Classified List

  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

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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.  

Government Departments

The Classified List uses a specific notation for each of the Government Departments, taking account of current Departmental names as of June 2025. 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)

Children, Disability and Equality

Children

Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (Alteration of Name of Department and Title of Minister) Order 2025 (S.I. No. 180 of 2025)

Climate, Environment and Energy

Environ

Environment, Climate and Communications (Alteration of Name of Department and Title of Minister) Order 2025 (S.I. No. 235 of 2025)

Culture, Communications and Sport

Comms

Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (Alteration of Name of Department and Title of Minister) Order 2025 (S.I. No. 236 of 2025)

Defence

Defence

  

Education and Youth

Education

Education (Alteration of Name of Department and Title of Minister) Order 2025 (S.I. No. 179 of 2025)

Department of Enterprise, Tourism and Employment

Enterprise

Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Alteration of Name of Department and Title of Minister) Order 2025 (S.I. No. 172 of 2025)

Finance

Finance

  

Foreign Affairs and Trade

Foreign

Foreign Affairs (Alteration of Name of Department and Title of Minister) Order 2025 (S.I. No. 106 of 2025)

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, Home Affairs and Migration

Justice

Justice (Alteration of Name of Department and Title of Minister) Order 2025 (S.I. No. 242 of 2025)

Department of Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation

Public Exp

Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform (Alteration of Name of Department and Title of Minister) Order 2025 (S.I. No. 243 of 2025)

Rural and Community Development and the Gaeltacht

Gaeltacht

Rural and Community Development (Alteration of Name of Department and Title of Minister) Order 2025 (S.I. No. 173 of 2025)

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

  

Rural and Community Development and the Gaeltacht

Gaeltacht

Rural and Community Development (Alteration of Name of Department and Title of Minister) Order 2025 (S.I. No. 173 of 2025)

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.