An act to amend and extend the social welfare acts, the pensions act 1990, the combat poverty agency act 1986, the freedom of information act 1997, the taxes consolidation act 1997 and the career’s leave act 2001. More
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These Regulations apply to the carriage, in tanks, in bulk and in packages, of dangerous goods by road, including the packing, loading, filling and unloading of the dangerous goods in relation to their carriage. They apply the provisions of Annexes A and B to the European Agreement Concerning the International Carriage of Dangerous Goods by Road (ADR) 2007. The Regulations place duties on the various participants associated with the carriage of the dangerous goods. They contain requirements for the vehicles, tanks, tank containers, receptacles and packages containing the dangerous goods during their carriage. The Regulations require that the drivers, and others involved in the carriage of the dangerous goods by road, be adequately trained and, in the case of drivers, hold certificates of such training. The Regulations also contain provisions on an EC harmonised approach to the road checks aspect of their enforcement. More
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This Statutory Instrument revokes all the Orders made under the Merchandise Marks Act, 1970 since 1973 which specify the nominal quantities for prepacked products. The present Order arises from the transposition of Directive 2007/45/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 5 September 2007 laying down rules on nominal quantities for prepacked products, repealing Council Directives 75/106/EEC and 80/232/EEC and amending Council Directive 76/211/EEC. The effect of the Directive is to deregulate from 11th April 2009 almost all of the rules on nominal quantities for prepacked products. These rules are sometimes called range of sizes legislation and their purpose is to restrict the sizes in which certain products can be placed on the market. From 11th April 2009 the only mandated sizes for prepacked products will be for those wines and spirits specified in the Annex to the Directive. The Order comes into operation on 11th April 2009. More
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These Regulations amend the Waste Management (Restriction of Certain Hazardous Substances in Electrical and Electronic Equipment) Regulations 2005 (S.I. No. 341 of 2005). They clarify that producers must have access in the State to any records that certify that electrical and electronic equipment which he or she has placed on the market is in compliance with the Regulations. More
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These Regulations are designed to promote the recovery of waste electrical and electronic equipment. They will facilitate in particular the achievement of the targets for the collection, treatment, recovery and disposal of waste electrical and electronic equipment in an environmentally sound manner established by Directive 2002/96/EC on waste electrical and electronic equipment as amended by Directive 2003/108/EC. More
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An Act to provide for judicial notice to be taken of a report to the minister for health and children by an expert hearing group which was published by the department of health and children on the 9th day of April, 1998, to provide for courts to have regard to certain matters contained in that report in certain circumstances and to provide for connected matters. More
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An act to make provision in relation to the repayment of certain amounts that may become payable to housing authorities or planning authorities on the subsequent sale of certain houses or lands that have been provided or made available by them and, for that purpose, to amend section 9 of the housing (miscellaneous provisions) act 2002 and section 99 of the planning and development act 2000. More
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An Act to make provision with respect to housing (including the provision of loans and grants by the state and by local authorities in relation to housing), for that purpose to consolidate with amendments certain enactments relating to housing, to amend certain other enactments and to make provision with respect to other matters connected with the matters aforesaid. More
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An Act to enable the minister for agriculture and food to sell and otherwise deal with lands vested in the minister by the national stud Act, 1945, and for that purpose to amend that Act and the state property Act, 1954, and to provide for related matters. More
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An Act to amend and extend the postal and telecommunications services Act, 1983, and the telecommunications (miscellaneous provisions) Act, 1996, to repeal certain provisions of those Acts and to provide for related matters. More
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An Act to enable the minister for enterprise, trade and employment to provide for the making of payments to certain former employees of hospitals trust (1940) limited and to provide for connected matters. More
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An Act to provide for the preservation of public safety and the protection of person and property during national emergencies and for matters connected therewith. More
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An Act to provide for the establishment of a fund to be known as the national pensions reserve fund and a body to be known as the national pensions reserve fund commission to control and manage the fund, to dissolve the temporary holding fund for superannuation liabilities, to amend the taxes consolidation Act, 1997, and to provide for connected matters. More
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This Order delegates to John McGuinness, T.D., Minister of State at the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment the powers and duties of the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment under the Acts and Instruments specified in the Order. More
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An Act to make provision, consequent on the conclusion of the ten-year framework social partnership agreement 2006-2015 known as “towards 2016”, for the establishment of a redundancy panel and the reference to it of certain proposed collective redundancies and for related Action by the minister for enterprise, trade and employment, including the obtaining from the labor court of opinions on the nature of proposed collective redundancies; to remove the upper age limit for entitlement to redundancy payments; to make consequential amendments of the protection of employment Act 1977, the redundancy payments Act 1967, the redundancy payments Act 1971, the redundancy payments Act 1979, the unfair dismissals Act 1977 and the employment equality Act 1998; and to make further amendments of those Acts to update penalties and for purposes of statute-law revision. More
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An Act to enable the minister for the public service to make superannuation schemes in respect of public service, to amend or repeal certain provisions of the superannuation Acts, 1834 to 1963, and certain other enactments and to make provision for matters connected with the matters aforesaid. More
