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Law· Public2010/30enacted

Planning and Development (Amendment) Act 2010

Ireland · Seanad Éireann · 29 May 2009

Act to amend and extend the Planning and Development Act 2000, to amend the Transport (Railway Infrastructure) Act 2001, and to provide for related matters

Law· Public2009/16enacted

Aviation (Preclearance) Act 2009

Ireland · Seanad Éireann · 29 May 2009

Act to give effect to an Agreement entered into between the Government of Ireland and the Government of the United States of America relating to the provision of preclearance operations at airports in the State for persons travelling by air to the United States of America, done at Washington on 17 November 2008, to give the Minister for Transport power to make regulations, including regulations designating areas at airports within which preclearance operations may be carried out, to provide for conferring certain limited functions on preclearance officers within those areas, to provide for the seizure and forfeiture of goods not duly declared and to repeal the Air Navigation and Transport (Preinspection) Act 1986, to amend the Freedom of Information Act 1997 and to provide for related matters

Law· Public2011/2enacted

Multi-Unit Developments Act 2011

Ireland · Seanad Éireann · 25 May 2009

Act to amend the law relating to the ownership and management of the common areas of multi-unit developments and to facilitate the fair, efficient and effective management of bodies responsible for the management of such common areas, and to provide for related matters

Law· Public2010/27enacted

Criminal Procedure Act 2010

Ireland · Seanad Éireann · 21 May 2009

Act to amend and extend the Criminal Justice Act 1993; to amend criminal law and procedure in other respects, including making provision for exceptions to the rule against double jeopardy so as to enable the Court of Criminal Appeal to hear and determine applications brought in certain circumstances by the Director of Public Prosecutions to quash certain acquittals and to have persons who are the subject of those applications re-tried, and to provide for an appeal to the Supreme Court on a point of law from a determination of the Court of Criminal Appeal in respect of such applications; to extend the powers of the Garda Síochána in relation to the investigation of certain offences; to extend the circumstances in which the Director of Public Prosecutions or the Attorney General, as may be appropriate, may take an appeal in criminal proceedings; to amend the Criminal Justice (Legal Aid) Act 1962, the Courts of Justice Act 1924 and the Offences Against the State Act 1939; and to provide for related matters

Law· Public2009/28enacted

Criminal Justice (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2009

Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 11 May 2009

Act to give further effect to the Council Framework Decision of 13 June 2002 on the European arrest warrant and the surrender procedures between Member States, and to give effect to the Council Decision 2007/533/JHA of 12 June 2007 on the establishment, operation and use of the second generation Schengen Information System, and for those and other purposes to amend the European Arrest Warrant Act 2003, extend the application of the Data Protection Acts 1988 and 2003 and amend the Extradition Act 1965, to amend the law relating to the regulation and control of firearms and ammunition and for that and other purposes to amend the Firearms Acts 1925 to 2007, to amend certain other enactments and to provide for related matters

Law· Public2011/40enacted

Property Services (Regulation) Act 2011

Ireland · Seanad Éireann · 7 May 2009

Act to provide for the establishment of a body, to be known as An tÚdaras Rialála Seirbhísí Maoine, or in the English language the Property Services Regulatory Authority, to control and supervise the providers of property services, to cause any complaints against those providers to be investigated and to adjudicate on any such complaints; to provide for the establishment of a body to be known as An Bord Achomhairc um Sheirbhísí Maoine, or in the English language the Property Services Appeal Board, to hear and determine appeals against certain decisions of the Authority; and to provide for taking account of Directive 2006/123/ec in so far as it relates to property services; to provide for the consequential repeal or amendment of certain enactments and the revocation of a statutory instrument; and for related matters.

Law· Public2010/14enacted

Merchant Shipping Act 2010

Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 6 May 2009

Act to make provision in relation to giving further effect to the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea signed in London on 1 November 1974 and its Protocols, providing access to passenger vessels for persons with reduced mobility, to enable sunken vessels to be raised, to give the force of law to the Maritime Labour Convention 2006 adopted at Geneva on 23 February 2006, to amend the Merchant Shipping Acts 1894 to 2005 and to provide for related matters

Law· Public2009/12enacted

Finance Act 2009

Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 5 May 2009

Act to provide for the imposition, repeal, remission, alteration and regulation of taxation, of stamp duties and of duties relating to excise and otherwise to make further provision in connection with finance including the regulation of customs

