Housing (Domestic Waste Water Treatment Systems Financial Assistance for Prioritised Areas for Action) Regulations 2020

• Jurisdiction: Ireland
• Citation: IR SI 185/2020

Notice of the making of this Statutory Instrument was published in

“Iris Oifigiúil” of 29th May, 2020.

I, EOGHAN MURPHY, Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by Section 6 of the Housing Miscellaneous Provisions Act 1979 (No. 27 of 1979) as amended, hereby make the following Regulations:

Citation

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Housing (Domestic Waste Water Treatment Systems Financial Assistance for Prioritised Areas for Action) Regulations 2020.

Interpretation

2. In these Regulations—

“approved cost” in relation to remediation, repair or upgrading works to a domestic waste water treatment system, or the replacement of such system, means the cost estimated by the housing authority to be the reasonable cost of carrying out the works or the replacement, or the actual cost of carrying out the works or the replacement, whichever is the lesser;

“domestic waste water” means domestic waste water within the meaning of the Water Services Act;

“River Basin Management Plan for Ireland 2018-2021” means the plan made in 2018 under Regulation 13 of the European Communities (Water Policy) Regulations 2003, as amended by the European Union (Water Policy) Regulations 2014;

“Water Services Act” means the Water Services Act 2007 (No. 30 of 2007) as amended.

Financial assistance towards remediation, repair, upgrading or replacement of domestic waste water treatment systems

3. (1) A housing authority may pay a grant to a person for the carrying out of remediation, repair or upgrading works to, or replacement of, a domestic waste water treatment system where, in the opinion of the housing authority, the system:

(a) is causing, or may cause, a threat to the environment,

(b) is of need of remediation, repair, upgrading or replacement, and

(c) serves a house, which is situated in a catchment area identified as a Prioritised Area for Action, in accordance with the River Basin Management Plan 2018-2021.

(2) A grant under these Regulations shall not exceed 85% of the approved cost subject a maximum grant of €5,000.

(3) A grant under these Regulations shall not be paid where the total cost is less than €750.

(4) A grant under these Regulations shall not be paid where-

(a) the owner of the domestic waste water treatment system had not, by the prescribed date of 1 February 2013, applied to have the treatment system entered in the register of domestic waste water treatment systems...