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56 ingested laws from Ireland introduced in 2013. 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· Public2014/13enacted

Industrial Development (Forfás Dissolution) Act 2014

Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 19 December 2013

Act to make provision for the dissolution of Forfás; to transfer certain functions of Forfás to the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, Enterprise Ireland, the Industrial Development Agency (Ireland) and the Health and Safety Authority of Ireland; to provide for the Irish National Accreditation Board as a Committee of the Health and Safety Authority; to amend the Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Act 2005, the Industrial Development (Science Foundation Ireland) Act 2003, the Industrial Development (Enterprise Ireland) Act 1998, the Metrology Act 1996, the Industrial Development Act 1995, the Industrial Development Act 1993 and to provide for the consequential amendment of certain other enactments; and to provide for matters connected therewith

Law· Public2014/43enacted

Merchant Shipping (Registration of Ships) Act 2014

Ireland · Seanad Éireann · 19 December 2013

Act to revise the law on the registration, national character, mortgage, sale, transfer, ownership and measurement of Irish ships, to repeal the Mercantile Marine Act 1955, to amend certain enactments in this regard, to amend the definition of "Safety Convention" in the Merchant Shipping (Safety Convention) Act 1952 and to provide for connected matters

Law· Public2014/12enacted

Public Health (Sunbeds) Act 2014

Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 19 December 2013

Act to regulate the use and supply of sunbeds; to prohibit permitting persons under 18 years of age to use a sunbed on a sunbed premises; to prohibit the sale or hire of sunbeds to persons under 18 years of age; and to provide for related matters

Law· Public2014/17enacted

Health Service Executive (Financial Matters) Act 2014

Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 18 December 2013

Act to amend the Health Act 2004 to provide that the Health Service Executive shall cease to have a separate appropriation vote and shall become part of the appropriation vote of the office of the Minister for Health; to make a consequential amendment to the Valuation Act 2001; and to provide for related matters

Law· Public2014/5enacted

ESB (Electronic Communications Networks) Act 2014

Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 17 December 2013

Act to enable the Electricity Supply Board to engage in electronic communications networks and electronic communications services, to define the meaning of an electric line and to provide for related matters

Law· Public2013/44enacted

Adoption (Amendment) Act 2013

Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 16 December 2013

Act to amend the Adoption Act 2010; and to provide for relatedmatters

Law· Public2013/43enacted

Appropriation Act 2013

Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 12 December 2013

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, for the purpose of maintaining a sufficient amount of moneys in the paymaster general's supply account so as to enable the discharge of particular liabilities, to make provision for repayable advances from the Central Fund

Law· Public2014/15enacted

Health Identifiers Act 2014

Ireland · Seanad Éireann · 11 December 2013

Act to provide for the assignment of a unique number to an individual to whom a health service is being, has been or may be provided; to provide for the assignment of a unique number to a person who provides a health service; to make provision for the establishment and maintenance of registers in respect of such numbers and other particulars of the individuals and other persons to whom the numbers are assigned; to make provision for the basis on which such registers may be accessed and the personal data contained therein may be processed; to provide for the delegation by order to the Health Service Executive of certain functions conferred on the Minister for Health; to provide for the consequential amendment of other enactments; and to provide for related matters

Law· Public2013/51enacted

Pyrite Resolution Act 2013

Ireland · Seanad Éireann · 10 December 2013

Act to provide for the making of a scheme for certain dwellings affected by pyrite; to provide for the establishment of the Pyrite Resolution Board to manage the implementation of such scheme; and to provide for matters connected therewith

Law· Public2013/50enacted

Water Services (No. 2) Act 2013

Ireland · Seanad Éireann · 28 November 2013

Act to make provision for, and in relation to, the imposition of charges by Irish Water in respect of the provision by Irish Water of water services; to provide for the transfer, in part, of the functions of water services authorities under the Water Services Act 2007 to Irish Water; to repeal the Local Government (Delimitation of Water Supply Disconnection Powers) Act 1995, certain provisions of the Water Services Act 2013 and, for certain purposes, certain provisions of the Water Services Act 2007; to amend the Water Services Act 2007 and certain other enactments; and to provide for matters connected therewith

