Limerick-Shannon Metropolitan Area;

“Mayoral programme” has the meaning assigned to it by section 31 ;

“National Development Plan” means the National Development Plan 2021-2030 published by the Government on 4 October 2021 or any document published by the Government which amends or replaces that plan;

“National Planning Framework” has the same meaning as it has in the Act of 2000;

“ordinary meeting” has the meaning assigned to it in paragraph 1 of Schedule 10 to the Principal Act;

“public body” means—

(a) a Minister of the Government,

(b) a local authority,

(c) a body (other than a company) established by or under an enactment, or

(d) a company established pursuant to a power conferred by or under an enactment, and financed wholly or partly by—

(i) moneys provided, or loans made or guaranteed, by a Minister of the Government, or

(ii) the issue of shares held by or on behalf of a Minister of the Government;

“regional spatial and economic strategy” means a regional spatial and economic strategy made under Chapter III of Part II of the Act of 2000;

“transport sub-group” has the meaning assigned to it by section 34 .