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Metrology Act 1996
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3.—(1) The Minister may make regulations for the purposes of this Act, or for the purpose of giving effect to European Union legislation in the field of measurement or amending such legislation made under the European Communities Act, 1972, or for any matter that may be prescribed by this Act.
(2) Every regulation made under any provision of this Act shall be laid before each House of the Oireachtas as soon as possible after it is made and, if a resolution annulling the regulation is passed by either such House within the next subsequent 21 days on which that House has sat after the regulation is laid before it, the regulation shall be annulled accordingly, but without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done under the regulation.
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Editorial Notes:
E3
Power pursuant to subs. (1) exercised (10.10.2019) by Legal Metrology (Prescribed Instruments) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 505 of 2019).
E4
Previous affecting provision: power pursuant to subs. 3(1) exercised (1.06.2011) by Legal Metrology (European Conformity Assessment of Measuring Instruments) (Amendment) Regulations 2010 (S.I. No. 543 of 2010); revoked (8.01.2018) by Legal Metrology (European Conformity Assessment of Measuring Instruments) Regulations 2018 (S.I. No. 2 of 2018), reg. 46(b), in operation as per reg. 1(2).
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Previous affecting provision: power pursuant to subs. 3(1) exercised (17.04.2007) by Legal Metrology (European Conformity Assessment of Measuring Instruments) Regulations 2007 (S.I. No. 160 of 2007), reg. 1; revoked (8.01.2018) by Legal Metrology (European Conformity Assessment of Measuring Instruments) Regulations 2018 (S.I. No. 2 of 2018), reg. 46(a), in operation as per reg. 1(2).