Law· Public2014/2enacted

European Parliament Elections (Amendment) Act 2014

Ireland · Seanad Éireann · 28 November 2013

Act to revise European Parliament constituencies, to provide for the number of members to be elected for such constituencies, for those purposes to amend the European Parliament Elections Act 1997, and to provide for related matters

Law· Public2013/49enacted

Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Act 2013

Ireland · Seanad Éireann · 20 November 2013

Act to amend and extend the Social Welfare Acts; to amend and extend the Pensions Act 1990; to make additional provision for the discharge of the liabilities in the winding up of certain occupational pension schemes and to provide for the discharge of liabilities of such schemes where employers are insolvent on or before the date of the wind up of such schemes; to provide for the payment, in certain circumstances, by the Minister for Finance of moneys to secure the discharge of certain liabilities in respect of certain occupational pension schemes that are being wound up where certain employers are insolvent on or before the date of the wind up of such schemes; to make additional provision for the restructuring of certain occupational pension schemes and for that purpose to provide for the reduction in the benefits being paid to certain persons under such schemes; and to provide for related matters.

Law· Public2013/46enacted

Companies (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2013

Ireland · Seanad Éireann · 6 November 2013

Act to amend the Companies (Amendment) Act 1990 with respect to the jurisdiction of the courts in examinerships, to amend sections 7, 17 and 18 of the Companies (Amendment) Act 1986 and section 128 of the Companies Act 1963, to make further provision about the duties and powers of designated officers in circumstances where search warrants have been issued under section 20 of the Companies Act 1990, to amend the Company Law Enforcement Act 2001 by substituting a new section for section 18 thereof, to amend the Personal Insolvency Act 2012 in relation to section 26(4) of that Act, to amend the Bankruptcy Act 1988 in relation to sections 17(2), 105(2), 130 and 141 of that Act, to enable levies to be imposed on statutory auditors and audit firms with respect to the external quality assurance of certain of their activities in the field of statutory audits, to enable the State to make provision in respect of a matter that Article 2(4) of Commission Decision 2011/30/EU of 19 January 2011 permits Member States to make provision in respect of and to provide for related matters

Law· Public2013/41enacted

Finance (No. 2) Act 2013

Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 22 October 2013

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· Public2013/38enacted

Social Welfare and Pensions Act 2013

Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 21 October 2013

Act to amend and extend the Social Welfare Acts and the Pensions Act 1990; to provide for the recovery of certain benefits and assistance by the Minister for Social Protection, to amend the Personal Injuries Assessment Board Act 2003; and to provide for related matters

Law· Public2014/1enacted

Local Government Reform Act 2014

Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 15 October 2013

Act to make further and better provision in relation to local government and, in particular, to amalgamate Limerick County Council with Limerick City Council, Waterford County Council with Waterford City Council and North Tipperary County Council with South Tipperary County Council, to provide for the position of chief executive in relation to each local authority, to dissolve town councils, to make provision for municipal districts, to assign additional reserved functions to local authority members, to dissolve county development boards and city development boards and make provision for the establishment of local community development committees, for planning and oversight of local and community development programmes, to provide for an increased role for local authorities in economic development and enterprise support, to amend the Local Government Act 1991 and provide for regional assemblies, to enable (subject to certain preconditions) a plebiscite to be held in the administrative areas of the local authorities in the Dublin area in respect of a directly elected Mayor for that area and for those and other purposes to amend the Local Government Acts 1925 to 2013, the Local Elections Acts 1974 to 2012 and other enactments relating to elections, the Housing Acts 1966 to 2013 and the Planning and Development Act 2000, to amend other acts in connection with the foregoing matters, to amend section 20 of the Dublin Docklands Development Authority Act 1997 and to provide for related matters

