(1) The Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government shall make regulations -
(a) providing for the methodology for the assessment of residential properties and the testing of subfloor hardcore material to establish the presence of significant pyritic damage,
(b) providing for the issue, by a competent person, of a certificate in relation to a residential property confirming (if such be the case) that significant pyritic damage has, in respect of the property, been established, in accordance with the regulations,
(c) specifying the form of the foregoing certificate, and
(d) providing for such incidental or consequential matters in respect of the preceding paragraphs or such other matters as the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government deems appropriate having regard to scientific and technical considerations concerning instances of pyritic damage in the State or elsewhere.
(2) In making regulations under subsection (1), the Minister for the Environme
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