The Minister has powered the consent of the Minister of Finance to make a mining facilities acquisition order permanently or temporarily. The order may be made where he is of the opinion that it is necessary to do so for the efficient and convenient exploitation of the State minerals. Where an order acquires land, its extent, location, nature and duration of rights must be specified. There are similar provisions in respect of the acquisition of ancillary rights such as rights-of-way and wayleaves.<\/p>\n
Where the Minister proposes to make an acquisition order, it must serve notice of intention on persons who appear to have an interest in the property. Compensation must be paid for land or rights acquired. The application for compensation must be made within a two-month period which may be extended to four months in certain circumstances,<\/p>\n\n
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Article 10 Article 10 of the Constitution declares that all natural resources and forms of potential energy belong to the State, subject to all estates and rights and interests therein lawfully vested in other persons.\u00a0 The same also applies to royalties and franchises within the jurisdiction. The Article declares that provision may be made for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[190],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13364"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13364"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31648,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13364\/revisions\/31648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}