Law· Public2009/13enacted

Financial Services (Deposit Guarantee Scheme) Act 2009

Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 1 May 2009

Act to provide for the making of regulations regarding the amount payable to a person maintaining eligible deposits with a credit institution; to provide for the maintenance of the deposit protection account by the Central Bank and Financial Services Authority of Ireland; to provide for the maintenance by credit institutions of deposits in the deposit protection account; to provide for the amount of the deposit and its variation; to give further effect to Directive 94/19/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 30 May 1994 on deposit guarantee schemes; to amend the Central Bank Act 1942 and to provide for related matters

Law· Public2010/8enacted

Fines Act 2010

Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 16 April 2009

Act to make provision in relation to the maximum fines that a court may impose in respect of offences tried summarily and certain offences tried on indictment; to provide that a court in imposing a fine upon conviction of a person of an offence shall take account of a person's financial circumstances; to provide for the payment of such fines by instalment in certain circumstances; to make provision in relation to the powers of the court where there has been a failure on the part of a convicted person to pay a fine; for those purposes to amend the Criminal Justice (Community Service) Act 1983 and the Courts (No. 2) Act 1986; and to provide for matters connected therewith

Law· Public2009/19enacted

Criminal Justice (Surveillance) Act 2009

Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 15 April 2009

Act to provide for surveillance in connection with the investigation of arrestable offences, the prevention of suspected arrestable offences and the safeguarding of the State against subversive and terrorist threats, to amend the Garda Síochána Act 2005 and the Courts (Supplemental Provisions) Act 1961 and to provide for matters connected therewith

Law· Public2009/10enacted

Social Welfare and Pensions Act 2009

Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 15 April 2009

Act to amend and extend the Social Welfare Acts and the Health Contributions Act 1979

Law· Public2009/20enacted

Companies (Amendment) Act 2009

Ireland · Seanad Éireann · 7 April 2009

Act to remove certain exceptions contained in the Companies Acts that apply in the cases of companies holding licences under section 9 of the Central Bank Act 1971 (or holding companies of such companies) regarding disclosure of loans to directors and transactions of an analogous nature, to otherwise amend the Companies Acts in respect of loans by companies (of whatever type) to directors or certain related parties and transactions of an analogous nature and, in particular, to amend section 40 of the Companies Act 1990 concerning criminal liability in that regard, to confer additional powers on the Director of Corporate Enforcement with respect to access to information in the possession of companies, including information kept by them in certain registers or books, or in the possession of third parties, to amend sections 20 and 23 of the Companies Act 1990 in relation to search warrants and procedures to be followed in cases of claims of legal professional privilege, to amend sections 43 and 44 of the Companies (Amendment)(No.2) Act 1999 and to provide for related matters

Law· Public2009/25enacted

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2009

Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 16 March 2009

Act to provide for the dissolution of the National Council on Ageing and Older People, the Women's Health Council, the National Cancer Screening Service Board, the Drug Treatment Centre Board and the Crisis Pregnancy Agency, to provide for the exercise of certain functions relating to superannuation by the Minister for Health and Children, to provide for the amendment of the Health Act 1970, the Hepatitis C Compensation Tribunal Act 1997, the Mental Health Act 2001, the Health Act 2007 and the National Cancer Registry Board (Establishment) Order 1991 and to provide for related matters

Law· Public2009/9enacted

Electoral (Amendment) (No.2) Act 2009

Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 2 March 2009

Act to regulate expenditure by political parties and candidates; to amend the Local Elections (Disclosure of Donations and Expenditure) Act 1999; to amend the Litter Pollution Act 1997; and to provide for related matters

Law· Public2009/7enacted

Investment of the National Pensions Reserve Fund and Miscellaneous Provisions Act 2009

Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 25 February 2009

Act to amend the National Pensions Reserve Fund Act 2000 in relation to certain investments in the public interest; to amend the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997 in relation to the taxation of such investments; to amend the Securitisation (Proceeds of Certain Mortgages) Act 1995 to facilitate the winding-up of a body established under that Act; to amend the Markets in Financial Instruments and Miscellaneous Provisions Act 2007 to provide for greater transparency in relation to certain kinds of trading in financial instruments; and to provide for connected matters

Law· Public2009/5enacted

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Act 2009

Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 18 February 2009

, in the public interest, to provide for the payment of a contribution by certain persons in the public service (including members of the Houses of the Oireachtas and certain office holders) who are members of an occupational pension scheme or pension arrangement (by whatever name called) which is provided for under the Superannuation Acts 1834 to 1963 or any other enactment or administrative measure to like effect or is required to be made, approved of or consented to (however expressed) by one or more than one Minister of the Government, to provide for the reduction of the amount payable, or rate of payment, out of moneys provided by the Oireachtas or the Central Fund or the growing produce of that Fund to certain persons for certain services to or on behalf of the State, to provide for the amendment of section 4 of the Local Government Act 1998, the Income Tax Acts and Part 4A of the Social Welfare Consolidation Act 2005, to provide for the deferral of liabilities, accruals or payments due under a scheme known as the Farm Waste Management Scheme and to provide for related matters.

