Number 24 of 1997

UNIVERSITIES ACT 1997

REVISED

Updated to 15 November 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

Universities Acts 1997 to 2015: this Act is one of a group of Acts included in this collective citation, to be construed together as one (Education (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2015 (11/2015), s. 11(2)). The Acts in this group are:

• Universities Act 1997 (24/1997)

• Institutes of Technology Act 2006 (25/2006), s. 53

• Education (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2015 (11/2015), s. 6

Annotations

This Revised Act is annotated and includes textual and non-textual amendments, statutory instruments made pursuant to the Act and previous affecting provisions.

An explanation of how to read annotations is available at

www.lawreform.ie/annotations.

Material not updated in this revision

Where other legislation is amended by this Act, those amendments may have been superseded by other amendments in other legislation, or the amended legislation may have been repealed or revoked. This information is not represented in this revision but will be reflected in a revision of the amended legislation if one is available.

Where legislation or a fragment of legislation is referred to in annotations, changes to this legislation or fragment may not be reflected in this revision but will be reflected in a revision of the legislation referred to if one is available.

A list of legislative changes to any Act, and to statutory instruments from 1972, may be found linked from the page of the Act or statutory instrument at

www.irishstatutebook.ie.

Acts which affect or previously affected this revision

• Higher Education Authority Act 2022 (31/2022)

• Qualifications and Quality Assurance (Education and Training) (Amendment) Act 2019 (32/2019)

• Education (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2015 (11/2015)

• Local Government Reform Act 2014 (1/2014)

• Qualifications and Quality Assurance (Education and Training) Act 2012 (28/2012)

• Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Act 2011 (10/2011)

• Financial Measures (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2009 (14/2009)

• Institutes of Technology Act 2006 (25/2006)

• Qualifications (Education and Training) Act 1999 (26/1999)

All Acts up to and including Consumer Rights Act 2022 (37/2022), enacted 7 November 2022, were considered in the preparation of this revision.

Statutory instruments which affect or previously affected this revision

• Trinity College, Dublin (Supplemental Charter) Order 2022 (S.I. No. 587 of 2022)

• Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Transfer of Departmental Administration and Ministerial Functions) Order 2020 (S.I. No. 451 of 2020)

• Universities Act 1997 (Section 54(3)) (University Authorisation) Order 2019 (S.I. No. 638 of 2019)

• Trinity College Dublin, the University of Dublin Superannuation Scheme 2018 (S.I. No. 393 of 2018)

• National University of Ireland, Maynooth Employee Superannuation Scheme 2017 (S.I. No. 542 of 2017)

• Finance (Transfer of Departmental Administration and Ministerial Functions) Order 2011 (S.I. No. 418 of 2011)

• National University of Ireland (Closed) Pension Scheme 2010 (S.I. No. 283 of 2010)

• National University of Ireland, Galway Ollscoil na hÉireann, Gaillimh (Closed) Pension Scheme 2010 (S.I. No. 98 of 2010)

• University College Cork - National University of Ireland, Cork (Closed) Pension Scheme 2010 (S.I. No. 97 of 2010)

• University College Dublin, National University of Ireland, Dublin (Closed) Pension Scheme 2010 (S.I. No. 96 of 2010)

• National University of Ireland, Maynooth (Closed) Pension Scheme 2009 (S.I. No. 494 of 2009)

• University of Dublin Trinity College (Closed) Pension Scheme 2009 (S.I. No. 493 of 2009)

• Universities Act 1997 University College Cork National University of Ireland, Cork (S.I. No. 281 of 2005)

• National University of Ireland, Dublin (Change of Name of University) Order 1998 (S.I. No. 447 of 1998)

• National University of Ireland, Cork (Change of Name of University) Order 1998 (S.I. No. 446 of 1998)

• Universities Act, 1997 (Commencement) Order 1997 (S.I. No. 254 of 1997)

All statutory instruments up to and including Trinity College, Dublin (Supplemental Charter) Order 2022 (S.I. No. 587 of 2022), made 15 November 2022, were considered in the preparation of this revision.