Law· Public2014/11enacted

Criminal Justice (Forensic Evidence and DNA Database System) Act 2014

Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 9 September 2013

Act to amend the law to authorise the taking of bodily samples from persons suspected of certain criminal offences for forensic testing; to provide for the taking of certain bodily samples from persons who volunteer to have such samples taken from them for the purpose of the investigation of offences or incidents that may have involved the commission of offences; to provide for the establishment and operation by Forensic Science Ireland of the Department of Justice and Equality of a DNA Database System; to provide for the taking of certain bodily samples from persons suspected or convicted of certain criminal offences for the purpose of generating DNA profiles in respect of those persons to be entered in the investigation division of the DNA Database System; to provide for the taking of certain bodily samples from certain persons for elimination purposes and, where appropriate, the entry of their DNA profiles in the DNA Database System; to provide for the taking of bodily samples from persons, or samples from things, for the purpose of generating DNA profiles in respect of those persons or missing persons to be entered in the identification division of the DNA Database System; to provide for the purposes of that System; to provide, in certain circumstances, for the destruction of samples taken under this Act and the destruction, or removal from the DNA Database System, of any DNA profiles generated from those samples; to repeal the Criminal Justice (Forensic Evidence) Act 1990; to give effect to Council Decision 2008/615/JHA of 23 June 2008 and Council Decision 2008/616/JHA of 23 June 2008, the Agreement between the European Union and Iceland and Norway on the application of those two Council Decisions and an agreement between the State and another state insofar as those Council Decisions or agreements concern cooperation in relation to automated searching for or automated comparison of DNA data or automated searching for dactyloscopic data, as the case may be, and the exchange of such data and the reference data relating to them, by or between authorities which are responsible for the prevention, detection and investigation of criminal offences in the State and those other states or that other state, as the case may be; for that purpose to make provision for data protection and, in that regard, to amend the Data Protection Act 1988; to amend the Criminal Justice (Mutual Assistance) Act 2008; to amend the International Criminal Court Act 2006; to give effect to Council Framework Decision 2009/905/JHA of 30 November 2009 on Accreditation of forensic service providers carrying out laboratory activities; to amend the criminal law relating to the taking of fingerprints and palm prints from certain persons; and to provide for related matters

Law· Public2014/4enacted

County Enterprise Boards (Dissolution) Act 2014

Ireland · Seanad Éireann · 29 July 2013

Act to provide for the dissolution of County Enterprise Boards and the transfer of their functions to Enterprise Ireland; and to provide for matters connected therewith

Law· Public2013/39enacted

Gas Regulation Act 2013

Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 25 July 2013

Act to provide for the reorganisation of Bord Gáis Éireann's transmission and distribution operations and energy business, and for that purpose for the establishment of subsidiaries of Bord Gáis Éireann; to provide for the continued public ownership of natural gas networks; to provide for the further implementation of Directive 2009/73/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 July 2009 by providing for the disposal of Bord Gáis Éireann's energy business and for the reorganisation of the ownership of Bord Gáis Éireann; to amend the Gas Act 1976, the Gas (Amendment) Act 1987, the Gas (Amendment) Act 2000, the Gas (Interim) (Regulation) Act 2002 and the Water Services Act 2013; and to provide for related matters

Law· Public2014/30enacted

Freedom of Information Act 2014

Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 22 July 2013

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, other bodies in receipt of funding from the State and certain other 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 continuance 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 repeal the Freedom of Information Act 1997 and the Freedom of Information (Amendment) Act 2003, to amend the Central Bank Act 1942, to amend the Official Secrets Act 1963, to repeal certain other enactments, and to provide for related matters

Law· Public2015/7enacted

Betting (Amendment) Act 2015

Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 17 July 2013

Act to make provision in relation to the licensing of bookmaking activities and, in particular, in relation to the conduct of bookmaking and bookmaking related operations by electronic means; for that and other purposes to amend the Betting Act 1931; to amend the Finance Act 2002; and to provide for matters connected therewith

Law· Public2014/7enacted

Fines (Payment and Recovery) Act 2014

Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 17 July 2013

Act to provide for the payment and recovery of fines imposed on persons convicted of offences; to provide that the court imposing any such fine on such a person shall take into account the person's financial circumstances; to provide for the making of community service orders in respect of such persons, or the commitment to imprisonment of such persons, in certain circumstances where such fines imposed on them are not paid; to consequentially repeal or amend other enactments; and to provide for related matters

