Passports Act 2008
Number 4 of 2008
PASSPORTS ACT 2008
REVISED
Updated to 25 May 2018
This Revised Act is an administrative consolidation of the Passports 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.
All Acts up to and including Data Protection Act 2018 (7/2018), enacted 24 May 2018, and all statutory instruments up to and including Data Protection Act 2018 (Establishment Day) Order 2018 (S.I. No. 175 of 2018), made 24 May 2018, were considered in the preparation of this revision.
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Number 4 of 2008
PASSPORTS ACT 2008
REVISED
Updated to 25 May 2018
ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS
Preliminary and General
Section
1. Short title and commencement.
Passports and Emergency Travel Certificates
7. Information and documents to accompany application for passport.
8. Processing of personal data.
9. Periods of validity of passports.
10. Name in which passport is issued.
12. Refusal to issue passport.
13. Use of information and form of passports.
15. Emergency travel facilities.
16. Diplomatic and official passports.
17. Procedures for lost or stolen passports.
18. Cancellation and surrender of passports.
21. Meaning of “false” and “making”.
22. Summary trial of offences.
23. Proceedings relating to offences committed outside State.
24. Liability for offences by bodies corporate.
25. Amendment of Schedule to Bail Act 1997.
26. Passports to remain property of Minister.
Miscellaneous
28. Amendment of Diplomatic and Consular Officers (Provision of Services) Act 1993.
Acts Referred to
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1952, No. 25 |
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1991, No. 14 |
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1997, No. 16 |
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2004, No. 3 |
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1988, No. 25 |
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Data Protection Acts 1988 and 2003 |
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Diplomatic and Consular Officers (Provision of Services) Act 1993 |
1993, No. 33 |
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1964, No. 7 |
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2003, No. 31 |
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1956, No. 26 |
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Irish Nationality and Citizenship Acts 1956 to 2004 |
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Licensing Acts 1833 to 2004 |
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1978, No. 4 |
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Registration of Clubs Acts 1904 to 2004 |
Number 4 of 2008
PASSPORTS ACT 2008
REVISED
Updated to 25 May 2018
AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE ISSUE BY THE MINISTER FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS OF PASSPORTS TO IRISH CITIZENS TO BE USED BY THEM AS EVIDENCE OF IDENTITY AND CITIZENSHIP, TO PROVIDE FOR THE PROCESSING OF PERSONAL DATA, INCLUDING BIOMETRIC DATA, FOR THE ISSUE OF PASSPORTS AND THE MAINTENANCE OF THE INTEGRITY OF THE SYSTEM FOR ISSUING PASSPORTS, TO PROVIDE FOR THE CANCELLATION AND SURRENDER OF PASSPORTS IN CERTAIN CIRCUMSTANCES, TO PROVIDE FOR OFFENCES RELATING TO PASSPORTS, TO PROVIDE FOR THE ISSUE OF EMERGENCY TRAVEL CERTIFICATES IN CERTAIN CIRCUMSTANCES, TO AMEND THE DIPLOMATIC AND CONSULAR OFFICERS (PROVISION OF SERVICES) ACT 1993 AND TO PROVIDE FOR RELATED MATTERS.
[26th March, 2008]
BE IT ENACTED BY THE OIREACHTAS AS FOLLOWS:
Annotations
Modifications (not altering text):
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Functions transferred and references to “Department of Finance” and “Minister for Finance” construed (29.07.2011) by Finance (Transfer of Departmental Administration and Ministerial Functions) Order 2011 (S.I. No. 418 of 2011), arts. 2, 3, 5 and sch. 1 part 2, in effect as per art. 1(2).
2. (1) The administration and business in connection with the performance of any functions transferred by this Order are transferred to the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform.
(2) References to the Department of Finance contained in any Act or instrument made thereunder and relating to the administration and business transferred by paragraph (1) shall, on and after the commencement of this Order, be construed as references to the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform.
3. The functions conferred on the Minister for Finance by or under the provisions of —
(a) the enactments specified in Schedule 1, and
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are transferred to the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform.
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5. References to the Minister for Finance contained in any Act or instrument under an Act and relating to any functions transferred by this Order shall, from the commencement of this Order, be construed as references to the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform.
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Schedule 1
Enactments
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Part 2
1922 to 2011 Enactments
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Number and Year |
Short Title |
Provision |
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... No. 4 of 2008 ... |
... Passports Act 2008 ... |
... Sections 8 ... |