Licensing of Indoor Events Act 2003
Number 15 of 2003
LICENSING OF INDOOR EVENTS ACT 2003
REVISED
Updated to 28 September 2021
This Revised Act is an administrative consolidation of the Licensing of Indoor Events Act 2003. 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 15 of 2003
LICENSING OF INDOOR EVENTS ACT 2003
REVISED
Updated to 28 September 2021
ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS
Preliminary and General
Section
1.
Short title, collective citation, construction and commencement.
2.
3.
4.
Indoor Events
5.
6.
Determination of application for licence.
7.
Compliance with legal and other requirements.
8.
9.
10.
11.
12.
Powers of inspection in connection with indoor events.
13.
Limitations of civil proceedings.
14.
15.
16.
17.
18.
Payment of fine to fire authority.
19.
20.
Functions of fire authorities.
21.
22.
23.
Holding of event by local authority.
Amendment of Fire Services Act 1981
24.
Amendment of section 2 of Act of 1981.
25.
Amendment of section 5 of Act of 1981.
26.
Amendment of section 6 of Act of 1981.
27.
Amendment of section 13 of Act of 1981.
28.
Amendment of section 16 of Act of 1981.
29.
Amendment of section 18 of Act of 1981.
30.
31.
32.
Withdrawal of fire safety notice.
33.
Amendment of section 38 of Act of 1981.
34.
Amendment of section 19 of Act of 1981.
Acts Referred to
Companies Acts 1963 to 2001
Fire Services Act 1981
Health (Eastern Regional Health Authority) Act 1999
Health Act 1970
Local Government Act 2001
Planning and Development Act 2000
Number 15 of 2003
LICENSING OF INDOOR EVENTS ACT 2003
REVISED
Updated to 28 September 2021
AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE LICENSING OF INDOOR EVENTS AND TO AMEND THE FIRE SERVICES ACT 1981, AND TO PROVIDE FOR RELATED MATTERS.
[26th May, 2003]
BE IT ENACTED BY THE OIREACHTAS AS FOLLOWS:
Annotations
Modifications (not altering text):
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Transfer of specified bodies to Executive.
Functions in relation to Licensing of Indoor Events Act 2003 transferred and specified bodies dissolved (1.01.2005) by Health Act 2004 (42/2004), s. 58, 59(1), (2) and (3) and sch. 3 item 29, S.I. No. 887 of 2004, subject to transitional provisions in s. 74 and sch. 5.
Dissolution of health boards and other specified bodies.
58.—The specified bodies are, by this Act, dissolved on the establishment day.
Transfer of functions of specified bodies to Executive.
59. — (1) The functions that, immediately before the establishment day, were the functions of a specified body under or in connection with the enactments referred to in Schedule 3 are, by this Act, transferred to the Executive on that day.
(2) If a provision of an enactment referred to in Schedule 3, or a provision of an instrument made under such enactment, does not come into effect until on or after the establishment day, a function that on the passing of that enactment or the making of that instrument was assigned under or in connection with that provision to a specified body is, by this Act, transferred to the Executive on the commencement of that provision.
(3) The functions transferred by this Act to the Executive include the functions specified in any enactment referred to in Schedule 3 as a function of the following:
(a) the chief executive officer of a health board;
(b) the Regional Chief Executive of the Eastern Regional Health Authority;
(c) the area chief executive of an Area Health Board.
(4) This section does not apply in relation to the functions of the Hospital Bodies Administrative Bureau.
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SCHEDULE THREE
Transfer of Functions and References to Functional Areas
Section 59 and 67.
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29. Licensing of Indoor Events Act 2003
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Editorial Notes:
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Act included in definitions of "health and personal social services" and "associated statutory provisions" (23.12.2004) by Health Act 2004 (42/2004), s. 2 and sch. 1, S.I. No. 886 of 2004.