Cluster Munitions And Anti-Personnel Mines Act 2008
Number 20 of 2008
CLUSTER MUNITIONS AND ANTI-PERSONNEL MINES ACT 2008
REVISED
Updated to 21 May 2020
This Revised Act is an administrative consolidation of the Cluster Munitions and Anti-Personnel Mines Act 2008. 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 20 of 2008
CLUSTER MUNITIONS AND ANTI-PERSONNEL MINES ACT 2008
REVISED
Updated to 21 May 2020
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 first passed.
Related legislation
This Act is not collectively cited with any other Act.
Annotations
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Material not updated in this revision
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Acts which affect or previously affected this revision
• Merchant Shipping (Registration of Ships) Act 2014 (43/2014)
All Acts up to and including Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (Covid-19) Act 2020 (2/2020), enacted 27 March 2020, were considered in the preparation of this revision.
Statutory instruments which affect or previously affected this revision
• Cluster Munitions and Anti-Personnel Mines Act 2008 (Convention on Cluster Munitions) Order 2011 (S.I. No. 6 of 2011)
• Cluster Munitions and Anti-Personnel Mines Act 2008 (Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their Destruction) Order 2011 (S.I. No. 5 of 2011)
• Cluster Munitions and Anti-Personnel Mines Act 2008 (Commencement) Order 2009 (S.I. No. 410 of 2009)
All statutory instruments up to and including Bovine Viral Diarrhoea (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.I. No. 182 of 2020), made 21 May 2020, were considered in the preparation of this revision.
Number 20 of 2008
CLUSTER MUNITIONS AND ANTI-PERSONNEL MINES ACT 2008
REVISED
Updated to 21 May 2020
ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS
Preliminary and General
Section
1. Short title and commencement.
3. Laying of orders before Houses of Oireachtas.
Cluster Munitions and Explosive Bomblets
Anti-Personnel Mines
Investment of Public Moneys
12. Duty of investors to avoid investment in munitions company.
13. Direct investment in munitions company.
14. Indirect investment in munitions company.
15. Derivatives based on a financial index.
Penalties and Miscellaneous Provisions
18. Liability for offences committed by body corporate.
Convention on Cluster Munitions
Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their Destruction
Acts Referred to
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Companies Acts |
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1960, No. 44 |
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2006, No. 20 |
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1955, No. 29 |
Number 20 of 2008
CLUSTER MUNITIONS AND ANTI-PERSONNEL MINES ACT 2008
REVISED
Updated to 21 May 2020
AN ACT TO GIVE EFFECT TO THE CONVENTION ON CLUSTER MUNITIONS, DONE AT DUBLIN ON 30 MAY 2008, AND TO GIVE FURTHER EFFECT TO THE CONVENTION ON THE PROHIBITION OF THE USE, STOCKPILING, PRODUCTION AND TRANSFER OF ANTI-PERSONNEL MINES AND ON THEIR DESTRUCTION, DONE AT OSLO ON 18 SEPTEMBER 1997, AND TO PROVIDE FOR RELATED MATTERS.
[2nd December, 2008]
BE IT ENACTED BY THE OIREACHTAS AS FOLLOWS: