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50 ingested laws from Ireland introduced in 2009. Year filters use the introduced date shown on each card. Walk years back as far as this source still publishes.

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Law· Public2010/29enacted

Dog Breeding Establishments Act 2010

Ireland · Seanad Éireann · 18 December 2009

Act to regulate the operation of dog breeding establishments; to require local authorities to establish and maintain registers of dog breeding establishments; to prohibit the operation of unregistered dog breeding establishments; to amend the Control of Dogs Act 1986; and to provide for matters connected therewith

Law· Public2009/42enacted

Appropriation Act 2009

Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 11 December 2009

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 9 December 2009

Law· Public2009/41enacted

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (No. 2) Act 2009

Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 8 December 2009

in the public interest, to provide for the reduction of the remuneration of certain persons in the public service (including members of the Houses of the Oireachtas and certain office holders), and to provide for related matters

Law· Public2009/40enacted

Forestry (Amendment) Act 2009

Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 2 December 2009

Act to provide for an increase in the aggregate of the amount of money that Coillte Teoranta may borrow at any one time, to amend the Forestry Act 1988 and to provide for related matters

Law· Public2009/44enacted

Houses of the Oireachtas Commission (Amendment) Act 2009

Ireland · Seanad Éireann · 26 November 2009

Act to amend and extend the Houses of the Oireachtas Commission Act 2003 and to amend accordingly the references to the Office of the Houses of the Oireachtas in certain enactments

Law· Public2010/10enacted

Inland Fisheries Act 2010

Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 16 November 2009

Act to establish a body to be known as, in the English language, Inland Fisheries Ireland or, in the Irish language, Iascach Intíre Éireann and to define its functions, to dissolve the Central Fisheries Board and Regional Fisheries Boards, to provide for other matters connected with the foregoing and to amend and extend the Fisheries Acts 1959 to 2007

Law· Public2009/45enacted

Companies (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2009

Ireland · Seanad Éireann · 12 November 2009

Act to provide, in limited circumstances, for the transitional use by certain parent undertakings of internationally recognised accounting standards other than those generally accepted accounting principles and policies used in the State, to amend the Companies Act 1990 and to provide for related matters

Law· Public2009/39enacted

Foreshore and Dumping at Sea (Amendment) Act 2009

Ireland · Seanad Éireann · 6 November 2009

Act to provide for the transfer of certain functions relating to the foreshore from the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food to the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government and for that and other purposes to amend and extend the Foreshore Acts 1933 to 2005 and to provide for the transfer of other functions relating to the foreshore to the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, to provide for the transfer of certain functions relating to dumping at sea from the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food to the Environmental Protection Agency and for that and other purposes to amend and extend the Dumping at Sea Acts 1996 to 2006, and to provide for connected matters

Law· Public2010/25enacted

Road Traffic Act 2010

Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 28 October 2009

Act to amend and extend the Road Traffic Acts 1961 to 2007

Law· Public2009/33enacted

European Union Act 2009

Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 14 October 2009

Act to make provision with respect to the State's membership of the European Union; to provide for the application under the law of the State of the Treaty of Lisbon amending the Treaty on European Union and the Treaty establishing the European Community, signed at Lisbon on the 13th day of December 2007; for those purposes to amend the European Communities Act 1972; and to provide for matters connected therewith

Law· Public2009/38enacted

Labour Services (Amendment) Act 2009

Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 2 October 2009

Act to amend the Labour Services Act 1987; and to provide for matters connected therewith.

Law· Public2011/19enacted

Child Care (Amendment) Act 2011

Ireland · Seanad Éireann · 14 September 2009

Act to amend and extend the Child Care Act 1991; to make further provision in relation to the care and protection of children; to amend the Children Act 2001; the Health Act 2004 and the Health Act 2007; to provide for the dissolution of the Children Acts Advisory Board and the transfer of its assets, liabilities and employees to the Minister for Health; to repeal Part 11 of the Children Act 2001; to amend the Adoption Act 2010; and to provide for related matters

Law· Public2009/34enacted

National Asset Management Agency Act 2009

Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 8 September 2009

— to address a serious threat to the economy and to the systemic stability of credit institutions in the State generally by providing, in particular, for the establishment of a body to be known as the National Asset Management Agency for the purposes of— (a) the acquisition by that Agency of certain assets from certain persons to be designated by the Minister for Finance, (b) effecting the expeditious and efficient transfer of those assets to that Agency, (c) the holding, managing and realising of those assets by that Agency (including the collection of interest and capital due, the taking or taking over of collateral where necessary and the provision of funds where appropriate), (d) the taking by that Agency of all steps necessary or expedient to protect, enhance and better realise the value of assets transferred to it, (e) the performance by that Agency of such other functions, related to the management or realisation of those assets, as provided in this Act or as directed by the Minister, (f) the facilitation of restructuring of credit institutions of systemic importance to the economy, andto provide for the valuation of the assets concerned and the review of any such valuation, to give the National Asset Management Agency certain powers and other functions in respect of land or an interest in land acquired by that Agency, including powers relating to the development of land, to provide for the issuing of debt securities by the Minister for Finance and by that Agency in the performance of its functions under this Act, to provide for certain legal proceedings relating to assets acquired by that Agency and to provide for related matters

Law· Public2009/37enacted

Public Transport Regulation Act 2009

Ireland · Seanad Éireann · 4 September 2009

Act to provide for the licensing of public bus passenger services, to change the name of the Dublin Transport Authority to the National Transport Authority, to provide for the dissolution of the Commission for Taxi Regulation, to amend the Taxi Regulation Act 2003, the Dublin Transport Authority Act 2008 and certain other enactments and to provide for related matters

Law· Public2009/35enacted

Defence (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2009

Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 3 September 2009

Act to require that participation by the state in projects and programmes under Articles 20 and 21 of Council Joint Action 2004/551/CFSP of 12 July 2004 on the establishment of the European Defence Agency be subject to the prior approval of the Government and Dáil Éireann; to require that participation by the State in Permanent Structured Cooperation referred to in Article 42 of the Treaty on European Union also be subject to such approval; and to provide for matters connected therewith

Law· Public2010/6enacted

Criminal Justice (Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing) Act 2010

Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 24 July 2009

Act to provide for offences of, and related to, money laundering in and outside the State; to give effect to Directive 2005/60/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 October 2005 on the prevention of the use of the financial system for the purpose of money laundering and terrorist financing; to provide for the registration of persons directing private members' clubs; to provide for the amendment of the Central Bank Act 1942 and the Courts (Supplemental Provisions) Act 1961; to provide for the consequential repeal of certain provisions of the Criminal Justice Act 1994, the consequential amendment of certain enactments and the revocation of certain statutory instruments; and to provide for related matters

Law· Public2011/3enacted

Communications (Retention of Data) Act 2011

Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 6 July 2009

Act to give effect to Directive No. 2006/24/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 March 2006 on the retention of data generated or processed in connection with the provision of publicly available electronic communications services or of public communications networks and amending Directive 2002/58/EC, to provide for the retention of and access to certain data for the purposes of the prevention of serious offences, the safeguarding of the security of the State and the saving of human life, to repeal Part 7 of the Criminal Justice (Terrorist Offences) Act 2005, to amend the Interception of Postal Packets and Telecommunications Messages (Regulation) Act 1993 and to provide for related matters

Law· Public2009/32enacted

Criminal Justice (Amendment) Act 2009

Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 28 June 2009

Act — (a) to provide for additional measures with respect to combating organised crime and, in particular, with respect to countering the increased levels of violence towards, and intimidation of, members of the public perpetrated by criminal organisations and securing conditions in which offences committed by those associated with such organisations can, in due course of law, be investigated and prosecuted and, for that purpose, to amend Part 7 of the Criminal Justice Act 2006 and certain other enactments; (b) to amend the law in relation to the investigation of offences, including in relation to the detention of suspects and their re-arrest in certain circumstances, and to otherwise amend criminal law and procedure; and (c) to provide for related matters.

Law· Public2009/29enacted

Oireachtas (Allowances to Members) and Ministerial and Parliamentary Offices Act 2009

Ireland · Seanad Éireann · 24 June 2009

Act to amend the Oireachtas (Allowances to Members) Act 1938 and the Ministerial and Parliamentary Offices Acts 1938 to 2001, to make further provision for salaries payable to members of either House of the Oireachtas and for the remuneration, allowances and pensions payable to former holders of ministerial and other offices who are members of either such House or members of the European Parliament, and to provide for related matters.

Law· Public2009/30enacted

Local Government (Charges) Act 2009

Ireland · Seanad Éireann · 22 June 2009

Act to impose on the owners of certain residential properties liability for the payment of an annual charge in respect of each such property concerned to the local authority in whose area the residential property is situated, and to provide for related matters

Law· Public2009/14enacted

Financial Measures (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2009

Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 10 June 2009

Act to provide for the continuation of certain direct debit mandates after the coming into operation of the Single European Payments Area Direct Debit Scheme; to provide for the transfer of the assets of certain pension funds to the National Pensions Reserve Fund, and the continued payment of benefits formerly payable from those funds; to make provision in relation to the giving of certain guarantees by the Minister for Finance; to amend the Central Bank Act 1989 to clarify its application to certain acquiring transactions; to amend the Credit Institutions (Financial Support) Act 2008 to allow the extension of the period in which financial support under that Act can be provided; to amend the Insurance (No. 2) Act 1983 and the Insurance Act 1989 in relation to life insurance and reinsurance; to amend the Netting of Financial Contracts Act 1995 to clarify whether certain persons are parties to a netting agreement; to amend the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997 in relation to the taxation position of the National Pensions Reserve Commission in relation to certain assets transferred from pension funds to the National Pensions Reserve Fund; and to provide for related purposes

Law· Public2009/17enacted

European Parliament (Irish Constituency Members) Act 2009

Ireland · Seanad Éireann · 8 June 2009

Act to make transitional provisions for the payment of salaries to certain members of the European Parliament, to provide for matters relating to those and other members of that Parliament, to amend Part 5 of the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997, to amend section 55 of the Ministerial, Parliamentary and Judicial Offices and Oireachtas Members (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2001, to amend the Houses of the Oireachtas Commission Act 2003 and to repeal the European Assembly (Irish Representatives) Act 1979

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