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An act to provide for the temporary absence from employment of employees for the purpose of the provision of full-time care and attention to a person requiring it, to protect the employment rights of those employees during such absence, and for that purpose to amend certain enactments and to provide for related matters. More
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These Regulations are made by the Revenue Commissioners under the provisions of section 917EA of the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997 . This section was inserted by section 164 of the Finance Act 2003 and was made subject to a commencement order by the Minister for Finance. This order was signed on 28 July 2008 More
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This latter Directive amends Directive 97/7/EC (and consequently S.I. No. 207 of 2001 ) by redefining the exclusion of financial services and these regulations implement this amendment. In addition a minor drafting amendment is made to regulation 3(ii)(I) of S.I. No. 207 of 2001. More
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An act to confer, on the insolvency of employers, certain rights on employees, to amend certain enactments relating to the rights of employees and to provide for other matters (including offences) connected with the matters aforesaid. More
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These Regulations give further effect to the Directive not fully transposed in the European Communities (Unfair Terms in Consumer Contracts) (Amendment) Regulations, 1995 ( S.I. No. 27 of 1995 ). They provide that Consumer organisations set up for the purpose of protecting consumer rights be allowed to bring an injunction. More
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These Regulations relate to the scheme of tax relief at source for mortgage interest introduced in the Finance Act, 2001 . They provide the mechanism for the recovery by mortgage lenders from Revenue of amounts (representing income tax at the standard rate) which have been deducted by persons paying mortgage interest which qualifies for tax relief and enable the validity of any claim for repayment to be checked. More
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An act to provide for the establishment of business improvement districts within the functional areas of rating authorities, to enable schemes under which projects, services and works are carried out for the benefit of those districts, to finance the schemes by providing for the imposition and collection of a levy on rateable properties situated in those districts, to improve local authority funding by providing for the imposition and collection of levies applicable in relation to newly constructed properties, to make new provision in relation to audit committees of local authorities, to amend the local government acts 1925 to 2004 for all such purposes, to amend the valuation act 2001, and to provide for related matters. More
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An act to make new provision for registered trade marks, implementing council directive no. 89/104/eec of 21st December, 1988, to approximate the laws of the member states relating to trade marks ; to make provision in connection with council regulation (EC) no. 40/94 of 20 December, 1993, on the community trade mark; to give effect to the Madrid protocol relating to the international registration of marks of 27th June, 1989, and to certain provisions of the Paris convention for the protection of industrial property of 20th march, 1883, as revised and amended; to permit the registration of trade marks in relation to services and for connected purposes. More
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An act to amend the law relating to the amalgamation of trade unions and the alteration of the name of a trade union, to provide for transfer of engagements from one trade union to another, to amend and extend the trade union acts, 1871 to 1971, and to provide for other matters connected with the aforesaid matters. More
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An Act to make provision with respect to the performance by the minister for the environment and local government of functions transferred (whether before or after the date of its passing) to that minister of the government from the minister for community, rural and Gaeltacht affairs by an order under section 6(1) of the ministers and secretaries (amendment) Act, 1939. More
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An Act to amend the social welfare Acts and the pensions Act 1990 and to make related amendments of the family law Act 1995 and the family law (divorce) Act 1996. More
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An Act to remove the compulsory retirement age for certain categories of new entrants into the public service on or after 1 April 2004, to increase the pensionable age for certain categories of new entrants into the public service from that date, including members of either house of the Oireachtas and certain office holders, and to make consequential provisions, to provide for certain other categories of new entrants, for transitional matters and for the making of a scheme or schemes for the granting of superannuation benefits to or in respect of new entrants into the permanent defence force appointed on or after 1 April 2004, and to provide for connected matters. More
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An Act to amend and extend the social welfare Acts, the pensions Act 1990 and the comhairle Act 2000, to amend and extend the functions of the citizens information board, to amend the civil registration Act 2004, to provide for the dissolution of the combat poverty agency and the transfer of its assets, liabilities and employees to the minister for social and family affairs, to repeal the combat poverty agency Act 1986 and to provide for related matters. More
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An Act to reform the recruitment and appointment processes of the civil service and certain other bodies in the public service and for that purpose, to provide for new management structures to replace the civil service commissioners and local appointments commissioners, to establish the commission for public service appointments to oversee the implementation and development of those structures in the context of the public interest and the need to uphold the probity of the recruitment and appointment process, to provide for an office connected to that commission, to provide for the establishment of the public appointments service as the recruitment and selection body for the civil service and other bodies in the public service, to introduce flexibility into the recruitment process by enabling the licensing by that commission, in addition to the licensing of the public appointments service, of any part of those services to undertake their own recruitment in respect of one or more classes of employees and, generally, to enable licence holders to delegate some of their recruitment processes to persons or bodies specified by that commission from time to time, to enable those services to respond to changes in their recruitment needs and in the labour market, More
