Local Government Reform Act 2014

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Regulations, orders and directions

4. (1) The Minister may make regulations prescribing any matter or thing which is referred to in this Act as prescribed or to be prescribed or to be the subject of regulations or for the purpose of enabling any provisions to have full effect.

(2) Without prejudice to any specific provision of this Act, a regulation or order under this Act may provide for such incidental, consequential, supplementary or transitional provisions (including provisions for the purpose of securing the continuity of any provision of this Act with any provision of any other Act or instrument repealed, revoked, amended or otherwise affected by this Act or by any regulations or order made under it) as may appear to the Minister to be appropriate for the purposes of this Act or of any regulations or order made under it.

(3) A regulation or order under this Act may—

(a) apply to local authorities generally, to any category of local authorities specified in the regulations or the order or to a particular local authority so specified,

(b) contain different provisions in relation to different local authorities or to different parts of the administrative area of a local authority, and

(c) provide for the giving of directions by the Minister (including directions amending or revoking any such directions).

(4) Subject to subsection (5), every order or regulation made under this Act, shall be laid before each House of the Oireachtas as soon as may be after it has been made and, if a resolution annulling such order or regulation is passed by either such House within the next 21 days on which that House has sat after the order or regulation is laid before it, the regulation or order shall be annulled accordingly, but without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done under it.

(5) Subsection (4) does not apply to—

(a) an order made under section 1(22), or

(b) regulations which are required by this Act to be approved in draft by resolution of both Houses of the Oireachtas.

(6) A person to whom a direction is given under this Act shall comply with that direction.

Annotations

Editorial Notes:

E5

Power pursuant to section exercised (18.02.2015) by Local Government Act 1991 (Regional Assemblies) (Establishment) (Amendment) Order 2015 (S.I. No. 62 of 2015).

E6

Power pursuant to section exercised (6.06.2014) by Local Government (Audit Committee) Regulations 2014 (S.I. No. 244 of 2014), in effect as per reg. 2.

E7

Power pursuant to section exercised (1.06.2014) by Local Government Reform Act 2014 (Dissolution of the County Tipperary Joint Libraries Committee and Transfer of Assets and Liabilities) Order 2014 (S.I. No. 232 of 2014).

E8

Power pursuant to section exercised (1.06.2014) by Local Government (Application of Certain Provisions of the Local Government Act 2001 to Municipal District Members) Regulations 2014 (S.I. No. 230 of 2014), in effect as per reg. 3.

E9

Previous affecting provision: power pursuant to section exercised (10.11.2017) by Local Government (Expenses of Local Authority Members) (Amendment) Regulations 2017 (S.I. No. 494 of 2017); revoked (1.07.2021) by Local Government (Expenses of Local Authority Members) Regulations 2021 (S.I. No. 331 of 2021), reg. 18, in effect as per reg. 2.

E10

Previous affecting provision: power pursuant to section exercised (1.06.2014) by Local Government (Expenses of Local Authority Members) Regulations 2014 (S.I. No. 236 of 2014), in effect as per reg. 3; revoked (1.07.2021) by Local Government (Expenses of Local Authority Members) Regulations 2021. (S.I. No. 313 of 2021), reg. 18, in effect as per reg. 2.

E11

Previous affecting provision: power pursuant to section exercised (1.06.2014) by Local Government Act 1991 (Regional Authorities) (Amendment) Order 2014 (S.I. No. 228 of 2014), in effect as per reg. 3; revoked (1.01.2015) by Local Government Act 1991 (Regional Assemblies) (Establishment) Order 2014 (S.I. No. 573 of 2014), art. 64(d), in effect as per art. 3.