Classified List of Legislation in Force in Ireland

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INTRODUCTION

Classified List of In-Force Legislation

Welcome to the Law Reform Commission's online Classified List of In-Force Legislation. 

The key features of the Classified List are:

  • a searchable list of in-force Acts and statutory instruments organised under 36 Subject Headings.
  • 36 Subject Headings broken down into sub-headings, and the relevant Acts and statutory instruments can be found listed in those sub-headings.
  • a search facility that allows you to search for either:
    • the name of any Act or statutory instrument, or
    • any of the 36 headings or over 500 sub-headings in the List.
  • 2,000 Acts and 15,000 statutory instruments linked to their full text on the electronic Irish Statute Book (eISB) or, where available, a Revised Act version (administrative consolidation) prepared by the Commission.  
Titles
  1. Agriculture and Food
  2. Arts, Culture and Sport
  3. Business Occupations and Professions
  4. Business Regulation, Including Business Names, Company Law and Partnerships
  5. Citizenship, Equality and Individual Status
  6. Civil Liability (Contract and Tort) and Dispute Resolution
  7. Commercial Law
  8. Communications and Energy
  9. Courts and Courts Service
  10. Criminal Law
  11. Defence Forces
  12. Education and Skills
  13. Election and Referendum Law
  14. Employment Law
  15. Enterprise, Economic Development and Tourism
  16. Environment
  17. Family Law
  18. Financial Services and Credit Institutions
  19. Foreign Affairs and International Relations
  20. Garda Síochána (Police)
  21. Health and Health Services
  22. Irish Language and Gaeltacht
  23. Land Law, Succession and Trusts
  24. Licensed Sale and Advertising of Alcohol
  25. Local Government
  26. National Government
  27. Natural Resources
  28. Oireachtas (National Parliament) and Legislation
  29. Planning, Development and Housing
  30. Prisons and Places of Detention
  31. Public Safety (Including Building Standards, Fire Safety and Product Safety)
  32. Social Welfare, Pensions, Charities and Religious Bodies
  33. State Finance and Procurement
  34. State Personnel and Superannuation/Pensions
  35. Taxation
  36. Transport

Government Departments

The Classified List uses a specific notation for each of the Government Departments, taking account of current Departmental names as of November 2020. These are:

Name of Government Department Notation Legislative source
Agriculture, Food and the Marine Agric Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Alteration of Name of Department and Title of Minister) Order 2011 (S.I. No. 455 of 2011)
Enterprise, Trade and Employment Enterprise Business, Enterprise and Innovation (Alteration of Name of Department and Title of Minister) Order 2020 (S.I. No. 519 of 2020)
Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth Children Children and Youth Affairs (Alteration of Name of Department and Title of Minister) Order 2020 (S.I. No. 437 of 2020)
Defence Defence  
Education Education Education and Skills (Alteration of Name of Department and Title of Minister) Order 2020 (S.I. No. 450 of 2020)
Environment, Climate and Communications Comms Communications, Climate Action and Environment (Alteration of Name of Department and Title of Minister) Order 2020 (S.I. No. 373 of 2020)
Finance Finance  
Foreign Affairs Foreign Foreign Affairs and Trade (Alteration of Name of Department and Title of Minister) Order 2020 (S.I. No. 382 of 2020)
Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science Higher Ed Ministers and Secretaries and Ministerial, Parliamentary, Judicial and Court Offices (Amendment) Act 2020 (10/2020)
Health Health Health and Children (Alteration of Name of Department and Title of Minister) Order 2011 (S.I. No. 219 of 2011)
Housing, Local Government and Heritage Local Gov Housing, Planning and Local Government (Alteration of Name of Department and Title of Minister) Order 2020 (S.I. No. 408 of 2020)
Justice Justice Justice and Equality (Alteration of Name of Department and Title of Minister) Order 2020 (S.I. No. 452 of 2020)
Public Expenditure and Reform Public Exp Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Act 2011 (10/2011)
Rural and Community Development Community Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Act 2017 (18/2017)
Social Protection Social Employment Affairs and Social Protection (Alteration of Name of Department and Title of Minister) Order 2020 (S.I. No. 447 of 2020)
Taoiseach Taoiseach  
Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media Gaeltacht Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht (Alteration of Name of Department and Title of Minister) Order 2020 (S.I. No. 403 of 2020)
Transport Transport Transport, Tourism and Sport (Alteration of Name of Department and Title of Minister) Order 2020 (S.I. No. 351 of 2020)

Important Warnings and Limitations concerning the List

The Commission draws attention to the following:

  • The Classified List contains a list of over 2,000 in-force post-1922 Acts of the Oireachtas and post-1922 statutory instruments, but of over 1,000 pre-1922 Acts that remain in force, the List contains just over 100 of these.  The Commission intends to add the remaining pre-1922 in-force Acts over time.  A list of these Acts is available in the Statute Law Revision Act 2007, Schedule 1 (retained pre-1922 Public Acts), the Statute Law Revision Act 2009 (retained pre-1922 Private Acts) and the Statute Law Revision Act 2012 (retained pre-1922 Local and Personal Acts).
  • While the Commission has taken great care in the compilation of the Classified List, the Law Reform Commission can assume no responsibility for and give no guarantees, undertakings or warranties concerning the accuracy, completeness or up to date nature of the information provided and does not accept any liability whatsoever arising from any errors or omissions.  Users are kindly asked to notify any errors, omissions and comments by email to revisedacts@lawreform.ie.