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An Act to give effect in part to directive no. 2001/37/EC of the European parliament and of the council of 5 June 2001 on the approximation of the laws, regulations and administrative provisions of the member states concerning the manufacture, presentation and sale of tobacco products; to give effect to directive no. 2003/33/EC of the European parliament and of the council of 26 may 2003 on the approximation of the laws, regulations and administrative provisions of the member states relating to the advertising and sponsorship of tobacco products; and for those and other purposes, and having regard to council recommendation of 2 December 2002 on the prevention of smoking and on initiatives to improve tobacco control, and the world health organisation framework convention on tobacco control done at Geneva on the 21st day of may 2003, to amend the public health (tobacco) Act 2002. More
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An Act to give effect to the amendment of the limitation amounts in the protocol of 1992 to amend the international convention on civil liability for oil pollution damage 1969, done at London on 27 November 1992, and the amendment of the limits of compensation in the protocol of 1992 to amend the international convention on the establishment of an international fund for compensation for oil pollution damage 1971, done at London on 27 November 1992, to give effect to the protocol of 2003 to the international convention on the establishment of an international fund for compensation for oil pollution damage 1992, done at London on 16 may 2003, and for those purposes to amend the oil pollution of the sea (civil liability and compensation) Acts 1988 to 1998, and to provide for connected matters. More
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An Act to provide for the establishment of a body (to be known as the national community development agency) to advise the minister for health on national policy relating to community development, self-help, poverty and social deprivation, to support voluntary Action by the community in relation to those matters and to promote greater public understanding of them, to define the powers and functions of the agency and to provide for other connected matters. More
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An Act to make further provision in relation to the functions and powers of the minister for community, rural and Gaeltacht affairs with respect to the islands of the state and to provide for related matters. More
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The purpose of these Regulations is to designate the Commission for Aviation Regulation as the competent licensing authority in the State for the purposes of Regulation (EC) No. 1008/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 September 2008 and to give full effect to the Regulation. More
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An Act to provide for certain changes in the hearing of appeals under section 29 of the education Act 1998, to provide for certain changes in the functions performed by the inspectorate under section 13 of that Act, to make provision with regard to access to certain information under that Act, for those and other purposes to amend the education Act 1998 and the education (welfare) Act 2000, to provide for the transfer of certain lands and to provide for related matters. More
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An Act to confirm the functions of the minister for community, rural and Gaeltacht affairs, to amend the freedom of information Act 1997, to amend the western development commission Act 1998, to amend the minister for community, rural and Gaeltacht affairs (powers and functions) Act 2003, to repeal the Arramara Teoranta (acquisition of shares) Acts 1949 to 2002, and to provide for related matters. More
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An Act to enable members of the public to obtain access, to the greatest extent possible consistent with the public interest and the right to privacy, to information in the possession of public bodies and to enable persons to have personal information relating to them in the possession of such bodies corrected and, accordingly, to provide for a right of access to records held by such bodies, for necessary exceptions to that right and for assistance to persons to enable them to exercise it, to provide for the independent review both of decisions of such bodies relating to that right and of the operation of this Act generally (including the proceedings of such bodies pursuant to this Act) and, for those purposes, to provide for the establishment of the office of information commissioner and to define its functions, to provide for the publication by such bodies of certain information about them relevant to the purposes of this Act, to amend the official secrets Act, 1963 , and to provide for related matters. More
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An Act to amend the Waterford and limerick railway Act, 1878, and section 35 of the Waterford harbor Act, 1919, to provide for the validation of an agreement and matters connected with the matters aforesaid. More
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This Commencement Order appoints 1st June 2003 as the day when section 56 of the Company Law Enforcement Act 2001 shall become effective in so far as it relates to liquidators who were appointed to insolvent companies on or after 1 January 2000 and before 1 July 2001, where in respect of the company to which the liquidator was appointed an order has not been made under section 249(1) of the Companies Act 1963 or where the meetings required under section 273(1) of the Companies Act 1963 have not been held. More
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The purpose of these Regulations is to implement Directive 2005/36/EC of 7 September 2005 on the recognition of professional qualifications as amended by Council Directive 2006/100/EC of 20 November 2006, insofar as those Directives concern the profession of pharmacist. More
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An act to make provision in relation to the control of entry into the state of non-nationals, to amend the refugee act 1996 and to provide for related matters. More
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An act to provide for amendment of the provisions governing the limitations and restrictions for the granting of firearm certificates under section 3 of the firearms act, 1925, in respect of persons not ordinarily resident in the state and the granting and renewal of hunting licences under section 29 of the wildlife act, 1976, and to provide for connected matters. More
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An act to amend the law relating to charities by extending the powers of the commissioners of charitable donations and bequests for Ireland and by amending the charities act, 1961. More
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An act to appropriate to the proper supply services and purposes sums granted by the central fund (permanent provisions) act, 1965, and to make certain provision in relation to the financial resolutions, passed by dáil éireann on 6 December 2000. More
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