Law· Public2015/64enacted

Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Act 2015

Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 15 July 2013

Act to provide for the reform of the law relating to persons who require or may require assistance in exercising their decision-making capacity, whether immediately or in the future; to provide for the appointment by such persons of other persons to assist them in decision-making or (subject to the approval of the Circuit Court) to make decisions jointly with such persons; to provide for the making of applications to the Circuit Court or High Court in respect of such persons, including seeking the approval by the Circuit Court of co-decision-making agreements or the appointment by the Circuit Court of decision-making representatives for such persons; to enable, in specified circumstances, informal decision-making to be done in respect of such persons by other persons who are not decision-making assistants, co-decision-makers, decision-making representatives or attorneys for such persons; to provide for the appointment and functions of the Public Guardian in respect of persons who require or may shortly require assistance in exercising their decision-making capacity; to provide for the amendment of the law relating to enduring powers of attorney; to provide for the ratification by the State of the Convention on the International Protection of Adults; and to provide for related matters

Law· Public2013/40enacted

Child and Family Agency Act 2013

Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 10 July 2013

Act to provide for the establishment of a body to be known as the Child and Family Agency; to provide for the dissolution of the Family Support Agency and the National Educational Welfare Board; to provide for the transfer of the functions of the National Educational Welfare Board to the Child and Family Agency; to provide for the transfer of certain functions of the Health Service Executive to the Child and Family Agency; to amend the Child Care Act 1991 to provide for registration of early years services and to provide for matters connected therewith

Law· Public2014/14enacted

Protected Disclosures Act 2014

Ireland · Seanad Éireann · 1 July 2013

Act to make provision for and in connection with the protection of persons from the taking of action against them in respect of the making of certain disclosures in the public interest and for connected purposes

Law· Public2014/3enacted

Road Traffic Act 2014

Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 26 June 2013

Act to amend and extend the Road Traffic Acts 1961 to 2011, to amend section 20 of the Road Safety Authority Act 2006, section 16 of the Road Transport Act 2011 and the Road Safety Authority (Commercial Vehicle Roadworthiness) Act 2012 and to provide for related matters

Law· Public2013/27enacted

Electoral, Local Government and Planning and Development Act 2013

Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 25 June 2013

Act to give effect to Council Directive 2013/1/EU of 20 December 2012 and for that purpose to amend the European Parliament Elections Act 1997; to amend the Electoral Act 1992, the Referendum Act 1994, the Electoral Act 1997, the Planning and Development Act 2000 and the Local Government Act 2001; and to provide for related matters

Law· Public2013/35enacted

Protection of Life During Pregnancy Act 2013

Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 14 June 2013

Act to protect human life during pregnancy; to make provision for reviews at the instigation of a pregnant woman of certain medical opinions given in respect of pregnancy; to provide for an offence of intentional destruction of unborn human life; to amend the Health Act 2007; to repeal sections 58 and 59 of the Offences Against the Person Act 1861; and to provide for matters connected therewith

Law· Public2013/31enacted

Health (Amendment) Act 2013

Ireland · Seanad Éireann · 12 June 2013

Act to amend the Nursing Homes Support Scheme Act 2009, to amend the Health Act 1970, and to make provision for related matters

Law· Public2013/21enacted

European Union (Accession of the Republic of Croatia) (Access to the Labour Market) Act 2013

Ireland · Seanad Éireann · 31 May 2013

Act to provide for the employment in the State of nationals of the Republic of Croatia pursuant to the Treaty concerning the accession of the Republic of Croatia to the European Union done at Brussels on the 9th day of December 2011; to amend the Employment Permits Act 2003; and to provide for related matters

Law· Public2013/47enacted

Public Service Management (Recruitment and Appointments) (Amendment) Act 2013

Ireland · Seanad Éireann · 24 May 2013

Act to enable the redeployment of members of staff in the civil service and certain other sectors of the public service to other positions in the public service (whether the civil service or other foregoing sectors); for that purpose to amend the Public Service Management (Recruitment and Appointments) Act 2004, and to provide for related matters

Law· Public2013/18enacted

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Act 2013

Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 21 May 2013

, in the public interest, to provide for—(A) the reduction of the remuneration of certain public servants (including members of the Houses of the Oireachtas, the judiciary and certain office holders);(B) the reduction of the amount of the payment of pension or other benefits (other than lump sums) payable to or in respect of certain persons who are or were in the public service (including members and former members of the Houses of the Oireachtas, former members of the judiciary and former holders of certain offices) under an occupational pension scheme or pension arrangement (by whatever name called); and(C) the alteration of the operation of scales of pay for public servants (including the suspension of the awarding, for a certain period, of increments under those scales),and to provide for related matters

