Markets in Financial Instruments and Miscellaneous Provisions Act 2007

Number 37 of 2007

MARKETS IN FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS AND MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS ACT 2007

REVISED

Updated to 29 October 2018

This Revised Act is an administrative consolidation of the Markets in Financial Instruments and Miscellaneous Provisions Act 2007. It is prepared by the Law Reform Commission in accordance with its function under the Law Reform Commission Act 1975 (3/1975) to keep the law under review and to undertake revision and consolidation of statute law.

All Acts up to and including Markets in Financial Instruments Act 2018 (25/2018), enacted 29 October 2018, and all statutory instruments up to and including Public Health (Alcohol) Act 2018 (Commencement) Order 2018 (S.I. No. 448 of 2018), made 1 November 2018, were considered in the preparation of this Revised Act.

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Number 37 of 2007


MARKETS IN FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS AND MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS ACT 2007

REVISED

Updated to 29 October 2018


ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

PART 1

Markets in Financial Instruments

Section

1. Short title and collective citation.

2. Commencement.

3. Interpretation.

4. Expenses.

5. Penalties for conviction on indictment of Irish investment services law. (Repealed)

6. Fees payable under section 33K of Central Bank Act 1942.

6A. Regulations in relation to transparency in trading in certain financial instruments.

7. Amendments to Central Bank Act 1942.

8. Repeal of Stock Exchange Act 1995.

PART 2

Miscellaneous

9. Penalties for conviction on indictment of European Communities (Reinsurance) Regulations.

10. Amendment to section 1 of Netting of Financial Contracts Act 1995.

11. Amendments to Investment Intermediaries Act 1995.

12. Amendments to Insurance (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1985.

13. Amendments to Central Bank Act 1942.

14. Amendments to National Treasury Management Agency (Amendment) Act 2000.

15. Amendments to Finance Act 1993.

16. Amendments to Ministerial and Parliamentary Offices Act 1938.

17. Amendment to section 35 of Credit Union Act 1997.

18. Amendment of Insurance Act 1936 and certain statutory regulations.

19. Amendment of Central Bank Act 1997.

20. Amendment of Freedom of Information Act 1997.

21. Revocation of Credit Union Act 1997 (Alteration of Financial Limits) Regulations 2007.

22. Amendment of Investor Compensation Act 1998.

23. Further amendment of Investor Compensation Act 1998.

24. Amendment of section 2(1) of National Pensions Reserve Fund Act 2000.

25. Amendment of Ordnance Survey Ireland Act 2001.



Number 37 of 2007


MARKETS IN FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS AND MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS ACT 2007

REVISED

Updated to 29 October 2018


AN ACT TO MAKE PROVISION IN RELATION TO MARKETS IN FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS AND TO MAKE MISCELLANEOUS AMENDMENTS TO FINANCIAL SERVICES LEGISLATION AND TO THE MINISTERIAL AND PARLIAMENTARY OFFICES ACT 1938, THE NATIONAL PENSIONS RESERVE FUND ACT 2000, THE ORDNANCE SURVEY IRELAND ACT 2001, AND TO THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 1997.

[31st October, 2007]

BE IT ENACTED BY THE OIREACHTAS AS FOLLOWS:

Annotations

Editorial Notes:

E1

Offences under Act excluded from application of Criminal Justice (Forensic Evidence and DNA Database System) Act 2014 (11/2014), s. 11 (20.11.2015) by Criminal Justice (Forensic Evidence and DNA Database System) Act 2014 (Section 11) Order 2015 (S.I. No. 527 of 2015), arts. 3, 4 and sch., in effect as per art. 1(2).

E2

Part 1 and ss. 9 to 11, 13 and 17 included in definition of “designated enactments” for purposes of Central Bank Act 1942 (22/1942) by Central Bank Act 1942 (22/1942), s. 2(1) and sch. 2 part 1 item 34, as substituted (1.10.2010) by Central Bank Reform Act 2010 (23/2010), s. 14(1) and sch. 1 part 1 items 6 and 82, S.I. No. 469 of 2010.