Law· Public2009/2enacted

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Act 2009

Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 23 January 2009

Act to deem the appointment, or purported appointment, of certain members of the dispute resolution committee to be valid; to deem to be validly constituted any tenancy tribunal constituted, or purporting to have been constituted, under section 102 of the Residential Tenancies Act 2004; and to provide for matters connected therewith

Law· Public2010/21enacted

Adoption Act 2010

Ireland · Seanad Éireann · 21 January 2009

Act to provide for the dissolution of An Bord Uchtála and the establishment of a body to be known in the Irish language as Údarás Uchtála na hÉireann or in the English language as the Adoption Authority of Ireland; to provide for matters relating to the adoption of children; to give the force of law to the Convention on the Protection of Children and Co-operation in Respect of Intercountry Adoption signed at the Hague on 29 May 1993; to provide for the making and recognition of intercountry adoptions in accordance with bilateral agreements and with other arrangements; to provide for the recognition of certain adoptions effected outside the State; to repeal the Adoption Acts 1952 to 1998; and to make consequential amendments to other Acts

Law· Public2009/1enacted

Anglo Irish Bank Corporation Act 2009

Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 19 January 2009

Act to provide, in the public interest, for maintaining the stability of the financial system in the State, and for that purpose—(a) to provide for the transfer to the Minister for Finance or the Minister's nominee of all the shares in Anglo Irish Bank Corporation Public Limited Company,(b) to extinguish certain rights in Anglo Irish Bank, (c) to disapply certain provisions of the Companies Acts and other enactments in so far as they relate to Anglo Irish Bank,(d) to provide for the removal of persons from certain offices, positions or employment with Anglo Irish Bank and the appointment of persons to those offices or positions or that employment,(e) to provide for the appointment of an Assessor to assess whether compensation should be paid to persons whose shares were transferred to the Minister for Finance or whose rights were extinguished, and if so to determine the fair and reasonable amount payable as such compensation,(f) to provide for the payment of any such compensation, (g) to make consequential amendments to certain other enactments, and (h) to provide for connected matters

Law· Public2009/24enacted

Health Insurance (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2009

Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 19 December 2008

Act to amend the Health Insurance Act 1994, the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997 and the Stamp Duties Consolidation Act 1999, in particular to ensure that, in the interests of societal and intergenerational solidarity, the burden of the costs of health services be shared by insured persons by providing for a cost subsidy between the young and the old; and to provide for related matters

Law· Public2009/11enacted

Industrial Development Act 2009

Ireland · Seanad Éireann · 15 December 2008

Act to provide for the transfer of shares held by Shannon free airport development company limited to Enterprise Ireland; to amend the Industrial Development Act 1986 and the Industrial Development Act 1993: and to provide for matters connected therewith

Law· Public2008/23enacted

Appropriation Act 2008

Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 12 December 2008

Act to appropriate to the proper supply services and purposes sums granted by the Central Fund (Permanent Provisions) Act 1965, to make provision in relation to deferred surrender to the central fund of certain undischarged appropriations by reference to the capital supply services and purposes as provided for by section 91 of the Finance Act 2004 and to make provision in relation to the Finance Resolutions passed by Dáil Éireann on 14 October 2008

Law· Public2008/21enacted

Health Act 2008

Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 4 December 2008

Act to amend the Health Act 1970, the Health ContributionsAct 1979, the Social Welfare Consolidation Act 2005 and the Civil Registration Act 2004, to make provision in relation to eligibility for services under the Health Act 1970 and for liability for health contributions and to provide for matters connected therewith

Law· Public2008/24enacted

Motor Vehicle (Duties and Licences) (No. 2) Act 2008

Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 19 November 2008

Act to amend and extend the Finance (Excise Duties) (Vehicles) Act 1952 and the Finance (No. 2) Act 1992 in respect of certain duties or licences leviable or issuable thereunder and to provide for related matters.

