4. Business Regulation, Including Business Names, Company Law and Partnerships

Updated to 31 December 2023 (Act No. 9 of 2024 and S.I. No. 141 of 2024)

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4.1. Betting and Gaming

Finance 22/1929
Finance 27/1931
Public Exp 13/2013
Justice 2/1956
Justice
  • none
6/1970
Justice
  • none
6/1979
Finance 7/2015
Justice 44/2019
1 Renews Bord na gCon's licence for three years. This SI is obsolete and should be revoked.
2 Renews Bord na gCon's licence for one year. This SI is obsolete and should be revoked.
3 Ibid.
4 Renews Bord na gCon's licence up to 30 July 1999. This SI is obsolete and should be revoked.
5 Superseded by Betting (Amendment) Act 2015 (7/2015), this SI is obsolete and should be revoked.
6 This SI is the responsibility of the Department of Justice and Equality.
7 Superseded by Betting (Amendment) Act 2015 (7/2015), this SI is obsolete and should be revoked.
8 Ibid.
9 Ibid.
10 Ibid.

4.2. Business Names

Enterprise 11 30/1963
11

Public Exp (in part): see S.I. No. 418 of 2011. 

4.3. Clubs

Justice
  • none
4 Edw. 7, c. 9

4.4. Company Law

Enterprise 38/2014
Enterprise 45/2009
Enterprise
  • none
46/2013
Finance 34/1963
Enterprise
  • none
21/1924
Enterprise 9/2017
Enterprise 13/2017
Enterprise 22/2018
Enterprise 10/2019
Enterprise 50/2019
Enterprise 9/2020
Enterprise 30/2021
Enterprise 48/2021
12 Section 5 and sch. 6 provide that only statutory instruments provided for in that schedule will remain in force. Repealed Companies Act 1963 (33/1963), Companies (Amendment) Act 1977 (31/1977), Companies (Amendment) Act 1982 (10/1982), Companies (Amendment) Act 1983 (13/1983), Companies (Amendment) Act 1986 (25/1986), Companies (Amendment) Act 1990 (27/1990), Companies Act 1990 (33/1990), Companies (Amendment) Act 1999 (8/1999) in so far as not already repealed by Investment Funds, Companies and Miscellaneous Provisions Act 2005 (12/2005), s. 31 ( s. 31 being commenced by S.I. No. 323 of 2005 only for the purpose of repealing the enactments specified in that section in so far as they relate to a regulated market as defined), Companies (Amendment) (No. 2) Act 1999 (30/1999), Company Law Enforcement Act 2001 (28/2001), Companies (Auditing and Accounting) Act 2003 (44/2003), Companies (Amendment) Act 2009 (20/2009), Companies (Amendment) Act 2012 (22/2012).
13 Continued in force by Companies Act 2014 (38/2014), s. 5 and sch. 6 para. 5(2).
14 Continued in force by Companies Act 2014 (38/2014), s. 5 and sch. 6 para. 5(3).
15 Continued in force by Companies Act 2014 (38/2014), s. 5 and sch. 6 para. 3. Other SIs made under Companies (Auditing and Accounting) Act 2003 (44/2003) relate to commencement of that Act and are not retained: S.I. Nos. 132 of 2004, 686 of 2005, 791 of 2005, 56 of 2006, 61 of 2007, 13 of 2009, 177 of 2010.
16 Continued in force by Companies Act 2014 (38/2014), s. 5 and sch. 6 para. 3.
17 Continued in force by Companies Act 2014 (38/2014), s. 5 and sch. 6 para. 5(1)(c).
18 Continued in force by Companies Act 2014 (38/2014), s. 5 and sch. 6 para. 5(1)(c).
19 Continued in force by Companies Act 2014 (38/2014), s. 5 and sch. 6 para. 3.
20 Continued in force by Companies Act 2014 (38/2014), s. 5 and sch. 6 para. 5(1)(c).
21 Continued in force by Companies Act 2014 (38/2014), s. 5 and sch. 6 para. 5(1)(a).
22 Continued in force by Companies Act 2014 (38/2014), s. 5 and sch. 6 para. 5(1)(b).
23 Continued in force by Companies Act 2014 (38/2014), s. 5 and sch. 6 para. 5(1)(c).
24 Continued in force by Companies Act 2014 (38/2014), s. 5 and sch. 6 para. 5(1)(a).

4.5. Co-Operatives and Friendly Societies 25

25 See also Headings 18.1.6 and 7: Friendly Societies and Industrial and Provident Societies.
Enterprise 56 & 57 Vict., c. 39
Enterprise
  • none
8 Edw. 7, c. 32
Enterprise
  • none
3 & 4 Geo. 5, c. 31
Enterprise 23/1978
Enterprise 59 & 60 Vict., c. 25
Enterprise 30
  • none
51/1936
Enterprise
  • none
28/1953
Enterprise 17/1977
Agric 31 39/1934
26 Now expired.
27 Ibid.
28 Also made under Credit Union Act 1966 (19/1966), s. 35(1)(i), now repealed, this SI was continued in force by 12/2005, s. 86.
29 Ibid.
30

Public Exp (in part): see S.I. No. 418 of 2011. 

31

Public Exp (in part): see S.I. No. 418 of 2011. 

32 The enabling provisions appear to be Agricultural Co-operative Societies (Debentures) Act 1934 (39/1934), ss. 3 and 5. Section 5 was repealed by Agricultural Credit Act 1978 (2/1978), s. 7, commenced by Agricultural Credit Act, 1987 (Commencement) Order 1978 (S.I. No. 49 of 1978). Parts of this SI appear to remain in force.

4.6. Partnerships

Enterprise
  • none
53 & 54 Vict., c. 39
Enterprise
  • none
7 Edw. 7, c. 24
Enterprise 24/1994
Enterprise 31/2020
33 The enabling provision is s. 8(4), substituted by Central Bank and Financial Services Authority Ireland Act 2003 (12/2003), s. 35(1) and sch. 1, part 16 subject to transitional provisions in s. 36 and sch. 3. The substituted provision continues to include a regulation-making power.

4.7. ECA Section 3 Statutory Instruments

Foreign 27/1972
34

Rendered obsolete by revocation of S.I. No. 396 of 1993 and S.I. No. 23 of 1996.

35

Rendered obsolete by repeal of Companies Acts 1963 and 1990.

36

Rendered obsolete by revocation of S.I. No. 275 of 1994.

37

Rendered obsolete by repeal of Companies Act 1963.

38

Rendered obsolete in part by repeal of Companies Act 1963 (No. 33 of 1963).

39

Rendered obsolete by revocation of S.I. No. 220 of 2010.

40

Rendered obsolete by revocation of S.I. No. 137 of 1987.

41

Rendered obsolete by revocation of S.I. No. 395 of 1993.

42

Rendered obsolete by revocation of S.I. No. 396 of 1993.