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Updated to 14 October 2014
This Revised Act is an administrative consolidation of the National Sports Campus Development Authority Act 2006. It is prepared by the Law Reform Commission in accordance with its function under the Law Reform Commission Act 1975 (3/1975) to keep the law under review and to undertake revision and consolidation of statute law.
All Acts up to and including Freedom of Information Act 2014 (30/2014), enacted 14 October 2014, and all statutory instruments up to and including Education and Skills (Delegation of Ministerial Functions) Order (S.I. No. 481 of 2014), made 14 October 2014, were considered in the preparation of this Revised Act.
All Acts up to and including Freedom of Information Act 2014 (30/2014), enacted 14 October 2014, were considered in the preparation of this revision.
• National Sports Campus Development Authority Act 2006 (Vesting) Order 2012 (S.I. No. 319 of 2012)
• National Sports Campus Development Authority Act 2006 (Form of Vesting Order) Regulations 2012 (S.I. No. 307 of 2012)
• National Sports Campus Development Authority Act 2006 (Establishment Day) Order 2006 (S. I. No. 688 of 2006)
All statutory instruments up to and including Education and Skills (Delegation of Ministerial Functions) Order 2014 (S.I. No. 481 of 2014), made 14 October 2014, were considered in the preparation of this revision.
[5 th July, 2006]
Functions transferred and terms “Department of Tourism, Culture and Sport” and “Minister for Tourism, Culture and Sport” construed (1.04.2011) by Tourism and Sport (Transfer of Departmental Administration and Ministerial Functions) Order 2011 (S.I. No. 140 of 2011), arts. 2 and 3, in effect as per art. 1(2).
“Authority” means National Sports Campus Development Authority established by section 6 ;
“company” has the meaning it has in the Companies Act 1963;
“the Company” means Campus and Stadium Ireland Development Limited;
“the establishment day” means the day appointed under section 5 ;
“Minister” means Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism;
( a) the National Aquatic Centre,
( b) the land owned by the Minister for Agriculture and Food and described in Schedule 1 , and
( c) any land acquired by the Authority under section 6 or 31 ;
“a subsidiary” means a subsidiary (within the meaning of section 155 of the Companies Act 1963) of the Authority.
Power pursuant to section exercised (1.01.2007) by National Sports Campus Development Authority Act 2006 (Establishment Day) Order 2006 (S.I. No. 688 of 2006), art. 2.
2. The 1st day of January 2007 is appointed to be the establishment day for the purposes of the National Sports Campus Development Authority Act 2006 (No. 19 of 2006).
( a) develop a sports campus on the site,
( b) furnish and equip the sports campus with such plant, machinery, equipment and apparatus as it considers appropriate,
( c) manage, operate and maintain the sports campus, and
( d) encourage and promote the use of the sports campus by persons participating in sport at professional and amateur levels and by members of the public generally.
(2) Without prejudice to the generality of subsection (1) , the Authority may—
( a) develop and provide on the site such facilities and services of a commercial nature complementary to the sports campus, including residential accommodation, as it considers appropriate,
( b) arrange with any educational institution or other body that is interested in the development of medical and research facilities for sport on the site and, if appropriate, elsewhere for the development of such facilities on such terms and conditions as the Authority considers appropriate,
( c) arrange with a body involved in the promotion of sport at a national level for the use by the body, on such terms and conditions as the Authority considers appropriate, of the site, or a part of it, for a purpose connected with sport including the location of the body’s headquarters there, and
( d) make arrangements with any person, on such terms and conditions as it considers appropriate, for the provision to it by that person of financial assistance (whether by way of the provision of funds or the undertaking of works) for the development or provision of any facilities or services or both in the sports campus and the use by that person of those facilities and services.
( a) the facilities and services to be developed on the site;
( b) the reasons for including each facility and service in the plan;
( c) the cost and timetable for the development of those facilities and services; and
( d) the phases of development of the sports campus.
(5) The Authority shall, before the commencement of each phase of development of the sports campus on the site specified in the plan approved by the Minister under subsection (3) or (4) , prepare and submit to the Minister for his or her approval a detailed plan in respect of that phase of development specifying particulars of the following:
( a) the facilities and services to be developed on the site during that phase;
( b) the cost of that phase; and
( c) the timetable for the development of that phase.