Law· Public2008/25enacted

Finance (No. 2) Act 2008

Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 18 November 2008

Act to provide for the imposition, repeal, remission, alteration and regulation of taxation, of stamp duties and of duties relating to excise and otherwise to make further provision in connection with finance including the regulation of customs.

Law· Public2008/22enacted

Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2008

Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 31 October 2008

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 and to provide for related matters

Law· Public2008/19enacted

Mental Health Act 2008

Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 30 October 2008

Act to confirm certain unexpired and expired renewal orders made under section 15(2) or (3) of the Mental Health Act 2001; to permit such unexpired renewal orders to be replaced by orders made under this Act; to provide that such new orders shall take effect as if they were renewal orders made under section 15(2) or (3) of the Mental Health Act 2001; and to provide for related matters

Law· Public2009/3enacted

Gas (Amendment) Act 2009

Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 24 October 2008

Act to amend and extend the Gas Acts 1976 to 2002

Law· Public2008/20enacted

Cluster Munitions and Anti-Personnel Mines Act 2008

Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 22 October 2008

Act to give effect to the Convention on Cluster Munitions, done at Dublin on 30 May 2008, and to give further effect to the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their Destruction, done at Oslo on 18 September 1997, and to provide for related matters

Law· Public2009/15enacted

Nursing Homes Support Scheme Act 2009

Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 9 October 2008

Act to provide for the establishment of a scheme to be known as the Nursing Homes Support Scheme under which financial support may be made available to persons in respect of long-term residential care services out of resources allocated to the Health Service Executive for the purposes of the Scheme, to provide for the amendment of the Health Act 1970, to provide for the amendment of the Health (Nursing Homes) Act 1990, to provide for the amendment of the Courts and Court Officers Act 1995, to provide for the amendment of the National Treatment Purchase Fund Board (Establishment) Order 2004 and to provide for related matters

Law· Public2008/18enacted

Credit Institutions (Financial Support) Act 2008

Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 30 September 2008

Act to provide, in the public interest, for maintaining the stability of the financial system in the State and for that purpose to provide for financial support by the Minister for Finance in respect of certain credit institutions, to amend the Competition Act 2002 and other enactments, and to provide for connected matters

Law· Public2009/26enacted

Harbours (Amendment) Act 2009

Ireland · Seanad Éireann · 29 July 2008

Act to amend and extend the Harbours Acts 1996 to 2005, to repeal the Harbours Act 1976, to transfer certain functions of the Minister for Transport relating to harbours to An Bord Pleanála and for that and other purposes to amend the Planning and Development Act 2000, to make certain provisions relating to the Irish Maritime Development Office and to provide for connected matters

Law· Public2009/22enacted

Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2009

Ireland · Seanad Éireann · 23 July 2008

Act to make further provision for the functions of housing authorities; to provide for the making of housing services plans; to provide for the carrying out of social housing assessments for the purposes of social housing support and the allocation of dwellings; to provide for rental accommodation arrangements; to provide for the management and control functions of housing authorities; to provide for the making of an anti-social behaviour strategy; to make further provision for tenant purchase of dwellings by incremental purchase arrangements; for those and other purposes to amend and extend the Housing Acts 1966 to 2004, to amend the Housing Finance Agency Act 1981, the Planning and Development Act 2000 and the Civil Registration Act 2004 and to provide for related matters

Law· Public2009/4enacted

Electoral (Amendment) Act 2009

Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 24 June 2008

Act to revise Dáil and European Parliamentconstituencies, to provide for the number of members to be elected for such constituencies, to amend the law relating to the Constituency Commission, and for those and other purposes to amend the European Parliament Elections Act 1997, the Local Elections Regulations 1995 and certain other enactments and to provide for related matters.

Law· Public2015/58enacted

Mental Health (Amendment) Act 2015

Ireland · Seanad Éireann · 19 June 2008

Act to amend the law on Mental Health in relation to the use of involuntary procedures

Law· Public2008/10enacted

Prison Development (Confirmation of Resolutions) Act 2008

Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 17 June 2008

Act to confirm the resolutions passed by the Houses of the Oireachtas in respect of the development of a prison in the District Electoral Division of Kilsallaghan in the county of Fingal

Law· Public2010/33enacted

Prevention of Corruption (Amendment) Act 2010

Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 6 June 2008

Act to amend the Prevention of Corruption Act 1906 and The Prevention of Corruption (Amendment) Act 2001, and to provide for related matters.

