Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse (Amendment) Act 2005

Regulations and orders.

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35.—(1) The Minister may make regulations for the purpose of giving full effect to the provisions of this Act.

(2) An order or regulation under this Act (other than an order under section 23, 24 or 33) shall be laid before each House of the Oireachtas as soon as may be after it is made and, if a resolution annulling the order or regulation is passed by either such House within the next 21 days on which that House has sat after the order or regulation is laid before it, the order or regulation shall be annulled accordingly, but without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done thereunder.

(3) The Minister may by order amend or revoke an order under this Act (other than an order under section 23 but including an order under this section).

(4) An order under subsection (3) shall be made in the like manner and its making shall be subject to the like (if any) consents and conditions as the order that it is amending or revoking.

(5) The Government has, and shall be deemed always to have had, power to amend or revoke, by order, an order under paragraph (b) of section 5(5) of the Principal Act and the provisions of that section 5(5) as to the manner in which, and the conditions subject to which, an order under that paragraph (b) may be made shall apply, and be deemed always to have applied, to an order amending or revoking such an order.