(6) The Authority shall, in preparing or amending a plan for submission to the Minister for his or her approval under subsection (3) , (4) or (5) , consult with the Irish Sports Council and such bodies involved in the promotion of sport at a national level as it considers appropriate.
(7) The Minister may approve, with such modifications (if any) as he or she considers appropriate, a plan submitted to him or her by the Authority under subsection (3) , (4) or (5) .
Certain lands owned by the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine at Abbotstown, Dublin, transferred to the National Sports Campus Development Authority pursuant to s. 30(1) and subs. (8) (1.02.2013) by National Sports Campus Development Authority Act 2006 (Vesting) Order 2013 (S.I. No. 3 of 2013), in effect as per art. 2.
Certain lands owned by the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine at Abbotstown, Dublin, transferred to the National Sports Campus Development Authority pursuant to s. 30(1) and subs. (8) (15.08.2012) by National Sports Campus Development Authority Act 2006 (Vesting) Order 2012 (S.I. No. 319 of 2012), in effect as per art. 2.
Form of vesting order for transfer of land from the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to the National Sports Campus Development Authority pursuant to subs. (8) prescribed (8.08.2012) by National Sports Campus Development Authority Act 2006 (Form of Vesting Order) Regulations 2012 (S.I. No. 307 of 2012).
( a) a chairperson; and
( a) four of such members shall hold office for the period of 3 years from the date of their appointment;
( b) four of such members shall hold office for the period of 4 years from the date of their appointment; and
( c) the remaining members shall hold office for the period of 5 years from the date of their appointment.
(6) The members of the Authority who are to hold office for the periods specified in paragraphs (a) and (b) of subsection (5) shall be decided by lot to be drawn in such manner as may be decided by the Minister.
(7) Subject to subsection (5) , a person who is appointed pursuant to this section to be an ordinary member of the Authority shall hold office for the period of 5 years from the date of his or her appointment.
(8) Notwithstanding subsections (5) to (7) , an ordinary member of the Authority appointed under subsection (2) shall, unless he or she sooner dies, becomes disqualified for, resigns or is removed from office, hold office until the Minister appoints a person to replace that person as such a member of the Authority.
( a) is adjudged bankrupt,
( b) makes a composition or arrangement with his or her creditors,
( c) is convicted of an offence involving fraud or dishonesty, whether or not in connection with a company,
( d) is convicted of an indictable offence in relation to a company,
( e) has a declaration under section 150 of the Companies Act 1990 made against him or her or is subject or is deemed to be subject to a disqualification order by virtue of Part VII of that Act, or
( f) has a conflict of interest of such significance that, in the opinion of the Minister, requires that he or she should not hold or should cease to hold such office.
( a) the member has become incapable through ill health of effectively performing the duties of the office,
( b) the member has committed stated misbehaviour, or
( c) the removal appears to be necessary for the effective performance of the functions of the Authority.
(16) For the purposes of subsection (15) , a person who occasions or fills a casual vacancy shall be considered to have served a term as a member of the Authority even though he or she held office for part only of the term.
(17) Subject to section 10 (3) , the Authority may act notwithstanding one or more vacancies in its membership.
( a) the chairperson of the Authority shall, if present, be the chairperson of the meeting, and
( b) if and so long as the chairperson of the Authority is not present or if the office of chairperson is vacant, the members of the Authority who are present shall choose one of their number to be the chairperson of the meeting.
( a) shall hold office under a contract of service in writing for such period as may be specified in the contract and subject to such other terms and conditions (including terms and conditions relating to remuneration, allowances for expenses and superannuation) as may be determined from time to time by the Authority with the approval of the Minister given with the consent of the Minister for Finance and are so specified, and
( b) shall be paid out of moneys at the disposal of the Authority.
( a) appoint such and so many persons to be members of the staff of the Authority as it may from time to time determine, and
( b) determine the grades of such staff of the Authority and the number of staff in each grade.
“superannuation benefits” means pensions, gratuities and other allowances payable to or in respect of a person on ceasing to be a member of the staff of the Authority;
“a superannuation scheme” means a superannuation scheme made under subsection (2) or (4) .