Law· Public2010/1enacted

Arbitration Act 2010

Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 5 June 2008

Act to further and better facilitate resolution of disputes by arbitration; to give the force of law to the UNCITRAL Model Law on International Commercial Arbitration (as amended by the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law on 7 July 2006) in respect of both international arbitration and other arbitration; to give the force of law in part to the Protocol on Arbitration Clauses opened at Geneva on the 24th day of September 1923, the Convention on the Execution of Foreign Arbitral Awards done at Geneva on the 26th day of September 1927, the Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards done at New York on 10 June 1958 and to the Convention on the Settlement of Investment Disputes between States and Nationals of Other States opened for signature in Washington on 18 March 1965; to repeal the Arbitration Acts 1954 to 1998; and to provide for related matters

Law· Public2008/17enacted

Intoxicating Liquor Act 2008

Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 30 May 2008

Act to amend and extend the Licensing Acts 1833 to 2004, the Courts of Justice Acts 1924 to 1961, the Registration of Clubs Acts 1904 to 2004 and the Criminal Justice (Public Order) Act 1994, and to provide for related matters.

Law· Public2009/18enacted

Broadcasting Act 2009

Ireland · Seanad Éireann · 12 May 2008

Act to revise the law relating to broadcasting services and content and for that purpose to establish an authority to be known as, in the English language, The Broadcasting Authority of Ireland or, in the Irish language, Údarás Craolacháin na hÉireann, to dissolve the Broadcasting Commission of Ireland and the Broadcasting Complaints Commission, to amend and repeal certain enactments relating to broadcasting, to provide for matters relating to television licences, to provide for the regulation and provision of telecommunications services and to provide for connected matters

Law· Public2008/13enacted

Chemicals Act 2008

Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 16 April 2008

Act to regulate and control the manufacture, use, placing on the market, export, import, transport, testing, storage, classification, labelling and packaging of chemicals; to make provision in relation to major accident hazards, and the prevention of accidents, involving chemicals; for those purposes to give further effect to Regulation (EC) No. 304/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 28 January 2003 concerning the export and import of dangerous chemicals, Regulation (EC) No. 648/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 31 March 2004 on detergents and Regulation (EC) No. 1907/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 December 2006 concerning the registration, evaluation, authorisation and restriction of chemicals (REACH) and establishing a European Chemicals Agency; to confer power on the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to make regulations for the purpose of giving effect to certain provisions of the treaties governing the European Communities and certain acts of the institutions of those Communities; and to provide for matters connected therewith

Law· Public2008/15enacted

Dublin Transport Authority Act 2008

Ireland · Seanad Éireann · 10 April 2008

Act to provide for the establishment of a body to be known in the English language as the Dublin Transport Authority or in the Irish language as @IT@Údarás Iompair Bhaile Átha Cliath@IT@, to define its functions and for that purpose to amend the Planning and Development Act 2000, the Transport (Railway Infrastructure) Act 2001, the Dublin Docklands Development Authority Act 1997, the Grangegorman Development Agency Act 2005 and the Transport (Re-Organisation of Córas Iompair Éireann) Act 1986, to provide for the dissolution of the Dublin Transportation Office and to provide for related matters

Law· Public2009/8enacted

Legal Services Ombudsman Act 2009

Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 27 March 2008

Act to provide for the appointment and functions of a Legal Services Ombudsman; and to provide for related matters

Law· Public2008/11enacted

Electricity Regulation (Amendment)(EirGrid) Act 2008

Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 12 March 2008

Act to enable, subject to the grant of an authorisation by virtue of section 16(1)(b) of the Electricity Regulation Act 1999, the construction by EirGrid of an interconnector, to enable, subject to the grant of a licence under section 14(1)(i) of the Electricity Regulation Act 1999, the transportation of electricity across and the maintenance of such an interconnector by EirGrid, to enable EirGrid to own and operate such an interconnector, to provide for subsidiaries of EirGrid, to provide for an increase in the amount of money that EirGrid may borrow, to provide for the total capital expenditure that may be incurred by EirGrid and to provide for connected matters.

Law· Public2011/4enacted

Student Support Act 2011

Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 1 February 2008

Act to provide for the making of grants in certain cases by awarding authorities to enable persons to attend certain courses of higher or further education, to establish an appeals board to be known as An Bord Achomhairc i leith Deontas Mac Léinn or, in the English language, the Student Grants Appeals Board, to repeal the Local Authorities (Higher Education Grants) Acts 1968 to 1992 and to provide for related matters

Law· Public2008/2enacted

Social Welfare and Pensions Act 2008

Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 31 January 2008

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

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