Local Government Rates and Other Matters Act 2019

28

Short title, commencement, collective citation and construction

28. (1) This Act may be cited as the Local Government Rates and Other Matters Act 2019.

(2) The Local Government Acts 1925 to 2016 and this Act (other than sections 23, 24, 25 and 26) may be cited together as the Local Government Acts 1925 to 2019 and shall be construed together as one.

(3) Sections 23 and 24 shall be included in the collective citation, the Planning and Development Acts 2000 to 2019.

(4) Sections 25 and 26 shall be included in the collective citation, the Residential Tenancies Acts 2004 to 2019.

(5) This Act shall come into operation on such day or days as the Minister may appoint by order or orders either generally or with reference to any particular purpose or provision and different days may be so appointed for different purposes or different provisions including the application of section 27 to different enactments specified in the Schedule.

Annotations:

Editorial Notes:

E5

A table of commencement dates ordered by section is available at https://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/isbc/2019_24.html.

E6

Power pursuant to subs. (5) exercised (6.11.2023, 1.01.2024) by Local Government Rates and Other Matters Act 2019 (Commencement) Order 2023 (S.I. No. 536 of 2023).

2. The 6th day of November 2023 is appointed as the day on which the following provisions of the Local Government Rates and Other Matters Act 2019 (No. 24 of 2019) shall come into operation:

(a) sections 1, 2, 3, 6, 8, 9, 18, 19, 20, 22 and 27;

(b) Part 1 of the Schedule insofar as it relates to the repeal of the enactments mentioned in column (4) opposite the following reference numbers in column (1):

(i) number 6 insofar as it relates to section 71 of the Local Government (Dublin) Act 1930;

(ii) number 7 insofar as it relates to section 20 of the Cork City Management (Amendment) Act 1941;

(iii) number 9 insofar as it relates to section 14 of the Local Government Act 1946;

(iv) number 11 insofar as it relates to section 10 (2) of the Local Government (Financial Provisions) Act 1978;

(v) number 12 insofar as it relates to Clause I of subparagraph (i) of paragraph (b) of subsection (7) of section 103.

3. The 1st day of January 2024 is appointed as the day on which the following provisions of the Local Government Rates and Other Matters Act 2019 shall come into operation:

(a) sections 4, 5, 7, 10, 11, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17;

(b) Part 1 of the Schedule insofar as it is not already commenced.

4. The 1st day of January 2025 is appointed as the day on which section 12 of the Local Government Rates and Other Matters Act 2019 shall come into operation.

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Power pursuant to subs. (5) exercised (4.04.2022) by Local Government Rates and Other Matters Act 2019 (Commencement) Order 2022 (S.I. No. 164 of 2022).

2. The 4th day of April 2022 is appointed to be the day on which paragraphs (a), (b) and (c) of section 26 of the Local Government Rates and Other Matters Act 2019 (No. 24 of 2019) shall come into operation.

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Power pursuant to subs. (5) exercised (15.07.2019) by Local Government Rates and Other Matters Act 2019 (Commencement) Order 2019 (S.I. No. 355 of 2019).

The 15th day of July 2019 is appointed to be the day on which the following provisions of the Local Government Rates and Other Matters Act 2019 (No. 24 of 2019) shall come into operation:

(a) sections 23, 24, 25 and 28;

(b) paragraphs (b), (c) and (d) of section 21; and

(c) paragraph (d) of section 26.