( a) disclose to the Authority, committee or subsidiary, as the case may be, the nature of the interest in advance of any consideration of the matter,
( b) neither influence nor seek to influence a decision relating to the matter,
( d) withdraw from a meeting at which the matter is being discussed or considered for so long as it is being so discussed or considered, and
( e) if he or she is a member of the Authority or a committee or a director of a subsidiary, neither vote nor otherwise act as such a member or director in relation to the matter.
(2) For the purposes of this section, but without prejudice to the generality of subsection (1) , a person shall be regarded as having a beneficial interest in each of the following cases:
( a) the person, any connected relative F1 [ or civil partner within the meaning of the Civil Partnership and Certain Rights and Obligations of Cohabitants Act 2010 ] of the person or a nominee of F2 [ any ] of them is a member of a company or any other body which has a beneficial interest in, or material to, any matter referred to in that subsection;
( b) the person or any connected relative F1 [ or civil partner within the meaning of the Civil Partnership and Certain Rights and Obligations of Cohabitants Act 2010 ] of the person is in partnership with or is in the employment of a person who has a beneficial interest in, or material to, any such matter;
( c) the person or any connected relative F1 [ or civil partner within the meaning of the Civil Partnership and Certain Rights and Obligations of Cohabitants Act 2010 ] is a party to any arrangement or agreement (whether or not enforceable) concerning land to which any such matter relates;
( d) any connected relative F1 [ or civil partner within the meaning of the Civil Partnership and Certain Rights and Obligations of Cohabitants Act 2010 ] has a beneficial interest in, or material to, any such matter.
(6) Where the Minister is satisfied that a member of the Authority or a committee or a director of a subsidiary has contravened subsection (1) , he or she may, if he or she thinks fit, remove that member or director from office and, where a person is removed from office pursuant to this subsection, he or she shall thenceforth be disqualified for being a member of the Authority or a committee or a director of a subsidiary.
(7) Where a person other than a person to whom subsection (6) applies contravenes subsection (1) , the Authority or, as appropriate, the subsidiary concerned shall decide the appropriate action to be taken in relation to the person, including the termination of a contract of service or a contract for services with the person.
Inserted (1.01.2011) by Civil Partnership and Certain Rights and Obligations of Cohabitants Act 2010 (24/2010), s. 97 and sch. part 1 item 40, S.I. No. 648 of 2010.
Substituted (1.01.2011) by Civil Partnership and Certain Rights and Obligations of Cohabitants Act 2010 (24/2010), s. 97 and sch. part 1 item 40, S.I. No. 648 of 2010.
( a) a member of the Authority or a committee;
( b) a director of a subsidiary;
( c) a member of the staff of the Authority or a subsidiary;
( d) a consultant or adviser engaged by the Authority or a subsidiary, or an employee of such a consultant or adviser; or
( e) a person engaged by the Authority or a subsidiary in any other capacity.
(2) Where the Minister is satisfied that a member of the Authority or a committee or a director of a subsidiary has contravened subsection (1) , he or she may, if he or she thinks fit, remove that member or director from office and, where a person is removed from office pursuant to this subsection, he or she shall thenceforth be disqualified for being a member of the Authority or a committee or a director of a subsidiary.
(3) Where a person mentioned in paragraph (c) , (d) or (e) of subsection (1) contravenes that subsection, the Authority or, as appropriate, the subsidiary concerned shall decide the appropriate action to be taken in relation to the person, including the termination of a contract of service or a contract for services with the person.
( a) information that is expressed by the Authority or a subsidiary to be confidential either as regards particular information or as regards information of a particular class or description, and
( b) information relating to proposals of a commercial nature or to tenders submitted to the Authority or a subsidiary by a contractor, a consultant or any other person.
( b) elected as a member of either House of the Oireachtas or to be a member of the European Parliament,
( c) regarded pursuant to section 19 of the European Parliament Elections Act 1997 as having been elected to that Parliament, or
( d) elected or co-opted as a member of a local authority,
(2) Without prejudice to the generality of subsection (1) , that subsection shall be construed as prohibiting the reckoning of a period therein mentioned as service with the Authority or a subsidiary for the purposes of any superannuation benefits payable under section 15 or otherwise.
( a) entitled under the Standing Orders of either House of the Oireachtas to sit therein,
( b) a member of the European Parliament, or
( c) entitled under the standing orders of a local authority to sit as a member thereof,
shall, while he or she is so entitled under paragraph (a) or (c) or is such a member under paragraph (b) , be disqualified for being a member of the Authority or a committee, a director of a subsidiary, the Chief Executive or a member of the staff of the Authority or a subsidiary.
(4) In this section “local authority” means a local authority for the purposes of the Local Government Act 2001.
( a) all moneys received or expended by the Authority, and
( b) all property, assets and liabilities of the Authority,
( a) the regularity and propriety of the transactions recorded or required to be recorded in any book or other record of account subject to audit by the Comptroller and Auditor General which the Chief Executive or the Authority is required to keep under this section,
( d) any matter affecting the Authority referred to in a special report of the Comptroller and Auditor General under section 11(2) of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Amendment) Act 1993 or in any other report of the Comptroller and Auditor General (in so far as it relates to a matter specified in paragraph (a) , (b) or (c) ) that is laid before Dáil Éireann.
(5) In the performance of his or her duties under subsection (4) , the Chief Executive shall not question or express an opinion on the merits of any policy of the Government or a Minister of the Government or on the merits of the objectives of such a policy.
( a) the Committee referred to in section 20 (4) ,
( b) the Committee on Members’ Interests of Dáil Éireann, or
( c) the Committee on Members’ Interests of Seanad Éireann,
( a) in paragraph 1(2) of the First Schedule, of “the National Sports Campus Development Authority,”, and
( b) in Part I of the Third Schedule—
(i) in column (2), of “ National Sports Campus Development Authority Act 2006.”, and
( a) the renewal of a lease or a tenancy agreement in respect of the site or any part of it,
( b) a subletting of the site or any part of it, or
( c) a change in the use of the site or any part of it,
( a) the chairperson of the Authority or another member of the Authority authorised in that behalf by it, and
( b) the Chief Executive or any other member of the staff of the Authority authorised in that behalf by it.
(3) Judicial notice shall be taken of the seal of the Authority and an instrument purporting to be an instrument made by the Authority and to be sealed with its seal (purporting to be authenticated in accordance with subsection (2) ) shall be received in evidence and shall be deemed to be such instrument without proof unless the contrary is shown.
27.— The Authority is, subject to section 7 of the State Authorities (Public Private Partnership Arrangements) Act 2002, a State authority for the purposes of that Act, and on the establishment day the Schedule to that Act is amended by the addition of “National Sports Campus Development Authority.”.
Certain lands owned by the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine at Abbotstown, Dublin, transferred to the National Sports Campus Development Authority pursuant to s. 7(8) and subs. (1) (1.02.2013) by National Sports Campus Development Authority Act 2006 (Vesting) Order 2013 (S.I. No. 3 of 2013), in effect as per art. 2.
Certain lands owned by the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine at Abbotstown, Dublin, transferred to the National Sports Campus Development Authority pursuant to s. 7(8) and subs. (1) (15.08.2012) by National Sports Campus Development Authority Act 2006 (Vesting) Order 2012 (S.I. No. 319 of 2012), in effect as per art. 2.
Form of vesting order for transfer of land from the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to the National Sports Campus Development Authority prescribed pursuant to subs. (2) (8.08.2012) by National Sports Campus Development Authority Act 2006 (Form of Vesting Order) Regulations 2012 (S.I. No. 307 of 2012).
(2) ( a) The provisions of paragraphs 7 and 8 of Schedule 2 shall, where appropriate, have effect in the circumstances specified in subparagraph (1) of the said paragraph 7 for the purposes of vesting land in the Authority.
( b) The making of a vesting order by virtue of paragraph 7 of Schedule 2 shall not of itself prejudice any claim to compensation made after the making of the order in respect of any estate or interest in or right over the land, or any part of it, to which the order relates and, accordingly, the provisions of paragraph 6 of Schedule 2 shall apply to such a claim.
(3) In subsection (1) “public road” has the meaning assigned to it in section 2 of the Roads Act 1993.
