Domicile and Recognition of Foreign Divorces Act 1986
Number 24 of 1986
DOMICILE AND RECOGNITION OF FOREIGN DIVORCES ACT 1986
REVISED
Updated to 1 August 2022
This Revised Act is an administrative consolidation of the Domicile and Recognition of Foreign Divorces Act 1986. 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.
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Number 24 of 1986
DOMICILE AND RECOGNITION OF FOREIGN DIVORCES ACT 1986
REVISED
Updated to 1 August 2022
Introduction
This Revised Act presents the text of the Act as it has been amended since enactment, and preserves the format in which it was passed.
Related legislation
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Material not updated in this revision
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Acts which affect or previously affected this revision
• Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union (Consequential Provisions) Act 2020 (23/2020)
• Family Law Act 2019 (37/2019)
Statutory instruments which affect or previously affected this revision
• European Union (Decisions in Matrimonial Matters and in Matters of Parental Responsibility and International Child Abduction) Regulations 2022 (S.I. No. 400 of 2022)
• European Communities (Judgments in Matrimonial Matters and Matters of Parental Responsibility) Regulations 2005 (S.I. No. 112 of 2005)
• European Communities (Judgments in Matrimonial Matters and Matters of Parental Responsibility) Regulations 2001 (S.I. No. 472 of 2001)
All statutory instruments up to and including European Union (Decisions in Matrimonial Matters and in Matters of Parental Responsibility and International Child Abduction) Regulations 2022 (S.I. No. 400 of 2022), made 31 July 2022, were considered in the preparation of this revision.
Number 24 of 1986
DOMICILE AND RECOGNITION OF FOREIGN DIVORCES ACT 1986
REVISED
Updated to 1 August 2022
ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS
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Number 24 of 1986
DOMICILE AND RECOGNITION OF FOREIGN DIVORCES ACT 1986
REVISED
Updated to 1 August 2022
AN ACT TO AMEND THE LAW RELATING TO DOMICILE AND THE RECOGNITION OF FOREIGN DIVORCES. [2nd July, 1986]
BE IT ENACTED BY THE OIREACHTAS AS FOLLOWS: