Charlie McConalogue (Donegal, Fianna Fail)
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Section 15 provides for the transitional arrangements after the commencement of section 9 of the Bill, permitting requests for reviews of decisions of appeals officers to the agriculture appeals review panel. It specifically provides for arrangements relating to decisions and appeals in existence before the commencement of section 9, and allows for the review of those pre-existing decisions by the agriculture appeals review panel in specified circumstances, where a request for review is made within 12 months of the commencement of section 9. Basically, it provides for transitional arrangements in the period between the new system coming in and the old system changing. It also allows 12 months for somebody to make an appeal in that scenario during that transition.