Law· Public2013/33enacted

Houses of the Oireachtas (Inquiries, Privileges and Procedures) Act 2013

Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 15 May 2013

Act to provide for the exercise by either House or both Houses of the Oireachtas (or by a Committee of either House or both Houses) of a power to conduct an inquiry into specified matters, to provide for matters relating to compellability, privilege and procedure in the Houses (and in Committees of either House or both Houses), and to provide for related matters

Law· Public2013/22enacted

Housing (Amendment) Act 2013

Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 23 April 2013

Act to amend section 31 of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2009; and to provide for related matters

Law· Public2014/31enacted

Forestry Act 2014

Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 22 April 2013

Act to make further and better provision in relation to forestry; to provide for the development and promotion of forestry in a manner that maximises the economic, environmental and social value of forests within the principles of sustainable forest management; to confer power on the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to make regulations for the effective management of the forestry sector; to make further provision for the giving effect to Acts of the institutions of the European Union by regulation made by that Minister in respect of forestry and forestry-related activities; to repeal the Forestry Act 1946; to amend the Wildlife Act 1976; to amend the Agriculture Appeals Act 2001; to amend the Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2011 and to provide for related matters

Law· Public2013/16enacted

Non-Use of Motor Vehicles Act 2013

Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 2 April 2013

Act to provide for declarations of non-use of motor vehicles; for certain payments out of the local government fund; to amend the Finance (Excise Duties) (Vehicles) Act 1952, the Finance (No. 2) Act 1992 and the Local Government Act 1998 and to provide for related matters

Law· Public2013/30enacted

Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Act 2013

Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 27 March 2013

Act to provide that certain statutory provisions apply to mortgages of a particular class notwithstanding the repeal and amendment of those statutory provisions by the Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Act 2009, to provide for the adjournment of legal proceedings in certain cases and to provide for related matters

Law· Public2013/32enacted

Courts and Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2013

Ireland · Seanad Éireann · 14 March 2013

Act to amend the Civil Liability and Courts Act 2004 and the Child Care Act 1991 to allow bona fide representatives of the Press to attend court during proceedings heard otherwise than in public except in certain circumstances; and to provide for the prohibition or restriction of the publication and broadcasting of matters by such representatives in certain circumstances; to amend various enactments for the purpose of increasing the monetary limit of the jurisdiction of the Circuit Court in personal injuries actions and other civil matters; to amend various enactments for the purpose of increasing the monetary limit of the jurisdiction of the District Court in civil matters; to repeal certain provisions of the Courts and Court Officers Act 2002; and to provide for related matters

Law· Public2013/10enacted

Health (Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) Act 2013

Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 13 March 2013

Act to amend the Health Act 1970 and to make provision in relation to eligibility for services under that Act; to make provision for the furnishing of personal data in certain circumstances and to provide for matters connected therewith

Law· Public2015/43enacted

Equality (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2015

Ireland · Seanad Éireann · 8 March 2013

Act to provide for certain changes in the exclusion of discrimination on particular grounds in certain employments; to provide for certain changes relating to discriminatory job advertisements; to give further effect to Council Directive 2000/43/EC of 29 June 2000. implementing the principle of equal treatment between persons irrespective of racial and ethnic origin; to give further effect to Council Directive 2000/78/EC of 27 November 2000 establishing a general framework for equal treatment in employment and occupation; to give further effect to Council Directive 2004/113/EC of 13 December 2004 implementing the principle of equal treatment between men and women in the access to and supply of goods and services; to give further effect to Directive 2006/54/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 5 July 2006 on the implementation of the principle of equal opportunities and equal treatment of men and women in matters of employment and occupation (recast); to prohibit discrimination in the provision of accommodation on the basis of receipt of certain payments; and for those and other purposes to amend the Pensions Act 1990; the Employment Equality Act 1998 and the Equal Status Act 2000 and to provide for matters connected therewith

Law· Public2013/9enacted

Motor Vehicle (Duties and Licences) Act 2013

Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 13 February 2013

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; to amend the Local Government Act 1998; and to provide for related matters

Law· Public2013/8enacted

Finance Act 2013

Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 11 February 2013

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

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