Land situated at Abbotstown, Ballycoolen, Blanchardstown, Cappoge, Deanstown, Sheephill and Snugborough, all in the County of Dublin, owned by the Minister for Agriculture and Food Land situated in the County of Dublin, being—
( a) the land comprised in Folio 14469 county of Dublin of the register of ownership of freehold land maintained under the Registration of Title Act 1964,
( b) the land comprised in Folio 1307 county of Dublin of the said register,
( c) the land comprised in Folio 4459 county of Dublin of the said register, and
( d) the land conveyed by an Indenture of Conveyance dated the 2nd day of January 1951 made between the Right Honourable James Hans Baron Holmpatrick of the First Part, Hugh De La Poer Pack-Beresford and Raymond Frederick Brooke of the Second Part and the Minister for Agriculture and Food of the Third Part and therein described as “All that and those Firstly all that part of the lands of Sheephill containing two hundred and thirty nine acres one rood and thirty three perches or thereabouts statute measure more particularly delineated and described on the map annexed hereto and thereon coloured pink and Secondly all that part of the lands of Abbotstown containing fifty acres one rood and thirty five perches or thereabouts statute measure more particularly delineated and described on the said map and thereon coloured green and Thirdly all that part of the lands of Deanstown containing thirty two acres two roods and twelve perches or thereabouts statute measure more particularly delineated and described on the said map and thereon coloured blue and Fourthly all that part of the lands of Blanchardstown containing twelve acres three roods and thirty four perches or thereabouts statute measure more particularly delineated and described on the said map and thereon coloured grey and Fifthly all that part of the lands of Cappoge containing twelve acres one rood and nine perches or thereabouts statute measure more particularly delineated and described on the said map and thereon coloured violet and Sixthly all that part of the lands of Snugborough containing one acre and three roods or thereabouts statute measure more particularly delineated and described on the said map and thereon coloured orange and Seventhly all that part of the lands of Blanchardstown containing six perches or thereabouts statute measure more particularly delineated and described on the said map and thereon coloured red all of which said hereditaments and premises hereby assured are situate in the Barony of Castleknock and County of Dublin”.
1. (1) Where the Authority proposes to acquire compulsorily any land or any interest in or right over land under section 31 the Authority shall apply to the Minister for an order under paragraph 2 authorising the Authority to acquire the land, or acquire or use the right, compulsorily and the application shall be accompanied by such maps, plans and books of reference as are referred to in paragraph 5 .
2. The Minister shall, where no objection to the application of the Authority is lodged with him or her within the period referred to in paragraph 1 (3) or any such objection is rejected by him or her, make an order (in this Schedule referred to as an “acquisition order”) authorising the Authority to acquire the land or right concerned compulsorily in accordance with the terms of its application or subject to such modifications, if any, as he or she may determine and specifies in the acquisition order.
( a) enter on or take possession of any land under this paragraph without giving to the occupier of the land 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.
6. (1) The amount of the price to be paid by the Authority for any land acquired pursuant to an acquisition order to the several persons entitled thereto or having estates or interests therein or for any right acquired pursuant to an acquisition order 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 7 and 8 , to the conveyance to the Authority of the land or right acquired, and for the purpose of the application of the said provisions the Authority shall be deemed to be the promoters of the undertaking.
( a) the several interests in the land have not been conveyed or transferred to the Authority,
( b) it is urgently necessary, in connection with the purposes for which the Authority has been authorised to acquire the land compulsorily, that the acquisition of the land should be completed, and
( c) the Authority has made a proper offer in writing to each person having an interest in the land who has furnished sufficient particulars of his or her interest to enable the Authority to make a proper offer for such interest,
( a) publish in one or more newspapers circulating in the area of the land to which the order relates a notice stating that the order has been made, describing the said land 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.
(2) Notwithstanding anything in subparagraph (1) , where the Authority 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 Minister for Agriculture and Food or the Commissioners of Public Works in Ireland, the Authority 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 Minister for Agriculture and Food or the Commissioners of Public Works in Ireland, as the case may be, of the annual sum or such portion thereof as may be apportioned by the Minister for Agriculture and Food or the Commissioners of Public Works in Ireland, as the case may be, on the land as if the land had been conveyed to the Authority by the owner thereof on that date.